VeganStove keeps this short and specific: here is the data that passes through the site, the reason it does, and the control you have over it.
The scope of this page
What follows applies to this site alone. Sites we link to run their own policies, and any social platform we post on collects under its own terms, not ours.
The data that passes through
Your browser sends technical information to our server on every request: IP address, browser and device type, the pages you open, the referring address, and how long you stay. This is ordinary web-server behaviour and we do not tie it to a name.
You give us data only when you choose to: an email address if you subscribe, and whatever you write if you use the contact form.
What it is used for
- Serve the pages and diagnose faults when something breaks.
- See in bulk which vegan / plant-based recipes pages earn their place and which do not.
- Write back when you contact us.
- Send the newsletter, to subscribers only.
- Satisfy a legal requirement where one exists.
Third parties
This site uses Google Analytics for aggregate statistics and Google AdSense for advertising; our host keeps server logs, and our email service handles the newsletter. Each operates under its own privacy policy and may set cookies.
Data passed to the third parties named here crosses to the United States, where those companies operate. The transfer mechanisms are theirs and are documented in their own policies.
Newsletter data
Subscribing means giving us an email address. That is the whole of it. The address sends you the newsletter, goes nowhere else, and leaves the list for good when you use the unsubscribe link.
On what basis
For readers covered by European or United Kingdom law, the lawful bases are consent (newsletter, non-essential cookies), legitimate interest (operating the site, aggregate measurement) and legal obligation. Any consent given can be taken back whenever you like.
How long anything lasts
Retention differs by type. Logs sit with the host and are rotated there. Analytics obeys the retention window set in the Analytics console. An email address stays while you are subscribed. A contact message is kept for the length of the exchange.
What you can ask for
You may request access, rectification or erasure at any time. Every mailing carries a working unsubscribe link. Cookies stay under your browser’s control. Statutory rights in the EEA, the UK and California are honoured for everyone here, not only for the readers who can invoke them.
Under-13s
VeganStove is not written for children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has sent us information, tell us and it will be removed.
Selling data
No personal information is sold or passed on for independent marketing by someone else, and no data broker features anywhere. Readers in California can take that as the CCPA position: there is no sale to opt out of.
Automated decisions
Nothing on this site makes an automated decision affecting you, and there is no profiling of consequence. It is a publication, not a system that rates people.
Keeping it safe
Reasonable technical and organisational safeguards are in place. Nobody can promise absolute security online, and we do not.
Complaints
Complaints are best raised with us first, through the contact page, because that is quickest. You keep the right to go straight to your data protection authority instead.
When this changes
Policies drift when tools change, so this one is updated rather than left to rot. The date at the top is the date that matters.
Reaching us
Questions about any of this go through our contact page.