Privacy Policy

thefoodanddrink.co.uk is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at thefoodanddrinkblog@gmail.com if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is a part of our Terms and Conditions; by agreeing to Terms and Conditions you also agree to this Policy. In the event of collision of terms used in Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, the latter shall prevail.

Table of Contents

  1. Definitions used in this Policy
  2. Data protection principles we follow
  3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
  4. What Personal Data we gather about you
  5. How we use your Personal Data
  6. Who else has access to your Personal Data
  7. How we secure your data
  8. Information about cookies
  9. Content Policies
  10. Requirements and other standards
  11. Contact information

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – Matthew Fisher / Button Digital / thefoodanddrink.co.uk

Ads – Any advertising served on thefoodanddrink.co.uk website, whether that are be served by Google Publishing Solutions, including but not limited to Google Products, Google Adsense, Google AdMob, Amazon Associates, Amazon Affiliates and/or Google Adsense.

Content – Everything presented to users by the publisher, including publisher-generated content, syndicated content, user-generated content, organic search results, ads and links to other sites or apps.

Display – The user visible portion of the screen with which the user is interacting at a given moment.

On websites, this is the portion of the web page that is visible, and on mobile apps this is the portion of the mobile app that is visible and the near-scrollable region.

Google Ads – (capitalized “Ads”) Refers specifically to advertising provided by the Google Ads product.

Google-served ads – (lowercase “ads”) Advertising served by Google platforms including DV360, Authorized Buyers and DCM360.

Low-value content – Unintelligible content that has no value to the user (e.g., filler text or “ipsum lorem” text).

Personal data – Includes PII as well as per-user identifying information such as pseudonymous identifiers.

Publisher content – Everything presented to users that is created or managed by the publisher including materials managed by the publisher on behalf of the original creators including user generated content, but not including ads, site navigation and related content links.

Screen – The surface where a user interacts with content including but not limited to web pages and app screens.

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Data Subject’s rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  1. Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
  2. Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
  3. Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
  5. Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
  6. Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
  7. Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
  8. Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
  9. Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
  10. Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
  11. Right to withdraw consent – you have the right to withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

Data we gather

Information you have provided us with
This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.

Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners here.

Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

  • provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.
  • enhance your customer experience;
  • fulfil an obligation under law or contract;
  • display relevant advertisements based on a users browser activity. This is achieved by using cookies to determine products that may be of interest and presenting them on our website to enhance a users experience on our website.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • to identify you;
  • to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;
  • to communicate either for sales, invoicing or troubleshooting.
  • to display advertisements featuring products and / or services of interest.

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
  • to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided on our website and the advertisements featured on our website;
  • to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be both in our and our advertising partners legitimate interest. Advertisements featured on our website are from carefully selected providers including Google Adsense and Amazon Affiliate platforms.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
  • for other purposes we have asked your consent for;
  • To display relevant, personalised advertisements based on your browsing history and website activity using cookies.

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but provide an option for users to remove their personal data by using our Privacy Policy Tools.

Consent

To use this website, you accepted our Privacy Policy. However, if you wish to withdraw your acceptance, you can do so by visiting our Privacy Policy Tools page and clicking the “Delete my data” button and your personal data will be removed immediately.

Download your data

You can also download all your data formatted as a table for viewing whenever you wish. Alternatively, you can export your data in a machine-readable JSON format too by visiting our Privacy Policy Tools page and clicking the “Download as table’ or ‘Export as JSON’. Your personal data will download immediately following these steps.

Delete my user and data

Data deletion is disabled for administrative accounts.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

  • the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
  • the further Processing would not harm your interests and
  • there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Our processing partners:

Our business partners:

Connected third parties:

  • Google Analytics (please read Google Analytics Privacy Policy for information on how they process your personal data).
  • Google Adsense (please read Google AdSense Privacy Policy for information on how they process your personal data).
  • Amazon Affiliate (please read Amazon Associates Privacy Policy for information on how they process your personal data).
  • Amazon Services LLC Associates Program (an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commission fees by advertising and linking to the following web sites. (please read www.amazon.co.uk for information on how they process your personal data).

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

Affiliate Disclosure

thefoodanddrink.co.uk is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commission fees by advertising and linking to the following web sites.

Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We also monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks which we are notified about in such an eventuality.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Please be aware that choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions when using our website. For best user experience we recommend enabling cookies when using our website.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
  • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
  • Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
  • Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Content Policies

Illegal content

We do not allow content that:

  • is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

Intellectual property abuse

We do not allow content that:

  • infringes copyright. It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You can file a counter-notification via this form.
  • sells or promotes the sale of counterfeit products. Counterfeit goods contain a trademark or logo that is identical to or substantially indistinguishable from the trademark of another. They mimic the brand features of the product in an attempt to pass themselves off as a genuine product of the brand owner.

Dangerous or derogatory content

We do not allow content that:

  • incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.
  • harasses, intimidates, or bullies an individual or group of individuals.
  • threatens or advocates for physical or mental harm to oneself or others.
  • exploits others through extortion.

Animal cruelty

We do not allow content that:

  • promotes cruelty or gratuitous violence towards animals.
  • promotes the sale of products obtained from endangered or threatened species.

Misrepresentative content

Misleading representation

We do not allow content that:

  • misrepresents, misstates, or conceals information about the publisher, the content creator, the purpose of the content, or the content itself.
  • falsely implies having an affiliation with, or endorsement by, another individual, organisation, product, or service.

Unreliable and harmful claims

We do not allow content that:

  • makes claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.
  • promotes harmful health claims, or relates to a current, major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus.
  • contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on climate change.

Deceptive practices

We do not allow:

  • enticing users to engage with content under false or unclear pretenses.
  • attempting to steal personal information or trick users into sharing personal information
  • promoting content, products, or services using false, dishonest, or deceptive claims.
  • coordinating with other sites or accounts and concealing or misrepresenting your identity or other material details about yourself, where your content relates to politics, social issues or matters of public concern.
  • directing content about politics, social issues, or matters of public concern to users in a country other than your own, if you misrepresent or conceal your country of origin or other material details about yourself.

Manipulated media

We do not allow content that:

  • deceives users through manipulated media related to politics, social issues, or matters of public concern.

Enabling dishonest behavior

We do not allow content that:

  • helps users to mislead others.
  • promotes any form of hacking or cracking and/or provides users with instructions, equipment, or software that tampers with or provides unauthorized access to devices, software, servers, or websites.
  • enables a user, or promotes products and services that enable a user, to track or monitor another person or their activities without their authorisation.This does not include (a) private investigation services or (b) products or services designed for parents to track or monitor their underage children.

Sexually explicit content

We do not allow content that:

  • includes graphic sexual text, image, audio, video, or games.
  • contains non-consensual sexual themes, whether simulated or real.

Compensated sexual acts

We do not allow content that:

  • may be interpreted as promoting a sexual act in exchange for compensation.

Mail order brides

We do not allow content that:

  • facilitates marriage to a foreigner.

Adult themes in family content

We do not allow content that:

  • is made to appear appropriate for a family audience, but contains adult themes including sex, violence, or other depictions of children or popular children’s characters that are unsuitable for a general audience.

Child sexual abuse and exploitation

We do not allow content that:

  • Sexually exploits or abuses children or content that promotes the sexual exploitation or abuse of children. This includes all child sexual abuse materials.
  • Endangers children. Including but not limited to:
    • ‘Child grooming’
    • ‘Sextortion’
    • Sexualisation of a minor; and
    • Trafficking of a child

We will take appropriate action, which may include reporting to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and disabling accounts. If you believe a child is in danger of or has been subject to abuse, exploitation, or trafficking, contact the police immediately. If you have concerns a child is being or was being endangered in connection with our products, you can report the behavior to Google.

Behavioral policies

Dishonest declarations

Information provided by publishers to enable their use of or interaction with Google advertising systems:

  • must be materially accurate and complete, without misleading omissions; and
  • cannot be expressed in a deceptive or misleading manner.

Ads interfering

Google-served ads interfering with content or user interactions

We do not allow Google-served ads that:

  • overlay or are adjacent to navigational or other action items and may lead to unintended ad interactions,
  • severely interfere with consumption of content including overlaying the content or pushing the content off the display,
  • are placed on a “dead end” screen where the user is not able to exit the screen without clicking the ad.

Inventory value

Google-served ads on screens without publisher-content

We do not allow Google-served ads on screens:

  • without publisher-content or with low-value content,
  • that are under construction,
  • that are used for alerts, navigation or other behavioural purposes.

Out of context ads

We do not allow Google-served ads:

  • in apps or web pages that run in the background,
  • that appear outside the display,
  • when the user’s attention is expected to be elsewhere and not on the screen hosting the ad.

It must be clear to the user with which publisher-content the ad is associated.

Google-served ads on screens with replicated content

We do not allow Google-served ads on screens:

  • with embedded or copied content from others without additional commentary, curation, or otherwise adding value to that content.

We are also compliant with Google’s Intellectual property abuse policy.

More ads or paid promotional material than publisher-content

We do not allow Google-served ads on screens:

  • with more ads or other paid promotional material than publisher-content.

 Unsupported languages

We do not allow content that:

  • is not primarily in one of the supported languages. You can see a list of unsupported languages that conform with Google Publisher Policies here.

Privacy disclosures

thefoodanddrink.co.uk as a Publisher:

  • has and abides by our Privacy Policy that clearly discloses any data collection, sharing and usage that takes place on thefoodanddrink.co.uk website, email publication and other properties as a consequence of our use of Google products. Our privacy policy discloses to users that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on our users’ browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad(s) serving on our website.To comply with this disclosure obligation with respect to Google’s use of data, we have provided a link to How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

Cookies on Google domains

We will;

  • not set a cookie on Google’s domains or modify, intercept or delete cookies set on Google’s domains.

Identifying users

We will;

  • not use device fingerprints or locally shared objects (e.g., Flash cookies, Browser Helper Objects, HTML5 local storage) other than HTTP cookies, or user-resettable mobile device identifiers designed for use in advertising. This does not limit the use of IP address for the detection of fraud.
  • not pass any information to Google data that Google could use or recognise as personally identifiable information; or that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset).
  • not use our services to identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with information previously collected as non-personally identifiable information without robust notice of, and the user’s prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that identification or merger. Irrespective of users’ consent, we will not attempt to disaggregate data that Google reports in aggregate.For more information, please refer to Guidance for complying with the Identifying Users Policy.
  • comply with the EU user consent policy.

Use of device and location data

We may collect, process and disclose information that identifies or can be used to infer an end user’s precise geographic location from GPS wifi or cell tower data for legitimate purposes which may include;

  • ad personalisation, analytics, and attribution, as applicable so we may share data with partners for best user experience;
  • obtain express (i.e., opt-in) consent from end users before collecting, processing, or disclosing such information. You can opt-in or opt-out of express consent when visiting our website by selecting the ‘opt-in’ or ‘opt-out’ option when prompted upon arrival.
  • sending information to Google in an encrypted state or via an encrypted channel; and
  • disclose such information collection, processing, or disclosure in all applicable privacy policies.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

The implementation of any Google advertising service on thefoodanddrink.co.uk website (or any sub-sections of our website) in some geographical locations conform to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and we will where applicable;

  • notify Google of those sites or sections of sites covered by COPPA using the Google Search Console, tag the ad request using the AdMob SDK , tag our site where applicable, including any associated app, or ad request for child-directed treatment where applicable;
  •  not use interest-based advertising (including remarketing) to target:
    • past or current activity by users known by you to be under the age of 13 years or
    • past or current activity on sites directed at users under the age of 13 years.

Requirements and other standards

Spam policies for Google web search

We will not:

Abusive experiences

We will not:

Malware or unwanted software

We will not:

  • place Google-served ads on screens that contain malicious software or “malware” that may harm or gain unauthorised access to a computer, device, or network.
  • place Google-served ads on screens that violate Google’s Unwanted Software policy.

Better Ads Standards

We will not:

Authorised inventory

We will not:

  • place Google-served ads on a domain that uses ads.txt where you are not included as an authorized seller of the inventory in the ads.txt file.

For syndication partners, Parents must ensure Children promptly add an ads.txt file to Child domains with Parents as authorised sellers of Child Inventory.

Sanctions compliance

Google must comply with sanctions and export controls maintained by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United States Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry & Security and other applicable sanctions.

We comply with applicable sanctions and export regulations, which includes OFAC sanctions, and agree to not cause Google to violate these regulations.

Contact Information

Supervisory Authority
Website: https://ico.org.uk
Email: international.team@ico.org.uk
Phone: +44 1625 545 745

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made 17th November 2023.