Privacy Policy

At Dinner Stories, your privacy is of the upmost importance to us. This policy explains how we use any personal data collected from you when you visit our website. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy please contact us on christy@dinnerstories.co.uk

What data do we collect?

When you visit Dinner Stories website, log files are automatically collected by our host (blogger.com) and Google Analytics. This includes your IP address, browser type, date and time stamp, referral pages and time spent on our site. We use this information to analyse trends and gather demographic information - for example, how many sessions our website has received over a period of time, and where from.

If you choose to leave a comment on an article on our website, you are asked to leave your name, e-mail address and website (if applicable). This is not used for any other purpose.

By signing up to our newsletter, we collect your name and e-mail address via our e-mail host (mailchimp.com) for the purpose of sending you our monthly newsletter. Each e-mail you receive will include the option to unsubscribe at any time as is your right.

Cookies

Like all websites, Dinner Stories collects cookies. These are text files placed on your computer to collect standard log information and visitor behaviour information. This is used to optimize user experience by optimizing web page content based on the user's browser type and/or other information.

For more information on cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

You can choose to disable cookies through your own browser, however this may impact the way our website works for you.

We will never sell or distribute your information to anyone without your consent.

Third Parties

Third parties may automatically collect cookies and log files through their own websites. This privacy policy applies only to www.dinnerstories.co.uk and not to any Third Party sites. If you click a link through to any other website, you should view their own privacy policy.

Third Parties we use, as stated above, are:

Google Analytics - Read their privacy policy here.

Mailchimp - Read Mailchimp's privacy policy here.

Affiliate Programmes

Dinner Stories engages in affiliate marketing. This is a tracking link which, when clicked, places a cookie on your browser to track sales, resulting in commission for us.

Affiliate Programmes we use are:

Amazon Associates - View Amazon's Privacy Policy here.

Booking.com - View Booking.com's Privacy Policy here.

Dinner Stories has no access to or control over information collected by any third party websites.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Dinner Stories regularly reviews our policy and as such any changes will be updated on this page. This policy was last updated on 3rd July 2020.

Your Data Protection Rights

Access - You have the right to request copies of the personal information we store.

Rectification - You have the right to request we change any incorrect or incomplete information.

Erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data.

Restrict - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your information, under certain circumstances.

Object - You have the right to object to our companies processing of your information.

Data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data we collect to another organisation, or to you, under certain circumstances.

How to Contact Us

E-mail: christy@dinnerstories.co.uk