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Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://blackpeoplesrecipes.com. Welcome to Black People’s Recipes! Thank you for visiting our site—we’re so glad you’re here and hope you’ll become a regular visitor and commenter.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners including how to opt out of data collection, please click here

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you’d like to leave a comment, please follow these simple guidelines to help maintain a positive and engaging space for everyone.

Comment Policy
We encourage respectful and constructive discussions, and all comments are moderated before being published. Any comments that do not adhere to the following guidelines may be edited or deleted without warning:

Stay Respectful: Rude, disrespectful, or offensive comments, including profanity, vulgar language, and personal attacks, will not be approved. Let’s keep this a welcoming space!
Stay Relevant: Comments should contribute constructively to the conversation and be relevant to the blog post. Promotional, spammy, or unrelated links will be removed.
Provide Honest and Fair Reviews: If you rate a recipe, please make sure you’ve actually made it. Ratings based on significant ingredient or process changes, or without trying the recipe, will not be accepted.
Clarity Matters: Comments that are unclear, contain errors, or don’t make sense may be edited for clarity to avoid confusion.

Thank you for helping us create an enjoyable and respectful environment. We’re excited to hear from you and hope you enjoy exploring our recipes!

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at BlackPeoplesRecipes@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to BlackPeoplesRecipes@gmail.com.

Amend – You may contact us at BlackPeoplesRecipes@gmail.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to BlackPeoplesRecipes@gmail.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Third Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at BlackPeoplesRecipes@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Sponsored Posts

Ads, sponsored posts, and affiliate links are used on this site. This website is not responsible for anything found on the websites of the ads and links you click.  Any dispute arising out of a 3rd party advertiser or affiliate link must be handled through them.

Terms of Use

This website provides recipes and nutrition information. I am not a certified nutritionist and make no claims to the contrary. This website, https://www.blackpeoplesrecipes.com/, offers nutritional information for specific recipes contained on this site. This information is provided as a courtesy and should not be construed as a guarantee. This information is a product of online calculators such as MyFitnessPal.com. To obtain the most accurate representation of the nutritional information in a given recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe, using your preferred nutrition calculator. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information provided is accurate, complete, and useful.

Each individual’s dietary needs and restrictions are unique to the individual. You are ultimately responsible for all decisions pertaining to your health.

Comment Policy

We hope you become a regular visitor and commenter. If you do decide to leave a comment, we ask that you follow the basic rules and guidelines presented below.

We reserve the right to restrict comments that do not contribute constructively to the conversation at hand, contain profanity or crude language, personal attacks, copyrighted information or seek to promote a personal or unrelated business. (To clarify on the last point, please don’t add a self-promoting shout-out to your URL in the comment field.) Any post found to be in violation of any of these guidelines will be modified to remove the offending text or deleted without warning.

Comments will be deleted or edited in the following instances

  • The comment has errors or does not make sense.  I will try my best to edit them before they are posted just to avoid any confusion.
  • The comment is rude or disrespectful.  Be nice! This is a blog that provides free recipes and other content for entertainment purposes. All offensive content will be deleted.
  • If you give the recipe a low rating and haven’t actually made it. Or, if you give the recipe a low rating and changed the process or ingredients significantly. If you haven’t made a recipe you cannot provide an adequate review or rating. If you changed the ingredients used in a recipe, then it’s not our recipe and therefore should not be rated.
  • If you use profanity, vulgar, or offensive language. For obvious reasons.
  • If you are spam.

Copyright Policy

You are free to share photos from this site as long as full credit, via a link to the post/recipe is given to this blog. Do not share our content without credit.