Last updated: October 31, 2026
OnceAChef operates onceachef.com, where we publish recipes, cooking tips, and related content.
This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use and share it, and the choices available to you.
OnceAChef is an independently operated recipe blog. In this policy, “OnceAChef,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the individual who operates this blog.
For privacy questions or requests, email info@onceachef.com or visit our Contact page.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide directly and certain information collected automatically when you use our website.
Information You Provide
Depending on how you interact with OnceAChef, this may include:
- Your name, email address, website address, and message when you contact us.
- Your name, email address, comment, recipe rating, and optional website address when you leave a comment.
- Your email address and subscription preferences when you subscribe to recipe updates.
- Information you include in other correspondence with us.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through public comments or ordinary website forms.
Information Collected Automatically
Our website and service providers may collect:
- Your IP address and approximate location derived from it.
- Browser type, device information, and operating system.
- Pages viewed, referring websites, and interactions with the website.
- Visit dates, times, and technical diagnostic information.
- Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers.
2. How We Use Information
We use personal information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website.
- Respond to questions, feedback, and requests.
- Publish and moderate comments and recipe ratings.
- Deliver updates you have subscribed to and manage subscriptions.
- Understand website usage and improve our recipes and features.
- Detect spam, prevent abuse, and protect website security.
- Support advertising and personalization where enabled and permitted.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
3. Comments and Recipe Ratings
When you submit a comment or rating, your comment, rating, display name, and optional website link may be publicly visible. Your email address is not displayed publicly with your comment.
We may process technical information associated with submissions to detect spam and maintain security.
If you choose to save your commenting details in your browser, cookies may remember those details for future visits.
4. Email Subscriptions
If you subscribe to our updates, we use your email address to deliver the content you requested.
You can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us. Unsubscribing from recipe updates does not prevent us from responding to a separate inquiry you send us.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to support website functions, remember preferences, measure usage, and support advertising where enabled.
Some technologies are necessary for website operation. Others are used for analytics, recommendations, or advertising.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, the website’s privacy or consent controls. Blocking certain technologies may affect website features.
Browser cookie settings do not necessarily control every form of tracking or data processing.
6. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use OnceAChef and improve the website. Depending on our configuration and your consent choices, Google Analytics may process device information, website interactions, and online identifiers.
You can learn about Google’s practices in its Privacy Policy and its explanation of how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services.
Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
7. Advertising and Google AdSense
OnceAChef may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising partners. The following applies when those advertising services are enabled.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on your visits to OnceAChef and other websites on the Internet.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google’s My Ad Center. You can also visit YourAdChoices to explore opt-out choices offered by participating advertising companies.
Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily stop advertisements from appearing. Choices may apply only to a particular browser or device.
Other advertising vendors may use cookies or similar technologies when their services are enabled. Information about the partners we use and available choices is provided through our consent controls and the provider disclosures in this policy, as applicable.
8. Grow by Mediavine
We use Grow by Mediavine for content recommendations and reader-engagement features.
When you interact with Grow features, Mediavine may process personal information and use cookies or similar technologies according to the feature, its configuration, and your choices.
For information about Mediavine’s practices and available privacy choices, visit the Mediavine Legal and Privacy Center.
9. When We Share Information
We may share information with service providers that help us operate the website, including providers of hosting, analytics, email delivery, subscriptions, spam prevention, security, and advertising.
Our providers include:
- Google: We use Google Analytics and may use Google AdSense for advertising when enabled. See Google’s Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services.
- Mediavine: We use Grow features for content recommendations and reader engagement. See the Mediavine Legal and Privacy Center.
- Namecheap: We use Namecheap to host our website. Hosting services may process visitor IP addresses, server logs, and other technical information needed to deliver, maintain, and secure the website. See Namecheap’s Privacy Policy.
- Jetpack by Automattic: We use Jetpack to manage email subscriptions, deliver recipe updates, and process contact-form submissions. These features process information you provide, such as your name, email address, and message, along with technical information associated with your interaction. See Automattic’s Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites and the Jetpack Privacy Center.
Some third-party providers process information under their own privacy policies.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal requests, protect rights and security, or complete a business transfer subject to applicable safeguards.
Where advertising technologies involve sharing online identifiers or browsing activity, applicable law may classify that processing as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising.
10. Legal Bases for Processing
Where applicable data protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on the basis appropriate to the activity, including:
- Your consent.
- Our legitimate interests in operating, improving, and securing the website, where those interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Taking steps you request or providing an agreed service.
- Compliance with legal obligations.
Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it. Withdrawal does not affect processing lawfully carried out before withdrawal.
11. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to:
- Request access to or a copy of your personal information.
- Correct inaccurate information.
- Request deletion.
- Restrict or object to certain processing.
- Withdraw consent.
- Request data portability.
- Opt out of a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, where applicable.
- Appeal a privacy-request decision, where provided by law.
Contact info@onceachef.com to submit a request or appeal. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to inquiries, managing subscriptions, maintaining published comments, protecting security, and meeting legal obligations.
Retention periods vary by the information involved and the service used. When information is no longer needed, we delete or anonymize it, subject to legitimate backup, security, and legal requirements.
13. International Processing
Our service providers may process information in countries other than your country of residence. Those countries may have different data protection rules.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, those transfers must be supported by an appropriate legal mechanism.
14. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information. However, no website, storage system, or method of Internet transmission is completely secure.
15. Children’s Privacy
OnceAChef is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.
16. External Links
Our website may link to external websites or services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. Review those policies before providing personal information.
17. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy to reflect changes to our website, services, or obligations. We will update the date above and provide additional notice where required.
18. Contact Us
For questions, privacy requests, or complaints:
Website: OnceAChef
Operation: Independent recipe blog
Email: info@onceachef.com
Contact: Contact Us