Kitchen & Garden: Who we are
Welcome to Kitchen & Garden. In this Privacy Policy, we describe how we collect, use, and protect the personal data you share on https://www.kitandgarden.blog. We commit to safeguarding your privacy and handling your information transparently.
Comments
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data you enter in the comments form—your name, email address, and the comment itself. To fight spam, we also record your IP address and browser details.
We keep your comment and its associated data indefinitely so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments you make, sparing them from moderation.
Registered Users
If you register on our website (currently only site administrators), we store the personal information you provide in your user profile as long as your account remains active. You can view, edit, or delete all your personal information at any time (except that you cannot change your username).
Analytics Data
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site. Google stores the anonymous data we send for up to 26 months, then deletes it automatically.
Media
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request a copy of all personal data we hold about you, including data you provided. You can also ask us to erase any personal data we hold about you, except for information we must keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Cookies
Checking Cookies
When you log in (for example, as an administrator), we set a temporary cookie to verify that your browser accepts cookies. We delete that cookie when you close your browser.
Functional Cookies
We use cookies to remember your login details and screen-display choices. After you log out, we remove those cookies; if they expire first, they disappear automatically.
Editing Cookies
When you edit or publish an article, we set one additional cookie to identify the post you last edited; that cookie contains no personal data and expires when you log out or after a set period.
Embedded content from other websites
Whenever our articles include embedded content (for example, YouTube videos or Pinterest pins), that content acts exactly as it does on the source site. If you interact with it, the external site may collect data about you, set its own cookies, and track your engagement—especially if you are logged into that service.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with these trusted third-party services that help us operate the site:
Spam Detection: To protect our site from spam comments, we use the Antispam Bee plugin. It may analyze comment data, such as the commenter’s IP address, to identify and block spam.
Google Services: We use Google Site Kit to connect our website with Google services like Google Analytics and Google AdSense.
- Google Analytics: This service helps us understand how visitors use our site by collecting anonymous data, such as which pages are most popular and how long visitors stay. This helps us improve our content.
- Google AdSense: When you visit our site, Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to our site or other websites. This involves sharing data with Google’s advertising network. You can learn how to opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
Password Resets: As with most websites, if you are a registered user and request a password reset, the email we send you will contain the IP address from which the request was made. This is a security measure to help verify the authenticity of the request.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its associated data are retained indefinitely. We do this to recognize and automatically approve any follow-up comments you might leave, which is crucial for automatic approval of known users.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
You have certain rights over the personal data we hold about you. If you have left comments on our site, you can exercise the following rights:
- Right to Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us.
- Right to Erasure: You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
Please note that this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes (for example, basic comment information for record-keeping or security logs).
To make a request to access or erase your data, please send us an email.
Where your data is sent
To operate our website, our trusted third-party service providers may process your data and send it to servers outside your home country.
- Spam Protection: We use the Antispam Bee plugin to protect our site from spam comments. A key feature of this plugin is that it is designed with privacy in mind. Unlike many other services, it analyzes comments locally on our server and does not send your personal information to an external cloud service for checking.
- Website Analytics & Ads: We use Google Site Kit to connect with Google Analytics and Google AdSense. This means anonymous traffic data and information related to the ads you see are sent to and processed on Google’s global servers, many of which are located in the United States.
- Embedded Content: As mentioned previously, if you interact with embedded content from other websites (like YouTube), your data is sent directly to that service’s servers.
