Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal information supercooking.net handles, why we handle it, who else it reaches, and what you can require us to do about it. Anything you want to ask about it goes to [email protected]. Last updated September 2026.

Scope

It applies to this website and to the two email addresses we publish. It does not apply to any other site you reach by clicking a link here, and it does not apply to the independent decisions our advertising partners make about the data they collect.

What This Site Records

When You Write to Us

We receive your email address, your message and anything attached to it. The thread is kept so we can answer it and check back if the same question comes round again.

When You Comment

The publishing platform stores the name and email address you type in, the comment text, the timestamp, your IP address and your browser identification string. The name and the comment are public. The email address and the IP address are not.

What the Server Logs

Opening a page causes the web server to write one line in its access log, which is what any web server does in order to answer a request. The line holds:

Your IP address, which indicates a country or region and nothing finer.
The date and time of the request.
The address of the page you asked for.
The page you arrived from, when your browser sends it.
The response code the server returned.
The user agent string, which identifies the browser and the operating system.

That list is the whole of it, because it is simply the access log an ordinary web server writes. There is no measurement script on these pages. Nothing records how far you scroll, how long you keep an article open, where you click, the size of your screen or the order in which you read, and no identifier is created to link one visit of yours to another. We do not use Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager, there are no heat maps, no session replay and no A/B testing, and there is no newsletter or mailing list to be signed up to.

The log is read in aggregate, to see how many times an address was requested and to spot automated traffic. That is the extent of what we know about readership, and it does not build a profile of anyone.

What Lives in Your Browser

From us, very little: the technical cookies the caching layer needs, and the cookie holding your consent decision. Everything else, meaning third-party cookies, local storage, pixels and advertising identifiers, comes from the advertising partners and runs only after you have consented. Each category, its purpose and its lifetime are set out in the Cookie Policy.

What We Never Ask For

There are no payments on this site, so we hold no card or bank details. We do not ask for identity documents, precise satellite location, biometric data, or information about health, religion, politics, sex life or trade union membership, and we have no lawful reason to keep any of it if it is sent to us anyway.

The Legal Grounds We Rely On

The General Data Protection Regulation and its United Kingdom equivalent require a legal ground for every processing activity. Ours are:

Consent for the advertising and personalization cookies our partners set. It is given through the consent banner, it can be withdrawn at any time, and withdrawing it costs you nothing on this site.
Legitimate interests for keeping the site available and secure, blocking fraudulent and automated traffic, reading the server access log in aggregate to see which addresses were requested, and replying to correspondence. We weigh those against your rights and stop where yours prevail.
Legal obligation where a valid legal requirement compels us to keep or disclose something.

Advertising, and Why It Sets Cookies

SuperCooking is free to read and is paid for by the advertising on it. That advertising is sold programmatically: as a page loads, technology partners bid in real time for the slots on it. The slots are sold by TheMoneytizer, and consent is collected by InMobi Choice, a consent management platform registered under the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF v2.3).

To take part, those partners may set and read cookies and identifiers so they can select an advert, limit how often you see the same one, confirm it was genuinely on screen, and screen out invalid traffic. Where you have consented, they may also use interest categories inferred from browsing behavior when choosing what to show you.

Declining consent does not empty the ad slots. It makes them contextual, filled according to the subject of the page rather than anything inferred about you. The list of partners currently active here, with links to their own notices, is inside the consent tool reachable from the footer of every page. Each of those companies acts as an independent controller of what it collects, and their processing is not under our control.

Recipients

Hosting, content delivery and security providers that serve pages and filter malicious traffic.
Email providers that carry messages between you and us.
The consent management platform, which records your consent decision and passes it to the advertising partners.
Embedded media providers, where an article includes an element that loads from another domain.
Legal recipients, where a valid legal process requires disclosure or where it is necessary to establish or defend a claim.

We do not exchange personal information for money. Even so, using advertising cookies for cross-context behavioral advertising falls within the definitions of sale and sharing in California law, and we treat it as such rather than relying on a narrow reading of the words.

Transfers Abroad

Our providers and advertising partners operate in several countries, the United States among them. Where information leaves the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the transfer rests on an adequacy decision or on Standard Contractual Clauses, with supplementary measures where those are required.

Retention Periods

Email correspondence: up to twenty-four months after the exchange ends.
Comments: as long as the comment stays published. Ask us and it goes, along with the data attached to it.
Server access logs: rotated and deleted within a few weeks, the ordinary lifetime of a web server log.
Cookies: for the lifetimes given in the Cookie Policy, from a single session up to two years.
Aggregate statistics: kept indefinitely, because they identify nobody.

If You Are in the EEA or the UK

Access to a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Rectification of anything inaccurate or incomplete.
Erasure, where no overriding reason to keep it exists.
Restriction of processing while a dispute is being resolved.
Portability of information you provided, in a machine-readable form.
Objection to processing founded on legitimate interests, and an unconditional objection to direct marketing and the profiling attached to it.
Withdrawal of consent at any moment, without unsettling processing that already took place lawfully.
Complaint to your national supervisory authority, which you may make without approaching us first.

Write to [email protected]. We may ask for enough detail to be confident the request is yours, and we will use that detail for nothing else. The deadline is one month, extendable by two further months where a request is genuinely complex, and we will explain any extension before the first month expires.

If You Are in California

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, residents of California may:

Ask which categories of personal information were collected, from where, for what, and which categories of third party received them.
Ask for a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we hold.
Ask us to correct anything inaccurate.
Ask us to delete personal information, subject to the exceptions the statute permits.
Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Limit the use of sensitive personal information. We do not collect sensitive personal information for any purpose that would engage this right.
Be treated no differently for having exercised a right. Nothing on this site is withheld, slowed or degraded because you did.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Open the consent tool from the footer of any page and switch off advertising and personalization. The instruction is stored on the browser and device you used, so it has to be repeated on any other browser you read us in and again whenever you clear your cookies.

We also honor the Global Privacy Control signal. Where your browser or an extension transmits it, we read it as a valid opt-out for that browser and nothing further is needed from you.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under sixteen. An authorized agent may act for you with written permission, and we may still confirm the request with you.

If You Are in Another US State

Residents of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana and other states with comparable statutes hold similar rights to access, correct, delete, port and opt out of targeted advertising. Use the same address and name the right you are exercising. If a request is refused, you may appeal by replying to our decision, and the appeal will be answered in writing.

Children

SuperCooking is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under thirteen. If you believe a child has sent us something, write to [email protected] and we will delete it.

Keeping It Safe

Pages are served over encrypted connections, and access to the mailboxes and the publishing system is restricted to the people who need it and protected by strong authentication. No system is perfect, which is one reason we keep the amount of personal information involved in reading a recipe as small as we can.

Sites We Link To

Articles link to producers, reference works and source material because they are useful. The moment you follow one of those links you are on another organization’s site, covered by their notice and not by this one.

Revisions

Material changes appear here with a new date at the top, and where a change affects how personal information is used we will request consent again through the consent tool. Previous versions are available on request.

Who to Write To

Privacy and data protection: [email protected]. Everything else: [email protected].