This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, and retained in connection with Bartender’s Cabinet at https://bartenderscabinet.com/.
In this policy, “I,” “me,” and “my” refer to the operator of Bartender’s Cabinet. “You” and “your” refer to visitors and people who interact with the website.
For privacy questions or requests, contact admin@bartenderscabinet.com.
1. Scope of This Policy
This policy covers information associated with browsing this website, submitting comments or recipe ratings, contacting me, and using optional features such as subscriptions, embedded content, analytics, or advertising where those features are enabled.
Third-party websites and services have their own privacy policies. This policy does not govern their independent activities.
2. Information You Provide
Contact messages
When you contact me by email, I receive your email address, any name you provide, your message, and attachments or other information you choose to send. I use this information to respond, handle your request, and keep relevant correspondence.
Comments and recipe ratings
When you submit a comment or rating, the website may collect your name or display name, email address, optional website address, comment text, and rating. Technical information such as your IP address and browser information may also be processed to help detect spam and abuse.
Approved comments, display names, ratings, and website links may be publicly visible. Your email address is not intended to appear publicly as part of your comment. Please avoid posting private or sensitive information in a public comment.
Optional subscriptions
If a newsletter or subscription feature is offered and you sign up, the information requested at signup may include your email address, name, and subscription preferences. The signup notice identifies the purpose of that subscription.
An email service may process delivery and engagement information, such as whether a message was delivered, opened, or clicked, depending on the service and settings used. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the link in those messages or by contacting me.
3. Information Collected Automatically
The website, hosting infrastructure, and enabled services may process:
- IP addresses and approximate location inferred from them.
- Browser type, operating system, device type, and language.
- Pages viewed, referring pages, and links or features used.
- Visit dates, timestamps, and interaction information.
- Cookie identifiers, consent preferences, and diagnostic or security logs.
Collection depends on the features running on the page and your applicable privacy choices. Approximate location inferred from an IP address is different from precise GPS location.
4. How Information Is Used
I use information relevant to the website to:
- Deliver pages and website features.
- Respond to questions and correspondence.
- Publish and moderate comments and recipe ratings.
- Prevent spam, fraud, unauthorized access, and other abuse.
- Diagnose technical problems and maintain security.
- Understand readership and improve content where analytics is enabled.
- Send communications you requested.
- Support and measure advertising where advertising is enabled.
- Meet applicable legal obligations and handle disputes.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files stored on your device. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, and local storage.
Depending on the features enabled, these technologies may support essential website functions, remember preferences, measure usage, or deliver advertising.
If you select the comment-form option to save your details, cookies may remember your name, email address, and website address so you do not need to enter them again.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser. Where a cookie banner or privacy settings control is provided, you can use it to manage the choices available there. Blocking cookies may affect some website features.
Where applicable law requires consent for nonessential technologies, those technologies should operate only after the required consent. This policy itself is not a request for consent, and merely browsing the website does not substitute for consent where it is legally required.
6. Analytics
Where analytics services are enabled, they may collect device identifiers, browsing activity, approximate location, traffic sources, and other usage information to help measure how people find and use the website.
The information processed depends on the provider, configuration, and consent settings. Analytics providers may process information under their own privacy terms.
If Google Analytics is used, information about Google’s practices is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Google also provides a browser opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. That add-on applies to supported Google Analytics collection; it does not disable every website technology.
7. Advertising
Where third-party advertising is enabled, advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, IP addresses, browsing activity, and approximate location to deliver ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, and personalize advertising where permitted.
When Google advertising services are used, Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies enable it and its partners to personalize ads based on browsing activity.
You can manage Google ad personalization at https://myadcenter.google.com/. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Choices for certain participating advertising companies are available at https://optout.aboutads.info/.
These tools apply to participating providers and supported browsers or accounts. Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily stop all advertising or essential measurement.
An advertising provider’s additional notice, when displayed on this page, explains its own processing. No provider should be understood to be active solely because its services are described conditionally in this policy.
8. Embedded Content and External Links
Articles may include content supplied by another website, such as videos, social posts, images, or other embedded features. When enabled, embedded content may allow its provider to receive technical information, set cookies, and track interactions, particularly if you are signed in to that provider.
Following an external link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices. A standard external link is different from an embedded feature that loads on this website.
Where a profile-image service such as Gravatar is enabled for comments, an identifier derived from your email address may be sent to that service to retrieve an associated image. Its provider’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
9. Affiliate Links
If an article includes affiliate links, following a link may allow the affiliate network or retailer to process referral information, cookie identifiers, and purchases for attribution purposes. Those services operate under their own privacy policies.
Payment details entered on a retailer’s website are handled by that retailer and its payment services rather than through an ordinary referral link on Bartender’s Cabinet.
10. Disclosure of Information
Information may be disclosed, as relevant to enabled features, to:
- Hosting, infrastructure, and technical support providers.
- Email and communication services.
- Spam prevention, security, and comment-management services.
- Analytics and advertising providers.
- Embedded-content providers and affiliate services.
- Professional advisers, authorities, or other parties when necessary to address legal obligations, disputes, or protection of rights.
- Parties involved in a business transfer, subject to applicable privacy requirements.
Public comments are also available to other website visitors.
Service providers may process information on my behalf. Some third parties, particularly advertising and embedded-content providers, may independently determine how they use information.
11. Retention
Retention depends on the purpose of processing, the service involved, and applicable obligations.
Correspondence may be retained while a request is being handled and for a reasonable period afterward. Published comments and associated moderation records may remain while the discussion is available, unless removed.
Subscription information may be retained while a subscription is active. Limited suppression records may be retained afterward to respect an unsubscribe request.
Technical, analytics, advertising, and cookie records depend on the settings and retention schedules of the services involved. Information may also need to be retained for security, legal obligations, or disputes. Copies in backups may remain until the normal backup cycle removes them.
Contact me if you need information about the retention of a particular record.
12. Security and International Processing
Protecting information involves appropriate technical and organizational safeguards. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Website providers may process information in countries other than where you live. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, those requirements apply to the relevant processing. You can contact me for information about a specific provider or transfer.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, the processing involved, and whether the relevant law applies, you may have rights to:
- Request access to personal information and information about its use.
- Correct inaccurate information.
- Request deletion.
- Receive certain information in a portable format.
- Restrict or object to certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
- Opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or certain profiling.
- Appeal a denied request where applicable.
- Complain to the relevant privacy regulator.
Rights may have exceptions, and withdrawing consent does not change the lawfulness of earlier processing.
To make a request, email admin@bartenderscabinet.com and explain the right you wish to exercise. I may need proportionate information to verify your identity or an authorized agent’s authority. Please do not send identity documents unless specifically requested through an appropriate method.
14. European Economic Area and United Kingdom
Where European or UK data protection law applies, processing must have an applicable lawful basis. Depending on the activity, this may include consent, legitimate interests in responding to correspondence and maintaining a secure website, providing a requested service where necessary to perform a contract, or legal obligations.
You may object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent for consent-based processing. You may also complain to your local supervisory authority. Information about the UK Information Commissioner’s Office is available at https://ico.org.uk/.
15. California and Other US State Rights
Where applicable US state privacy law covers this website and its processing, eligible residents may exercise the rights described above, including applicable opt-outs.
Some disclosures of identifiers or browsing activity to advertising providers may constitute a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under state law even without a direct payment for the information.
Use any applicable advertising privacy controls displayed on the website to manage browser-based preferences. You may also contact admin@bartenderscabinet.com to request information or exercise applicable rights.
Global Privacy Control and similar legally recognized signals may communicate opt-out preferences. Where the applicable law requires recognition of such signals, the website and its relevant services must implement that requirement. A general browser “Do Not Track” setting is not necessarily equivalent to such a signal.
Applicable rights include protection against unlawful discrimination for exercising them.
16. Children’s Privacy
Bartender’s Cabinet is intended for an adult audience, and alcoholic recipes are intended for people of legal drinking age.
I do not intend to collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact admin@bartenderscabinet.com so the matter can be investigated and the information removed where appropriate.
17. Changes to This Policy
I may update this policy as website features, providers, or privacy practices change. The date at the top identifies the latest revision.
Where required, material changes will be communicated and new consent obtained before the affected processing begins.
18. Contact
For questions about this policy or to make a privacy request:
Bartender’s Cabinet
Website: https://bartenderscabinet.com/
Email: admin@bartenderscabinet.com