Effective Date: April 3, 2025
At LeemoeRecipes.com (“we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Company”), we take privacy seriously and respect the privacy concerns of our community of users. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information in connection with our website and related content, services, and features (collectively, the “Services”).
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
Information You Provide to Us
The personal information we collect from and about you may vary depending on how you engage with our Services and the information you provide voluntarily. We may collect personal information directly from you or otherwise in connection with your use of the Services, such as:
- Contact Information, including your name, contact details (such as a postal address, email address, or phone number), and communication preferences.
- Inquiry Information, including information provided in messages sent through forms or surveys, to our email addresses, or via phone. This also may include information provided when you sign up for our newsletters.
- Account Information, including name, username, account ID, contact information, profile information, saved or “liked” recipes, and payment and purchase history information.
- Financial Information, including credit and debit card information, and billing and shipping address.
- Demographic Information, including age, gender, income, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status.
- User-Generated Content, including personal information you choose to provide about yourself when you participate in forums or discussions on the Services, post comments or reviews, and participate in any Services. Please be aware that information you post may be viewed, used, or captured by anyone who visits the Services; therefore, you should avoid posting sensitive personal information that you would not want to be available to the public.
- Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information, including information provided when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, information included in any responses submitted through surveys or questionnaires, or the content of any testimonials.
- Inferences About Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data, including hobbies, interests, and characteristics, e.g., your favorite foods, purchases, or recipes.
Information Automatically Collected
General
As is true of many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information you provide to us and information about your device and use of the Service when you visit or interact with our Services. We, and our third-party partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., pixels, scripts, and logging technologies) in connection with our Services to collect and store the information described in this section for our, and our third-party partners’, purposes.
The type of information automatically collected includes:
- Device data, including internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, browser ID, the URL entered, the referring page, date/time of visit, and other user agent string data.
- Analytics/Usage data, including the path taken to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, usage and activity on or in connection with our Services (e.g., pages visited, links clicked, recipes viewed), metrics on how many emails we send are actually opened and which links are clicked.
- Location data, including geographic location we or our third-party providers may collect, such as via permissions within the browser functionality.
- Advertising/Advertising measurement data, including data associated with your view of, or your clicks on, advertisements served on our Services, cookie IDs or other digital identifiers assigned to your device, and device metadata, analytics/usage data, and location data, in each case, for purposes of serving advertising or facilitating advertising measurement to better optimize or otherwise understand the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
Note that we and our third-party partners may combine information that each of us collects automatically with other information about you, including information you choose to provide.
See the “What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?” section below to learn more about how you may limit or disable cookies or certain other tracking technologies on your device.
Third-Party Sources
We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we often combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual. For example, we may receive the same categories of personal information described above from the following third parties:
- Other Users: We may receive your information from other users who interact with our Services.
- Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products or services on our Services or on other properties or marketing/advertising and analytics partners.
- Social Media Networks: When an individual interacts with our Services through various social media networks, such as when someone logs in through a social network, “Likes” us on Facebook, or follows us or shares our content on Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social networks, we may receive some information from those social networks including your profile information and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties.
- Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors or survey and third parties who conduct marketing/advertising and analytics activities on our behalf, collect personal information and may share some or all of this information with us.
How Do We Use Personal Information?
We may use your information for various purposes, including:
- To fulfill your requests and provide our Services to you. This includes:
- Making our Services and Leemoe products and services available to you
- Coordinating access to your account
- Responding to requests, suggestions, questions, and comments, and providing other types of user support
- Fulfilling your payments and transactions
- Sending you service/transaction-related messages
- Saving your reading lists, recipes, or other searches
- To personalize your experience on our Services: This includes providing you with content or other products or services you might be interested in and de-emphasizing content you’ve already read or viewed.
- For marketing purposes: We may send you communications about new features, updates, products, and special offers. We may also use your information to serve you ads about our products or other products or services we think you might find interesting.
- To communicate with you: For example, we may communicate with you about your account activities, such as by providing you transaction confirmations or alerting you when a subscription is up for renewal.
- To monitor, improve, and develop our products and services: We may use your information to understand our users and to tailor or optimize our Services.
- To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal requirements and obligations, or as otherwise permitted by law: We may use your information to protect our company, our customers, and our Services from fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions.
How Do We Share Personal Information?
The personal information we collect from you may be shared with third parties, including:
- Third Parties At Your Request: You may choose to share your activities on the Services with your friends through email, text, or on various social media networks.
- Promotional Partners: We may share information with third parties with whom we partner to provide contests, surveys, and sweepstakes, or other joint promotional activities.
- Marketing and Strategic Business Partners: We may share information with marketing/advertising, analytics, and other business partners for purposes such as providing you with information, undertaking marketing/advertising activities about products or services that may interest you.
- Online Advertising Partners: We may share information with third-party online advertising partners or permit these partners to collect information from you on our Services to facilitate online advertising and related measurement/attribution activities.
- The Public: When you provide feedback or post user content on our Services (e.g., if you post a comment on a recipe), your information (e.g., your first name, last initial, and your comments) may be displayed on our Services or on our social media pages.
- Service Providers: Personal information may be shared with third-party vendors and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf, such as payment processors, email providers, and hosting services.
- Purchasers and Third Parties in Connection With a Business Transaction: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of assets, or acquisition.
- Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or protect our rights.
What are Our Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices?
General
We, and our third-party partners, use information that we receive about you to serve advertisements more relevant to your interests, to optimize marketing and advertising campaigns, as well as to generate analytics and provide marketing/advertising-related services. These third-party partners may include online advertising networks, measurement companies, social media companies, or other advertising technology services.
How We Collect This Information
The information used for these advertising practices is typically collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons/pixels, scripts, and similar technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including clickstream information, browser type, time and date you visited the site, and other information.
We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed email address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help identify you across devices.
Social Media Platforms and Advertising
Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, Pinterest, or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies.
We display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, and other social media platforms. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services.
What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?
You may control your information in the following ways:
Access to, Modification of, or Deletion of Your Information
You have the right to request access to your personal information, amendment/correction of inaccurate/incomplete personal information, or deletion of your personal information. In order to make such a request, please contact us at [email protected]
Marketing E-mail Preferences
You can manage your marketing email preferences by:
- Using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such messages, or
- By visiting “E-mail Preferences” on our Services and updating your preferences.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
To manage cookies, you have the ability to change your browser settings to:
- Notify you when you receive a cookie, so you can choose whether or not to accept it
- Disable existing cookies
- Automatically reject cookies
Online Ads
To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
You can also opt-out of some interest-based advertising on mobile apps by visiting https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
How Do We Protect Personal Information?
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. That said, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems at all times. Thus, you assume some risk with regard to the security of information you provide through any digital property, including our Services.
What About Links to Third-Party Websites or Services?
Our Services may provide links to other digital properties that are controlled by third parties. Linked digital properties may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we suggest you review. We are not responsible for the content, usage terms, or privacy policies of digital properties that we do not own or control.
What’s Our Policy With Respect to Children’s Personal Information?
Our Services are not designed or intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will endeavor to delete any such information promptly. If you believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us using the contact information below.
What’s Our Policy for Users Outside the United States?
Your personal information may be stored in, transferred to, and processed in the United States and in any other country in which Leemoe or service providers maintain facilities. The data protection laws in these countries may provide a different standard of protection for your personal information than the country in which you are located. If you have questions or wish to obtain more information about the international transfer of your personal information or the implemented safeguards, please contact us using the contact information below.
How Will We Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy?
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently updated. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How Can You Contact Us?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing [email protected]
California Privacy Rights
For California residents, please note that we collect various categories of personal information as described in the “What Personal Information Do We Collect?” section and may disclose this information to third parties for business purposes. California residents may have the right to request access to their personal information, request deletion of their personal information, and request to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected]
Notice to European Union Residents
If you are located in the European Union, you have certain rights in respect of your personal data, including the right to access, correct, and request deletion of your personal data. Please contact us at [email protected] to exercise these rights.
Last Updated: April 3, 2025