Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Overview

Welcome to EatMee Recipes (eatmeerecipes.co.za), founded and curated by Denisiya. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information in strict accordance with the South African Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data when you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, leave comments, or browse recipe collections.

2. Information We Collect

• Voluntary Personal Data: When you subscribe to our weekly newsletter or post a recipe comment, we collect your name and email address.
• Device & Usage Telemetry: We collect non-identifying telemetry including your IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, and timestamps to diagnose technical faults and optimize site speed.
• User Comments: Any public feedback, ratings, or questions you submit under recipes will be published after editorial review by Denisiya. Your email address is never published.

3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

EatMee Recipes uses cookies, web beacons, and local browser storage to provide a fast, personalized experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device:

• Essential Cookies: Required for fundamental site operations, search indexing, and security firewall verification (Cloudflare).
• Preference Cookies: Remember your consent choices, measurement units, and interface settings.
• Analytics & Performance Cookies: Help us understand which Durban Indian recipes and guides are most popular so we can create better content.

4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising

We partner with Google AdSense to serve advertisements when you visit our website. Google uses cookies, including the DoubleClick DART cookie, to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the internet.

• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
• Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

5. How We Use Your Data

We process your personal information strictly for legitimate culinary business purposes:

• To deliver weekly curated recipe newsletters to subscribers.
• To moderate, approve, and display community comments and cooking questions.
• To protect against malicious web traffic, spam submissions, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threats.
• We never sell, lease, or trade your personal information to third parties.

6. Data Retention & Your Rights

Under POPIA and GDPR, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, request corrections, or request complete deletion of your comments and newsletter subscriptions.

You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the one-click unsubscribe link provided in every email or by contacting us directly.

7. Contact Information

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is handled, please reach out to Denisiya: