Privacy Policy & Disclosures

    Last Updated: May 2026

    1. Introduction

    Welcome to CookedWithSmile (https://cookedwithsmile.com). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, or interact with our content.

    2. Affiliate Disclosure (FTC Compliance)

    To keep this blog running and provide you with free recipes, CookedWithSmile participates in various affiliate marketing programs. This means that if you click on certain links to products or services and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

    • Amazon Associates Program: CookedWithSmile is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

    We only recommend products, baking tools, and ingredients that we genuinely use and love in our own kitchen.

    3. Advertising & Google AdSense

    We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

    • Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
    • Opting Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

    4. Information We Collect

    We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so. This includes:

    • Comments: When you leave a comment on a recipe, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
    • Newsletters: When you subscribe to our mailing list, we collect your name and email address. We use MailPoet to manage our list and track opens/clicks to improve our content.
    • Analytics: We automatically collect certain information about your device and how you interact with our website (e.g., pages viewed, browser type) to optimize our site’s performance.

    5. Cookies

    CookedWithSmile uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. We use cookies to save your login/comment details, analyze website traffic, serve personalized ads, and track affiliate link clicks. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies through your web browser settings.

    6. Your Rights Regarding Your Data

    If you are a resident of certain territories (like the USA under CCPA or the EU under GDPR), you have specific rights regarding your personal information:

    • You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
    • You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you (excluding data we are obliged to keep for legal/security purposes).
    • You can unsubscribe from our email newsletter at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.

    7. Contact Us

    If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or our affiliate relationships, please contact us at:

    Email: contact@cookedwithsmile.com