Privacy Policy

Calculator Inputs, Shared Recipe URLs, and Browser-Local Favorites

When you use any Culinary Hill calculator, the ingredient quantities, serving multipliers, nutrition values, and food cost figures you enter are calculated client-side in your browser. If you open a shared recipe link containing query or hash parameters (?recipe=...&servings=...), our privacy script reads those parameters into memory and immediately scrubs them from the address bar via window.history.replaceState before analytics or advertising tags execute.

When you star a scaled ingredient or recipe calculation, the tool saves your list in your browser's localStorage (under recipeCalcFavorites / recipeCalculatorFavorites). That data remains strictly on your device until you clear it or clear your browser storage.

Contact Form Submissions

If you contact us via our Contact page or by email, we receive the name, email address, subject, and message you submit solely so we can respond to your inquiry.

Information Collected Automatically

Our hosting infrastructure, analytics, and advertising partners may process standard technical data such as:

• IP address and standard HTTP request headers.
• Browser type, device category, operating system, and viewport dimensions.
• Pages viewed, page titles, referral URLs, and aggregate calculator interaction events.
• Approximate geographic region derived from network metadata.
• Security, rate-limiting, and bot-verification logs used to protect server endpoints from abuse.

How We Measure Website Traffic

Culinary Hill uses Google Analytics 4 (Measurement ID: G-B9RSQ1J9E3) to understand aggregate traffic patterns, identify popular culinary calculators and guides, and improve page performance across desktop and mobile devices. We never log the custom recipe ingredients or proprietary cost numbers you type into our calculators as analytics events.

Google describes how it processes data in the Google Privacy Policy and its Partner Sites Policy. Read our Cookies Policy for details on analytics cookies and opt-out controls.

Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Cookies

Culinary Hill uses Google AdSense (Publisher ID: pub-3565973351595856) and programmatic advertising partners (including Mediavine where applicable) to serve display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies, web beacons, and similar identifiers to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to culinaryhill.co.uk or other websites on the internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to culinaryhill.co.uk and/or other sites on the internet, measure ad effectiveness, cap ad frequency, and detect invalid traffic. See how Google uses data in Google Advertising Privacy & Terms and Mediavine's Privacy Policy.

You may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google My Ad Center / Ad Settings, or you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or Your Online Choices (UK/EU).

Visitors can review and manage their cookie and consent preferences at any time using the “Cookie settings” link in the website footer or through Google's certified consent management controls.

We use technical and contact information solely to:

• Operate, secure, and improve Culinary Hill's interactive calculators and culinary reference guides.
• Respond to inquiries submitted through our Contact page or email address.
• Measure aggregate traffic and display advertisements via Google AdSense and authorized ad partners.
• Prevent spam, automated abuse, and security threats on our server endpoints.

We do not sell or rent your personal information for monetary consideration. Limited technical data is processed by our infrastructure providers (hosting, Hostinger SMTP for contact emails, Google Analytics, and Google AdSense / programmatic advertising partners) strictly to provide their services or comply with legal obligations.

UK GDPR & EU GDPR Rights

If you are located in the United Kingdom, EEA, or Switzerland, you have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of personal data we hold about you (such as past contact-form correspondence), to restrict or object to processing, and to withdraw consent for optional cookies at any time via the “Cookie settings” button in the footer.

California (CCPA / CPRA) & US State Privacy Rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) and similar US state privacy laws, US residents have the right to request disclosure or deletion of personal information submitted, and to opt out of personalized advertising cookies via the “Cookie settings” button in our footer, Google My Ad Center, or aboutads.info/choices.

Browser-local saved calculations remain on your device until you clear them. Contact emails are retained only as long as reasonably needed to address your inquiry. Culinary Hill is a general-audience culinary reference website and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.