Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how La Bonne Recette collects, uses, and protects personal data when you use our online platform and services, including our online recipe database, meal planning tools, cooking video tutorials, culinary blog and articles, and interactive user community. By using our site, you understand that your personal data will be handled as described in this policy.
1. What Personal Data We Collect
We collect various types of personal data, depending on how you interact with our service. This may include:
Information you provide directly: This includes information you give us when you create an account, subscribe to services, post content, participate in forums, or contact us. Examples might include your username, password, profile information, preferences, and any content you submit (like recipes, comments, or questions).
Information collected automatically: When you visit or use our site, we may automatically collect certain information from your device or browser. This includes technical data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, site navigation patterns, and information about how you use our service (e.g., pages visited, features used, time spent).
Information from third parties: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as service providers who assist us with running our site or conducting analytics, subject to their own privacy policies and applicable laws.
2. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data for various purposes, including:
Providing and maintaining our service: Operating our online platform, providing access to features, and ensuring the service functions correctly.
Managing your account: Creating, managing, and verifying your user account, and providing you with access to account-specific features.
Improving and personalizing our service: Understanding how users interact with our site, analyzing usage trends, and developing new features and content (like suggesting recipes or articles based on your interests).
Communication: Responding to your inquiries, providing customer support, and sending you service-related information or updates.
Moderation and community management: Ensuring the community features operate smoothly and safely, moderating user-generated content, and addressing user reports.
Compliance and legal purposes: Complying with legal obligations, enforcing our terms of service, protecting our rights and the rights of others, and preventing fraudulent or illegal activities.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:
Performance of a contract: Processing necessary to fulfill our obligations under a contract with you (e.g., providing the services you subscribed to, managing your account).
Legitimate interests: Processing necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided these interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., improving our services, preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security).
Consent: Processing based on your clear consent for specific purposes (e.g., sending marketing communications where required). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Legal obligation: Processing necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
4. Data Storage and Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your data, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
6. Sharing Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with third parties under specific circumstances:
Service Providers: We may share data with third-party service providers who perform functions on our behalf (e.g., hosting providers, analytics services, customer support tools). These providers are bound by contractual obligations to protect your data and only use it for the purposes for which we provide it.
With your consent: We may share your data with third parties when you give us your explicit consent to do so.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data if required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we have a good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction.
7. International Data Transfers
Your personal data may be stored and processed in countries other than your own. Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as relying on adequacy decisions by the European Commission, using standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, or other legally approved mechanisms.
8. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR Rights)
Under the GDPR, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:
Right of Access: You have the right to request confirmation of whether we process your personal data and, if so, to request access to that data.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, particularly where processing is based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR. The relevant supervisory authority in France is the CNIL.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights).
9. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our site uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users, provide a better experience, and improve our service. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
10. Children's Privacy
Our service is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
11. Links to Third-Party Websites
Our site may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. Changes are effective when they are posted on this page.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data practices, you can contact us by post at:
La Bonne Recette
34 Rue de la République
69002 Lyon
France
