Effective Date: June 23, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners. Cookies can be “persistent” cookies (which remain on your device for a set period) or “session” cookies (which are deleted once you close your browser).
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes to enhance your experience on HomeDinnerIdeas.com (the “Website”):
Strictly Necessary Cookies:
- Purpose: These cookies are essential for the basic operation of our Website and e-commerce functionalities, such as allowing you to navigate the site, add items to your shopping cart, and complete purchases. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Your Control: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function and cannot be switched off in our system.
Performance and Analytics Cookies:
- Purpose: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously (e.g., via Google Analytics). This allows us to track website traffic, measure user engagement, identify popular content, and improve our Website’s performance and design.
- Your Control: You can opt-out of these cookies via our cookie consent banner.
Functionality Cookies:
- Purpose: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can remember changes you have made to parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Your Control: You can manage these cookies via our cookie consent banner.
Advertising and Targeting Cookies:
- Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. These cookies may be placed by us or by third-party advertising networks.
- Your Control: You can manage these cookies via our cookie consent banner.
Affiliate Cookies (Specific to Affiliate Products):
- Purpose: As a recipe website that features affiliate products, we implement affiliate links. When you click on an affiliate link and are redirected to a third-party merchant’s website (e.g., Amazon, your other affiliate programs), these merchants typically place cookies on your device. These cookies are essential for the affiliate program to track that you originated from our Website and to attribute any subsequent purchases to us. This enables us to earn a commission.
- Your Control: These are third-party cookies that fall under the “Advertising / Targeting Cookies” category and can be managed through our cookie consent banner.
3. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, various third parties may place cookies on your device when you visit our Website. These include:
- Google Analytics: For website analytics. (Refer to Google’s privacy policy for their cookie usage).
- Payment Processors: If you select a payment method like PayPal or Stripe, they may set cookies for transaction processing and fraud prevention.
- Affiliate Networks/Merchants: [LIST_SPECIFIC_AFFILIATE_MERCHANTS_OR_NETWORKS_USED, e.g., Amazon Associates, Awin, ShareASale] for tracking affiliate sales.
- Social Media Platforms: If you have social sharing buttons (e.g., Facebook, Pinterest), these platforms may set cookies.
4. Your Cookie Choices
Upon your first visit to our Website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to:
- Accept All Cookies: Consent to all types of cookies.
- Decline All Non-Essential Cookies: Only allow strictly necessary cookies.
- Customize Preferences: Select which categories of cookies you allow.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link, usually located in the footer of our Website.
Most web browsers also allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, which enables you to decide whether to accept it or not. You can also block all cookies, but please note that some features of our Website, particularly our e-commerce functionalities, may not function properly without certain cookies.
For more information on how to manage cookies, you can visit:
5. Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
Some web browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal. There is no universal standard for DNT signals, and we do not currently respond to them. However, you can manage your cookie preferences directly through our consent banner and your browser settings.
6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Email: contact@homedinnerideas.com