Last updated: 01 October 2026
Cooking My Dreams ("we," "our," or "the Website") is a food and recipe website available at https://cookingmydreams.com.
We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your personal information transparently and in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Who We Are
Cooking My Dreams is operated by:
Data Controller: Jessica Montanelli
Location: The Netherlands
Business address: The Netherlands
Email: jessica@cookingmydreams.com
You may contact us at this address to ask questions about this policy or exercise your privacy rights.
2. Personal Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website, we may process:
- Technical information: IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring URLs, page visits, timestamps and security logs.
- Usage information: pages viewed, links clicked, website interactions and online identifiers collected through analytics or advertising technologies.
- Information you provide: name, email address and message content when you contact us, subscribe to our newsletter or submit a comment.
- Newsletter information: subscription status, preferences, consent records and, where enabled and lawful, email-opening and link-clicking activity.
- Advertising information: device identifiers, advertising identifiers, approximate location and interactions with advertisements, as described below.
We do not require visitors to provide personal information merely to browse our recipes.
3. Purposes and Legal Bases
We process personal information for the following purposes:
Website operation and security: To provide website content, maintain functionality, prevent misuse and address technical problems. Our legal basis is legitimate interests or another applicable legal basis.
Analytics: To understand website traffic and improve our content. Where required, we rely on your consent for the use of non-essential analytics technologies.
Advertising and marketing measurement: To support advertising, measure performance and provide personalized advertising where permitted. We request consent or provide applicable privacy choices as required by law.
Email communications: To send requested newsletters, recipes and promotional content. Where required, we rely on your consent.
Contact requests and comments: To respond to messages, manage comments and prevent spam, relying on legitimate interests or another applicable legal basis.
4. Advertising
Cooking My Dreams displays third-party advertising.
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive ("Raptive") is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Our advertising partners may process information including device identifiers, IP addresses, browsing activity, approximate location and advertising interactions.
Depending on applicable law and your privacy choices, this information may be used for advertising delivery, measurement, personalization and related purposes.
For information about advertising partners and available choices, consult our consent-management interface and the Raptive Advertising Privacy Statement.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4, a service provided by Google, to understand how visitors interact with our website.
Google Analytics may process page views, events, device characteristics, browser information, approximate location and online identifiers.
Where required by law, non-essential Google Analytics tracking is subject to visitor consent.
You can read Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
6. Meta Pixel
We use Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms, to measure advertising effectiveness and support remarketing or audience creation where permitted.
Meta Pixel may process information about visits, pages viewed, website interactions and device or browser identifiers.
Where required by law, Meta Pixel is activated only after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Meta's Privacy Policy is available at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.
7. Email Newsletters
We use Kit (formerly ConvertKit) to manage our email newsletter.
When you subscribe, we collect your email address and any additional information you voluntarily provide.
We use this information to send recipes, newsletters, updates and promotional communications covered by your subscription.
Kit processes subscriber data on our behalf. Where enabled, email tracking technologies may measure message opens, link clicks and subscriber engagement. We disclose such tracking and obtain any additional permission required by applicable law.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email.
You can also contact jessica@cookingmydreams.com to request access, correction or deletion of subscriber information, subject to applicable legal requirements.
8. Comments and Contact Forms
When you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with technical information used for security and spam prevention.
Approved comments and the name you choose to display may appear publicly.
When you submit a contact form, we use the information provided to respond to your enquiry and manage the correspondence.
We do not automatically subscribe contact-form users to marketing emails without an appropriate legal basis and notice.
9. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies, pixels and similar technologies for website operation, analytics, advertising and optional functionality.
Where required, non-essential technologies are activated only after you provide the appropriate consent.
You can accept, reject or customize applicable technologies using our consent-management system. You can also change or withdraw your consent using the available privacy-settings controls.
For further details, read our Cookie Policy at https://cookingmydreams.com/cookie-policy/.
10. Affiliate Links
Some articles contain affiliate links, including Amazon Associates links.
If you follow an affiliate link, the merchant or affiliate network may use cookies or other referral-tracking technologies to attribute purchases and calculate commissions. The relevant provider's privacy policy applies to its processing.
We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases without additional cost to you.
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
11. Sharing Personal Information
Personal information may be made available to companies providing services related to website hosting, security, analytics, advertising, email delivery and other website operations.
These include Raptive and its advertising partners, Google, Meta, Kit and other providers that are actually involved in operating the Website.
Some advertising-related disclosures may constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information under certain US privacy laws, even where no money is exchanged for the information.
Where applicable, visitors may exercise relevant opt-out rights through our website's advertising privacy controls.
We do not disclose newsletter subscriber lists to third parties for their independent email marketing without an applicable legal basis.
12. International Data Transfers
Cooking My Dreams is operated from the Netherlands. Some of the third-party service providers we use are located in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
These providers include Raptive, Google Analytics, Meta Platforms, and Kit (formerly ConvertKit).
Where personal information is transferred outside the EEA, we rely on applicable legal transfer mechanisms and safeguards, as required by the GDPR.
Depending on the provider and transfer, these safeguards may include:
- An adequacy decision issued by the European Commission, including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the receiving US organization is appropriately certified and the transfer is covered by that certification.
- Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
- Other lawful transfer mechanisms and supplementary safeguards where required.
Raptive's Data Transfer Addendum incorporates Standard Contractual Clauses for applicable transfers of personal data from the EEA.
Google and Meta participate in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for covered data transfers.
Kit uses the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses for applicable international data transfers.
For more information about these safeguards or to request information about applicable transfer mechanisms, please contact jessica@cookingmydreams.com.
13. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the relevant purposes, including the following:
- Contact form submissions and general enquiries: ordinarily retained for up to 12 months after the last correspondence, unless longer retention is necessary for an ongoing business relationship or legal obligation.
- WordPress comments and associated information: Approved comments and associated metadata are retained while the comments remain published and useful for the website, unless deletion or anonymization is requested and required by applicable law.
- Newsletter subscribers and consent records: Newsletter subscriber information is retained while the individual remains subscribed. When a subscriber unsubscribes, their information is no longer used for newsletter delivery and is retained only as necessary for suppression, compliance or other legitimate purposes, after which it is deleted or anonymized.
- Analytics information: Google Analytics event-level and user-level data: 14 months, subject to Google's applicable retention rules and configured reset behavior.
Information may be retained longer where required by applicable law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to:
- Access personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion or restriction of processing.
- Object to certain processing activities.
- Request data portability where applicable.
- Withdraw consent without affecting processing previously carried out lawfully.
- Opt out of certain advertising-related sharing or targeted advertising where applicable.
To exercise your rights, email jessica@cookingmydreams.com.
We will respond in accordance with applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
Individuals protected by the GDPR may also lodge a complaint with their supervisory authority, including the Dutch Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/).
Residents of certain US states may have additional privacy rights, including rights relating to targeted advertising, sale or sharing of personal information, and appeals of eligible privacy-request decisions.
15. Children's Privacy
Cooking My Dreams is a general-audience cooking website and is not directed specifically at children under 13.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information improperly, please contact us so that we can assess and address the situation.
16. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss or disclosure.
No internet-based system can be guaranteed completely secure.
17. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, service providers or legal obligations.
We will update the publication date when material changes are made and provide additional notice where required.
18. Contact
For privacy questions and requests, contact:
Cooking My Dreams
jessica@cookingmydreams.com
https://cookingmydreams.com/contact/