Privacy Policy and Terms

Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 19, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how VictoriaHaneveer.com collects, uses and protects information when you visit this website, submit a comment, use a contact form or interact with advertising and other website features.

Victoria Haneveer is the data controller responsible for personal information collected directly through this website. If you have a privacy question or would like to exercise your data protection rights, please use the contact page.

Information Collected

Information may be collected in the following ways:

  • Information you provide: This may include your name, email address, website address and anything you include in a comment or contact form.
  • Technical information: The website and its service providers may collect your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages visited, approximate location and the date and time of your visit.
  • Cookie and consent information: Information may be recorded about the consent choices you make, advertising identifiers and cookies stored on or read from your device.
  • Newsletter information: If you subscribe to a newsletter offered by this website, your name and email address may be collected for that purpose.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through comments or contact forms.

How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

  • Operate, maintain and secure the website
  • Respond to messages, questions and comments
  • Moderate comments and prevent spam or abuse
  • Understand how visitors find and use the website
  • Improve website content, navigation and performance
  • Display and measure advertising where consent has been given
  • Send newsletters or other requested communications
  • Comply with legal obligations and protect legal rights

Lawful Bases for Processing

Where UK data protection law applies, personal information is processed under one or more of the following lawful bases:

  • Consent: For non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, certain analytics activities and newsletter subscriptions where consent is required. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate interests: For operating and protecting the website, responding to messages, preventing fraud and spam and understanding general website performance where these interests do not override your rights.
  • Contract: Where processing is necessary to provide something you have requested.
  • Legal obligation: Where information must be retained or disclosed to comply with the law.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored on your device. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts and local storage. This website may use:

  • Essential cookies: Necessary for security, website operation and recording privacy choices.
  • Analytics cookies: Used to understand website traffic and how visitors interact with the site.
  • Advertising cookies: Used to display, personalize and measure advertisements.
  • Functional cookies: Used to remember preferences or support optional website features.

Visitors in the UK, European Economic Area and Switzerland are shown a Google-certified consent message. Non-essential purposes requiring consent are not authorized unless the visitor chooses to consent. You can decline consent, manage individual options or change a previous choice through the Privacy and cookie settings link displayed on this website.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the website operate.

Google AdSense and Advertising

This website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this website and other websites on the internet.

Depending on your location and consent choices, advertisements may be personalized, non-personalized or limited. Advertising vendors may process information such as cookie identifiers, IP addresses, device information, browsing activity and approximate location for purposes disclosed in the consent message.

The current list of participating advertising vendors and their stated purposes can be viewed by selecting Manage options in the website’s consent message.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You may manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Additional industry opt-out options may be available through YourAdChoices.

Google Analytics and Site Kit

This website uses Google services, including Google Analytics, through Google Site Kit. These services help measure website traffic, identify general usage patterns and monitor website performance.

Subject to your location and consent choices, Google Analytics may collect information including pages visited, approximate location, browser and device information, referring sources and interactions with the website. Reports supplied to the website owner are generally aggregated and are not intended to identify visitors by name.

Google processes information according to its Privacy Policy.

Comments

When you leave a comment, the website may collect the information entered in the comment form along with your IP address and browser information. This information is used to display and manage comments, identify spam and protect the website.

If an avatar service such as Gravatar is enabled, an anonymized value created from your email address may be sent to that service to determine whether you have an associated profile image.

Approved comments and the name supplied with them may remain publicly visible until the comment is removed. Do not include information in a comment that you do not want published.

Contact Forms and Email

When you contact this website, the information you provide is used to read and respond to your message. Messages may be stored within the website, an email account or a form-processing service for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the inquiry, maintain appropriate records and protect legal rights.

You are not required to provide personal information, although it may not be possible to respond if you do not supply a working method of contact.

Newsletters

If a newsletter is offered and you choose to subscribe, your contact information will be used to send the communications you requested. A third-party email provider may process that information on behalf of this website.

You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in each newsletter. Information may be retained on a suppression list to ensure that no further marketing messages are sent after you unsubscribe.

External and Affiliate Links

This website contains links to websites operated by other organizations. Those websites have their own privacy policies and practices. VictoriaHaneveer.com is not responsible for how another website collects or uses information after you leave this site.

Some external links may be affiliate links. If you make a purchase after following an affiliate link, this website may receive a commission at no additional cost to you. The retailer or service provider processes the purchase, payment and delivery information. VictoriaHaneveer.com does not receive your complete payment-card details.

Embedded Content and Social Media

Pages may include embedded content or features from other websites, such as videos, social media buttons, recipe-sharing tools or Pinterest content. These services may collect information about your interaction with their content and may use cookies when permitted by law and your consent choices.

When Information May Be Shared

Personal information may be shared with:

  • Website hosting, security, analytics, advertising, email and technical service providers
  • Professional advisers where reasonably necessary
  • Government bodies, regulators, courts or law-enforcement authorities where disclosure is required by law
  • A purchaser or successor if the website or its assets are transferred

VictoriaHaneveer.com does not sell personal information directly for money. Advertising providers may collect and use information as described above, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.

International Data Transfers

Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where UK data protection law applies, providers are expected to use an approved transfer mechanism or another legally recognized safeguard when information is transferred to a country that does not have an applicable adequacy decision.

Data Retention

Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including any legal, accounting, security or dispute-resolution requirements.

  • Comments may be retained while they remain published or are needed for moderation and spam prevention.
  • Contact messages are retained for as long as needed to answer the inquiry and maintain appropriate records.
  • Newsletter information is retained until you unsubscribe, subject to any necessary suppression record.
  • Analytics, advertising and consent information is retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant service provider.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on where you live and the circumstances, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether your personal information is being processed
  • Request a copy of your personal information
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of your information
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing, including direct marketing
  • Receive certain information in a portable format
  • Withdraw consent at any time

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions. To make a request, use the contact page. Additional information may be requested when reasonably necessary to verify your identity.

If you are in the UK and believe your personal information has not been handled properly, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please consider contacting VictoriaHaneveer.com first so there is an opportunity to address the concern.

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children under 13. Personal information is not knowingly collected from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, please use the contact page to request its removal.

Security

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration or disclosure. No method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when website services, legal requirements or data practices change. The date at the top of the page will be revised when a material update is made.

Site Terms

Informational Content

The content on VictoriaHaneveer.com is provided for general informational and entertainment purposes. Although reasonable care is taken when preparing content, no guarantee is made that every item will be complete, current or free from errors.

Recipes and Food Safety

Recipe results may vary according to ingredients, equipment, cooking methods and individual skill. You are responsible for checking that food is cooked safely and for considering allergies, intolerances, dietary requirements and medical needs.

Nutritional information, where provided, is an estimate and should not be treated as medical or dietary advice. Consult a suitably qualified professional if you require advice for a medical condition or a specialized diet.

Purchases and Third-Party Services

VictoriaHaneveer.com does not process purchases made through external retailers. Any purchase is between you and the relevant retailer or service provider and is governed by that provider’s terms, refund policy and privacy policy.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, original text, recipes, branding and other original material on VictoriaHaneveer.com are protected by copyright. You may print or save a recipe for personal, non-commercial use.

You may not republish, reproduce, sell, scrape or distribute substantial portions of this website’s content without prior written permission. Linking to a page is welcome, provided the link is not misleading and does not imply an endorsement or partnership that does not exist.

User Comments

You are responsible for content you submit through comments or other interactive features. Comments may be moderated, edited for administrative reasons or removed if they are abusive, unlawful, misleading, promotional, irrelevant or otherwise unsuitable.

By submitting a comment, you give VictoriaHaneveer.com permission to display and retain it in connection with the website.

External Links

Links to external websites are provided for convenience or reference. Their inclusion does not guarantee the accuracy, safety or availability of the linked content and does not necessarily constitute an endorsement.

Availability and Liability

The website may be changed, suspended or unavailable at any time. To the fullest extent permitted by law, VictoriaHaneveer.com is not liable for losses arising solely from reliance on general website content, temporary unavailability or the actions of an unrelated third party.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.

Changes to These Terms

These terms may be updated when the website, its services or applicable requirements change. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms to the extent permitted by law.

Governing Law

These site terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, except where applicable consumer law provides otherwise.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the site terms, please use the contact page.