Who we are
Welcome to Sahtain Kitchen!
Sahtain Kitchen (https://sahtainkitchen.com) is a food and recipe website dedicated to sharing homemade recipes, cooking inspiration, and culinary experiences from different cultures.
We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Sahtain Kitchen, we collect the information entered in the comment form, including the visitor’s name, email address, and comment.
We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent information to help detect and prevent spam.
Comments are reviewed and approved before appearing publicly on our website. Your email address will not be displayed publicly.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After your comment is approved, your profile picture, if available through Gravatar, may appear publicly alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to Sahtain Kitchen, please avoid uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may be able to download images from the website and extract location information.
Most food photography and recipe images on Sahtain Kitchen are created and uploaded by the website owner. We take care to avoid sharing unnecessary personal information through our images.
Cookies
Sahtain Kitchen uses cookies and similar technologies to help our website function properly, remember visitor preferences, and understand how visitors interact with our content.
Essential Cookies: These cookies support basic website functionality, security, and saved preferences.
Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics through Google Site Kit to help us understand website traffic and how visitors use our recipes and pages. Depending on the configuration and consent settings, Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, browser information, approximate location, and interactions with our website.
Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience when commenting again.
Cookie Preferences: We use SureCookie to provide cookie consent options. Visitors can accept or decline optional cookies and manage their preferences through the cookie consent controls.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website features.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Recipes and articles on Sahtain Kitchen may include embedded content from other websites, such as YouTube videos, images, or social media posts.
Embedded content behaves in much the same way as if you visited the website providing that content directly.
These third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies, and track your interactions with their content. If you are logged into an account with one of these services, your interactions may be associated with that account.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third-party websites to understand how their information is handled.
Who we share your data with
Sahtain Kitchen does not sell visitors’ personal information.
We may share limited information with trusted third-party service providers that help us operate and improve our website. These may include:
- Google Analytics: Helps us understand website traffic and visitor interactions.
- Website hosting provider: Processes and stores information necessary to operate our website.
- Spam protection services: May process information submitted through comments or contact forms to help prevent spam.
- Email subscription provider: If we introduce email subscriptions in the future, we may use a third-party email service provider to manage subscriptions and deliver updates. We will update this Privacy Policy when that service is introduced.
We may also disclose information when required by law or when necessary to protect the security and integrity of our website.
We will update this policy as needed to identify additional service providers and explain their data practices.
How long we retain your data
Sahtain Kitchen retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate our website, provide requested services, maintain security, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Comments: When visitors leave comments, the comments and associated metadata may be retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve follow-up comments.
Contact Form Submissions: Information submitted through our contact form is retained as needed to respond to inquiries and maintain relevant correspondence.
Email subscriptions: If we introduce email subscriptions in the future, we will retain subscriber information for as long as the subscription remains active or as required by applicable law. Subscribers will be able to unsubscribe or request deletion of their information.
Analytics Data: Website usage information collected through Google Analytics is retained according to the retention settings configured in our Google Analytics account.
Visitors may contact us to request deletion of eligible personal information, subject to applicable legal and security requirements.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
We respect your privacy and your right to control your personal information.
Depending on where you live and applicable privacy laws, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you.
If you have left comments, contacted us, or subscribed to updates, you may contact Sahtain Kitchen to request information about the personal data associated with you.
You may also withdraw consent for certain data processing activities, including optional cookies, through the available cookie preference controls.
Some information may need to be retained for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
To submit a privacy-related request, please use our Contact page:
Where your data is sent
Visitor information may be processed by trusted third-party services that help Sahtain Kitchen operate securely and efficiently.
Visitor comments and contact form submissions may be checked through automated spam detection services.
We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and visitor interactions. Analytics information may be processed by Google according to its privacy practices and our website’s consent settings.
Information may also be processed by our website hosting provider and other services necessary to operate the website. Depending on the provider, information may be processed or stored outside your country of residence.
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information and encourage visitors to review our Privacy Policy for information about their rights and choices.
Contact Forms
When you contact Sahtain Kitchen through our website’s contact form, we collect the information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, and message.
We use this information to respond to your questions, comments, and requests. We do not use contact form submissions to subscribe you to marketing emails without your consent.
Contact form submissions may be processed by our website’s email delivery, hosting, and spam protection services. We retain correspondence as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries and maintain relevant records.
Email Subscriptions
Sahtain Kitchen may offer an optional email subscription service in the future to share new recipes, cooking inspiration, and website updates. When this feature becomes available, visitors will be able to choose whether to subscribe.
If we introduce email subscriptions, we will collect the email address and any other information visitors voluntarily provide when signing up. We will use this information only for the purposes explained at the time of subscription.
If we offer email subscriptions in the future, we will use subscriber information to send the updates they have requested. Sahtain Kitchen will not sell subscriber email addresses.
If we introduce an email subscription service, subscriber information may be processed and stored by a third-party email service provider. We will update this Privacy Policy to reflect the service we use.
If email subscriptions become available, subscribers will be able to unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting Sahtain Kitchen through our website.
If we introduce email subscriptions, we will retain subscriber information for as long as the subscription remains active or as required by applicable law. Subscribers will be able to request removal of their information or unsubscribe at any time.