PastaPeak keeps this short and specific: here is the data that passes through the site, the reason it does, and the control you have over it.
Where this applies
This policy covers this website. It does not cover the sites we link to, each of which has its own, nor any social platform where the site has a presence: there, the platform’s rules govern what it collects, and we see only what it chooses to show us.
What is collected
Loading a page transmits technical data: your IP address, the browser and device you use, which pages you open, the site you came from, and how long you read. We keep it in aggregate and never link it to a person.
The only information you hand over directly is an email address (if you subscribe) and the content of any message you send through the form.
How the data is used
- Operate and maintain the site.
- Measure, at the level of the whole audience, what pasta and noodle dishes content is useful.
- Reply to you.
- Deliver a newsletter you explicitly opted into.
- Comply with the law where it applies to us.
The companies involved
This site uses Google Analytics for aggregate statistics and Google AdSense for advertising; our host keeps server logs, and our email service handles the newsletter. Each operates under its own privacy policy and may set cookies.
Data passed to the third parties named here crosses to the United States, where those companies operate. The transfer mechanisms are theirs and are documented in their own policies.
Newsletter data
An email address is all the newsletter needs, and all it gets. It is used to send issues, never shared, and deleted from the list when you unsubscribe rather than marked inactive.
Why we are allowed to
Under European and United Kingdom rules the processing here rests on three grounds: your consent for the newsletter and optional cookies, our legitimate interest in running and measuring the site, and legal obligation where the law imposes one. Withdrawing consent is always available to you.
How long it is kept
Server logs are rotated by our hosting provider on its own schedule. Analytics data follows the retention period configured in Google Analytics. A newsletter address is kept until you unsubscribe, and a message sent through the contact form is kept as long as the exchange is useful and then deleted.
What we do not do
Nothing here is sold, and nothing is handed to a third party for its own marketing. No broker is involved. For California readers, that is the substance of the CCPA opt-out: the sale that the right protects against does not happen.
What you can ask for
Three requests are always available to you: show me what you hold, fix it, delete it. Newsletter unsubscribe is one click and takes effect at once. Cookies are refused in the browser, not here. EEA, UK and California readers have statutory rights on top of this, and we extend them to all.
On profiling
No decision about you is made automatically here, and there is no profiling with legal or similarly significant effect. The site publishes articles; it does not score readers.
Minors
This site is not aimed at anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly take data from that age group. Contact us if you think we have and it goes.
How it is protected
The site runs over HTTPS and access to anything we store is restricted. That is protection, not invulnerability, and we will not dress it up as more than it is.
If something goes wrong
Anything you consider mishandled can be raised through the contact page. Your right to complain to the relevant data protection authority stands whether or not you contact us.
Updates
Any revision is dated at the top of the page, and anything substantial is flagged on the site itself.
Getting in touch
Questions about any of this go through our contact page.