Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 20/2/2025

Wired Kitchen is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, wiredkitchen.co.uk.

1. Who We Are: Our website address is: https://wiredkitchen.co.uk.

2. Information We Collect:

3. Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After comment approval, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

4. Media: If you upload images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the site.

5. Cookies and Tracking: We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies help us:

If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the edited article. It expires after one day.

6. Embedded Content from Other Websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if you visited the other website.

These sites may collect data, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content, including tracking if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

7. Who We Share Your Data With: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

8. How Long We Retain Your Data: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments.

For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username changes). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

9. What Rights You Have Over Your Data: If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you provided. You can also request that we erase personal data, except for data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

10. Where Your Data is Sent: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

11. Affiliate Disclosure: Wired Kitchen participates in affiliate programs, including Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. This does not affect the price you pay.

12. Contact: For questions about this Privacy Policy, email us at privacy@wiredkitchen.co.uk.