Privacy Policy
Visitors to Type 1 Kitchen
We do not collect information about visitors to Type 1 Kitchen other than completely anonymous data regarding general visitor numbers and the countries in which they are located. This helps us understand which posts are most popular and aids us in creating better content.
Subscribers to our newsletter
Once you have subscribed to our newsletter (which you can do at the top of this page) Type 1 Kitchen will use your email address to send you information and recipes we hope you’ll enjoy.
We promise to keep your details secure and we won’t share your information with any other organisations. If you subscribe to our newsletter and later decide you’d rather not hear from us you can simply unsubscribe, or contact us at info@type1kitchen.com. Once you unsubscribe your email address is automatically deleted.
We use Mailchimp to securely store your name and email address. You can read Mailchimp’s privacy policy here.
Websites we link to
We link to websites that we think you may find useful or interesting. This privacy policy only relates to Type 1 Kitchen. Other sites will have their own privacy policy.
Cookie Policy
Our website, like most websites, uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By using cookies, the website is essentially able to ‘remember’ you during a single visit to the site (known as a session cookie) or for repeat visits (known as persistent cookies).
By continuing to browse the site, we will assume that you agree to our use of cookies as set out below.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser, the hard drive of your computer or your mobile device. Each cookie is unique to your web browser.
We use the following cookies on our site:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. This information is anonymous – we do not collect anything that would identify a user. We combine individual user data with the rest of the visitor data and examine it as a whole to build up a picture of how the site is performing.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Examples of the types of cookies we use on our site include Google Analytics and Website Session, as explained further in the following table:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| Google Analytics | __utma | Used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | 2 years from set/update |
| Google Analytics | __utmb | Used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | 30 mins from set/update |
| Google Analytics | __utmc | Used to help us monitor traffic and identify unique visitors | End of browser session |
| Google Analytics | __utmz | Used to help us monitor traffic and to store site visit referral information | 6 months from set/update |
| Website Session | ASP.NET_SessionId | Standard ASP.NET cookie – randomly generated identifier assigned to uniquely identify a user’s sessionThis cookie is essential as it allows you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient, for example, by allowing you to store items in an electronic shopping basket between visits. If you complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim | Expires within 30 minutes of the browser closing |
Comment cookies
For information on the other cookies used on our website, please contact info@type1kitchen.com
Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
The Type 1 Kitchen website also carries embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks, for example, Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service.
For information on the other third party cookies used on our website, please contact info@type1kitchen.com
We do not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies.
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set
If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, www.aboutcookies.org contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated
For more information on how to control cookies, please refer to: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html
For more information on how to delete cookies, please refer to: http://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/
Expiry of cookies
Cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached.
Please see the tables above for more information on when specific cookies will expire.
These policies are regularly reviewed. They were last updated on 11 May 2018.