Last Updated: November 4, 2026
Welcome to Many Dishes! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and what choices you have when visiting our website.
By using Many Dishes, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Many Dishes is a food and recipe website dedicated to sharing delicious recipes, cooking tips, and helpful information for home cooks.
Our website address is: https://manydishes.com
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect certain information when you visit or interact with our website, including:
- Personal information you voluntarily provide, such as your name and email address when leaving comments or contacting us.
- Usage information, such as pages visited, time spent on our website, and interactions with our content.
- Information collected through cookies and similar technologies.
We only collect information that is reasonably necessary for operating and improving our website.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on Many Dishes, we collect the information displayed in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it.
The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/
After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.
4. Media
If you upload images to Many Dishes, we recommend removing embedded location data (EXIF GPS) before uploading them.
Visitors may be able to download images from our website and extract any location information included in those files.
5. Cookies
Many Dishes may use cookies and similar technologies to improve your browsing experience, remember your preferences, and understand how visitors use our website.
Cookies may be used for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies: These cookies help the website function properly, including login sessions and security features.
Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies may last for one year.
Analytics Cookies: If analytics tools are enabled, cookies may help us understand website traffic, visitor behavior, and content performance.
Advertising Cookies: If advertising services are used, cookies may help display relevant advertisements and measure advertising performance.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect some website features.
6. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on Many Dishes may include embedded content, such as videos, images, social media posts, and other materials from third-party websites.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
7. Analytics and Website Performance
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with Many Dishes.
These services may collect information such as pages viewed, referral sources, browsing activity, device information, and approximate geographic location.
This information helps us improve our recipes, website content, and overall visitor experience.
8. Advertising and Affiliate Links
Many Dishes may display advertisements from third-party advertising partners.
These advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to provide advertisements, measure their performance, and personalize advertising where permitted by applicable law.
We may also participate in affiliate marketing programs. This means that some links on our website may be affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate relationships do not affect our commitment to providing useful and honest recipe content.
9. Who we share your data with
We do not sell your personal information.
However, we may share certain information with trusted third-party service providers when necessary to operate and maintain our website.
These may include:
- Website hosting providers.
- Spam detection services.
- Website analytics providers.
- Advertising partners.
- Email marketing services, if used.
These providers may process information on our behalf according to their own privacy policies and applicable agreements.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.
10. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely to help us recognize and automatically approve follow-up comments.
For visitors who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profiles.
Registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Request a copy of your personal data.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
- Request the deletion of your personal information.
- Object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
If you have an account or have left comments on our website, you may request an exported file of the personal information we hold about you.
You may also request that we erase your personal information, except for information we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise your privacy rights, please contact us through our Contact page.
12. Children’s Privacy
Many Dishes is intended for a general audience and is not designed specifically to collect personal information from children.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable privacy laws.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, or applicable laws.
Any updates will be published on this page, along with the revised “Last Updated” date.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to stay informed about how their information is handled.