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Privacy Policy

What we know about you, why we need it, who else is involved and how to make us change or delete it, written so you don't need a lawyer to follow along.

Last updated: 14 October 2026

The short version

Easy Ladle is a small recipe and food-guidance website for older adults and the people who cook with them. We collect very little personal information, and only for clear reasons:

  • your email address (and first name, if you give it) when you ask for the free cookbook and newsletter;
  • your name, email and message when you write to us;
  • a small amount of technical information that any website receives when your browser asks for a page;
  • optional, anonymous usage statistics, but only if you say yes to analytics cookies.

We don't sell your information, we don't run advertising profiles and we never ask for details about your health. The rest of this page fills in the detail.

Who is responsible for your information

In this policy, "Easy Ladle", "we", "us" and "our" mean the independent team that runs www.easyladle.com (the "site"). We decide how and why your personal information is used, which makes us the "controller" of that information under data-protection laws such as the UK GDPR and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

We are an online-only publication. For anything to do with your personal information, please email [email protected]. General questions can go to [email protected].

What we collect and where it comes from

Things you choose to tell us

  • Cookbook and newsletter sign-up: your email address, your first name if you add it, and a record of when and how you agreed to hear from us.
  • Messages: when you use our contact form or email us, we receive your name, email address, any subject line and whatever you write. We also keep a note that you agreed to us using those details to reply.

Please don't send us medical records, diagnoses, medication lists or similar health details. We're not able to give personal advice on them, and if they arrive anyway we delete them once we've replied.

Things your device sends automatically

Whenever a browser loads a web page, it shares certain technical details. Our hosting provider records these in short-lived server logs, which help us keep the site secure and working. They may include your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page, and your browser and operating system type.

Things stored on your own device

The site saves a few small items in your browser: your cookie choice, and the ticks you place on a recipe's ingredient checklist. These stay on your device and are not sent to us. With your consent, an analytics tool may also set cookies. Our Cookie Policy lists each one.

How we use it, and our legal reasons

Data-protection law asks us to name a lawful basis for each use. Here is how that works in practice:

  • Sending the cookbook and our letter every other week: based on your consent, which you can withdraw at any moment with the unsubscribe link in every email.
  • Replying to your messages and correction reports: based on our legitimate interest in answering readers and keeping our recipes accurate, and on the consent you give in the form.
  • Keeping the site running and safe (server logs, preventing spam and abuse): based on our legitimate interest in operating a secure website.
  • Understanding which pages are useful through optional analytics: based on your consent, given through the cookie banner.
  • Meeting legal obligations, for example keeping records we're required to keep or responding to a lawful request from an authority.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making that has legal or similarly significant effects on you, and we never build advertising profiles.

Who else is involved

Running a website means relying on a handful of outside services. They act on our instructions and may only use your information to provide their service to us:

  • Website hosting: stores the site's files and the server logs mentioned above.
  • Email delivery: holds our subscriber list and sends the cookbook link and newsletter.
  • Form handling: passes messages from our contact form to our inbox.
  • Analytics (only with your consent): counts visits and popular pages in aggregate.

Two further services are contacted directly by your browser when a page loads: Google Fonts, which supplies our typefaces, and Unsplash, whose image network delivers our photographs. Like any web server, they receive your IP address and basic browser details in order to send the files. Their own privacy policies explain how they handle that information.

We would also disclose information if the law required it, to protect people from harm, or as part of a transfer if Easy Ladle ever changed hands, in which case this policy would continue to apply. We do not sell or rent personal information to anyone.

Information leaving your country

Some of our service providers store or process data outside the UK and the European Economic Area, most often in the United States. Where that happens, we rely on recognised safeguards such as adequacy decisions, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, so your information keeps a comparable level of protection.

How long we keep things

  • Newsletter details: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. After unsubscribing we keep only your email address on a "do not contact" list, so we don't accidentally write to you again.
  • Messages: up to two years after our last exchange, so we can follow up on a correction or a recurring question, then deleted.
  • Server logs: normally no longer than 30 days.
  • Analytics data: held in aggregate form for up to 14 months.
  • Items in your browser: under your control. Clearing your browser's site data removes them at once.

Your rights and how to use them

Depending on where you live, you can ask us to:

  • confirm whether we hold information about you and give you a copy;
  • correct anything that's wrong or incomplete;
  • delete your information;
  • restrict or stop a particular use, or object to uses based on legitimate interests;
  • send your information to you, or to another organisation, in a common digital format;
  • withdraw consent you've given, without affecting anything done before you withdrew it.

Readers in some US states have similar rights to know, access, correct and delete their data, and to opt out of its "sale" or "sharing". We don't sell or share personal information in that sense, and we treat a Global Privacy Control signal as a request to keep optional analytics switched off.

To make any request, email [email protected]. We may ask a question or two to confirm it's really you. We reply within one month, and tell you if a complex request needs longer. Making a request is free, and exercising your rights will never change how we treat you.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first so we can try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to a data-protection authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). In the EU it is the authority in the country where you live.

Keeping information safe

The whole site is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Access to our inbox and mailing list is limited to the team members who need it and protected with strong passwords and two-step sign-in. We choose providers with sound security practices. No system is perfectly secure, but if a breach ever put your information at risk, we would tell you and the relevant authority where the law requires.

Children

Our recipes are written for adults and the site isn't aimed at children. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us their details, let us know and we'll delete them.

We sometimes link to public-health organisations and other useful sites. Once you leave Easy Ladle, their privacy policies apply, not ours, so it's worth a quick look at how they handle your information.

When this policy changes

If we change how we handle personal information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes, such as a new type of data or a new purpose, we'll also mention it in the newsletter or ask for fresh consent where that's needed.

Questions

For anything about privacy, write to [email protected]. We aim to reply within about three working days, and formal requests always within the one-month legal deadline.