Last Updated: November 6, 2026
Welcome to foodtrackergirl.com (the “Site”), operated by Ailene Huett (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site, and the choices and rights you have.
What Information We Collect and Why
We collect information to provide and improve our service to you. This information is gathered in two main ways:
1. Information You Provide to Us
- Comments: When you choose to leave a comment on an article, we collect the information you provide in the comments form (such as your name and email address), along with your IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.
- Newsletter Subscription: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address (and optionally, your name) to send you email communications, updates, and content.
- Contact Form: When you contact us via our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and any information you include in your message so we can respond to your inquiry.
2. Information We Collect Automatically
- Log Data: Like most websites, our servers automatically record information (“Log Data”) that your browser sends. This Log Data may include your IP address, approximate location (city or state level, based on your IP address), browser type and version, device type, the pages you visit on our Site, the referring website, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other related statistics.
- Cookies and Web Beacons: We and our partners use “cookies” (small data files stored on your device), web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies. They help us store preferences, understand how you use the Site, and serve and measure advertising, including interest-based advertising. Some cookies are set by us (first-party) and others by our analytics and advertising partners (third-party). You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some parts of our Site may not function properly.
We do not ask for, and do not intend to collect, health or medical information. Please do not share sensitive health details in comments or messages.
How We Use Your Information
We use the data we collect for the following purposes:
- To operate, maintain, and manage our Site.
- To improve and personalize your user experience.
- To show advertising, including interest-based advertising, which helps keep our content free.
- To respond to your comments, questions, and inquiries.
- To send newsletters or other promotional materials, only if you have opted in to receive them.
- To analyze Site usage and trends to enhance performance and content.
- To protect the Site and its users from unauthorized, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
Advertising (Journey by Mediavine)
We use Journey by Mediavine (“Mediavine”) to manage the third-party advertising on the Site. Mediavine and its advertising partners may use first- and third-party cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your visits to this and other websites. They use this information to show you ads that may interest you (interest-based advertising), limit how often you see the same ad, prevent ad fraud, and measure how ads perform.
Information collected for advertising may include your IP address, approximate location, device and browser type, operating system, pages viewed, referring URLs, cookie and advertising identifiers, and, if you provide your email address to a Mediavine product such as Grow (described below), a hashed (pseudonymized) version of your email address.
Grow by Mediavine: The Site uses Grow, a tool that lets you save recipes and bookmark content. If you choose to create a Grow account, Grow collects the email address you provide.
To learn more about how Mediavine handles data, please see the Mediavine Privacy Policy.
Third-Party Services and Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal information for money, and we do not rent or trade your contact details. However, allowing advertising partners to collect information through cookies on our Site for interest-based advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, or “targeted advertising,” under some U.S. state privacy laws. You can opt out of this as described in “Your Privacy Choices” below.
We may share information with third parties only in the ways described below:
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track and analyze website traffic. This service may capture your IP address. You can learn about Google’s practices here and opt out using the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on.
- Microsoft Clarity: We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
- Advertising Partners: Mediavine and its advertising partners, as described in the “Advertising (Journey by Mediavine)” section above.
- Service Providers: Companies that help us operate the Site, such as our hosting provider and email newsletter service.
- Affiliate Programs: This Site engages in affiliate marketing. If you click on an affiliate link, a tracking cookie may be placed on your browser to track sales for commission purposes. This is at no additional cost to you and helps support the Site.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law or in response to a valid legal request, or to protect our rights and the safety of our users.
Your Privacy Choices
- Privacy settings on the Site: Depending on where you are located, you may see a consent message or a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link at the bottom of our pages. Use it to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising, or to change your consent choices.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC): If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising for that browser, where required by law.
- Industry opt-outs: You can opt out of interest-based ads from participating companies through the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, or, in Europe, Your Online Choices.
- Browser and device settings: You can block or delete cookies in your browser, and reset or limit your advertising ID in your mobile device settings.
Opting out does not stop ads from appearing. It means the ads you see will be less tailored to your interests.
Your Data Rights and Choices
You have specific rights regarding your personal information:
- Opt-Out: You may opt out of future newsletter communications by following the unsubscribe link provided in every email, and opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising as described in “Your Privacy Choices” above.
- Access: You can request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Amend: You can contact us to update or correct your personal information.
- Forget: You may, in certain circumstances, request that we erase your personal data.
U.S. State Privacy Rights
If you live in California or another U.S. state with a comprehensive privacy law (such as Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, or Oregon), you may have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose, and get a copy of it.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Delete personal information we collected from you.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, targeted advertising, and certain profiling.
- Not be discriminated against for exercising your rights.
- Appeal our decision if we deny your request.
In the past 12 months, we have collected these categories of personal information: identifiers (such as name, email address, IP address, and cookie or advertising IDs); internet or other electronic network activity (such as pages viewed and interactions with the Site and ads); approximate geolocation; and inferences about your interests used for advertising. We collect this information from you, from your browser or device, and from our analytics and advertising partners, for the purposes described above. We disclose it to service providers and to advertising partners as described in this policy. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that require a right to limit, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.
We will verify your request using the information you provide and respond within 45 days (or as otherwise required by law). You may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. If we deny your request, you can appeal by replying to our decision with the word “Appeal.”
Visitors in the EU, EEA, and UK
If you are in the European Union, European Economic Area, or United Kingdom, we (and our partners) process your personal data based on your consent (for non-essential cookies, analytics, and personalized advertising, collected through the consent message on our Site), our legitimate interests (such as keeping the Site secure and preventing spam), or to provide services you request (such as our newsletter). You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your data, to data portability, and to withdraw your consent at any time through the privacy settings link on our Site. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Your data may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy: newsletter data until you unsubscribe, comments for as long as they remain published, and messages for as long as needed to respond and keep reasonable records. Analytics and advertising partners keep data according to their own retention policies.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If a parent or guardian believes that the Site has such information in its database, please contact us immediately, and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us via our Contact Page or by email at: [email protected].