Cookie Policy
What this site stores on your device, and why. Reading it stores nothing at all.
This page lists everything The Food Gene stores on your device, and why. Reading the site stores nothing. Something is stored only when you save a recipe, when a newsletter sign-up does not go through, or when an editor signs in.
Reading the site
Your first visit, and every page you read after it, sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Nothing here is used for tracking or advertising, which is why there is no cookie banner.
What can be stored
- Saved recipes (
fg_saved_recipes_v1, browser storage on your device). Stored only when you press Save on a recipe. It holds the title and address of each recipe you save, and when you saved it, so that your Saved recipes page can list them. It is never sent to us, and it stays until you remove the recipes or clear this site's data in your browser. - A newsletter sign-up that did not go through (
fg_session, a cookie). Set for a reader only when a sign-up fails, for example because the box was not ticked. It carries the message, and what you typed, back to the form so that you do not have to start again; they are cleared as soon as the form shows them. The cookie is deleted when you close your browser. - Editors signing in (
fg_session, a cookie). Set when an editor opens the sign-in page or signs in to manage the site, to keep them signed in securely. Readers never need it. It is deleted when the browser is closed, and a sign-in also ends after a period without activity.
The fg_session cookie cannot be read by scripts on the page, and is sent only to this site.
Visitor statistics
We do not use any visitor statistics or analytics service.
Videos
A video shows a still picture until you press Play, and nothing is loaded from YouTube or Vimeo before then, so neither can store anything on your device just because you opened a page. When you press Play, the video loads from YouTube's privacy-enhanced address (youtube-nocookie.com), or from Vimeo with its "do not track" setting. From then on the player is theirs, and their own cookie policies apply to it.
Social media
Our follow and share buttons are plain links. Nothing is stored by Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest or TikTok unless you click one and visit their site, where their own cookie policies apply.
Removing them
You can delete anything listed here at any time by clearing this site's cookies and data in your browser's settings. If we ever add anything that needs your consent, we will ask before it is set, and it will be listed here first.
Contact
The Food Gene — hello@thefoodgene.com