Last updated: June 12, 2026

Website: https://www.filipinoamericancooking.com

Owner: Filipino-American Cooking

1. Overview

Filipino-American Cooking is a recipe and cooking website. You can browse the site without creating an account, buying anything, or giving us payment information. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit the site, contact us, leave a comment, use sharing tools, view embedded media, or interact with analytics and advertising tools.

2. Information You Choose to Share

If you contact us through the contact form, we collect the details you enter, such as your name, email address, subject, message, recipe request, family food story, or other information you choose to include. We use that information to read your message and respond when appropriate.

Please do not send sensitive personal information through the contact form, such as payment information, government ID numbers, medical information, or anything you would not want handled by email.

If comments are available on a post, we collect the information shown in the comment form, along with technical details such as your IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam. Approved comments may be visible publicly.

3. Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, this site and its service providers may collect basic technical information when you visit. This can include your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring links, approximate location, dates and times of visits, requested URLs, cookie identifiers, ad interactions, and server log information.

We use this information to keep the site working, prevent spam or abuse, understand what readers find useful, improve recipes and site layout, measure traffic, and display or measure advertising.

4. Contact Forms and Email

Our contact form is powered by Contact Form 7. Contact form submissions are used to respond to inquiries, recipe requests, corrections, and site feedback. Submissions may be retained in email inboxes, backups, or logs for as long as reasonably needed to respond, maintain records, protect the site, or comply with legal obligations.

We do not use contact form messages for email marketing unless you separately opt in to receive updates. The site does not currently require payment information or process purchases.

5. Comments, Gravatar, and Spam Protection

If comments are open, comment data may be checked through automated spam detection services. We use Akismet to reduce spam on comments and forms. Akismet may process submitted content and technical data such as IP address, user agent, referrer, site URL, name, email address, and message content for spam detection.

If Gravatar is active for comments, a hashed version of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. After a comment is approved, your profile image, if any, may be visible with your comment.

6. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

This site uses cookies and similar technologies for basic site functions, logged-in/admin functions, comment convenience, analytics, advertising, spam prevention, security, and sharing tools. You can manage or block cookies through your browser settings, although some parts of the site may not work as expected if cookies are disabled.

We use Google services through Site Kit and related Google tags. These services may include Google Analytics, Search Console, Google AdSense, and advertising measurement tools. Google and its partners may use cookies, local storage, IP address, browser and device data, page URLs, referrers, approximate location, and ad interaction information to serve ads, measure performance, limit how often ads are shown, prevent fraud, and personalize ads where enabled or permitted.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to this website or other websites. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services at Google's partner-sites information page. You can manage Google ad personalization at Google Ad Settings.

7. Sharing Buttons and Social Platforms

Recipe posts and site pages may include sharing buttons powered by AddToAny. AddToAny and the sharing services you choose may process limited browser, server log, page URL, page title, referrer, language, operating system, time, cookie, or IP address information when sharing tools load or are used.

If you click a sharing button and choose a social platform, email provider, messaging app, or other service, that service may receive information about the page you are sharing and may collect or use data under its own privacy policy.

8. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, recipe tools, or posts from other websites. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly. Those services may collect data, use cookies, embed additional tracking, or monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you are logged in to that service.

9. How We Share Information

We do not sell reader contact messages or recipe requests. We may share information with service providers that help operate, protect, measure, or monetize the site, including website hosting providers, email providers, WordPress-related services, Automattic/Akismet, Google, AddToAny, spam-prevention tools, analytics tools, advertising partners, and security or maintenance providers.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the site or its users, to investigate abuse or security issues, or as part of a business transfer involving the website.

10. How Long Information Is Kept

Contact form messages may be kept as long as needed to respond, maintain records, handle follow-up questions, protect the site, or comply with legal obligations. Comments and related metadata may remain on the site unless removed. Server logs, security records, analytics data, advertising data, and spam-prevention data are retained according to the settings and policies of the hosting provider and service providers involved.

11. Your Choices

You may ask about personal information you have submitted to the site, request a correction, or request deletion where appropriate. We may need to keep certain information for security, legal, backup, or recordkeeping reasons.

You can manage cookies in your browser. You can also use Google privacy and advertising tools, including Google Ad Settings and the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. If a cookie or consent control is shown to you on the site, you can use it to adjust available choices.

To make a privacy request, please use the Contact page.

12. Children’s Privacy

This site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent personal information through the site, please contact us so we can review and remove it where appropriate.

13. Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content

If the site publishes affiliate links, sponsored content, or paid partnerships in the future, those relationships should be disclosed on the relevant post or page. Affiliate links do not give us access to your payment information.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as the site, plugins, services, or legal requirements change. Updates will appear on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

15. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent through the Contact page.