Last updated: 18 July 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Nigel’s Kitchen Table collects, uses and protects personal information when you visit this website, subscribe to the newsletter, leave a comment or contact me.
Who is responsible for your information?
The data controller responsible for this website is:
Nigel Clease
Nigel’s Kitchen Table
Hungary
Email: info@thegourmetlarder.com
For privacy-related questions or requests, please use the email address above.
Information collected through the website
Information you provide
Personal information may be collected when you:
- Submit the contact form.
- Subscribe to the newsletter.
- Leave a comment.
- Contact me directly by email.
- Enter a competition, survey or promotion, where applicable.
Depending on the service used, this may include your name, email address, message, website address, recipe or page link, communication preferences and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the contact form or comments.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the website, limited technical information may be collected automatically, including:
- Internet Protocol address.
- Browser and device type.
- Operating system.
- Referring website.
- Pages viewed and time spent on the website.
- Approximate location derived from your IP address.
- Cookie identifiers and consent preferences.
- Security and server-log information.
Optional analytics and advertising information is collected only where the required consent has been provided.
How your information is used
Contact enquiries
Information submitted through the contact form is used to read, manage and respond to your enquiry.
The legal basis is your consent. Where your enquiry concerns a possible commercial arrangement, collaboration or service, processing may also be necessary to take steps at your request before entering into an agreement.
Contact enquiries are normally retained for up to 24 months after the last communication, unless they must be retained longer for legal, contractual or dispute-resolution purposes.
Newsletter
When you subscribe to the newsletter, your name, email address, signup information and consent record may be processed to send recipes, seasonal ideas, website news and occasional promotional content.
The legal basis is your consent.
Newsletter services are provided using Brevo, which processes subscriber information on my behalf.
You may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in every marketing email. After unsubscribing, a minimal record may be retained on a suppression list to ensure that further marketing emails are not sent to you.
Comments
If comments are enabled, the information entered in the comment form may be collected together with your IP address and browser information.
This information is used to display and manage comments, respond to readers and prevent abusive or fraudulent submissions.
Comments may remain visible for as long as the relevant article remains published. You may request the deletion or anonymisation of your personal information, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Spam prevention and website security
This website uses security and spam-prevention systems, including Akismet, to identify malicious, fraudulent or automated submissions.
Information submitted through comments or forms may be checked against spam-detection services. This may include the submitted content, name, email address, IP address, browser information and referring page.
The legal basis is my legitimate interest in protecting the website, its visitors and its communication systems from spam, fraud, abuse and security threats.
Website analytics
This website may use Google Analytics through Google Site Kit to understand how visitors use the website and to improve its content and performance.
Analytics may process information such as pages visited, session information, approximate location, browser and device details and cookie identifiers.
Analytics is activated only after you provide the relevant cookie consent. You may reject or withdraw this consent through the website’s cookie settings.
Advertising
The website may display advertising provided through Gourmet Ads and its advertising partners.
With your consent, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising, limit how often advertisements are displayed and, where permitted, personalise advertisements based on browsing activity.
You can refuse advertising cookies without losing access to the main content of the website. More detailed information about individual advertising cookies should be available through the website’s cookie-preference tool.
Affiliate links
Some articles contain affiliate links, including links associated with the Amazon Associates programme.
When you click an affiliate link, you will be taken to an external website. That website may collect information and place cookies in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies.
Please see the separate Disclosure & Copyright page for further information about affiliate relationships.
Cookies
Cookies are small files placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.
This website may use:
- Strictly necessary cookies required for essential website functions, security and remembering your privacy choices.
- Analytics cookies used to understand website usage and performance.
- Advertising cookies used to measure or personalise advertising.
- Third-party cookies associated with embedded content or external services.
Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent. Analytics, advertising and other optional cookies should not be activated until you have given the relevant consent.
You can accept, reject or manage different categories of cookies through the cookie-preference tool. It must be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.
Browser settings may also allow you to block or delete cookies, although doing so may affect some website functions.
Who receives your information?
Personal information may be shared with service providers where necessary to operate and protect the website, including:
- Websupport, for website hosting and email services.
- Brevo, for newsletter subscriptions and email marketing.
- Google, for analytics and website measurement.
- Gourmet Ads and participating advertising partners, for advertising services where consent has been given.
- Automattic/Akismet, for spam detection and prevention.
- Website, email, security and technical-support providers where necessary.
These providers may process information only for the relevant service and under their own contractual and data-protection obligations.
Information may also be disclosed where required by law, to protect legal rights, investigate misuse or respond to a lawful request from a competent authority.
Personal information is not sold directly to advertisers.
International data transfers
Some service providers may process personal information outside Hungary or the European Economic Area.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, the transfer will rely on an applicable legal mechanism, such as:
- A European Commission adequacy decision.
- European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Other safeguards recognised under data-protection law.
Further information about a provider’s safeguards can be requested using the contact details above.
How long information is retained
Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
In general:
- Contact enquiries are retained for up to 24 months after the last communication.
- Newsletter information is retained until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent.
- Comments may be retained while the related article remains published.
- Security and technical logs are retained for the period needed to investigate faults, misuse or security incidents.
- Analytics and advertising information is retained according to the relevant consent settings and provider configuration.
- Records connected with legal claims, contracts or statutory obligations may be retained for the legally required period.
Information that is no longer required will be deleted, anonymised or securely restricted.
Your data-protection rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of your information.
- Request restriction of processing.
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Receive certain information in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before the withdrawal.
Requests should be sent to info@thegourmetlarder.com. I may request reasonable information to confirm your identity.
A response will normally be provided within one month, although GDPR permits an extension in complex cases.
Complaints
You have the right to submit a complaint to the Hungarian supervisory authority:
Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság — NAIH
1055 Budapest
Falk Miksa utca 9–11
Hungary
Email: ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu
Telephone: +36 1 391 1400
These are the authority’s current published contact details.
You may also contact the supervisory authority in the EU or EEA country where you normally live or work.
Links to other websites
This website contains links to external websites and social-media services.
I am not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of external websites. Please review their privacy information before providing personal details.
Children’s privacy
This website is intended for a general audience and is not designed to collect personal information knowingly from children.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information without appropriate permission, please contact me so that it can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.
Security
Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, its services or legal requirements change.
The latest version will always appear on this page with the date of the most recent update.