This policy explains what information Beyer Eats and Drinks (https://www.beyerbeware.net, formerly Beyer Beware) collects when you visit, comment, rate recipes, or sign up for email, and what we do with it. Effective November 1, 2026.
Information We Collect
We collect only what we need to run the site, and some of it you give us directly.
Comments. When you leave a comment, we collect the details in the comment form (such as your name, email address, and website) plus your IP address and browser user agent string, which help with spam detection.
Recipe ratings. When ratings are enabled, we store the rating you give a recipe along with the personal data WordPress stores with a comment. We also store your IP address when you vote, to help prevent rating spam.
Recipe submissions and forms. If you submit a recipe or fill out a contact or other form, we collect whatever the form asks for, which can include your name and email address.
Accounts. If you create a user profile, we store your username and the profile details you provide. We never see your password in readable form.
Automatically collected information. When you visit, we log your IP address, operating system, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates and times of your visits.
Uploaded images. If you upload images, avoid ones with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Anyone can download images from the site and extract that data.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file a website stores in your browser. Some last only until you close your browser (session cookies), and others stay until they expire or you delete them (persistent cookies). Cookies do not usually identify you by name, but information we hold about you may be linked to them.
These are the cookies this site sets itself:
- Comment cookies: if you opt in when commenting, your name, email address, and website are saved for one year so you don’t have to retype them.
- Login test cookie: on our login page, a temporary cookie checks whether your browser accepts cookies. It holds no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
- Login and screen options cookies: when you log in, we save your login details for two days and your screen display choices for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login lasts two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
- Editing cookie: if you edit or publish a post, a cookie holds only that post’s ID for one day.
- Rating cookie: when ratings are enabled, a cookie named WPRM_User_Voted_ plus the recipe ID stores the rating you gave that recipe, to help prevent rating spam. It lasts 30 days.
Our advertising and analytics partners also set cookies, described in the next section.
Blocking cookies. Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies. Blocking them may stop parts of this site from working. Instructions are available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera.
Advertising and Analytics
Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used. It sets cookies and gathers usage information that we turn into reports. Google’s privacy policy is at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Advertising. This site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia, which places advertising here and collects and uses certain data for that purpose. Learn more in the CafeMedia publisher advertising privacy policy. By using this site, you consent to the use of advertising cookies and the sharing of data they capture with CafeMedia, AdThrive, Google, and our other third-party partners.
You can view, delete, or add interest categories associated with your browser at Google Ad Settings, or opt out of network cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out. These opt-outs use cookies themselves, so clearing your cookies will remove your opt-out.
We do not share your name, contact information, or other sensitive information with advertisers. The categories of third parties that receive information for advertising are supply-side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand-side platforms.
Email Newsletters
We collect your email address only if you give it to us, for example by subscribing to our newsletter or entering a giveaway. We use it only for the purpose you gave it, and we will not use it to contact you about unrelated things.
Our email is delivered through FeedBlitz, which acts as a processor on our behalf. FeedBlitz may share your email address with us, and it tracks opens and clicks on the emails it sends and reports them to us, even if your browser sends a Do Not Track signal. FeedBlitz does not sell personally identifiable information.
Use the “Preferences” link at the bottom of any email we send to view or export the data you gave us, or to delete it. You can unsubscribe at any time with the unsubscribe link in any email.
Who We Share Data With
We do not sell your name or contact details. We share information only with the services that help run the site:
- Akismet (spam filtering). Comments are checked by the Akismet anti-spam service. Depending on how Akismet is set up for this site, it typically receives the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and the site URL, along with what you entered, such as your name, username, email address, and the comment itself.
- Gravatar. An anonymized string (a hash) made from your email address may be sent to Gravatar to check whether you have a profile picture there. If you do, it appears publicly next to your approved comment. See the Automattic privacy policy.
- reCAPTCHA. If we use Google reCAPTCHA on a form, you are also agreeing to Google’s terms of use and privacy policy.
- Advertising and analytics partners, as described above.
- FeedBlitz, for email delivery.
- Password resets. If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email.
- Embedded content. Posts may include videos, images, or other content from other websites. These sites may collect data about you, set cookies, add their own tracking, and monitor how you interact with the embedded content, including if you are logged in to that site.
The WP Recipe Maker plugin stores its data in this site’s own database. Its developer, Bootstrapped Ventures, does not have access to it.
If this site or substantially all of its assets is sold or transferred, the information we have collected may be transferred as part of that transaction. We may also disclose information when the law requires it.
How Long We Keep Your Data
- Comments: a comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely, so we can recognize and automatically approve your follow-up comments instead of holding them for moderation.
- Ratings and submissions: data from ratings and recipe submissions is kept indefinitely in our database.
- User profiles: if you register, we keep the information in your profile. You can see, edit, or delete it at any time, except your username. Site administrators can also see and edit it.
- Cookies: our rating cookies last 30 days. Other cookie lifetimes are listed in the Cookies section.
- Email subscribers: we keep your address until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it.
We may keep some information longer when we need it for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Your Rights
If you have an account or have left comments, you can ask us for an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to erase it. This does not cover data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. To make a request, contact us using the details at the end of this policy.
Visitors in the European Economic Area and the UK. Under the GDPR and similar laws, you have the right to access your personal data, have it erased, and restrict how it is processed. To exercise these rights for data we or our advertising partners hold, contact us. You can also change which advertising partners track you through the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site, where it is available.
California residents and residents of other US states. California law lets residents opt out of the “sale” or sharing of personal information for advertising purposes. Use the opt-out link in the footer of this site, or contact us to make a request. Other states have similar rights to access, correct, and delete personal data and to opt out of targeted advertising, and we honor valid requests from residents of those states as well.
Do Not Track. Our email provider, FeedBlitz, limits its own cookies to essential and functional ones when your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, but it still counts opens and clicks on emails you receive.
Children and Sensitive Information
This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will promptly remove it.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through this site, such as your Social Security number, health information, criminal background, or details about race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, or union membership. If you do, it is covered by this policy like everything else you send us.
Changes and Contact
We may update this policy as our practices or the tools we use change. The latest version is always posted on this page with its effective date at the top. If we make a material change to how we use information we have already collected, we will give you a reasonable chance to consent. By continuing to use the site after the effective date, you accept the current policy.
Questions about this policy, or requests to access, correct, or delete your data, can be sent to us using the contact details in the Contact menu of this site.