Privacy Policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us through the Contact us page.

At www.ruchiskitchen.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us.

This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by ruchiskitchen.com and how it is used. 

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Ruchiskitchen.com is owned and operated by Ruchiskitchen LLC.

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual.

The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Ruchiskitchen.com blog is developed in WordPress (wordpress.org). WordPress uses cookies when visitors leave a comment on the blog.

This is for user convenience so that user doesn’t have to re-enter the info when they leave another comment.

The user has a choice on whether their name and email address are saved in a cookie on their browser.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically allow cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

The user can subscribe to the blog via email. It is strictly used for post notification or newsletter.

We use the double-opt-in feature where users need to confirm their email address before being added to our email list and receive email communication. 

We do not distribute or sell email addresses. The user can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the ‘Unsubscribe’ link in the email at any time.

We use MailerLite service for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. Please refer to MailerLite’s privacy policy for further information.

This site is not affiliated with Weight Watchers International, Inc in any way. Neither the information on this site has been reviewed by Weight Watchers International, Inc for accuracy for Weight watchers members.

We are not trained Weight Watchers advocates, nor are we authorized to give information about Weight Watchers programs.

All the recipes listed under the Weight watcher section, the smart points have been calculated using a third-party Weight Watchers calculator. All the information provided on this website is just for your knowledge.

Under NO circumstances will Ruchiskitchen.com be responsible for any damage resulting from Weight watchers Smart points nutritional information that has been provided by us.

We would highly recommend that you, please consult your physician or a weight watcher expert before starting a new diet.

We automatically collect anonymous information about the user and the device with which they access the Website.

For example, when a user accesses the Website, we will log the IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website.

We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. We use third-party Services like Google Analytics to analyze web traffic.

This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website.

We use anonymous IP feature offered by Google Analytics so that user cannot be identified.

We use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited.

To determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements, we do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. 

In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data.

The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their privacy policies and not ours.

Some of our advertising vendors include Mediavine Publisher Network, Google, and other networks.

Ruchiskitchen.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. 

As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website.

This program utilizes cookies to monitor visits to assign commission on these sales.

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies.

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data, and if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting.

Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.

Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies, and how to clear your browser’s cache.

For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt-out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt-out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

1. Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
2. Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
3. Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
4. LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g., cross-device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third-parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may, in turn, link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt-out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
5. RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
6. District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
7. Yieldmo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
8. The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
9. Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
10. AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
11. OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
12. Verizon Media is formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
13. TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
14. Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
15. Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
16. GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end-users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end-user information to other end-user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end-users.
17. Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
18. MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels, and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid received the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred-interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behavior). Some of this data is gathered from this website, and others are gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
19. RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as the date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
20. Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
21. 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
22. Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on ruchiskitchen.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to ruchiskitchen.com and other sites on the Internet. 

Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – privacy ads.

Ruchiskitchen.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

Ruchiskitchen.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your browser options.

More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

The best effort has been made to provide error-free and accurate content but being human; mistakes can happen! The recipe and other content provided on this site are available “as is” and “where-is” basis, without warranties of any kind either express or implied.

Ruchiskitchen.com does not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free or make any representations regarding the use or result of the use of the content in this site concerning their correctness, accuracy, and reliability or otherwise. 

Ruchiskitchen.com has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site.

The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Ruchiskitchen.com of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk.

Ruchiskitchen.com or any of its owners or other representatives will NOT be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this site.

This includes but is not limited to compensatory, direct, indirect, or consequential loss.

Ruchiskitchen may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website.

If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Ruchiskitchen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.

As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links (provided by Amazon), to track the referrals to their website.

This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

All rights reserved. All recipe content and images are copyrighted. If a recipe is adapted from some other source, it is mentioned in the recipe. Please do NOT copy or republish content and/or images without permission.

All trademarks, service marks, trade names, product names, and logos appearing on the site (while displaying the steps of the recipe or in other areas of site content) are the property of their respective owners.

They are presented only for the purpose if we used a specific brand ingredient in our recipe; it’s free advertising for them 🙂

Images used in the festivals section are freely available on the web. To the best of our knowledge, none of them is copyrighted. If there are any graphics here that do have copyright (that we are unaware of), please contact us, and it will be removed as soon as possible, or a link will be provided to the source.