Privacy Policy: Data Collection and User Rights

Last updated: 12 February 2025

Introduction

This is a food and travel site — recipes from a Maltese kitchen, notes on Sicilian and Mediterranean cooking, and the odd Melbourne detour. It is published and operated by Skenzo Ltd, the company responsible for the data described here.

This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, and what you can ask us to do with it. We have tried to keep the legal padding to a minimum and write it the way we would explain it to a friend who asked.

If something here is unclear, the Contact page is the fastest way to reach us.

Purposes of Processing

We process a small amount of data, and only for reasons that keep the site running and useful.

We also process device identifiers, IP addresses, and approximate geolocation where it helps us serve the right content and meet legal obligations — nothing here is sold on to third parties.

External Services

Running a website means relying on other companies for the plumbing. Here is who touches your data and why.

Analytics. We use a web analytics platform to understand traffic patterns in aggregate. We may add a second measurement tool in future; if we do, this policy will be updated before it goes live.

Advertising networks. The site does not currently run third-party ads. We are planning to integrate an ad network at some point, and when that happens it will involve advertising cookies described in the section below.

Hosting and delivery. Our pages are served through a hosting provider and a content delivery network. These services process your IP address as a technical necessity — a page cannot reach your browser without knowing where to send it.

Information Collected

Two kinds of information reach us: the technical sort that arrives automatically, and the personal sort you choose to hand over.

Collected automatically

Standard technical logs record your IP address, browser type and version, the pages you visit, and timestamps. This is the ordinary exhaust of any web server, and it helps with security and troubleshooting.

Given by you

When you use the contact form, we receive whatever you type into it — usually a name, an email address, and your message. If you subscribe to updates, we keep the email address you provide. That is the whole list. We do not ask for anything we do not need.

Cookies and Tracking

Cookies are small files your browser stores at our request. We group ours into three buckets.

Strictly necessary

These remember your consent choices and hold a basic session together. The site cannot function properly without them, so they do not require opt-in.

Analytics

These help us see visit patterns and page performance in aggregate. They tell us nothing about you as a named individual.

Advertising

Reserved for the future ad integration mentioned earlier. They would support ad personalisation, and they will only ever activate with your consent.

You stay in control. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies through its settings, and you can clear ours at any time without breaking the parts of the site that matter.

Data Subject Rights

Depending on where you live, you have a set of rights over your data. Wherever you are, we will honour the following on request.

• Access — ask us what personal data we hold about you and get a copy.
• Deletion, ask us to erase it, and we will, unless a law requires us to keep something.
• Opt-out, decline analytics and advertising tracking through the cookie controls or your browser.

To make any of these requests, write to us via the Contact page. A real person reads those messages, and we aim to respond promptly rather than letting requests sit in a queue.

Storage and Deletion

We keep data only as long as it serves a purpose. Technical logs are rotated and discarded on a rolling basis once they have done their security and troubleshooting job. Contact messages and subscription details stay with us until you ask us to remove them or until they are no longer needed for the reason you sent them.

When the retention period ends, or when you request deletion, the relevant records are removed from our active systems. We cannot promise instant erasure from every backup the moment you ask — backups cycle on their own schedule, but deleted data is not restored into use, and it falls out of those backups in the normal course.

Policy Updates

This policy will change when the site changes — a new analytics tool, the planned ad network, a shift in how we handle contact data. When that happens, we update the date at the top of this page.

For anything significant, we will make the change visible rather than burying it. If you have given us an email address, expect a note when a material update lands. For the full terms governing your use of the site, see the Terms.