Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2026 | Last Revised: February 2026
1. Introduction and Data Controller
Meadowscheersqud Culinary Media Ltd ("Meadowscheersqud", "we", "us", or "our"), incorporated in the United Kingdom under Company Number 14892014, with registered offices at 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4BE, United Kingdom, operates the website meadowscheersqud.com. We are committed to safeguarding personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the EU GDPR (Regulation 2016/679), and relevant international privacy regulations including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
2. Categories of Information We Collect
We collect only the minimum personal data required to provide our gastronomic educational materials:
- Voluntary Correspondence Data: When you complete our contact form, we collect your full name, email address, topic selection, and the message content you submit.
- Technical and Telemetry Data: IP addresses (anonymized at capture), browser user-agent strings, referring URLs, operating system types, and page interaction timestamps.
- Consent State Identifiers: A locally stored string within your browser’s localStorage detailing your cookie consent choice.
3. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR Article 6)
We process your personal information under the following statutory legal bases:
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): For optional statistical measurement and analytical cookies which you explicitly approve through our cookie banner.
- Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): To maintain website security, prevent fraudulent server attacks, troubleshoot delivery errors, and reply to technical inquiries.
- Legal Obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)): For retaining business records required to comply with statutory accounting and tax regulations.
4. Third-Party Data Processors
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We disclose operational telemetry only to vetted technical service providers bound by strict Data Processing Addendums (DPAs):
- Cloud Infrastructure: Static file distribution and edge CDN services hosted within European and UK data centers.
- Analytics Processing: Anonymized privacy-first metrics without cross-site tracking or profiling.
5. Retention Schedules
Contact form communications are retained for twenty-four (24) months from the date of final resolution to support historical culinary correspondence, after which records are permanently deleted. Server access logs containing truncated IP addresses are purged automatically on a rolling thirty (30) day schedule.
6. Your Statutory Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
Subject to legal verification, you hold the following rights:
- The right to access all personal data maintained about you.
- The right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete records.
- The right to erasure ("Right to be Forgotten") where processing grounds no longer apply.
- The right to restrict or object to processing based on legitimate interest.
- The right to data portability in a machine-readable format.
- The right to withdraw cookie consent at any time without punitive service restrictions.
7. Data Protection Officer (DPO) Contact
To exercise any of your statutory rights, or to lodge a formal inquiry regarding our data governance, contact our Data Protection Officer directly:
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address: Data Protection Officer, Meadowscheersqud Culinary Media Ltd, 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4BE, United Kingdom.
You have the right to lodge a formal complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.