Privacy & cookies

Last updated 2026-09-04. Weekly Delight is run by one person, Turab, from Kazakhstan.

The short version

• There is no account, no login and no database. This is a static site.
• What you save — favourites, your theme, your reviews — stays in your own browser and never reaches me.
• There is no consent banner. Analytics and advertising load with the page, so if you would rather they did not, a content blocker is the way to stop them — the links further down turn each one off at the source.
• The contact form is the only thing that sends anything to me, and only what you type into it.
• You can block both with any content blocker, and nothing on the site breaks.

Cookies, and how to refuse them

This site does not ask before loading its analytics and advertising scripts: they run when the page does. I would rather say that plainly than imply a choice you were not given.

If you do not want them, any content blocker stops both, and the site works perfectly without either — every recipe, the search, saved recipes, cook mode and the timers are unaffected. The Analytics and Advertising sections below also link to the opt-outs Google and Adsterra provide, which work across every site that uses them, not just this one.

The things this site stores for itself — your theme, your saved recipes, your reviews — are a separate matter. They never leave your device and exist only because you asked for them.

What stays on your device

The site keeps four things in your browser's local storage. They never leave the machine you are reading on, are not sent anywhere, and I cannot see them.

• Your saved recipes — the hearts you tap, kept under cv:favourites.
• Your theme — light or dark, under cv:theme.
• Reviews you write — under cv:reviews: and the recipe name. Reviews on this site are private notes to yourself. Nobody else sees them, including me.
• An old newsletter entry — under cv:newsletter, if you used the signup box before it was removed. Nothing was ever sent anywhere; you can clear it with your browser data.

Clearing your browser data clears all four, and you will lose your saved recipes. There is no copy anywhere else.

The contact form

This is the one place the site collects anything about you, and only because you chose to type it. When you send the form, your name, email address, subject and message are posted to Netlify Forms — Netlify hosts this site — and I read them from the dashboard there. Netlify also records the time and the IP address the message came from, as a spam measure.

I use your address to reply to you and for nothing else. It is not added to any list, not passed to anybody, and not used for advertising. Submissions sit in the Netlify dashboard until I delete them; if you would like a message of yours removed, say so in a reply and I will delete it there. Netlify's own privacy policy covers what they do with it while it is on their systems.

The form also carries a hidden field that people never see. If it arrives filled in, the submission came from a bot and is discarded. It collects nothing about you.

There is no newsletter and no mailing list. The signup box that used to sit at the foot of every page has been removed, because it collected nothing and could not have sent anything.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 counts visitors and shows me which recipes get read. It sets cookies, records your approximate location from your IP address, and notes your device, browser and the pages you open. It does not tell me who you are, and I never see an individual reader — only totals.

Google is the data controller for what it collects. Its own explanation is in how Google uses data from sites that use its services, and you can opt out everywhere at once with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.

Advertising

The site carries advertising, which is what pays for it. The ads are served by Adsterra, not by me: they choose what you see, and they may set cookies or similar identifiers to do it, including for personalised advertising. I do not receive your data from them and I cannot see who was shown what.

Adsterra publishes its own privacy policy, which governs that part of your visit. If you would rather not be tracked for advertising, a content blocker stops it, and you can also turn off ad personalisation in Google's ad settings for the Google side of the web.

What else the site loads

• Fonts come from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com and they see your IP address.
• Photographs are served from this site itself, not from anywhere else.
• The search index is a file downloaded from this site when you first use the search box. Your search terms are handled entirely in your browser and are never sent anywhere.
• Hosting. The site is served by Netlify, whose servers log requests, including IP addresses, as any web server does.

Children

This is a recipe site with no account system and nothing aimed at children. I do not knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Unless you have sent me a message, I hold nothing about you at all: everything the site stores is already in your hands, and clearing your browser data removes it. If you have used the contact form, what I hold is that message, and you can ask me to delete it — reply to my email, or send a new message saying so, and it goes.

For the data Google and Adsterra collect, their policies above set out how to make a request to them, since they are the ones holding it.

Changes

If what the site does changes — a real newsletter, a working contact form, a different ad network — this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. There is no archive of previous versions; the site is small enough that the current one is the only one that matters.

Getting in touch

Use the contact form. If something on this page is wrong or unclear, that is exactly the sort of thing I would like to be told.

This page describes what the site does, honestly and in plain language. It is not legal advice, and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. If you are reading it as a template for your own site, do not — write yours from your own code, as this one was.