Privacy & Cookie Policy

When you use Drinksdatabasen — whether you simply browse recipes or create an account — we process information about you. We only collect what is necessary to run the site and give you a good experience, and we never sell your data.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us using the details in the Contact section below.

The data controller responsible for processing your personal data is:

Depending on how you use the site, we may process:

• Name (and any display name/username)
• Email address
• Login information (hashed password and session data)
• Profile information you add yourself (e.g. workplace, city/country, profile type)
• Recipes you create, submit or have approved
• Comments you post
• Favourite recipes you save
• Drink cards you create, save or export
• Newsletter consent and the time it was given
• Technical information about your use of the website (e.g. IP address, browser, device type, timestamps and log events)
• Your cookie and consent preferences

We process your data in order to:

• Create and manage your user profile
• Let you save favourite drinks
• Let you create and submit your own recipes
• Let you create and save drink cards
• Moderate content, including recipes and comments
• Send newsletters where you have given consent
• Improve the website, content and user experience
• Comply with legal obligations and ensure security and stable operations

We rely on the following legal bases:

• Consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)) — e.g. newsletters and statistics/marketing cookies.
• Contract / user account creation (Art. 6(1)(b)) — to deliver the features you create an account to use.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) — operations, security, abuse prevention and content moderation.
• Legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c)) — where law requires us to retain or disclose information.

You can always ask us which legal basis applies to a specific processing activity.

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are used to remember your choices and to keep you signed in, among other things.

• Technically necessary cookies are used so the website can function (login, security and remembering your consent). They do not require consent.
• Analytics and marketing cookies are only used if you have given your consent.
• You can change or withdraw your consent at any time.

Details are available in our Cookie Declaration.

• We do not currently send a newsletter, and no signup is offered on the site.
• If we start sending one, signup will require your active consent — we never subscribe you automatically.
• You will always be able to unsubscribe and withdraw your consent at any time; this does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

We only share data with suppliers (processors) who process it on our instructions under a data processing agreement. We never sell your data.

If personal data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, we rely on a valid transfer mechanism. You can always contact us for a current list of our processors.

• We store your data for as long as your profile is active.
• You can request deletion, or delete your profile yourself in settings.
• Some data may be kept longer if required by law (e.g. accounting records).
• Content you have published yourself (e.g. approved recipes and comments) may be anonymised rather than deleted where necessary to keep the site coherent.

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we process about you
• Rectification of inaccurate data
• Erasure of your data
• Restriction of processing
• Data portability — receiving your data in a machine-readable format
• Object to the processing
• Withdraw consent at any time
• Lodge a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet), Carl Jacobsens Vej 35, 2500 Valby, Denmark — datatilsynet.dk

If you are signed in, you can download a complete copy of your data directly from your profile.

To ask a question or exercise your rights, contact us:

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