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Cookie Policy

Last updated: 15 October 2026

1In short

Apart from a few cookies the site needs to work, analytics and advertising cookies do not run before you agree where the law requires your consent. What you see depends on where you are: visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland see Google’s consent message; visitors from the United States see Google’s US state privacy message, which lets you opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; visitors from Türkiye see a small cookie bar at the bottom of the page. Refusing never stops you from reading the site. You can change your choice at any time with the Privacy & cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.

3Cookies I use

TypeName (example)Set byPurposeDurationConsent
Strictly necessarygbc_riza (browser local storage, visitors in Türkiye); Google’s preference cookie FCCDCF (visitors from the EEA, UK and Switzerland); Google’s own storage for the US state privacy messageFirst partyRemembering your cookie choice6 months (gbc_riza); duration set by Google (Google’s cookies)Not required
Functional (set by your action)gbc_oy_(recipe number)First partyRemembering your vote on a recipe (Turkish recipe pages only); set only when you vote1 yearNot required (a feature you asked for)
Functional (set by your action)comment_author_*, wp-settings-*First party (WordPress)Remembering your details in the comment form (only if you tick the box); administrator login1 year / sessionNot required
Analytics_ga, _ga_8P6FY60W1WGoogle (GA4)Measuring how many people read which pages and where they come from2 yearsConsent
Advertising__gads, __gpi, __eoi, IDE, DSIDGoogle (AdSense, DoubleClick)Showing ads, limiting how often you see them, measuring them, preventing click fraud; with your consent, ads based on your interestsUp to 13 monthsConsent (US: you can opt out of sale and sharing)
Embedded contentYouTube (youtube-nocookie.com), Google MapsGooglePlaying videos, showing mapsDuration set by GoogleVideos load only when you press the play button; maps load from Google when you scroll to that part of the page

When you click an affiliate link (Booking.com, GetYourGuide, Skyscanner and others), you move to that company’s website. The cookie needed to track a commission is set by that company on its own site and is covered by its own cookie policy. No affiliate network tracking script runs on this site.

5About Google ads

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • You can turn off personalized advertising in Google’s My Ad Center, where you can also see and change why you are shown ads. You can also opt out of third-party vendors’ cookies at aboutads.info.
  • How Google uses data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
  • If you do not consent to advertising cookies, you may still see ads, but they are non-personalized or limited ads.

6International transfers

Data collected through Google cookies is processed on the servers of Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC (United States). These countries may not offer the same level of protection as your own. When you allow analytics or advertising cookies, you also agree to this transfer; if you do not, no transfer happens through those cookies. More in the Privacy Policy.

8More information

Everything about your personal data and your rights, and how to contact me, is in the Privacy Policy.