Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 September 2026

Curry Culture respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This policy explains what information we collect through curryculture.co.uk, why we collect it and how it is used.

Who we are

Curry Culture is an independent website operated and edited by Guy Parker.

Website: https://curryculture.co.uk
Email: info@curryculture.co.uk

For data protection purposes, Guy Parker is the data controller for personal information collected through this website.

Information we collect

We may collect the following information:

Your name, email address and any other information you provide through our contact forms.
Your email address when you subscribe to our newsletter.
Information you provide when submitting a recipe, article, photograph or other material for possible publication.
Your name, email address, website address and comment if comments are enabled and you leave a comment.
Technical information including your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system and how you use the website.
Cookie and analytics information, subject to your cookie preferences.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through this website.

How we use your information

We use personal information to:

Respond to enquiries.
Send our newsletter to people who have subscribed.
Consider and manage submitted recipes, articles, photographs and other contributions.
Operate, maintain and protect the website.
Prevent spam, fraud and misuse.
Understand how visitors use the website and improve its content and performance.
Meet any legal or regulatory obligations.

We do not sell personal information.

Our lawful bases for using information

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.

We rely on:

Consent when you subscribe to our newsletter or agree to non-essential cookies.
Legitimate interests when responding to enquiries, operating and securing the website, managing contributions and understanding how the website is used.
Legal obligation where we need to retain or disclose information to comply with the law.
Contract where the information is required to provide an agreed service or fulfil an arrangement with you.

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

If you subscribe to The Monthly Helping, we use your email address to send you Curry Culture news, recipes, reviews and related content.

Our newsletter is managed using MailPoet. Your information may be processed through MailPoet’s systems to deliver and manage the newsletter.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any newsletter. We may retain a minimal suppression record so that we know not to contact you again.

Unsubscribing from the newsletter does not automatically delete information you may have supplied separately through a contact form or previous correspondence. You can ask us to delete that information by contacting us.

Contact forms and correspondence

When you contact us, we collect the information you provide so that we can respond.

Contact-form entries may be stored within the website and may also be sent to us by email. We do not add contact-form enquiries to our newsletter unless the person has separately chosen to subscribe.

We normally retain general enquiries for no longer than two years. We may keep information for longer where it relates to an ongoing working relationship, published content, a financial transaction, a dispute or a legal requirement.

Comments

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, we may collect the information shown in the comments form together with your IP address and browser information to help identify spam.

An anonymised version of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. If your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image may appear publicly alongside it. You can read the Automattic privacy policy for more information.

Approved comments and their associated information may be retained while the comment remains published.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how people find and use Curry Culture. This may include information about:

Pages visited.
Approximate location.
Device and browser type.
Referral source.
Time spent on the website.
General interactions with the website.

Analytics information is used to produce aggregated reports and improve the website. Google may process this information on our behalf.

Analytics cookies will only be used where the appropriate consent has been obtained. You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time through the cookie settings available on the website.

Cookies

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website.

Curry Culture may use:

Essential cookies, which are needed for the website to operate correctly and securely.
Preference cookies, which remember choices you make.
Analytics cookies, which help us understand how the website is used.
Third-party cookies, which may be set by embedded content or external services.

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies through our cookie banner. You can also delete or block cookies using your browser settings, although blocking essential cookies may affect how the website works.

Embedded content and external links

Articles may include content embedded from other websites, including videos, social-media posts, maps or images.

Embedded content behaves as though you have visited the originating website directly. Those services may collect information, use cookies or monitor your interaction with the embedded content. Their own privacy policies will apply.

Curry Culture also links to external websites. We are not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices of those websites.

Who we share information with

We may share information with organisations that help us operate Curry Culture, including:

Website hosting and technical-support providers.
Newsletter and email-delivery providers.
Analytics providers.
Website security, backup and spam-prevention services.
Professional advisers where reasonably necessary.
Regulators, courts or law-enforcement bodies where required by law.

These organisations may only use the information as necessary to provide their services or meet their own legal obligations.

If we run a competition, promotion or project with another organisation, we will explain who information will be shared with before it is submitted.

International transfers

Some service providers, including Google and MailPoet, may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we expect the relevant provider to use an approved legal safeguard, such as UK adequacy regulations or appropriate contractual protections.

How we protect information

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. These include secure hosting, website security controls, access restrictions, software updates and backups.

No method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

How long we retain information

We retain personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected.

In general:

Newsletter information is kept until you unsubscribe or ask for its deletion.
A minimal suppression record may be retained after unsubscribing.
General enquiries are normally retained for no longer than two years.
Published comments or contributions may be retained while the associated content remains on the website.
Security logs and backups are retained according to the schedules operated by our hosting and security providers.
Information required for tax, contractual or legal purposes may be retained for the relevant statutory period.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

Ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Ask us to delete your information.
Ask us to restrict how your information is used.
Object to certain uses of your information.
Ask for information you supplied to be transferred in a commonly used format.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Complain about how your information has been handled.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.

To make a request, email info@curryculture.co.uk. We may need to confirm your identity before completing the request.

Complaints

Please contact us first if you have any concerns about how we use your personal information.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Children

Curry Culture is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when our website, services or legal obligations change.

The latest version will always be published on this page with the date it was last updated.