Privacy Policy

1. Information Collected

• Cookies, IP address, browser/device information
• Pages visited, time spent, and usage behavior such as clicks and scrolling
• When you take part in the "Breakfast of the Month" vote, your IP address is hashed (one-way) and processed temporarily to prevent multiple votes on the same day (the raw IP is never stored)

(This site does not separately collect personal information through account registration, payments, etc.)

2. Purpose of Collection

• Site usage analytics and service improvement (Google Analytics)
• Understanding usage patterns to improve user experience (Microsoft Clarity)
• Serving personalized advertising (Google AdSense)
• Preventing multiple same-day votes in the "Breakfast of the Month" poll

3. Third-Party Services Used

This site collects and processes the information above through the following services. Details on how each service handles personal information are available at the links below.

• Google Analytics — Google Privacy Policy
• Microsoft Clarity — Microsoft Privacy Statement
• Google AdSense — Google Ads Policy

4. Opting Out of Cookies and Ad Personalization

You can refuse cookies in your browser settings, though this may limit some features. If you'd prefer not to see personalized ads from Google, you can opt out at Google Ads Settings.

5. Retention Period

Collected information is stored and processed according to each service's (Google, Microsoft) own policies; this site does not separately store personal information. The hashed IP value used to prevent duplicate votes in the "Breakfast of the Month" poll is automatically deleted after 48 hours.

6. Contact

For privacy-related inquiries, please contact us via Instagram DM (@how.about.breakfast).