Cookie Policy

Last Updated: May 14, 2025

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how The Cooking Network ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at thecooking.net ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, The Cooking Network) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

Types of Cookies We Use

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Website functions.

Performance and Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

Analytics and Customization Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you. We use cookies from Google Analytics for this purpose.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. We use cookies from Google Ads, Meta (Facebook) Ads, and Bing Ads for this purpose.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

Third-Party Cookies

The following third parties may place cookies through our Website:

Analytics

Google Analytics: To track user behavior and measure site performance

Advertising

Google Ads: To serve targeted advertisements based on user behavior
Meta (Facebook) Ads: To serve targeted advertisements and track conversions
Bing Ads: To serve targeted advertisements and track conversions

Social Media

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram: To enable functionality of social sharing buttons and widgets

How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie banner on our Website.

Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Here's how to manage cookies in the most common browsers:

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Internet Explorer/Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Targeted Advertising

Many advertising networks participate in the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). You can opt out of interest-based advertising by visiting:

What About Other Tracking Technologies?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Cookie Policy Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at info@thecooking.net