Welcome to brickhousegrille.com (the “Website”). Brickhouse Grille (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Website, read our posts, or interact with our recipe comment sections.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information about you in a variety of ways when you interact with our Website.
Information You Provide to Us:
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on our posts or recipes, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Contacting Us: If you reach out to us via email, we will collect your email address and any other information you choose to provide in your message.
Automatically Collected Data:
- Cookies and Tracking: We use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about your browsing behavior, device, and IP address. This helps us serve targeted advertisements and will help us analyze website traffic in the future.
2. Advertising and Google AdSense
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Website.
- Google AdSense: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on brickhousegrille.com. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Opting Out: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
3. Affiliate Programs (Future Use)
We may occasionally participate in affiliate marketing programs, such as the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. If implemented, we will embed tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. We do not currently use these programs, but this policy applies should they be activated.
4. Analytics and Newsletters (Future Use)
While we currently do not use analytics software (like Google Analytics) or operate an email newsletter, we reserve the right to implement these tools in the future to improve user experience and keep our readers updated.
- If analytics are added, they will collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns in a way that does not identify anyone directly.
- If a newsletter is launched, you will only receive it if you explicitly opt-in, and you will be provided with an unsubscribe link in every email.
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
6. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share data with trusted third-party vendors strictly for the purpose of facilitating website services, such as:
- Spam detection services for comments.
- Advertising networks (as detailed in the AdSense section).
7. Data Security
We use standard administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security.
8. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, or to request that we delete any personal data we hold about you (such as your comments). This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Last Updated: 22.07.2026