Effective date: 07/03/2026
At Protein Playground, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website, interact with our content, subscribe to our newsletter, or engage with advertising shown on our site. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information when you visit our website:
Personal Information: This includes any information you voluntarily provide to us, such as your name, email address, and contact details when you subscribe to our newsletter, comment on posts, or contact us directly.
Non-Personal Information: This includes information collected automatically from your device or browser, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, and general usage data to help us understand visitor behaviour and improve our website.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information for the following purposes:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our website, recipes, and services
- To send newsletters, updates, or promotional emails that you have chosen to receive
- To respond to your enquiries, comments, or requests
- To monitor website traffic, performance, and visitor trends
- To display advertising and measure advertising performance
- To help detect fraud, protect the security of our website, and ensure brand safety
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information directly to third parties for our own independent gain.
3. Advertising on This Website
Protein Playground works with Journey by Mediavine to manage third-party advertising on this website. Journey is powered by Mediavine’s advertising technology.
Mediavine and its advertising partners may collect and process data through cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies, as well as through server-to-server connections, in order to serve ads, personalise advertising, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and improve advertising services. According to Mediavine, this may include information such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, cookie data, non-precise location data, usage data, referral source information, and in some cases hashed identifiers or email address data where applicable.
These technologies may be used to:
- Show personalised or interest-based advertising
- Serve contextual, non-personalised advertising
- Measure ad impressions, clicks, and performance
- Limit repeated ads
- Detect invalid traffic and prevent fraud
- Improve the relevance and effectiveness of advertising
For more information about how Mediavine and its partners process data, users can review Mediavine’s Legal and Privacy information and related advertising notices.
4. Cookies and Consent
We use cookies and similar technologies to improve your browsing experience, analyse website traffic, remember preferences, and support advertising.
Because we use Journey by Mediavine, visitors may be shown a consent management banner or privacy choices tool where required by law. Mediavine states that for visitors in the EU, readers may choose to accept or reject certain types of advertising-related processing, and if they reject personalised advertising, they may still see contextual ads. Mediavine also states that visitors can later change their preferences through a ‘Manage Preferences’ link where available.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect how parts of the website function, and some advertising or personalisation features may not work as intended.
5. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media platforms, affiliate partners, or external resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of those third-party websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal data.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or misuse. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal data, including the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your personal information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt out of marketing communications at any time
- Request that we limit or stop certain processing activities
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at proteinplayground@gmail.com.
8. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under California privacy law in relation to personal information used for interest-based advertising. Mediavine provides information about opting out of certain advertising-related data sharing and directs users to recognised industry opt-out tools for this purpose.
9. Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to remove it.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, advertising partners, legal obligations, or website practices. Any changes will be posted on this page with the updated effective date. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at:
The Protein Playground
Email: proteinplayground@gmail.com
