Privacy Policy

Who operates this website

Thanksgiving is an informational website published by WRS Web Solutions Inc. The site provides Thanksgiving recipes, meal-planning tools, traditions, history and related educational content for an international audience.

Information you choose to provide

This public website does not provide user accounts and does not ask visitors to upload recipes, create profiles or store personal meal plans on the server.

If you contact the publisher through the external WRS help desk, the information you submit may be used to review and respond to your request, maintain necessary records, prevent abuse and comply with applicable legal obligations.

Browser-based tools

The turkey calculator, menu planner and oven scheduler are designed to run in your web browser. Information entered into these tools is not intentionally submitted to this website or stored in a Thanksgiving site database.

Your browser or device may still retain ordinary temporary files, cached information or locally stored settings according to your own browser configuration.

Server logs and routine technical information

The website host and related security systems may automatically record technical information when pages are requested. This information can include:

• Internet Protocol address;
• browser and device type;
• operating system;
• requested page or file;
• date and time of the request;
• referring page, when supplied by the browser; and
• response status and related diagnostic information.

This information may be used for website operation, security, troubleshooting, traffic management, fraud prevention and protection against abuse. It is not used by Thanksgiving to create public visitor profiles.

Google AdSense and advertising cookies

This website uses Google AdSense to display advertising. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve ads based on visits to this website and other websites on the Internet. Depending on a visitor’s location, consent choices and advertising settings, ads may be personalized, non-personalized or limited.

Google and participating advertising providers may process information such as the page URL, IP address, browser information, device identifiers, cookies and information about interactions with advertisements.

Google explains this processing on its How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services page.

Visitors can manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings . Additional third-party vendors or advertising networks participating in the advertising auction may provide their own privacy choices and opt-out controls on their websites.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small text files stored by a browser. Advertising services may use cookies, web beacons, local storage, pixels or similar technologies to deliver and measure advertising, limit repeated ads, detect invalid activity, protect services and remember privacy choices.

Some advertising technologies may operate as first-party or third-party technologies depending on how a service is configured. More information is available in the site’s Cookie Policy.

Consent messages for certain regions

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, this site is configured to use a Google-certified consent management platform where required. The consent message may ask visitors to make choices about cookies, local storage and the collection, sharing and use of personal data for advertising purposes.

Consent choices can affect whether personalized, non-personalized or limited ads are shown. A visitor may be able to reopen or change available choices through the privacy controls displayed by the consent platform.

Advertising reports

Google AdSense may provide the publisher with aggregated or summarized advertising and performance reports. These reports may include information such as page impressions, ad impressions, clicks, approximate geographic areas, device categories and advertising revenue.

Thanksgiving does not receive visitors’ Google Account passwords or private Google Account content through AdSense.

External links

This website may link to websites operated by other organizations. Those websites have their own privacy policies, cookies, security practices and terms. Thanksgiving is not responsible for the privacy practices of an external website.

Children’s privacy

This website is intended for a general audience. It does not knowingly request or collect account-registration information from children. Children should use online tools and external links with appropriate adult supervision.

Retention

Technical logs, security records and contact records may be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for operational, security, legal, accounting or abuse-prevention purposes. Retention periods may vary according to the type of record and the system involved.

Google and other third parties determine their own retention periods under their respective privacy policies.

Your privacy choices and rights

Depending on where you live, applicable privacy law may provide rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent or information about certain processing activities.

Requests concerning information controlled directly by Thanksgiving or WRS Web Solutions Inc. may be submitted through the Contact page. Requests concerning information controlled by Google or another third party should be directed to that organization using its published privacy controls.

Data security

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect the website and its systems. No website, transmission method or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

International visitors

This site is available internationally. Information processed by hosting, security or advertising providers may be handled in countries other than the visitor’s country of residence, subject to the provider’s safeguards and applicable law.

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the website, advertising services, privacy tools or legal requirements change. The “Last updated” date identifies the current version.

Contact

Questions, correction requests, privacy requests and legal notices concerning this website may be submitted through the Contact page.