Privacy Policy for Chef Crafted Culinary
At Chef Crafted Culinary, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about the information we may collect and how we use it. This policy applies specifically to Chef Crafted Culinary.
Information We Collect:
Information You Voluntarily Submit to Chef Crafted Culinary: We may collect personal information, such as your name or email address, which you voluntarily provide to us. This can occur when you leave a comment, subscribe to our newsletter, or submit a contact form.
Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For instance, if you use third-party software on our site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically-Collected Information: When you access Chef Crafted Culinary, we automatically gather certain information about you and your device. This includes your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. We may also collect data on actions you take on our website, such as links clicked.
Cookies: We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record user-specific information, and ensure that visitors are not repeatedly shown the same banner ads. Our use of cookies can provide a more personalized experience on Chef Crafted Culinary. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your browser until deleted).
How We Use Your Information:
We may use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain Chef Crafted Culinary.
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will offer an opt-out option for future mailings.
- To send you administrative communications, including administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, policy updates, or security alerts.
- To respond to your comments or inquiries.
- To provide user support.
- To track and measure advertising on Chef Crafted Culinary.
- To process payment for purchases made on Chef Crafted Culinary.
- To protect, investigate, and deter unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information:
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so.
Chef Crafted Culinary may utilize third-party service providers to manage various aspects of our website. Each third-party service provider operates according to their privacy policies. Currently, we use the following third-party service providers:
- Google Analytics: This service tracks the usage of Chef Crafted Culinary, providing information such as referring websites and user actions. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information.
As of now, we do not share your personal information with other third-party applications. However, this list may change at our discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent. Nevertheless, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through Chef Crafted Culinary to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, such as in a merger, consolidation, purchase, or bankruptcy.
Anonymous Data:
Occasionally, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you individually, but is combined with data from other sources. This anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other purposes. Examples of this anonymous data include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Publicly Visible Information:
Creating a user profile on Chef Crafted Culinary or leaving a comment may result in certain information becoming publicly visible. This includes the name you enter (required but doesn’t have to be your real name) and the website you enter (optional). Your email address will be stored but not made publicly visible.
Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
Cookies:
Chef Crafted Culinary uses cookies to store visitor preferences, record user-specific information, and customize content based on visitors’ browser types or other information sent by the visitor. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics.
Please review our full Privacy Policy for more details. If you have any questions or need to contact us regarding your personal information, please use our Contact Page.