Cookies & Privacy

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PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets out how Culinary Craftiness uses and protects any information that you give while using this site.

Last Updated: October 28, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Culinary Craftiness (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information when you visit or make a purchase from https://culinarycraftiness.com (the “Site”). We sell cottage food products prepared in compliance with the Florida Cottage Food Law (Fla. Stat. § 500.80). We sell and ship only to addresses within the state of Florida.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide to us:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Shipping address (Florida only)
  • Phone number
  • Payment information (processed by our payment providers — see Section 4)
  • Order history and preferences
  • Customer service inquiries

Information collected automatically:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device information
  • Pages visited and time spent on the Site
  • Referring URL

Cookies and tracking technologies:
We use cookies to remember your preferences, maintain your shopping cart, and analyze site traffic. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information to:

  • Process and fulfill your orders
  • Communicate with you about your orders and customer service
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations under Florida food safety and Cottage Food Law requirements
  • Improve our products, services, and the Site
  • Send you marketing communications (only if you have opted in)

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with:

  • Payment processors (see Section 4)
  • Shipping carriers (e.g., USPS, UPS, FedEx) to deliver your orders within Florida — they receive your name and shipping address
  • Service providers who help us operate the Site (e.g., web hosting, email delivery)
  • Legal authorities if required by law or to protect our rights

4. Payment Processing

We accept payments via Stripe and PayPal. When you make a purchase, the following information is shared with the applicable payment processor:

  • Your name
  • Billing address
  • Payment card details or PayPal account information
  • Order total and transaction details

We do not store your full credit card number, CVV, or bank account details on our servers. These are processed and stored securely by Stripe and PayPal in compliance with PCI-DSS standards.

For more information on how they handle your data, see:

5. Data Retention

We retain your order and personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide our services. We may retain this information for legal, tax, or accounting purposes. We will delete your personal information when it is no longer needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless retention is required by law.

6. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information, including SSL encryption for data in transit. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Rights

You may request to:

  • Access the personal information we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Delete your personal information
  • Opt out of marketing communications

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information in Section 11. We will respond to verified requests within a reasonable time frame.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our Site and products are not directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

9. Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and update the “Last Updated” date. We recommend checking this page periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us:

Culinary Craftiness
Email: CulinaryCraftiness@pm.me
Address: 5724 SE 4th Ave, Keystone Heights, Florida 32656

12. Florida Data Breach Notification

In the event of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will provide notice in accordance with the Florida Information Protection Act (Fla. Stat. § 501.171).

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Culinary Craftiness may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from October 28, 2026, to the present date.

What WordPress may collect to facilitate emailing post updates:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Zip code

What they do with the information they gather: Personalize the greeting and facilitate the emailing of posts. Zip codes allow us to see where our visitors are from for analytical purposes.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, WordPress has put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information they collect online.

Advertising

Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies. We do not have control over cookies placed by WordPress or Google advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website, such as Google AdSense. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and the domain owner of Culinary Craftiness disclaims all liability in connection therewith. You can set your browser to delete all cookies at the end of each browsing session.

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Culinary Craftiness endeavors to only present links to other websites within blog posts that are safe to visit and may have useful information.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. Culinary Craftiness will never directly market to any individual outside of a blog post.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.

Opt Out

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If you believe any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us. The site owner may not know what to do about it, but she will try to fix it. 😊

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  • If you are a member of the press or have another inquiry: Please allow up to 5 business days for a response.
  • If you have a guest post you wish to offer: Please don’t contact me as I do not accept unsolicited guest posts.
  • If you have a question about a medical condition: I will not and cannot respond to these inquiries. I’m a cook, not a doctor.

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