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Culinary Ginger found at https://culinaryginger.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

Advertising

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this website for the purposes of placing advertising on the website, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative. 

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our website. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

What information we collect and how it is used

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: If you signup for our newsletter, you will only be asked for your email address, no other information will be collected. If you are a leaving a comment,  or submitting a contact form. You will not be asked to create a profile. You will be asked for your name (first name only is fine) and email address. The email address is used ONLY to respond to a question or to thank you after leaving the comment or question. All comments are scanned for spam by Antispam Bee. You can read more about how we handle user comments and reviews in our Terms of Use.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

How your information may be used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Culinary Ginger uses your email address solely to send our weekly newsletter, ‘What’s been cooking this week’, featuring our newest and most popular recipes. We also use it to respond to any comments or reviews you leave on the site. Your information is never used for any other purpose, and you can opt-out of the newsletter at any time via the unsubscribe link included in every email.

Third-party use of personal information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

  • Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. 
  • Kit – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to Kit privacy policy for further information.
  • Akismet Anti Spam – You can read more about Akismet here.

Anonymous data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly visible information

If you  leave a comment, and use your first and/or last name, it may be publicly visible, whichever you enter into the comment field.  Your email address will never be available publicly or used by the website. Your comment may also be featured in a blog post.

To learn more about cookies, you can view this website’s Cookie Policy here.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Opt-out

You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us via our contact form to be removed from our mailing list. Once you unsubscribe, your information is permanently deleted.

Access

You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request via our contact form.

Amend

You may contact us via the contact form to request to amend or update your personal information.

Forget personal data

In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request via our contact form.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes  or when required by law. Additionally, data is store as long as website is open, or until a user’s requests for their personal data to be removed.

Sensitive personal information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your address, social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. Anything you comment with If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. Children and minors are not allowed to submit any information to the website. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately via our contact form and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

The website may include links to other websites or advertising platforms that are not under our control. Once you click on one of these links, you are no longer interacting with our website. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies, which we do not manage or oversee. Before sharing any personal information on a linked website, please review that website’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the handling of your personal information by any third-party website.

California consumer privacy act statement

This CCPA Statement is provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies to California residents and supplements our overall Statement with additional disclosures and rights.

As of January 1 2020, California law permits residents of California to request certain details about how their personal information is shared with third-parties or affiliated companies for direct marketing purposes.

Disclosures

For purposes of compliance with the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), in addition to the further details as described in the Statement, we make the following disclosures:

  • We collect the following categories of personal information:  Only name and/or email address to receive our weekly newsletter and to respond to questions asked from the comment section.

Nevada privacy rights

Under Nevada law (SB 220), residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain types of personal information that a website operator may collect.

If you are a Nevada resident who has questions about our data practices or would like to submit a request to opt out of any potential future sale of your personal information, you may contact us via our contact form. Please include “Nevada Privacy Request” in the subject line of your message, and provide enough information for us to verify your identity and respond to your request.

Changes to this policy

We may change this privacy policy at any time and from time to time. The most recent version of the privacy policy is reflected by the version date located at the bottom of this privacy policy. All updates and amendments are effective immediately upon notice, which we may give by any means, including, but not limited to, by posting a revised version of this privacy policy or other notice on the Culinary Ginger’s website.

We encourage you to review this privacy policy often to stay informed of changes that may affect you. Our electronically or otherwise properly stored copies of this privacy policy are each deemed to be the true, complete, valid, authentic, and enforceable copy of the version of this privacy policy that was in effect on each respective date you visited the Culinary Ginger website.

Consumer privacy information

To learn more about the information we collect and use for advertising purposes, please see our Privacy Policy. If you do not wish for us or our partners to sell your personal information to third parties for advertising purposes, select the applicable control from the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link provided. This is a vertical grey bar on the left hand side of every Culinary Ginger web page.

We will continue to share some personal information with our partners (who will function as our service providers in such instance) to help us perform advertising-related functions such as, but not limited to, measuring the effectiveness of our ads, managing how many times you may see an ad, reporting on the performance of our ads, ensuring services are working correctly and securely, providing aggregate statistics and analytics, improving when and where you may see ads and/or reducing ad fraud.

If you access this website from other devices or browsers, visit the link below from those devices or browsers to ensure your choice applies to the data collected when you use those devices or browsers.

If you would like more information about how to opt out of interest-based advertising in desktop and mobile browsers on a particular device, please visit:

Contact information

At any time, please contact us via our contact form for questions related to this these policies.

Last updated: 9th October, 2025