Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Culinary Echoes
Effective Date: November 26, 2025 Last Updated: November 26, 2025
1. Introduction Welcome to Culinary Echoes (“we,” “our,” or “us”), owned and operated by Sharifa Kigo-Grant. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.
When you visit our website, Culinary Echoes, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.
If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our site and our services. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at sharifa@culinaryechoes.com.
2. Information We Collect We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities on the website (such as posting comments or subscribing to a newsletter), or otherwise contacting us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the website, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- Personal Data: Names and email addresses (e.g., when you sign up for a newsletter or leave a comment).
- Log and Usage Data: Service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our website. This includes your IP address, browser type, device information, and operating system.
3. How We Use Your Information We use the information we collect or receive:
- To send you marketing and promotional communications (if you have opted in).
- To post testimonials or comments on the blog.
- To respond to user inquiries and offer support.
- To protect our website (e.g., spam detection).
4. Cookies and Web Beacons Like many other websites, Culinary Echoes uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
5. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
6. Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images from Instagram, recipe cards, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that subscribe to our newsletter (if applicable), we store the personal information provided until the user unsubscribes.
8. Your Rights Depending on your location, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request to the email address listed below.
9. Contact Us If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact:
Sharifa Kigo-Grant Owner, Culinary Echoes Email: sharifa@culinaryechoes.com