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Last updated: aug 13, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to Gourmet Gaze (“the Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”). This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use our website, gourmetgaze.com (the “Service”). It informs You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service, including showing you relevant recipes and advertisements. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Gourmet Gaze. (Note: If you have a registered LLC, replace “Gourmet Gaze” with your legal company name and address, like “Dream Big Future LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan 82801”).
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: United States.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to Gourmet Gaze, accessible from https://gourmetgaze.com/
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Contact Information: Email address, first name, and last name (for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or leave a comment).
  • Comment Data: When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also Your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. It may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies (beacons, tags, scripts) to track activity on Our Service and store certain information.

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies: These are essential to provide you with services available through the Website, like authenticating users.
  • Functionality Cookies: These allow us to remember choices You make, such as your login details or language preference, for a more personal experience.
  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Website and how users use the site. The information gathered may include the number of visitors, the websites that referred them, the pages they visited, etc.
  • Advertising and Targeting Cookies: These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to You. They may be used by third-party advertising networks.

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring usage.
  • To manage Your Account: To manage Your registration as a user of the Service.
  • To contact You: To contact You by email with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications by following the unsubscribe link in any email We send.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests and comments to Us.
  • For business transfers: In the event of a merger, sale of Company assets, or acquisition.
  • For other purposes: Such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, marketing, and your experience.

Specific Information on Third-Party Services

We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service, to contact You, to process payments, and for marketing and remarketing purposes.

  • Analytics: We may use third-party Service Providers like Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. These services track and report website traffic and may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize ads of its own advertising network. Microsoft Clarity may capture session recordings and heatmaps.
  • Email Marketing: We use third-party Service Providers to manage our email marketing list and send newsletters. When you subscribe, your email address and name are shared with our provider. You can unsubscribe at any time.
  • Advertising: We use third-party advertising companies like Google AdSense and others to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
  • Remarketing & Behavioral Targeting: Gourmet Gaze uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to You after You visited our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on Your past visits to our Service. This may include services from:
    • Google Ads (AdWords)
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Bing Ads
  • Payments: If we offer products for sale (e.g., an e-book), we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., PayPal, Stripe). We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

Transfer and Retention of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, or country.

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and to comply with our legal obligations.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may disclose Your Personal Data in the case of a business transaction (merger, acquisition), to comply with a legal obligation, to protect the rights or property of the Company, or to protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Data Protection Rights under GDPR (For European Economic Area Residents)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you or if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.

Your Privacy Rights under CCPA & CPRA (For California Residents)

This section supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), you have the following rights:

  • The right to know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell/share.
  • The right to delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • The right to correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • The right to opt-out of sale or sharing: We do not “sell” personal information in the traditional sense. However, the use of advertising and analytics cookies may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right to opt-out of this activity.
  • The right to limit the use of sensitive personal information: We do not collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CPRA.
  • The right to non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To exercise these rights, please contact us.

“Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”

California consumers have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their personal information. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link, which will be available in the footer of our website, or by enabling a browser-based opt-out signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC).

“Shine the Light” Law

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us.

Compliance with CalOPPA

The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) requires us to disclose the following:

  • Users can visit our site anonymously.
  • This Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy” and can be easily found on our homepage.
  • Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on this page.
  • Users are able to change their personal information by emailing us.
  • Do Not Track Signals: Our Service does not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us.

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us: