Privacy Policy

At LynneCurry.com, we focus on delivering delicious recipes and cooking tips to inspire your culinary adventures. LynneCurry ("us," "we," or "our") also values your privacy and is committed to safeguarding it through this Privacy Policy.

We understand the importance of your privacy and take it very seriously. This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website, including any other media channels, media forms, mobile websites, or mobile applications related or connected to it. If you have any questions or concerns about our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at contact@lynnecurry.com.

When you use our services and visit our website, you trust us with your personal information. We aim to clearly explain what information we collect, what rights you have concerning it, and how we use it. This privacy policy covers all information collected through our site and any related services, marketing, sales, or events. If you disagree with any terms in this policy, please discontinue using our site and services.

Please read this policy carefully to make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We gather personal details you provide, including your name, address, contact information, passwords, security data, payment information, and social media login data. This helps us enhance your experience with us. The information we collect depends on your interactions with us, the choices you make, and the features you use. Here’s what we might collect:

• Name and Contact Information: Includes your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact details. This helps us personalize your experience, whether you’re exploring new recipes or looking for baking tips.
• Social Media Logins Data: If you choose to sign up or log in to our site, lynnecurry.com, using a social media account, we will collect the relevant information, making it easy for you to share your favorite recipe or cooking tips with friends. Our website allows you to register and log in using details from third-party social media accounts such as Facebook or Twitter. When you do this, we will receive specific profile information from the social media provider. This information can include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture, and any other details you have made public on your social media profile. If you use Facebook, we may request additional permissions related to your account, such as access to your friends, check-ins, and likes. You can choose to grant or deny each permission individually. We will only use the information received for purposes outlined in our privacy policy or as clearly stated on the site. We are not responsible for how third-party social media providers use your personal information. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies to understand how they collect, use, and share your data, and how you can adjust your privacy settings on their platform.
• Payment Data: Necessary for processing payments if you make purchases. This includes your payment instrument number (like a credit card number) and the associated security code. Payment data is stored by our payment processor. Please review their privacy policies for any questions. This ensures smooth transactions when purchasing cooking classes or recipe books.
• Credentials: Includes passwords, password hints, and other security information for authentication and account access. These details keep your account secure when you’re accessing our extensive recipe database.

This information is collected when you register on our site, express interest in our recipes or services, participate in activities (such as posting in forums or entering contests), or contact us directly with questions about our cooking techniques and recipe collections.

All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate. Notify us of any changes to keep your information up to date, ensuring you don’t miss out on any new cooking tips or recipe updates.

Unsubscribing from Email Marketing

You can unsubscribe from our recipe email list anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us using the details below. While you will be removed from marketing emails, we still need to send you service-related emails for account administration. You can also opt-out by:

• Indicating your preferences when you register your account.
• Contacting us using the provided contact information.
• Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.

Automatically Gathered Data

LynneCurry.com collects non-personal information such as IP addresses and browsing patterns using cookies. Like many recipe sites, we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience. For example, tracking how you navigate our delicious recipes and other cooking content helps us improve our offerings and ensure smooth operation. You can prevent cookie usage by adjusting your browser settings to deny or accept cookies.

Automatically gathered data includes device names, location, browser details, IP addresses, operating system, referring URLs, device characteristics, country, language preferences, and site usage. This data does not reveal your specific identity but helps us maintain site security and operations, and supports our internal analytics and reporting.

How Your Information Is Used

We handle your information based on legitimate business interests, fulfilling our agreement with you, adhering to legal obligations, and/or with your consent.

Personal data collected via our site serves various purposes outlined below. We process your data based on our legitimate business interests ("Business Purposes"), contractual obligations ("Contractual"), your consent ("Consent"), and legal requirements ("Legal Reasons"). Specific processing grounds are indicated next to each purpose.

• Legal Requests: We may need to inspect the data we hold to respond to legal requests such as subpoenas for Legal Reasons.
• Enforcing Terms: Your data helps us enforce our terms, conditions, and policies for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons, and possibly Contractual obligations.
• Marketing and Promotions: We may send you marketing and promotional content based on Business Purposes or with your Consent. Our marketing partners may also use your information if it aligns with your preferences. You can opt out of marketing emails anytime (see "Your Privacy Rights" below).
• Site Security: To keep our site safe, we may use your information for fraud monitoring and prevention as part of our Business Purposes and Legal Reasons.
• Testimonials: With your Consent, we may post testimonials on our site that include personal information. Before posting, we will get your approval. If you want to update or delete your testimonial, contact us at contact@lynnecurry.com with your name, testimonial location, and contact details.
• Other Business Purposes: We may use your information for data analysis, identifying usage trends, evaluating the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and improving our site, recipes, products, services, and your overall experience.
• Feedback Requests: We might use your data to request feedback and contact you about your experience on our site for Business Purposes or with your Consent.
• User-to-User Communication: With your Consent, we may enable communication between users.
• Administrative Communications: For Business Purposes, Legal Reasons, or Contractual obligations, we may use your personal information to send updates about products, services, new features, or changes to our terms and policies.
• Targeted Advertising: For Business Purposes or with your Consent, we may use your data to create and display content and ads tailored to your interests or location, and to measure their effectiveness.

Disclosing Your Information

We share your information only with your consent, to comply with legal obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business needs. Here are the situations where we might disclose your data:

• Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal processes, including responding to public authorities for national security or law enforcement needs.
• Protecting Vital Interests: We might share your data to investigate, prevent, or act on potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, threats to safety, illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We share your information with vendors, contractors, and agents who perform services for us, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting, customer service, and marketing. These service providers may use tracking technology to analyze site interaction and understand user behavior.
• Business Transfers: During mergers, sales of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or part of our business, your information may be shared or transferred.
• Affiliates: We may share your data with our affiliates, which include our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies we control. These affiliates will honor this privacy policy.
• Business Partners: Your data may be shared with business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• Third-Party Advertisers: We might use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the site. These companies could use data from your site visits to provide targeted advertisements.
• Marketing Communications: With your consent, we may share your information for marketing purposes to keep you updated on news, special offers, and other cooking-related content.
• Online Postings: When you post comments or other content on the site, your personal information may be viewed by all users and could be publicly distributed outside the site.
• Protecting Rights: When required by law or to protect rights, property, or safety, we may disclose your information.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

To collect and store information, we may employ cookies and similar tracking tools. These technologies help us provide a better user experience.

• Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies, like web beacons and pixels, are used to access or store data.

• Internet-Based Advertising

Third-party software may be utilized to serve ads on the site, run email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing efforts. This software might use cookies or similar tracking tools to optimize your online experience with us.

• Google Maps

We incorporate Google Maps to provide enhanced services. Our website, mobile application, or Facebook application uses Google Maps APIs. You can find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. For a better understanding of Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.

Using our Maps API implementation means you agree to be bound by Google’s Terms of Service. You also consent to our access to information about you, including personally identifiable information (like usernames) and non-personally identifiable information (like location).

• Website Analytics

We collaborate with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics, to use tracking technologies and remarketing services on the site. These services help analyze and track user activity, determine content popularity, and understand online behavior. By accessing the site, you consent to the collection and use of your data by these third-party vendors. Review their privacy policies and contact them directly with any questions. We do not share personal information with these third-party vendors.

Be aware that changing your computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or altering your browser’s cookie files may clear certain opt-out cookies, plugins, or settings.

Most web browsers accept cookies by default. You can adjust your browser settings to remove or reject cookies. Be aware, rejecting cookies might affect some features or services on our site, like recipe recommendations or saving your favorite recipes. For opting out of interest-based ads, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

International Information Transfer

Your data might be moved to and handled in other countries. We ensure your data remains protected in line with local and international regulations.

Our servers are located in the United States. If you access our site from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in the U.S. and by third parties we may share your personal information with (see “Disclosure of Your Information” above).

If you reside in the European Economic Area, please note that these countries may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as your country’s. However, we take all necessary measures to safeguard your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable law.

We implement measures such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transferring personal information between our group companies and third-party providers. These clauses require recipients to protect personal information from the EEA in line with European data protection laws. We have also established similar safeguards with our third-party service providers and partners. Further details can be provided upon request.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our site, LynneCurry.com, features links to other websites. These external sites have their own privacy practices, and we advise you to review their policies before sharing personal information.

We cannot ensure the safety of any data you share with third-party providers who advertise on our site but are not affiliated with us.

Some advertisements on our site might lead you to websites, online services, or mobile applications that we do not control. We cannot guarantee the safety or privacy of the information you provide to these third parties. Any data collected by these entities is not governed by our privacy policy. We are not responsible for the content, privacy, or security practices of third-party websites, services, or applications linked to or from our site. Always review the privacy policies of these third parties and contact them directly if you have any concerns or questions.

Your Privacy Rights

In some regions, like the European Economic Area, you have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights give you greater control and access to your data. You can review, change, or delete your account whenever you wish.

These rights include:

• Access: You can request access to your personal information and obtain a copy.
• Rectification and Erasure: You can request corrections or deletions of your personal data.
• Restriction: You have the right to restrict how your information is processed.
• Data Portability: If applicable, you can request to transfer your data to another service.
• Objection: In certain situations, you can object to how your data is processed.

To exercise these rights, use the contact information provided on our site. We will respond to your requests in line with applicable data protection laws. If we process your data based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the legality of data processing before the withdrawal.

If you believe your data is being processed unlawfully and you live in the European Economic Area, you have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Data Security

We aim to protect your personal information with robust organizational and technical security measures. While we strive to safeguard your data, please remember that online transmissions are not 100% secure. We do our best to protect your information, but using our site is at your own risk. Ensure you access our services within a secure environment.

Data Retention Policy

We retain your information for the time needed to meet the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless a longer period is required by law. Your personal data is kept only as long as necessary to fulfill the stated purposes, unless legal requirements demand a longer retention period, such as for tax or accounting needs.

When your personal information is no longer needed for legitimate business purposes, we will either delete or anonymize it. If deletion or anonymization is not possible, such as when information is stored in backup archives, we will securely store and isolate it until deletion is feasible.

California Privacy Rights

California residents have specific rights regarding access to their personal information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, the "Shine The Light" law, allows our users in California to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, details about personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. This includes the types of information shared and the names and addresses of those third parties. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request, please write to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18, live in California, and have a registered account with our site, you can request the removal of unwanted data you posted publicly. To do this, contact us with the email associated with your account and a statement confirming you reside in California. We will ensure the data is not publicly displayed, but please note that complete removal from our systems may not be possible.

Minor Policy

We do not knowingly collect or market data from children under 18 years of age. By using the site, you confirm that you are at least 18 or have parental consent for minors. If we learn that personal information from users under 18 has been collected, we will deactivate the account and delete the data. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under 18, please contact us at contact@lynnecurry.com.

Update to This Policy

We will update this policy as needed to stay compliant with relevant laws.

Our privacy policy may change from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and will take effect as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this policy often to stay informed on how we protect your information.

Contact Us

For questions or comments about this policy, email us at contact@lynnecurry.com.