Effective Date: August 12, 2026
CookVibe Collective (“CookVibe Collective,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, shared, stored, and protected when you visit or interact with https://cookvibecollective.com (the “Website”).
By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please discontinue your use of the Website.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide Voluntarily
We may collect information that you choose to provide when you contact us, submit a question or suggestion, propose a collaboration, send recipe-related material, or otherwise communicate with CookVibe Collective. This information may include:
- Your name and email address.
- The contents of your message or request.
- Links, photographs, files, or other material you voluntarily submit.
- Information concerning a collaboration, partnership, or business inquiry.
Please do not send sensitive personal information through the Website or by email unless it is necessary for your request.
Comments
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, the Website may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser information to assist with moderation, security, and spam detection.
An anonymized value created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. After a comment is approved, a corresponding profile image may be publicly visible beside the comment. Gravatar is operated by Automattic and is subject to its own privacy practices.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, our hosting, security, analytics, advertising, and technology providers may automatically collect technical or usage information such as:
- IP address and approximate geographic location.
- Browser type, operating system, device type, and screen characteristics.
- Pages viewed, links selected, referring pages, and time spent on the Website.
- Date and time of access and general interaction information.
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical identifiers.
- Security, diagnostic, performance, and error-log information.
How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website.
- Respond to questions, submissions, requests, or collaboration inquiries.
- Understand which recipes, categories, and pages are useful to visitors.
- Measure Website traffic, performance, and engagement.
- Detect spam, fraud, misuse, security incidents, and technical problems.
- Display and measure advertising where advertising is enabled.
- Track qualifying referrals made through affiliate links.
- Comply with applicable legal, regulatory, tax, or recordkeeping obligations.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers stored on or accessed through your browser or device. CookVibe Collective and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies for purposes that include:
- Necessary functions: operating the Website, providing security, remembering basic choices, and preventing fraud or abuse.
- Performance and analytics: measuring visits, page usage, traffic sources, and Website performance.
- Functionality: remembering visitor preferences and supporting embedded features.
- Advertising: displaying, limiting, personalizing, and measuring advertisements where advertising is enabled.
- Affiliate referrals: recording whether a visitor followed an affiliate link and completed a qualifying action.
You can configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Blocking certain cookies may prevent parts of the Website from operating correctly. Where required by applicable law, we will request appropriate consent before using nonessential cookies or similar technologies.
If a cookie banner or privacy-settings control is displayed, you may use it to accept, reject, or adjust the available categories. Changing your browser settings does not necessarily remove information already collected.
Google Analytics
CookVibe Collective may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Website. Google Analytics may collect information such as the number of visitors, session statistics, approximate geographic location, browser and device information, viewed pages, and interactions.
Google Analytics may use a first-party cookie named _ga containing a client identifier that helps distinguish visitors and sessions. Depending on our configuration, consent settings, and available features, additional cookies or identifiers may be used.
You can learn about Google’s data practices by visiting How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You may also use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on where available.
Google AdSense and Other Advertising
CookVibe Collective may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense and other third-party advertising vendors or networks.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve and measure advertisements on the Website.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s prior visits to this Website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this Website and other websites on the Internet.
- Other third-party vendors or advertising networks may also use cookies or similar technologies when serving advertisements.
You may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. You may also learn about choices involving certain participating advertising companies through YourAdChoices.
For additional information, review Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s advertising technologies information.
Where required, visitors may be presented with choices concerning personalized advertisements, non-personalized advertisements, advertising cookies, and related data processing through a consent management platform.
Affiliate Links
Some CookVibe Collective content may contain affiliate links. When you select an affiliate link, the destination website or affiliate network may use cookies or similar identifiers to record the referral. CookVibe Collective may receive a commission if you complete a qualifying purchase or action, at no additional cost to you.
Third-party merchants and affiliate networks control their own websites and privacy practices. Review their privacy policies before providing personal or payment information. CookVibe Collective does not ordinarily receive your complete payment-card information when you purchase directly from a third-party merchant.
Embedded Content and External Websites
Pages or posts may include embedded videos, images, social-media content, recipe tools, or other material from external websites. Embedded content can behave as though you visited the external website directly. Those providers may collect information, use cookies, add tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded material.
CookVibe Collective may also link to external websites. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third parties. Review the applicable third-party policy before interacting with an external service.
How We Share Information
We may disclose information in the following circumstances:
- Service providers: Hosting, security, maintenance, analytics, email, form-processing, spam-prevention, advertising, and other providers that help operate the Website.
- Advertising and analytics providers: Third parties that measure Website activity, deliver advertisements, prevent fraud, or report advertising performance.
- Legal and safety purposes: When reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, enforce our policies, protect rights or safety, or investigate misuse.
- Business changes: In connection with a merger, sale, transfer, financing, reorganization, or similar transaction involving the Website or its assets.
- With your direction or consent: When you request, authorize, or consent to a particular disclosure.
We do not sell personal information for money. However, certain advertising or analytics activities may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some privacy laws. Where applicable, you may exercise available opt-out rights through displayed privacy controls, third-party advertising settings, or by contacting us.
Legal Bases for Processing
Where laws require a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on:
- Your consent, which you may withdraw where applicable.
- Our legitimate interests in operating, securing, analyzing, and improving the Website.
- Taking steps at your request, such as responding to an inquiry or proposed collaboration.
- Compliance with legal obligations and protection of legal rights.
Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including providing requested communications, maintaining security, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and satisfying legal or recordkeeping requirements.
Approved comments and related metadata may be retained while the comment remains published. Communications may be retained as needed to address the request and maintain appropriate records. Analytics, advertising, cookie, security, and server-log information may be retained according to the settings and retention practices of the applicable provider.
Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have rights to:
- Request access to personal information associated with you.
- Request correction or deletion of certain information.
- Request restriction of or object to certain processing.
- Receive certain information in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
- Opt out of certain personalized advertising, targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities where applicable.
- Appeal certain decisions or lodge a complaint with an appropriate privacy regulator where applicable.
To submit a privacy-related request, use the contact information provided on our Contact Us page and clearly describe your request. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children’s Privacy
CookVibe Collective is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate permission, please contact us so we can review and, where appropriate, delete it.
International Visitors
CookVibe Collective is operated from the United States. If you visit from another country, information may be processed or stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. Privacy protections in those locations may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Website, technology, advertising services, legal requirements, or our practices. The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new effective date. We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to submit a privacy request, please contact CookVibe Collective using the information provided on our Contact Us page.