Effective Date: September 20, 2025
Welcome to Carmen Wausa! At Carmen Wausa, we treasure your privacy like we treasure our grandmother’s cast iron skillet – with care, respect, and the promise to never let it get rusty. This policy explains how we handle your personal information, keeping it as safe as cookies in a locked jar.
1. What We Gather from Our Kitchen Family
Personal Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a sweet comment, or reach out with questions, we collect basic details like your name and email – just enough to make you feel at home in our kitchen, never enough to peek through your windows.
How You Use Our Site: We automatically track things like your IP address, browser type, and which recipes make you linger longest – like noting which dishes get scraped clean at dinner parties, all to serve you better.
Cookies & Digital Breadcrumbs: We use cookies to enhance your visit, the same way vanilla enhances everything it touches. You can manage these through your browser settings, though turning them off might make our site feel a little less personalized.
Third-Party Kitchen Helpers: Services like Google Analytics help us understand our traffic patterns. They come with their own measuring cups (and cookies) – check their policies too.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To Perfect Our Recipe: Like testing and tweaking until every dish is just right, we use your info to improve our site and content
- Stay in Touch: We’ll send newsletters and updates you’ve signed up for (you can always unsubscribe – no hurt feelings, promise!)
- Understanding Our Audience: We study how you interact with our recipes like a chef studies which flavors work best together
- Personal Touches: We aim to suggest content as perfectly matched to your taste as a custom meal plan
3. When We Share (Sparingly, Like Good Spices)
Trusted Kitchen Partners: We may share with service providers who help keep our site running smoothly, all bound by strict confidentiality agreements.
Legal Requirements: Like following health department rules, we’ll disclose information if legally required.
With Your Permission: Only when you give us an enthusiastic “yes!” (we don’t assume consent like some people assume salt measurements).
Recipe Handoffs: If Carmen Wausa ever changes hands, your data may transfer to the new kitchen team.
4. Keeping Your Info Fresh & Protected
We guard your data like we guard our favorite family recipes – with multiple layers of security. However, remember that no online transmission is ever 100% secure (even the best recipes sometimes get shared beyond the family circle).
5. Your Choices in Our Kitchen
- Update Your Info: Contact us anytime to correct your details
- Opt-Out of Communications: Unsubscribe from emails with one simple click
- Cookie Preferences: Adjust these in your browser settings (though the site might not taste as good)
- Do Not Track Signals: We currently don’t respond to these browser signals
6. Links to Other Kitchens
Our site includes links to other websites and food blogs. We’re not responsible for their privacy practices – always check their ingredients list (privacy policy) before sharing your info, just like you’d read a recipe before cooking.
7. Our Littlest Food Lovers
Our content isn’t designed for children under 13. If we accidentally collect information from young visitors, we’ll delete it faster than you’d toss expired milk.
8. Recipe Revisions
We may update this policy from time to time, like tweaking a beloved recipe to make it even better. Changes will be posted here with a new effective date – check back occasionally, like you’d check on something simmering on the stove.
9. Questions? Let’s Chat!
Got concerns? Want to discuss the finer points of data handling? Need clarification on anything? Reach out to us:
Email: hello@carmenwausa.com
Website: carmenwausa.com
Thank you for trusting Carmen Wausa to be part of your culinary adventures – and for letting us be good stewards of your information!
With gratitude and a promise to keep your data as safe as our secret sauce recipe,
The Carmen Wausa Team 💕