Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 28, 2026.

At Strawberry Cream Kitchen, accessible from https://strawberrycreamkitchen.ca, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit or interact with our website, how that information may be used, and the choices you have regarding your information.

Who we are

Strawberry Cream Kitchen is a food website featuring recipes, cooking information, and related content.

Our website address is: https://strawberrycreamkitchen.ca/

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, you can contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, as well as certain information that is automatically collected when you visit our website.

Information You Provide Directly

You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:

  • Leave a comment on a recipe or article
  • Submit information through a contact form
  • Subscribe to our email newsletter
  • Leave a rating on a recipe
  • Otherwise communicate with us through the website

Depending on how you interact with the website, this information may include your name, email address, website address, message, or other information you choose to provide.

You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse Strawberry Cream Kitchen.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising services, and other third-party services.

This may include information such as:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Device type
  • General geographic information
  • Referring website or URL
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of your visit
  • Information about how you interact with the website
  • Search terms or links that brought you to the website
  • Other technical or usage information

This information is generally used to operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve the website and, once advertising is enabled, to provide and measure advertising.

Comments and Spam Protection

If you leave a comment on Strawberry Cream Kitchen, we collect the information you enter into the comment form, including your name, email address, website address (if provided), and the content of your comment.

We may also collect your IP address and browser user-agent information for spam detection and security purposes.

Comments may be processed through Akismet, an anti-spam service operated by Automattic. Akismet may process information associated with comments, which can include the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, site URL, and information provided with the comment.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service is operated by Automattic. If your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly in connection with your comment.

You can learn more about how Automattic handles information in its privacy documentation.

Recipe Ratings

Our recipe cards are powered by WP Recipe Maker. If you choose to rate a recipe using the rating feature, information associated with your rating may be stored by our website to help operate the rating feature and prevent fraudulent or abusive ratings.

You are not required to provide a rating in order to view or use our recipes.

Contact Forms

If you contact us through a form on our website, we may collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and message.

We use this information solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry, communicating with you, and addressing your request.

Our website uses WPForms to provide certain forms. Information submitted through a form may be stored on our website and/or transmitted to us by email.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our contact forms.

Email Newsletter

If you choose to subscribe to the Strawberry Cream Kitchen email newsletter, we collect the information necessary to send you the newsletter, such as your email address and, if requested by the signup form, your name.

Our email newsletter is managed through Mailchimp, an email marketing service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC, part of Intuit.

Your information is transferred to Mailchimp and stored there so that we can manage subscribers and send newsletters and related communications.

Mailchimp may use tracking technologies such as pixels or web beacons in emails to provide information about email opens and link clicks and to help us understand newsletter performance.

You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

For more information about how Mailchimp handles personal information and tracking technologies, please see: https://mailchimp.com/legal/

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use Strawberry Cream Kitchen and to improve the website and its content.

Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, device information, browser information, approximate location, pages visited, how long you spend on pages, and interactions with the website.

We access this information primarily in aggregated or statistical form to understand website traffic, content performance, and visitor behavior.

Google Analytics is provided by Google LLC and/or its affiliates. Google’s collection and use of information is governed by Google’s applicable privacy policies.

Our Google Analytics implementation is managed through Google Site Kit for WordPress.

Jetpack

We use Jetpack, a service provided by Automattic, for website functionality, security, performance, and statistics.

When Jetpack Stats is enabled, information about visits to our website may be collected, including IP address, browser user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp, browser language, and country code. Jetpack may also track page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, and search engine terms.

According to Jetpack’s current documentation, visitor statistics logs containing IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames, when available, are retained by Automattic for 28 days for the purpose of operating Jetpack Stats.

For more information, see: https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Strawberry Cream Kitchen uses cookies and similar technologies for necessary website functions, security, analytics, recipe functionality, advertising, and other purposes.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website.

Cookies may be used to:

  • Enable essential website functions
  • Remember certain preferences
  • Help protect the website from spam and abuse
  • Measure website traffic and performance
  • Understand how visitors interact with our content
  • Support recipe rating functionality
  • Deliver, measure, and personalize advertising where applicable

Some cookies are placed by Strawberry Cream Kitchen, while others may be placed by third-party services we use, such as Google, Jetpack, Mailchimp, and advertising partners.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some portions of the website.

Advertising

This website participates in the Journey by Mediavine advertising program.

Journey and its advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about visitors and their interactions with advertisements. This information may be used to provide, personalize, measure, and optimize advertising.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on Strawberry Cream Kitchen may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, social media content, or other external content.

Embedded content from other websites may behave in the same way as if you had visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

The privacy practices of those third-party websites are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website you interact with.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites. Once you leave Strawberry Cream Kitchen, the privacy policy of the website you visit will apply.

How We Use Information

Information collected through Strawberry Cream Kitchen may be used to:

  • Operate and maintain the website
  • Respond to questions and messages
  • Publish and manage comments
  • Prevent spam and abuse
  • Send newsletters to subscribers who have opted in
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Improve recipes, articles, and website functionality
  • Monitor website performance
  • Maintain website security
  • Deliver and measure advertising
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Protect our rights and the security of our website and visitors

We do not sell your email address to third parties.

Who We Share Information With

Depending on how you interact with our website, information may be processed by third-party service providers that help us operate Strawberry Cream Kitchen.

These may include:

  • Automattic/Akismet for comment spam protection
  • Jetpack/Automattic for website statistics and related functionality
  • Google for analytics
  • Mailchimp/Intuit for email newsletter management
  • Mediavine and its advertising partners for advertising and related measurement
  • Our website hosting and technical service providers
  • Other service providers where necessary to operate, secure, maintain, or improve the website

These third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.

We may also disclose information where required by law, legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, or security of Strawberry Cream Kitchen, our visitors, or others.

How Long We Retain Your Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Comments and their associated information may be retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and moderate follow-up comments.

Information submitted through contact forms may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to and maintain records of communications.

Newsletter subscriber information is retained by Mailchimp for as long as you remain subscribed or as otherwise necessary for our legitimate business purposes and legal obligations.

Information collected by third-party services such as Google, Jetpack, Mailchimp, and Mediavine is retained according to their respective policies and practices.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable privacy laws, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

  • Request information about the personal information we hold about you
  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of personal information, where applicable
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Opt out of marketing communications
  • Ask questions about how your information is collected, used, or disclosed
  • Make a complaint regarding our handling of your personal information

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the information provided below.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

Some information may be retained where we are required or permitted to do so for legal, administrative, security, or legitimate business purposes.

Privacy Rights for Canadian Visitors

Strawberry Cream Kitchen is operated from Canada. We aim to handle personal information in accordance with applicable Canadian privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) where applicable.

PIPEDA includes principles relating to meaningful consent, limiting collection and use, safeguards, openness, individual access, and the ability to challenge an organization’s privacy practices.

If you have a question, concern, or request regarding your personal information, please contact us using the information below.

Where Your Information May Be Processed

Because we use third-party service providers, your information may be stored or processed in Canada, the United States, or other jurisdictions where those service providers operate.

When information is transferred outside Canada, it may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is processed.

Our third-party service providers have their own privacy and data-protection practices governing how they handle information.

Children’s Privacy

Strawberry Cream Kitchen is not directed specifically toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through our website, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.

Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information handled through Strawberry Cream Kitchen.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, third-party providers, advertising partners, or applicable privacy requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, would like to request access to or correction of your personal information, or have a privacy-related concern, please contact us:

Strawberry Cream Kitchen
Email: [email protected]