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#insecuriti kitchen

Privacy Policy

Version: IK-PRIVACY-2026-09-19-01 · Effective: September 19, 2026

#insecuriti kitchen is an Ontario sole proprietorship operating in Canada. We conduct business publicly as #insecuriti kitchen and may use a pen name for creative work. This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store and protect personal information when you use our website, My Kitchen or related services.

Private by design does not mean “just trust us.” It means collecting less, using it for stated purposes and giving you meaningful choices.

1. Information we collect

Depending on how you use the site and My Kitchen, we may collect:

• Account information, including your account or customer ID, name, email address and the provider-specific identifier supplied when you sign in with Amazon, Google or Microsoft. We do not receive or store the password you use with your sign-in provider. We do not offer Facebook sign-in.
• What belongs to you, including purchases, claimed access, digital editions, licences, permitted transfers, favourites, language and privacy preferences, and the recipes or tools available to your account.
• Private cooking notes, including what you changed, what worked and what you would make again.
• Messages and update requests, including the email address, message and consent record you choose to provide when you contact us or request cookbook or product updates.
• Order and transaction information, when sales are enabled, including products ordered, order number, price, tax, currency, country, fulfilment details and payment status. Payment providers process payment-card details; we do not store complete card numbers.
• Legal acceptance records, when an acceptance is required, including the policy or terms version and hash, UTC acceptance time, connected account and email, acceptance source and method, site and order number if applicable.
• Limited technical and security information, including session cookies, timestamps, request or security logs, device or browser information and Internet Protocol addresses when reasonably needed to deliver or protect the service. Our commerce records do not store raw IP addresses or browser fingerprints.

2. Why we use it

We use personal information to create and protect accounts; authenticate you; show purchases, claims, licences, recipes, notes and preferences; process permitted transfers; respond to questions; send requested updates; process and document purchases; prevent misuse; meet legal, tax and accounting obligations; and improve what we make using limited, privacy-conscious information.

We limit collection, use and disclosure to identified purposes a reasonable person would consider appropriate. If we want to use personal information for a materially different purpose, we will explain that purpose and ask for consent where required.

3. Your choices inside My Kitchen

You can review and change optional privacy and communication choices under My Profile → Privacy. Cloudflare D1 holds the current account choice and its consent history, including cookbook edition updates. When you grant or withdraw email consent, the change is propagated to HubSpot as our communication provider; HubSpot does not decide what you consented to.

Joining the cookbook waitlist requests updates about this cookbook launch, including pre-orders and the ready edition. That choice appears separately under My Kitchen privacy settings, where you can turn it off or on. Broader marketing email and product-insights choices are separate, optional and never required to create an account or use something you own.

Deliberately submitted product feedback enters reporting only when the applicable product-insights choice is enabled. Reports use de-identified, combined information, and the current system suppresses a metric until at least ten customers have contributed to the group.

You may withdraw an optional consent at any time. If consent is necessary to provide a requested feature, withdrawing it may mean that feature can no longer be provided. Withdrawal does not undo processing already completed or records we must retain for legal, accounting, security or dispute purposes.

4. Service providers and disclosures

We use service providers only as reasonably needed to operate the service. Depending on the features available, these may include:

• Cloudflare for application delivery, security, protected content, Workers and database hosting;
• our WordPress and hosting providers for the public website;
• Amazon, Google and Microsoft for sign-in;
• HubSpot for approved contact, support and communication workflows;
• email-delivery providers; and
• WooCommerce and PayPal when commerce is enabled.

Providers receive only the information reasonably needed for their role. We may also disclose information when required or permitted by law, or when reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety and security.

We do not sell or rent personal information.

5. Storage and processing outside Canada

Some service providers process or store information outside Canada, including in the United States and Europe. Information in another country may be subject to that country’s laws and lawful-access processes.

Our dedicated Cloudflare D1 legal database uses a European Union jurisdiction restriction. That restriction applies to where the database runs and persists; it does not mean every Cloudflare service or website request is processed only in the European Union. We remain responsible for information transferred to service providers for processing and use contractual, technical and organizational measures appropriate to the circumstances.

6. Retention and deletion

We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain required business and consent records, meet legal obligations, protect the platform, resolve disputes and respond to privacy requests.

If you permanently delete your My Kitchen account, the deletion process removes the account’s licences, favourites, privacy choices and private journal entries; unlinks activity records from the account; removes the connected customer-service record where configured; and removes the local WordPress account. De-identified information and limited financial, legal, security or suppression records may remain where required or permitted.

When information is no longer required, we delete, anonymize or securely dispose of it. Backup and recovery copies may remain for a limited period before rotating out.

7. Safeguards

We use safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including encrypted connections, access controls, least-privilege service bindings, credential and secret management, monitoring, recovery controls and limits on which systems receive private or legal-acceptance information.

No online service can promise absolute security. If a privacy breach creates a real risk of significant harm, we will investigate, notify affected people and regulators as required, take corrective action and keep the records required by law.

8. Cookies that keep things working

We use required cookies and similar browser storage only to the extent needed to provide the services you request—for example, signing you in, protecting your account, maintaining your session, remembering essential preferences, operating a cart or checkout, and keeping My Kitchen working. Required storage stays active because those services cannot work without it.

Our privacy banner lets you reject optional cookies or accept the required-only setting. There are currently no optional advertising or behavioural-tracking cookies to accept. You can reopen Privacy choices from the bottom of any page.

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles, place third-party behavioural advertising or follow you around the internet.

We’re not like those other guys. Dinner does not need a tracking strategy.

9. Emails you asked for

We send cookbook, product and account-related emails according to the choices you make. You can change which types of optional emails you receive at any time under My Profile → Privacy.

Commercial messages include the identification and unsubscribe information required by Canadian law. Changing your optional email choices does not affect access to products you own.

We may still send essential service messages about your account, a purchase or claim, security, a privacy request or a material change to a service you use. Those are operational messages, not marketing.

10. Access, correction and complaints

You may ask whether we hold personal information about you, request access to it, ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information, withdraw an optional consent or request account deletion, subject to lawful exceptions. We may need to verify your identity first.

If an immutable legal-acceptance entry cannot appropriately be altered, we may preserve the original record and append a linked correction or explanation instead.

You may also raise a privacy concern or complaint. If we do not resolve it, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy prospectively as our services, providers or legal obligations change. Material versions receive a new identifier, exact text or a verifiable canonical copy and hash, and additional notice or renewed consent where required.

#insecuriti kitchen

Customer Terms & Content Licence

Version: IK-TERMS-2026-09-19-01 · Effective: September 19, 2026

We make food, recipes, tools and other things we think are useful. We hope you enjoy them. We also need some rules because apparently “please don’t be weird about it” is not, by itself, a complete legal agreement.

1. The agreement

These Terms form an agreement between you and #insecuriti kitchen, an Ontario sole proprietorship operating in Canada (“#insecuriti kitchen”, “we”, “us” or “our”). We conduct business publicly as #insecuriti kitchen and may use a pen name for creative work.

When we ask you to accept these Terms, clicking or selecting “I agree” means you agree to them. The same applies when you complete a purchase, claim access or accept transferred access after being shown these Terms. If you do not agree, do not complete that action.

The version you accept is recorded with the applicable account, claim, transfer or order. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle the personal information connected with those records.

2. What you receive

Your order or offer—including the product or edition, price, taxes, delivery terms and any return or refund terms shown with it—forms part of this agreement.

We sell things once. We do not sell subscriptions. A paid digital edition is a one-time purchase that gives you a personal, non-exclusive licence to use that edition for your own non-commercial purposes, including ordinary household use. You are buying lasting access to the edition, not our copyright.

The digital edition may be purchased on its own. When you buy a qualifying printed book, its matching digital edition is included automatically and does not require a second digital purchase. You may need to claim the code printed in or supplied with the book through My Kitchen before that access appears in your account.

Print and digital are two ways to use the same edition. You can cook from the book on the counter, from the screen or from whichever format makes more sense that Tuesday.

Every My Kitchen account starts with the available free sample. The sample is not a purchase and may be corrected, expanded, replaced or retired as the sample changes. Buying or claiming something adds it to the same account.

A purchase covers the product or edition identified when you buy it. We may correct errors, safety information, broken links or formatting in that edition. A genuinely new book, edition, expansion or product may be offered separately.

If we want more of your money, we will have to make something else worth buying.

3. Don’t be weird with it

Your licence permits normal personal and household use. That includes reading, cooking, making your own notes and using printing or download features we make available for that purpose.

Unless we give written permission, you may not:

• republish, sell, sublicense or commercially distribute paid content;
• share an individual account or paid downloads outside the people the offer permits;
• sell or transfer standalone digital access except through a transfer we expressly support;
• scrape, systematically copy or bulk-download content;
• bypass access controls or use a redemption code, invitation or entitlement that does not belong to you;
• remove copyright or ownership notices;
• reproduce substantial portions to create a competing library, product or service; or
• use substantial amounts of our content to train or develop an artificial-intelligence model.

Our rights apply only to material that can legally be protected. We are not claiming ownership of facts, ideas, cooking techniques, your own adaptations or anything else the law says we do not own. These Terms also do not remove rights the law gives you, including fair dealing and other lawful uses.

4. Accounts, claims and transfers

My Kitchen keeps your free sample, purchases, claimed editions, private notes and kitchen tools together. It uses the sign-in providers we make available, currently Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Those providers have their own terms. We do not receive or store the password you use with them.

Use one account consistently, provide reasonably accurate information and keep access to your sign-in provider secure. An individual account should not be shared with the neighbourhood. Ordinary household use of the content is still allowed.

We may suspend or restrict an account when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, protect the service, comply with law or address a material breach of these Terms. We will act proportionately and restore access when the reason for the restriction has been resolved. We will not turn a one-time purchase into a subscription because your account needed support.

Book-linked digital access

You may give away or resell a physical book. Eligible digital access included with that book may move with it through the transfer controls in My Kitchen. The recipient must accept the invitation using the invited email address. You keep the book-linked digital access until the recipient accepts; once accepted, that access moves to the recipient and ends on your account.

A transfer moves only the access supplied by that particular book licence. It does not remove another edition or benefit you independently purchased, claimed or received. Your private notes, favourites, history and other personal account information do not transfer with the book.

Transfer limits, identity confirmation and support-review requirements shown in My Kitchen form part of the transfer process. They exist to let a book change hands without turning one copy into unlimited digital accounts. Do not sell a redemption code separately from the book it belongs to or represent a claimed or invalid code as unused.

Unless a particular offer says otherwise, standalone digital purchases, free samples and account-level benefits are not transferable.

Permanently deleting your My Kitchen account removes its account-linked access and private notes. We will warn you before the final deletion. Transfer any eligible book-linked access first, or contact us if you need help understanding what deletion will remove.

5. Food is unfortunately real

Recipes, meal ideas, cooking instructions, substitutions, timing, storage guidance, allergen information and similar material are general information. Ingredients, product formulations, appliances, kitchens, cooking times and humans vary.

You are responsible for checking current product labels and ingredients, managing allergies and dietary needs, preventing cross-contamination, following appropriate food-safety practices and deciding whether a food or recipe is appropriate for you or anyone you serve. A substitution can change allergens, nutrition, cooking time and food-safety requirements.

Our food-related content is not medical, nutritional or other professional advice. If you need advice for an allergy, medical condition or specialized diet, consult an appropriately qualified professional.

6. Our stuff—and yours

Copyright and other intellectual-property rights in our original writing, photography, illustrations, design, software, databases and other protectable material remain with #insecuriti kitchen or the applicable rights holder.

Your private cooking notes and original material remain yours. Private notes stay private as described in our Privacy Policy. If you deliberately submit feedback or a suggestion to us, you give us permission to use that submission to understand the service and improve what we make. That permission is non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty-free, but it does not turn your private notes into feedback or give us ownership of them.

You retain every right the law gives you regardless of these Terms.

7. Things sometimes go wrong

We try to keep our website, My Kitchen, downloads, recipes and tools accurate, secure and available. We cannot promise everything will always be error-free, uninterrupted or perfectly suited to whatever ambitious thing you have decided to cook on a Tuesday night.

Maintenance, security work, provider outages and changes to browsers or devices may occasionally interrupt access. Features around a purchased edition may change as the platform improves, but we will not impose a recurring fee merely to keep using an edition you bought.

If we permanently discontinue delivery of a paid digital edition, we will make reasonable efforts to provide a practical way to retain or continue using that edition—such as a downloadable or printable copy—where doing so is lawful and technically possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, #insecuriti kitchen is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses arising from use of our website or digital content. For a claim arising from a particular paid digital product or service, our total liability will not exceed the amount paid for it. These limitations do not apply where the law does not permit us to exclude or limit liability.

8. Prices, delivery, refunds and consumer rights

The complete price, applicable taxes, delivery charges and other required order details will be shown before you complete a purchase. There is no recurring subscription charge.

Any delivery, return, refund or cancellation policy shown with a purchase forms part of these Terms. Rules may differ for physical books and digital content, and the terms shown with the particular offer will explain what applies.

Nothing here limits any refund, cancellation, warranty or other consumer right available under applicable law. If our stated policy gives you more generous rights than the law requires, our policy applies.

9. Changes

We may update these Terms prospectively as the service, products or law change. Material versions receive a new identifier and an exact or verifiable canonical copy. If a material change affects existing paid access or a licence you already hold, we will provide reasonable notice and obtain additional agreement where required.

Corrections or feature improvements do not convert a purchased edition into a new subscription or take away the use already promised. The version accepted for a purchase, claim or transfer remains part of the record for that action.

10. Ontario and Canadian law

These Terms are governed by Ontario law and applicable federal Canadian law. Nothing here removes a mandatory right or protection available under the laws that apply where you live.

11. The boring last bit

If part of these Terms is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

These Terms, the terms shown for a particular purchase, claim or transfer, and any policy expressly incorporated into them form the agreement for that purchase, claim, transfer or service. A delay in enforcing part of the agreement is not a permanent waiver of it.