This privacy policy sets out how Fearless Dining LLC uses and protects any information you provide while using the www.fearlessdining.com website. Please also review my Terms, Conditions, User Agreement, and Copyright Policies. This policy also describes our practices for digital cookbook purchases and the Fearless Dining online community hosted by Raptive, including access through its app (the “Community”). Raptive’s own privacy policies separately apply to its platform.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Fearless Dining and Sandi Gaertner reserve the right to change this policy at any time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from September 1, 2013, to the present and was last updated on 10/26/26.
AI Scraping Policy
Content on this site may not be used for training machine learning models, including but not limited to large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc., without written permission from me.
Personal Information Collected
You are welcome to browse this Website without submitting your name or email address, but technical information may still be collected automatically as described below. However, if you choose to contact us, leave a comment on a post, subscribe to our newsletter, opt-in to receive a download, or make a purchase, we will collect “Personal Information”, including your name, email address, and IP address.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service.
Personal Information we collect may be used as follows:
- To improve the user experience of our Website.
- To execute a giveaway, contest, survey, or other site feature.
- To promote our content on social media or other places on the Internet.
- To deliver digital purchases, manage email subscriptions, respond to requests, moderate the Community, maintain security, and comply with legal obligations
Blog Comments
If you leave a comment on my blog about a recipe you made or an article you read, you automatically give Company permission to use your review, first name, and last initial for my testimonials page and/or as a quote in that recipe blog post.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
If a data breach affects your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.
You may ask us to delete your personal information by contacting admin@fearlessdining.com. We will delete the data we control, except where we must keep it for legal, tax, or security reasons. We will address applicable requests concerning information held by service providers acting for us. Vendors may also keep records for their own purposes under their own policies; requests about those independent uses may need to be directed to the vendor.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information for statistical analysis, and we keep it only for the retention period described in the Google Analytics section below.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. Cookies do not give us access to your computer or to files on your device.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline them if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from fully enjoying the website.
We may use cookies when serving you with interest-based advertising. Please see the section on Advertising, below, for more information.
Google Analytics
Fearless Dining uses Google Analytics to collect traffic data and to understand how visitors use our website. All websites that collect traffic data, which is more than 1/2 of all websites on the Internet, have the ability to monitor visitor information such as IP addresses, browser type, operating system, location, date/time of visit, and information about which areas of the site are visited. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, the type of device and browser you use, and your approximate location. Google Analytics does not log or store individual IP addresses. It uses your IP address to determine your approximate location, then discards it before storing the data. We use the resulting reports to improve the site for our audience as a whole, and we do not use Google Analytics to identify you personally.
Reports may be aggregated, but online identifiers and usage information may qualify as personal information under applicable law. It is used solely for improving the user experience of our audience as a whole.
Data collected through Google Analytics is kept for 14 months. The 14-month period restarts for a browser or device whenever it generates new activity on the site, and the data is deleted automatically when the period ends. We may keep aggregated reports longer, but they do not identify individual visitors. Google’s use of the information is governed by its privacy policy, available at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or by blocking cookies in your browser settings.
Information Collected Via Submissions
When you leave comments, fill out submission forms, or email us, you have the option of providing your name, blog or website URL, or other information. This Personal Information may become a permanent part of the Website when you provide it with a comment and can be seen by other visitors to the site. The email address field supplied when leaving a comment will not be publicly displayed.
Vendors and Service Providers
We use the following third-party vendors to operate this website, and each one may receive or collect personal information as described below.
Flodesk provides our email marketing service. It receives your name and email address when you subscribe, along with information about whether you open and click our emails.
E-Junkie processes orders and delivers our e-cookbooks. It receives your name, email address, and order details when you make a purchase. E-Junkie processes payments for purchases via PayPal. Payment processors collect and handle your payment card or account details directly. We do not receive or store your full card number.
Google Analytics provides website traffic analytics, as described in the Google Analytics section of this policy.
Raptive places advertising on this site and collects and uses data for advertising purposes, as described in the Advertising section of this policy. Google AdSense and Amazon.com may also place advertising on the site and collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
Raptive also hosts the Community, including access through its app. Raptive collects and uses account and activity information under its own privacy policies. Information you post may be visible to other members depending on the platform features and your settings. Do not post information you wish to keep private.
Amazon operates the affiliate program we use. When you click an Amazon link on this site, Amazon may set cookies and collect information under its own privacy policy.
Wpopt hosts this website and may process technical information such as IP addresses in order to deliver the site.
Each vendor uses the information under its own privacy policy, and we encourage you to review those policies. We do not sell your email address or rent it to anyone.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep email subscriber information until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. We keep purchase records for as long as we need them for tax, accounting, and legal purposes. We keep Google Analytics data for 14 months. We keep comments until they are deleted. Our advertising and payment vendors keep information under their own retention practices.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection ACT
We comply with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under 13 years of age. The content of this Website is directed at adults, not children. Please contact us immediately if you find a child under 13 using this Website.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We aim to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us. You can control certain disclosure of information in the following ways.
Do Not Voluntarily Disclose Your Information
If you do not want to voluntarily disclose your personal information, you may elect not to disclose your information to us.
Tracking Technologies
You may adjust your browser settings to refuse all or some cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
Display Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Affiliate Advertising
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Mora Interests, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
You may refuse these cookies by adjusting your browser settings.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. Our email service provider processes this interaction information to help deliver and analyze our newsletters.
You may opt-out of future newsletters at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button.
Residency-based Choices
Residents of or those domiciled in certain locations may have additional rights and choices related to their personal information. Please see the section below.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Certain consumer privacy and data protection laws may provide residents of or those domiciled in certain jurisdictions with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. The following sections describe rights that apply to residents of the particular jurisdiction when the relevant law applies to our processing. Rights may be subject to legal exceptions.
European Union and United Kingdom
If you are domiciled within the European Union or United Kingdom, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) or UK GDPR. Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect and how it is used. Under these laws, we are a data controller and must provide you with certain information regarding the data we collect, our legal bases for doing so, and your rights related to your data.
Our legal bases for collecting your personal data:
- Consent – We may process information if you have provided us with your consent. This includes all voluntarily captured personal information or any information for which you have given us consent.
- Performance of a contract – We may process your information to perform a contract.
- Legitimate Interest – We have a legitimate interest in capturing information related to marketing activities and fraud prevention. Additionally, we capture information regarding your interactions with the Website to ensure that our Website is operating properly and to allow us to make improvements. We may also keep information regarding your interactions with the Website as a form of recordkeeping. We do not process your personal information on this basis if it is outweighed by the impact such processing may have on you.
- Legal Requirement – We may process your personal information if it is necessary for a legal obligation, such as security.
- Vital Interest – We do not process your personal information on this basis.
- Public Interest – We do not process your personal information on this basis.
Where We Hold Your Data: Generally, your personal information may be held in our offices (including our affiliates or parent companies), third-party companies, data processors, or service providers.
You also have the following rights:
- Right to Be Informed – You may be informed as to how we use your personal information. This notice includes much information about this, but you may also inquire with us.
- Right to Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request.
- Right to Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also contact us at the email below to be removed from our mailing list.
- Right to Amend/Rectify – You may contact us to amend or update your personal information.
- Right to Erase or Be Forgotten – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data.
- Right to Restrict Processing – Similar to the right to erase, you may request that we restrict processing of your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability – You have the right to port your personal data, when applicable.
- Right to Object – In some situations, you may have the right to object to how your personal data is being processed by filing a complaint.
- Rights related to Automatic Decision Making and Profiling – You may have the right to not be subject to automatic decision making and profiling.
You may exercise any of these rights by emailing admin@fearlessdining.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law. Unless you exercise such rights, we reserve the right to retain your data.
California Privacy Rights
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), California residents have additional rights related to their data when these laws apply to our processing. This Privacy Policy has previously disclosed how we collect information, but California requires that we disclose additional information regarding our data collection practices.
Information Collection and Sharing
The Website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”). The Website has collected the following categories of Personal Information from you, which are detailed below.
We may share your Personal Information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose. We only make these disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the Personal Information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose other than performing the contract. We have disclosed the information listed in the categories below for a business purpose.
As defined under the statute and as described below, disclosures for interest-based advertising may constitute a sale of Personal Information or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, even if we do not receive money for the information. You may opt out of both sale and sharing as described below.
In the preceding 12 months, we have completed the activities listed below in the categories covered by CCPA and CPRA.
Identifiers:
This category includes your: real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
The Website collects the following information in this category, including name, address (for certain purchases), IP address, and email address. This information has been used in the last 12 months for a business purpose to fulfill requests for subscriptions to newsletters, purchases of digital cookbooks, and participation in our Community. Information related to your IP address has been sold or shared in the past 12 months as part of interest-based advertising.
Personal Information as Described in California Customer Records Statute (CA Code 1798.80):
This includes your: name, signature, social security number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
The Website may collect your name if you voluntarily enter it for the purpose of subscribing to our content. If you voluntarily enter this information, it has been shared for a business purpose within the past twelve months to fulfill subscriptions, purchases, and our community. This information has not been sold or shared in the past twelve months.
Protected Classification Characteristics (under California or federal law).
This includes: Age (over age 40), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental health disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or genetic information.
The Website does not collect information in this category, unless it is voluntarily disclosed by you, such as in a contribution to our Community or in a contact form. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared for a business purpose.
Commercial Information:
This includes records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
The Website does collect information in this category if you make a purchase. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared, but if you made a purchase, it has been shared for a business purpose.
Biometric Information:
This includes: an individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including an individual’s DNA, that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity.
The Website does not collect information in this category. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared for a business purpose.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information:
This includes, but is not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with the Website, application, or advertisement.
The Website does collect information in this category, including your browsing history and interactions with the Website. In the past twelve months, this information has been used for administrative purposes to improve the Website’s performance and allow us to better understand the use of the site. In the past twelve months, this information has been sold or shared for the purpose of serving you with interest-based advertisements.
Geolocation Data:
This includes your physical location or movements.
The Website does collect information regarding your physical location. In the past twelve months, we have used your physical location for administrative purposes, such as determining the location of our audience.
Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Other Similar Information:
The Website does not collect information in this category. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared for a business purpose.
Professional or Employment-related information:
This may include your current or past employment history or other information related thereto.
The Website does not collect information in this category. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared for a business purpose.
Education Information:
This is defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which includes: records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, schedule, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
The Website does not collect information in this category. In the past twelve months, information in this category has not been sold or shared for a business purpose.
Inferences Drawn from Personal Information:
This includes inferences drawn from the Personal Information collected by the Website to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
The Website does collect information in this category for the purpose of serving interest-based advertisements. Information in this category is not used for a business purpose and is sold or shared for advertising purposes.
Use of Your Personal Information under CCPA and CPRA
All uses of your Personal Information are provided within this Privacy Policy and are incorporated into your rights under CCPA and CPRA.
CCPA and CPRA provide California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
- Right to Access – You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect and how it has been used over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following: the categories of your personal information we collected; the categories of your personal information we sold; the categories of any third parties to whom we have sold your personal information; a list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party; and the categories of your personal information we disclose for business purposes.
- Right to Deletion – You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.
Please note that this right does not apply when we need to retain your personal information to do the following: a) complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you; b) detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities; c) debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; d) xercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law; e) omply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.); f) engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent; g) enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us, and h) comply with a legal obligation.
Right to Non-Discrimination – You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under CCPA. In particular, we may not: deny you goods or services; charge you different prices for goods or services, whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties; provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or threaten you with any of the above.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information
If you would like to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, visit the link at the bottom of this page that states Do Not Sell or Share My Information. This link also allows you to submit an opt-out request as permitted by applicable law.
How to submit a verifiable consumer request
To exercise these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending an email to admin@fearlessdining.com.
Please note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.
You may only make a request under these rights twice in a twelve-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must: a) provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information (or that it is an authorized representative acting on your behalf) and b) describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please email admin@fearlessdining.com.
We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12 months preceding receipt of your request.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Other State Rights
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia each provide their state residents with the following rights. Louisiana and Oklahoma will provide substantially similar rights beginning January 27, 2027, and Alaska and Vermont beginning on July 1, 2027.
- Confirm whether we process their personal information.
- Access and delete certain personal information.
- Obtain a portable copy of personal information.
- Opt out of the processing of personal information for targeted advertising, sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, except where applicable law does not provide that right.
- Correct inaccuracies in personal information, taking into account the nature of the information and the purpose of processing, except where applicable law does not provide that right.
- Limit or require consent for the processing of sensitive personal information, where applicable law requires it.
- Appeal our decision if we decline to take action on a request, where required by applicable law.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. Because we engage in interest-based advertising, some disclosures of personal information to advertising partners may be a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable privacy laws. To opt out, use the “Your Privacy Choices / Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the Website footer. If the link is unavailable, email admin@fearlessdining.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.”
To exercise any other available privacy right, email admin@fearlessdining.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We may need to verify your identity and, where applicable, authority to submit a request on another person’s behalf. We will respond within the time required by applicable law. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision email with the subject line “Privacy Appeal.”
Nevada Online Privacy Law
Pursuant to the Nevada Online Privacy Law (“OPL”), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of any personal information. As described above, your personal information may be shared with third-party service providers/operators in order to fulfill purchased products or to communicate with you. We do not sell (which is defined in the OPL as “the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration by the operator to a person for the person to license or sell the covered information to additional persons”) your covered information, which includes: your first and last name; your address; your email address; your phone number; your social security number; any identifier that would allow you to be contacted either physically or online; or any other information concerning you, collected from you by the Website and maintained by us, in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable. All collected information about our use of your personal information is identified within this policy. Any personal information disclosed for advertising purposes is done in a way that is not personally identifiable.
If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal information, please email admin@fearlessdining.com.
CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, please contact us at admin@fearlessdining.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.