Cinnamon Shtick

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 17, 2026

Cinnamon Shtick LLC (“Cinnamon Shtick,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) owns and operates the Cinnamon Shtick recipe blog at cinnamonshtick.com, including our recipes, baking tips, comment features, newsletters, and related website features (the “Site”).

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, when we disclose it, and what rights you may have. We have written this policy in a consumer-friendly way, but with enough detail to explain our practices clearly.

Article 1 — Information We Collect

I. Information you provide to us. We collect the personal information you choose to provide, including:

  1. Name. We collect your name when you sign up for emails, newsletters, or post a comment.
  2. Email address. We collect your email address when you subscribe to receive new recipe alerts, baking tips, newsletters, or similar email communications.
  3. Comment information. If you post a comment on a recipe or other Site content, we may collect and display the name you provide with that comment, along with the comment content.

II. Information collected automatically. When you use the Site, we and certain service providers may collect usage and device information, including:

  1. IP address;
  2. browser type and version;
  3. device type and operating system;
  4. pages viewed, links clicked, referring pages, and time spent on the Site;
  5. approximate location information inferred from your IP address;
  6. cookie identifiers and similar tracking-technology information; and
  7. advertising, analytics, and performance data associated with your visit.

III.  Information from service providers and advertising partners. We may receive information from service providers that help us operate, improve, email, analyze, and support the Site, including:

  1. Flodesk, which helps provide newsletter and email services;
  2. Google, which may provide analytics, measurement, advertising, or related website tools; and
  3. Ezoic, which supports advertising and website optimization services.

IV. Sensitive personal information. We do not ask you to provide sensitive personal information, such as Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, precise geolocation, government identification numbers, health information, biometric information, or racial, ethnic, religious, or similar sensitive information.

Article 2 — How We Use Personal Information

I. Email and newsletter communications. We use names and email addresses to send new recipe alerts, baking tips, newsletters, and related updates you have requested or agreed to receive.

II. Comments. We use the name you provide to identify you when you post a comment on a recipe or other Site content. Your comment and the name you provide may be visible to other visitors.

III. Site operation and security. We use usage details, IP addresses, cookies, and similar information to operate the Site, help it function properly, prevent abuse, troubleshoot technical issues, protect the Site, and maintain security.

IV. Analytics and improvement. We use automatically collected information and information from analytics providers to understand how visitors use the Site, measure performance, improve recipes and content, and make the Site more useful.

V. Advertising and site support. We use advertising and related technology to support the Site, measure ad performance, manage ad delivery, and improve the visitor experience.

VI. Legal and administrative purposes. We may use personal information to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, enforce our policies, protect our rights, and protect the rights, safety, and security of visitors and others.

Article 3 — Cookies and Tracking Technologies

I. What cookies do. Cookies and similar technologies help the Site remember information, understand how visitors use the Site, measure traffic, deliver and improve advertising, and support Site features.

II. Types of cookies and similar technologies. The Site may use:

  1. Essential cookies. These help the Site work properly and support security and basic functions.
  2. Analytics cookies. These help us understand visits, page views, traffic sources, and Site performance.
  3. Advertising cookies. These help deliver, measure, and improve advertising and may be used by advertising partners to understand ad interactions.
  4. Preference or performance technologies. These may help improve speed, layout, content delivery, and visitor experience.

III.  Your choices. You may be able to limit or block cookies through your browser or device settings. If you block cookies, some Site features may not work as intended. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to opt out of certain advertising, targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities as described in Article 9.

Article 4 — How We Disclose Personal Information

I. Service providers. We disclose personal information to service providers that help us operate the Site and provide our services, including email delivery, newsletter management, analytics, advertising, hosting, security, troubleshooting, and Site optimization.

II. Newsletter provider. We disclose names and email addresses to Flodesk to send newsletters, new recipe notifications, baking tips, and related email communications.

III.  Analytics and advertising providers. Google, Ezoic, and other advertising or analytics service providers may collect or receive usage details, cookie information, IP addresses, device information, and similar data to help us measure Site use, optimize performance, deliver or measure ads, and support Site operations.

IV. Legal compliance and protection. We may disclose personal information if we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, or a governmental request; enforce our policies; protect against fraud or abuse; or protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Cinnamon Shtick, our visitors, or others.

V. Business transfers. If Cinnamon Shtick is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

VI. No sale of names or email addresses. We do not sell your name or email address for money. We also do not disclose your name or email address to third parties for their own direct marketing.

VII.  Advertising-related disclosures. Some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly to include certain advertising or tracking activities involving cookies, advertising identifiers, IP addresses, or similar online identifiers. To the extent our use of advertising or analytics technologies is considered a “sale,” “share,” or use for “targeted advertising” under an applicable privacy law, you may exercise the opt-out rights described in Article 9.

Article 5 — Email Choices

I. Unsubscribing. You may unsubscribe from our newsletters, new recipe emails, and baking-tip emails by using the unsubscribe instructions included in those emails or by contacting us at [email protected].

II. Service or administrative emails. If necessary, we may still send non-marketing messages, such as messages responding to your request or addressing legal, security, or administrative matters.

Article 6 — Children and Minors

I. No use by anyone under 18. The Site is not intended for, and may not be used by, anyone under 18 years old.

II. No knowing collection from minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under 18, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

III.  Parent or guardian requests. A parent or guardian who believes that a person under 18 has provided personal information to us may contact us at [email protected].

Article 7 — Retention

I. General retention standard. We keep 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.

II. Newsletter information. We retain newsletter subscription information for as long as you remain subscribed or as otherwise necessary to manage email preferences, comply with legal obligations, maintain suppression lists, prevent abuse, or resolve disputes.

III.  Comments. We may retain recipe comments and the name and email associated with a comment for as long as the comment remains published, unless deletion is required by applicable law or we decide to remove the comment.

IV. Usage and cookie data. Usage details, analytics data, cookie information, and advertising-related information may be retained for periods determined by us or by the applicable service provider, depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it is used.

Article 8 — Security

I. Safeguards. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

II. No perfect security. No website, email system, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of personal information.

Article 9 — U.S. State Consumer Privacy Notices and Rights

I. Who this section covers. Depending on where you live and whether a particular law applies to Cinnamon Shtick, you may have privacy rights under U.S. state consumer privacy laws, including laws in California and other states that provide similar consumer privacy rights.

II. Categories of personal information collected. In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

  1. Identifiers. Name, email address, IP address, cookie identifiers, and similar online identifiers.
  2. Internet or electronic network activity information. Pages viewed, interactions with the Site, referring pages, browser information, device information, and similar usage details.
  3. Approximate location information. General location inferred from IP address.
  4. User-generated content. Comments you choose to post on the Site.
  5. Inferences. Basic inferences from usage activity, such as content performance and visitor engagement, used to improve the Site and advertising performance.

III.  Sources of personal information. We collect personal information from:

  1. you, when you subscribe, contact us, or post a comment;
  2. your browser or device, when you use the Site;
  3. cookies and similar technologies;
  4. Flodesk;
  5. Google;
  6. Ezoic; and
  7. other service providers that help operate, secure, analyze, advertise, or improve the Site.

IV. Purposes for collection, use, and disclosure. We collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including newsletters, new recipe alerts, baking tips, comments, Site operation, analytics, advertising, security, legal compliance, and business administration.

V. Categories of personal information disclosed. In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed identifiers, internet or electronic network activity information, approximate location information, user-generated content, and related analytics or advertising information to the categories of recipients described in Article 4.

VI. Categories of recipients. We may disclose personal information to:

  1. email and newsletter service providers;
  2. analytics providers;
  3. advertising networks and advertising technology providers;
  4. hosting, security, and website operations providers;
  5. professional advisers and legal authorities, when necessary; and
  6. parties involved in a business transfer, if applicable.

VII.   No sensitive personal information use for additional purposes. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

VIII.  No knowing sale or sharing of minors’ information. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of anyone under 18.

IX. Right to know and access. You may have the right to request that we confirm whether we process your personal information and provide access to, or a copy of, certain personal information we maintain about you.

X. Right to delete. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from or about you, subject to legal exceptions.

XI. Right to correct. You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

XII.  Right to opt out. You may have the right to opt out of:

  1. the sale of personal information;
  2. the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising;
  3. targeted advertising; or
  4. certain profiling activities, if applicable.

We do not sell your name or email address for money. However, certain advertising or analytics technologies used on the Site may involve online identifiers or usage information in a way that some laws treat as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. You may contact us at [email protected] to exercise an applicable opt-out right.

XIII.  Right to limit sensitive personal information. Because we do not seek to collect sensitive personal information and do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics, this right is generally not applicable to our current practices.

XIV.  Right to nondiscrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right. For example, we will not deny you Site access, charge a different price, or provide a different level of service because you exercised a privacy right, except as permitted by applicable law.

XV.  Appeal rights. If your state gives you the right to appeal a decision we make about a privacy request, you may appeal by contacting us at [email protected] and stating that you are appealing our decision.

XVI.  How to submit a request. You may submit a privacy request by contacting us at:

  1. Email: [email protected]
  2. Mail: Cinnamon Shtick LLC, 11 Broadway, Suite 615, New York, NY 10004, Attn. Rob Finkelstein

XVII.  Verification. We may need to verify your identity before responding to a privacy request. We may ask you to provide information that reasonably matches information we maintain, such as your name and email address.

XVIII. Authorized agents. If permitted by applicable law, you may use an authorized agent to submit a privacy request for you. We may require proof that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf and may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.

XIX.   Global privacy control and similar signals. Where required by applicable law and technically feasible for the Site, we will treat legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals as requests to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising for the browser or device that sends the signal.

Article 10 — State-Specific Disclosures

I.  California notice at collection. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide California residents with notice of the categories of personal information we collect, the purposes for which we collect and use it, whether it may be sold or shared under California law, the categories of recipients to whom it may be disclosed, and the rights California residents may have.

II.  California Shine the Light. California residents may request information about certain disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose your name or email address to third parties for their own direct marketing.

III.   Nevada residents. Nevada residents may have the right to opt out of certain sales of covered information. We do not sell your name or email address for money. Nevada residents may submit opt-out requests by contacting us at [email protected].

IV.  Other state residents. Residents of states with consumer privacy laws may have the rights described in Article 9, depending on whether the applicable law covers Cinnamon Shtick and the personal information at issue.

Article 11 — International Visitors

I.  United States operation. Cinnamon Shtick is based in the United States, and the Site is operated from the United States.

II.  Transfer of information. If you visit the Site from outside the United States, your personal information may be processed in the United States or in other locations where our service providers operate. Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.

Article 12 — Third-Party Websites and Services

I.  Third-party links and tools. The Site may include links throughout to third-party websites and applications, including Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, as well as embedded content, advertisements, plug-ins, or features provided by third parties. Those third parties may collect information directly from you or your device.

II.  Third-party policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites, advertisers, networks, platforms, or services. Their privacy policies and settings govern their own practices. Once you leave the Site and visit a third-party website or application, including Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest, the privacy policies of that third-party website or application govern and apply to you, and this Privacy Policy no longer applies.

Article 13 — Changes to This Privacy Policy

I.  Updates. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update it, we will change the effective date at the top of the policy.

II.  Material changes. If we make material changes, we will provide notice as required by applicable law, which may include posting a notice on the Site or sending an email if appropriate.

Article 14 — Contact Us

I.  Contact information. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise a privacy right, please contact us at:

Cinnamon Shtick LLC
11 Broadway, Suite 615
New York, NY 10004
Attn. Rob Finkelstein
Email: [email protected]