PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS OF USE

Privacy Policy

The Cooking With Gabby organization is committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy applies to Cooking With Gabby’s collection and use of personal data in connection with our cookingwithgabby.org website, customer support and other services (collectively, the “Services”). For example, personal data may be collected if you are a customer, visit the website, or interact with us in person or during classes or webinars. The terms “personal data” or “personal information” refer to information that can reasonably identify an individual.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal data that you provide to us by using the website, such as submitting ‘Contact Us’ forms, or otherwise interacting with us. Personal information is requested when you subscribe to email newsletters or complete an online form.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

When you donate to us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Please review Squarespace’s Privacy Policy here. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you.

Use of Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information in the following ways:

  • Information Requests: We send you information you request about Cooking With Gabby and our services.

  • Marketing Communications: We may contact you about stories, news, updates, and promotions, usually via email newsletter. If you would no longer like to receive such emails, please follow the “Unsubscribe” instructions at the end of each email. Your email address will be removed from our marketing list. Please allow us a reasonable period of time in order to satisfy your request. To opt out of being contacted by any other communication methods, please contact us at info@cookingwithgabby.org

  • Compliance and Safety: We may use your personal data to comply with our legal obligations and to identify and remediate suspected or actual fraudulent activity or security incidents.

COPPA Compliance

The Cooking With Gabby website is a general audience site, and we do not sell products to children under the age of 13. Cooking With Gabby is compliant with all federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requirements. Cooking With Gabby does not sell your or any site visitors’ personal information.

Links to and Embeds from Other Websites

For your convenience, we may provide links to other websites that we do not control. We also embed content from other sites, such as YouTube videos that are hosted at YouTube.com. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of any websites not under our control and we do not endorse any of these websites, the services or products described or offered on such sites or any of the content contained on those sites.

Cooking With Gabby currently utilizes YouTube as a hosting service for embedded videos. Please review YouTube’s Terms of Service here.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the links below:

For the most common browsers, you can:

  • Review which cookies are active in your browser’s settings.

  • Clear cookies from your browser or device, either globally or from a specific website.

For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation:

California Consumers

The California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) affords California consumers additional privacy protections, including the right to know what information we collect, disclose, and sell, as well as the right to request correction or deletion of your data.

For a description of the data we collect and the categories of sources of such information, please refer to the “Personal Information We Collect” above. We use this data for the purposes outlined in the “Use of Your Personal Information” section.

Cooking With Gabby does not sell your personal information.

To make a consumer access request, request your data be deleted, or opt out of sale, please contact us at info@cookingwithgabby.org We will verify your identity prior to fulfilling your request. Authorized agents may be used to submit rights requests, in which case we will take steps to verify your identity and confirm that the agent has authority to act on your behalf.

Web Accessibility Policy

Cooking With Gabby is committed to full website accessibility for all of our website visitors. It is our policy to ensure that everyone, including persons with disabilities, has full and equal access to our online content. To ensure accessibility we:

  1. Adopted a web accessibility policy.

  2. Implemented training on web accessibility for our web editors.

  3. Are in the midst of website development to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance that will meet the digital accessibility requirements imposed by Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

  4. Are planning to conduct annual accessibility audits and continually review this website to ensure we adhere to best practices in web accessibility.

Do you need assistance accessing something on our website? Contact us by email: info@cookingwithgabby.org

For more information on web accessibility:

Website Terms of Use

By interacting with Cooking With Gabby website, you automatically agree to be subject by these Terms of Use in their entirety, without modification.  A “user” may also include your representatives, agents, contractors, affiliates, and employees.

Prohibited Uses

This Terms of Use prohibits website users from:

  • Leasing, selling, copying, sublicensing, transferring, or assigning any information, intellectual property, goods, or services provided on this site

  • Using this site for any illegal purpose

  • Gaining unauthorized access to Cooking With Gabby’s data or the data of other users

  • Altering, modifying, adapting, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or hacking Cooking With Gabby’s intellectual property

  • Altering or modifying another website to falsely imply that it is associated with this website

  • Using or exporting Cooking With Gabby’s information, products, or services in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations

  • Violating anyone else’s legal rights (for example, privacy rights) or any laws (for example, copyright laws) in the user’s jurisdiction

  • Using this website or Cooking With Gabby’s services to transmit content that could be deemed unlawful, threatening, harassing, racist, abusive, libelous, pornographic, vulgar, defamatory, obscene, indecent, or otherwise inappropriate, including any messages constituting or encouraging criminal conduct

  • Breaching, or attempting to breach, this website’s security systems and

  • Enabling third parties to violate the Terms of Use

Service Interruptions and Updates

Any website can suffer either scheduled interruptions (for maintenance and upgrades purposes) or unintended shutdowns (for whatever reason). This Terms of Use reminds you of these possibilities.

Term, Termination, and Survival

This Agreement shall be effective as of the date (the “Effective Date”) you accept the terms herein or first access, download or use any of the services or information (collectively, the “Services”) on this site and shall remain in effect for so long as you use or access any of the Services (the “Term”). Upon termination of the Term, you shall no longer be permitted to use or access the Services. The terms herein that contemplate obligations after the Term, including but not limited to Prohibited Uses, Service Interruptions and Updates, Term, Termination, and Survival, Subscriber Data and Legal Compliance, Indemnification and Limitation of Liability, shall survive termination.

Subscriber Data and Legal Compliance

All information this website submits or transmits fully complies with the law and Cooking With Gabby will not be liable whatsoever for any user’s misuse of that data. Cooking With Gabby has the right to revoke or restrict any user’s access to this website in the event that the user violates these Terms of Use or any applicable law.

Users are the exclusive owners of their own personal information. Cooking With Gabby will not be held responsible for website users or other parties infringing upon any intellectual property rights of third parties.

Indemnification and Limitation of Liability

In the event that you violate any of the Terms of Use or applicable laws, then you will be responsible for indemnifying Cooking With Gabby for any losses or damages Cooking With Gabby incurs as a result.

Copyright

Research information and images may be used only for educational purposes and must cite Cooking With Gabby in documentation. No artwork, however, may be reproduced without written permission by Cooking With Gabby.

Images on this site courtesy of:

  • Cooking With Gabby

Changes to these Policies and Terms of Use

Cooking With Gabby may update these Privacy Policies and Website Terms of Use at any time and we will post any changes to this page. The most recent version of these Policies and Terms of Use is this version date:

Last updated July 10, 2025

How to reach us

Please contact us with any questions regarding these Privacy Policies and Terms of Use:

Cooking With Gabby
4309 Leimert Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008

Email: info@cookingwithgabby.org