PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: September 18, 2026

Welcome to Cozy Home Plate (“we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Website”).

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit cozyhomeplate.com, how we may use that information, when it may be shared, and the choices and privacy rights that may be available to you.

By accessing or using Cozy Home Plate, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. About Cozy Home Plate

Cozy Home Plate is a recipe website created by Emily Carter, sharing simple, family-friendly recipes made with everyday ingredients.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through Cozy Home Plate and related Website features.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information in two primary ways:

  • Information you voluntarily provide to us; and
  • Information collected automatically when you visit or interact with the Website.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may provide personal information when you:

  • Contact us through our contact form;
  • Leave a comment, if commenting is available;
  • Subscribe to newsletters or recipe updates, if offered;
  • Participate in a giveaway, survey, promotion, or similar activity;
  • Communicate with us through email or social media; or
  • Otherwise voluntarily provide information through the Website.

Depending on how you interact with Cozy Home Plate, this information may include:

  • Your name;
  • Email address;
  • Website address;
  • Subject of your inquiry;
  • Information included in your message or comment; and
  • Any other information you voluntarily provide.

Please do not submit passwords, financial information, medical information, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive personal information through the Website.

3. Information Collected Automatically

When you visit Cozy Home Plate, certain information may be collected automatically by the Website or by third-party service providers used to operate the Website.

This information may include:

  • IP address;
  • Browser type;
  • Device type;
  • Operating system;
  • Referring website;
  • Pages visited;
  • Links clicked;
  • Date and time of your visit;
  • Approximate geographic location;
  • Time spent on particular pages;
  • Website interaction information; and
  • Other technical information about how you access and use the Website.

We may use this information to understand how readers use Cozy Home Plate, improve our recipes and Website experience, maintain Website security, and analyze Website performance.

4. How We Use Information

Information collected through Cozy Home Plate may be used to:

  • Operate and maintain the Website;
  • Provide recipes, articles, and related content;
  • Improve Website functionality;
  • Improve recipe content and user experience;
  • Respond to questions, messages, and requests;
  • Understand how visitors use the Website;
  • Analyze Website traffic and performance;
  • Send requested newsletters or recipe updates;
  • Display and measure advertisements, where applicable;
  • Administer affiliate relationships, where applicable;
  • Prevent spam, fraud, and abuse;
  • Protect the Website and our legal rights;
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations; and
  • Carry out other legitimate activities related to operating Cozy Home Plate.

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on consent, legitimate interests, performance of a contract or requested service, or compliance with a legal obligation.

5. Contact Forms

Cozy Home Plate provides a contact form that may request information including:

  • Your name;
  • Email address;
  • Subject; and
  • Your message.

We use this information to respond to your inquiry and, where reasonably necessary, maintain records of our communications.

Information submitted through a contact form may also be processed by our Website hosting provider, email provider, spam protection service, or other service providers necessary to deliver and manage the message.

Please do not send sensitive personal information through the contact form.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cozy Home Plate may use cookies, pixels, scripts, tags, local storage, and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device that help websites remember information about your visit.

Cookies and similar technologies may be used for purposes such as:

  • Providing essential Website functionality;
  • Maintaining Website security;
  • Remembering visitor preferences;
  • Measuring Website performance;
  • Understanding visitor behavior;
  • Analytics;
  • Affiliate tracking;
  • Advertising;
  • Advertising measurement; and
  • Improving the Website experience.

Some cookies may be placed directly by Cozy Home Plate, while others may be placed by third-party companies whose services are used on the Website.

You can generally configure your browser to block, restrict, or delete cookies.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect how some Website features operate.

Where required by applicable law, we may request your consent before placing certain non-essential cookies on your device.

7. Analytics

Cozy Home Plate may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors find and use the Website.

Analytics providers may collect information including:

  • IP address;
  • Browser information;
  • Device information;
  • Pages visited;
  • Referring websites;
  • Approximate geographic information;
  • Length of visits; and
  • Website interactions.

We may use this information to understand which recipes and content are useful to readers, measure Website traffic, identify technical issues, and improve Cozy Home Plate.

Third-party analytics providers process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

8. Advertising

Cozy Home Plate may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising companies.

Advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies to collect information about how visitors interact with the Website.

Depending on the advertising provider and your privacy choices, these technologies may be used to:

  • Display advertisements;
  • Measure advertisement performance;
  • Limit how frequently advertisements appear;
  • Prevent advertising fraud;
  • Understand audience engagement; and
  • Provide personalized or interest-based advertising where permitted by law.

Advertising providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.

Depending on where you live, certain advertising-related transfers of personal information may legally be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use of information for targeted advertising even when personal information is not sold for money.

Where applicable, you may have the right to opt out of certain advertising practices.

9. Affiliate Links

Cozy Home Plate may participate in affiliate marketing programs.

Some links appearing in recipes, articles, or other content may therefore be affiliate links.

Affiliate links may include links to:

  • Kitchen tools;
  • Appliances;
  • Ingredients;
  • Cookbooks;
  • Food products;
  • Retailers; and
  • Other products or services relevant to Cozy Home Plate readers.

When you click an affiliate link, the applicable retailer or affiliate network may use cookies or similar tracking technologies to identify Cozy Home Plate as the referring website.

If you make a qualifying purchase after clicking one of these links, Cozy Home Plate may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Third-party affiliate networks and retailers operate according to their own privacy policies.

Material affiliate relationships will be disclosed where required by applicable law.

10. Email Newsletters

Cozy Home Plate may offer visitors the opportunity to subscribe to newsletters, recipe updates, or other email communications.

If you subscribe, we may collect information such as:

  • Your name; and
  • Email address.

We or a third-party email service provider may use this information to:

  • Deliver requested email communications;
  • Manage subscriber lists;
  • Measure email delivery;
  • Determine whether emails are opened;
  • Measure which links are clicked; and
  • Improve future email communications.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided in those emails.

We do not sell our email subscriber list for money.

If Cozy Home Plate does not currently provide an email newsletter, this section will apply if such a service is introduced in the future.

11. Comments

If Cozy Home Plate allows comments and you choose to leave a comment, certain information may become publicly visible.

Depending on the commenting system, this information may include:

  • Your name or username;
  • Website address;
  • Profile image; and
  • The content of your comment.

Information you voluntarily make public may be viewed, collected, or used by other Website visitors.

We may also use automated spam detection or moderation services.

Please avoid including sensitive personal information in public comments.

12. Social Media

Cozy Home Plate may share content through or maintain accounts on social media platforms.

If you interact with Cozy Home Plate through a third-party social media platform, that platform may collect information regarding your activity according to its own privacy policy.

Examples may include interactions such as:

  • Following an account;
  • Sharing a recipe;
  • Saving a post;
  • Clicking a social media link;
  • Commenting; or
  • Sending a message.

Your interactions with third-party social media services are governed by their respective privacy policies.

13. Third-Party Service Providers

We may use third-party companies to help operate Cozy Home Plate.

These may include providers of:

  • Website hosting;
  • Website security;
  • Content delivery;
  • Website backups;
  • Analytics;
  • Email delivery;
  • Advertising;
  • Affiliate tracking;
  • Spam prevention;
  • Performance optimization;
  • Social media functionality; and
  • Other technical or administrative services.

These service providers may process personal information when reasonably necessary to provide their services.

Their handling of personal information may also be governed by their respective privacy policies and contractual obligations.

14. How We May Share Information

We may share or disclose personal information:

  • With service providers that help operate Cozy Home Plate;
  • With analytics providers;
  • With advertising or affiliate partners where applicable;
  • When you request or authorize the disclosure;
  • When required by law or legal process;
  • To investigate or prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents;
  • To protect our rights, property, users, or the public;
  • In connection with a business transfer, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of Website assets; or
  • As otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Cozy Home Plate does not intend to directly sell personal information to third parties in exchange for money.

However, some digital advertising technologies may fall within broader legal definitions of “sale” or “sharing” under certain privacy laws.

15. Third-Party Links

Cozy Home Plate may contain links to third-party websites and services.

These may include links to:

  • Retailers;
  • Product manufacturers;
  • Social media platforms;
  • Affiliate partners;
  • Food-related resources; and
  • Other external websites.

When you leave Cozy Home Plate and visit another website, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of websites you visit.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

For example, information submitted through our contact form may be retained for as long as necessary to:

  • Respond to your inquiry;
  • Maintain appropriate records;
  • Resolve disputes;
  • Prevent fraud or abuse;
  • Meet legal obligations; or
  • Protect our legal rights.

Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

We may retain aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information where it no longer reasonably identifies an individual.

17. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against:

  • Unauthorized access;
  • Disclosure;
  • Loss;
  • Misuse;
  • Alteration; and
  • Destruction.

However, no website, storage system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted through or stored by Cozy Home Plate.

18. International Visitors

Cozy Home Plate may be accessed by readers located throughout the world.

Our hosting providers and other third-party service providers may process or store information in countries different from the country where you live.

As a result, personal information may be transferred to jurisdictions that have different privacy and data protection laws.

Where legally required, appropriate safeguards may be used when transferring personal information internationally.

19. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide you with rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

  • Request access to personal information;
  • Request correction of inaccurate information;
  • Request deletion of personal information;
  • Request a copy of certain personal information;
  • Restrict certain processing;
  • Object to certain processing;
  • Withdraw previously provided consent;
  • Request data portability;
  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising;
  • Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information; and
  • Appeal certain decisions regarding privacy requests.

These rights vary depending on your location and may be subject to legal exceptions.

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

We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights granted under applicable law.

20. European Economic Area and United Kingdom

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with similar privacy protections, you may have additional data protection rights.

Depending on the circumstances, these may include rights to:

  • Access personal information;
  • Correct inaccurate personal information;
  • Request erasure;
  • Restrict processing;
  • Object to processing;
  • Request data portability;
  • Withdraw consent; and
  • Submit a complaint to an applicable data protection authority.

Where we process information based on your consent, you may withdraw consent at any time.

Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing completed before your consent was withdrawn.

21. United States State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws.

Depending on your state and whether the relevant law applies to Cozy Home Plate, these rights may include:

  • Knowing what categories of personal information are collected;
  • Accessing personal information;
  • Correcting inaccurate personal information;
  • Requesting deletion;
  • Receiving a portable copy of certain personal information;
  • Opting out of targeted advertising;
  • Opting out of certain sales or sharing of personal information;
  • Limiting certain uses of sensitive personal information; and
  • Appealing certain privacy decisions.

California Residents

California residents may have additional rights under applicable California privacy laws.

These may include rights to request information concerning categories of personal information that are collected, disclosed, sold, or shared and rights to request correction or deletion where applicable.

Cozy Home Plate does not intend to directly sell personal information in exchange for money.

Certain digital advertising practices, however, may fall within broader definitions of “sale” or “sharing” under California law.

These rights apply only where required by applicable law.

22. Browser Privacy Signals and Do Not Track

Some web browsers allow visitors to send privacy preference signals.

Traditional “Do Not Track” signals do not currently have one universally accepted technical or legal standard governing how all websites must respond.

Where required by applicable law, Cozy Home Plate may recognize applicable browser-based privacy preference signals or provide other mechanisms for visitors to exercise privacy choices.

23. Children’s Privacy

Cozy Home Plate is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically toward children under 13 years old.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child under 13 has submitted personal information through Cozy Home Plate, please contact us so that we can investigate and, where appropriate, remove the information.

24. Sensitive Personal Information

Cozy Home Plate does not intentionally request highly sensitive personal information through ordinary Website interactions.

Please do not submit information such as:

  • Passwords;
  • Financial account details;
  • Government identification numbers;
  • Medical or health information;
  • Biometric information;
  • Precise geographic location information; or
  • Other highly sensitive personal information

through contact forms, comments, or similar Website features.

25. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.

Updates may reflect changes to:

  • Cozy Home Plate;
  • Website functionality;
  • Our service providers;
  • Advertising or affiliate relationships;
  • Technology;
  • Legal requirements; or
  • Our privacy practices.

When changes are made, the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page will be revised.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

26. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how Cozy Home Plate handles information, or you would like to submit a privacy-related request, please contact us through the Contact Me page on Cozy Home Plate.

Website: Cozy Home Plate
Website Address: cozyhomeplate.com
Owner/Publisher: Emily Carter
Privacy Contact: Please use the Contact Me page on Cozy Home Plate.