Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Tasting with Tina respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how information is collected, used, and shared when you visit this website.

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information that may be collected through Tasting with Tina, how that information may be used, the circumstances in which information may be shared with third parties, and the choices and privacy rights that may be available to you.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Who we are

Our website address is https://tastingwithtina.com

Tasting with Tina is owned and operated by Christina Musgrave.

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, please visit Raptive's Creator Advertising Privacy Statement at:

https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

Advertising partners and their service providers may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, device identifiers, IP addresses, and similar technologies to collect information about your browser, device, activity on this Site, and activity across other websites or services for purposes including serving advertisements, measuring advertising effectiveness, limiting the number of times an advertisement is displayed, detecting fraud, and providing personalized or interest-based advertising where permitted by law.

Where required by applicable law, you may be provided with choices regarding the use of your information for certain advertising activities.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide as well as certain information collected automatically when you use this Site.

The types of information collected depend on how you interact with the Site.

Information may include:

• your name;
• email address;
• information submitted through comments or contact forms;
• newsletter subscription information;
• IP address;
• browser and device information;
• cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers;
• pages viewed and links clicked;
• referring website or source;
• approximate geographic information derived from your IP address;
• interactions with advertisements, embedded content, affiliate links, and other website features; and
• other information you voluntarily provide to us.

We may use this information to operate and improve the Site, respond to inquiries, provide newsletters and other communications you request, understand how visitors use the Site, prevent fraud and abuse, display and measure advertising, manage affiliate relationships, and comply with legal obligations.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form as well as the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection and website security.

An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using that service. The Gravatar service is operated by Automattic and is subject to Automattic's privacy practices.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture, if applicable, may be publicly visible in connection with your comment.

Comments and information you submit publicly should be considered public information. Please do not include sensitive personal information in comments.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images containing embedded location data, including EXIF GPS information.

Visitors to the website may be able to download images from the Site and extract location information contained in those images.

Contact forms

If you contact Tasting with Tina through a contact form, email, or similar communication method, we may collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in your message.

We use this information to respond to your inquiry, communicate with you, maintain appropriate business records, prevent abuse or spam, and otherwise manage our relationship with you.

Information submitted through a contact form may be processed by website hosting providers, spam-prevention services, email providers, or other service providers that assist us with website operations and communications.

Newsletter and email communications

If you subscribe to the Tasting with Tina newsletter or other email communications, we may collect your name, email address, subscription preferences, and information about your interactions with emails we send.

We use Kit, formerly known as ConvertKit, to manage our email list and send newsletters and other email communications. Kit may process personal information on our behalf in connection with email delivery, subscriber management, analytics, and related services.

Kit may collect information such as your email address, IP address, device and browser information, and information about your interactions with emails, including whether an email was delivered, opened, or clicked.

We use this information to send requested emails, manage subscriber lists, understand newsletter performance, improve our content, and maintain the security and functionality of our email program.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in the email.

Even after unsubscribing from marketing communications, we may retain certain information as necessary to maintain suppression records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce agreements.

Kit processes information according to its own privacy practices. You can learn more by reviewing Kit's privacy policy at https://kit.com/privacy.

Cookies

The Site and third parties that provide services through the Site may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small data files stored on your device that may be used to remember preferences, maintain website functionality, measure traffic, understand website usage, support advertising, and provide other features.

If you leave a comment on our Site, you may be given the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience so that you do not have to enter that information again when leaving another comment. These cookies may last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this Site, the website may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, the Site may also set cookies to save your login information and display preferences. Login cookies generally last for two days, and screen-option cookies may last for one year. If you select "Remember Me," your login may persist for approximately two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

If you edit or publish content on the Site, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser that identifies the post you edited. This cookie does not contain personal information and generally expires after one day.

Advertising, analytics, social-media, embedded-content, affiliate, and other third-party service providers may also use cookies or similar technologies as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings and through privacy or consent tools made available on the Site. Disabling certain cookies may affect how portions of the Site function.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this Site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, social-media posts, maps, or other content from third-party websites.

Embedded content from another website may behave in substantially the same way as if you visited that third-party website directly.

These third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies or similar technologies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including your interaction with that content if you have an account and are logged in to that third-party service.

Your use of third-party services is governed by the privacy policies and terms of those third parties.

Analytics

We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use the Site.

Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring website, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, approximate geographic location, and other information regarding your interaction with the Site.

This information is used to understand website traffic and usage patterns, diagnose technical issues, evaluate content performance, and improve the Site and user experience.

Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with its own privacy policies.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Additional choices regarding Google Analytics may also be available through your browser, Google settings, or tools provided by Google.

Affiliate links

The Site participates in affiliate-marketing programs.

When you click an affiliate link, the applicable affiliate network, retailer, or service provider may collect information through cookies or similar technologies in order to determine whether a purchase or other qualifying activity should be attributed to Tasting with Tina.

Information collected may include your IP address, device or browser information, referring page, link clicked, transaction information, and other identifiers used for attribution and fraud prevention.

Tasting with Tina may receive a commission when you make a qualifying purchase through an affiliate link, at no additional cost to you.

Third-party affiliate programs process information according to their own privacy policies.

Social media

The Site may contain social-media buttons, widgets, embedded posts, links, or other features provided by platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, or other social-media services.

These services may collect information about your device, browser, IP address, and interactions with their features and may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies.

If you are logged in to a social-media account while visiting this Site, the applicable platform may be able to associate your interaction with your account.

Your use of social-media services is governed by the privacy policies of the applicable platforms.

How we use personal information

We may use information collected through the Site to:

• operate, maintain, and improve Tasting with Tina;
• provide recipes, articles, newsletters, and other requested content;
• respond to questions, comments, and business inquiries;
• administer newsletter subscriptions;
• personalize and improve the visitor experience;
• analyze website traffic and usage;
• measure content and advertising performance;
• display and manage advertisements;
• operate affiliate-marketing programs;
• protect the Site from spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats;
• troubleshoot website functionality;
• maintain business and tax records;
• comply with legal or regulatory requirements;
• establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; and
• enforce our Terms and Conditions and other policies.

How we share personal information

We may share or make information available to third parties when necessary to operate the Site or provide the services described in this Privacy Policy.

These third parties may include:

• website hosting and technology providers;
• analytics providers;
• advertising partners and advertising-technology providers;
• email and newsletter service providers;
• spam-prevention and security providers;
• affiliate networks and retailers;
• social-media platforms;
• embedded-content providers;
• professional advisers such as attorneys and accountants;
• government authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by law; and
• parties involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, reorganization, or similar business transaction.

Third parties may process information according to their own privacy practices.

We may also disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, protect our rights, prevent fraud or security threats, investigate suspected wrongdoing, or protect the rights or safety of Tasting with Tina, our visitors, or others.

How long we retain your data

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and as necessary to meet legal, accounting, security, tax, and business requirements.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely so that we can recognize and approve follow-up comments and maintain the integrity of discussions on the Site.

If users are permitted to register for an account, personal information contained in a user profile may be retained for as long as the account remains active or as otherwise necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes.

Newsletter subscription information may be retained for as long as you remain subscribed and for an appropriate period afterward to maintain unsubscribe and suppression records.

Contact-form submissions and business correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, maintain business records, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.

Automatically collected analytics, advertising, and cookie information may be retained for periods determined by the applicable technology providers and our settings with those providers.

What rights you have over your data

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

• request confirmation of whether we process personal information about you;
• request access to personal information we maintain about you;
• request a copy of certain personal information;
• request correction of inaccurate personal information;
• request deletion of personal information;
• opt out of certain uses of personal information for targeted advertising;
• opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws;
• limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, where applicable;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
• appeal certain decisions regarding a privacy request where required by applicable law.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exceptions or limitations under applicable law.

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

You may also be permitted to use an authorized agent to make certain privacy requests on your behalf. We may require appropriate documentation showing that the agent is authorized to act for you.

You will not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights available to you under applicable law.

Sale, sharing, and targeted advertising choices

Certain privacy laws define "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" broadly and may apply these terms to some advertising-related data practices even when personal information is not exchanged for money.

Advertising and analytics technologies used on this Site may collect or process information for interest-based or targeted advertising and related purposes.

Where required by applicable law, visitors may be provided with a mechanism on the Site to opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted-advertising activities.

If a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information or similar privacy-choice link is displayed on the Site, you may use that link to exercise applicable opt-out rights.

Your choices may be associated with the browser or device from which you submit the request. If you use a different browser or device, you may need to exercise your choices again.

Global Privacy Control and browser signals

Some browsers or browser extensions allow users to send privacy-preference signals.

Where required by applicable law, the Site or its applicable service providers will recognize and process supported Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as requests to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information.

Global Privacy Control is different from the older "Do Not Track" browser setting.

At this time, there is no universally accepted standard governing how websites must respond to traditional Do Not Track signals, and the Site may not respond to traditional Do Not Track signals unless required by applicable law.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service.

Other information may be processed by service providers located in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

Information processed outside your state, province, or country may be subject to different privacy and data-protection laws.

Data security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information collected through the Site.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored through the Site.

Children's privacy

Tasting with Tina is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

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

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

Third-party websites and services

The Site may contain links to websites, products, services, or platforms operated by third parties.

Tasting with Tina does not control the privacy practices of those third parties and is not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, service providers, or other circumstances.

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Changes become effective when the updated Privacy Policy is posted on the Site unless otherwise stated.

We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, the information we collect, or your privacy rights, you may contact Tasting with Tina at:

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://tastingwithtina.com

When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. We may request additional information when reasonably necessary to verify your identity or authority to make the request.