PLAIN ENGLISH — NOT LEGAL ADVICE
These pages describe what Culinary Teaching actually does, in the plainest words we could find for it. They were written for this business rather than adapted from a template, and every technical claim about this website was checked against the code that runs it. They are not legal advice, and no attorney has reviewed them yet. If something here turns out to be wrong, tell us and we will fix it rather than argue about it.
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The short version
This website uses a consent manager from Termly, an optional live-chat widget from tawk.to, and one first-party motion setting you chose yourself. It does not run analytics, advertising pixels, a tag manager or a session recorder.
Termly shows a banner on the first visit and a Cookie Settings control in the footer of every page. Optional tools wait until you say yes. The chat widget is one of those optional tools. The Full / Calm / Off control in the footer is ours, and it never leaves your device.
Nothing on this page is an analytics product in disguise. If a script is here, it is named here.
What we store, and what Termly stores
At the bottom of every page there is a small control marked Full, Calm and Off. It sets how much the fire moves. If you touch it, your choice is written to your browser so that opening the next page does not throw it away. If you never touch it, nothing is written at all — the site just follows the reduced-motion preference your operating system already broadcasts, and reading that tells us nothing and stores nothing.
| Name | What it holds | Why it exists | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| ct-motion browser local storage, not a cookie | One of three words: Full, Calm or Off. Nothing else is stored alongside it. | So the motion setting you picked survives from one page to the next. | Until you clear it. It has no expiry date and nothing renews or refreshes it behind your back. |
| Termly consent cookies set by app.termly.io | Your accept, decline or category choices for this site. Not a profile of who you are. | So the banner does not ask again on every page, and optional scripts stay blocked until you allow them. | Until you clear site data or reopen Cookie Settings and change the choice. |
| tawk.to chat cookies only after you allow the optional category | Whatever the widget needs to keep a chat session open. We do not read those cookies. | So a conversation you started can continue if you navigate, once you have allowed the widget. | Until you clear site data, or until you withdraw that category and reload. |
The motion setting still holds no identifier. Three different people who all chose Calm have byte-for-byte identical ct-motion entries. Termly’s cookies remember a choice, not a name. They cannot follow you onto another website. The chat cookies do not exist until you allow that category; decline it and the widget does not load.
Private and incognito windows vary. Some browsers refuse the write outright; others keep it only until you close the window and then throw it away. Either way the site notices nothing and carries on — you simply get the default setting again next time.
How to get rid of it
Setting the control back to Full does not delete the entry. It overwrites it with the word Full, which is not the same thing. To actually remove it, clear this site’s data in your browser. The setting is usually called cookies and site data, or website data, in the privacy section of your browser’s settings. It clears local storage along with cookies, even though what we store is not a cookie.
Clearing it costs you nothing but the setting itself. The site behaves exactly as before and goes back to the default: Full, or Off if your system asks for reduced motion. There is no copy of it on our side to delete, because it never came to us in the first place.
An extension or a browser setting that blocks storage works too. Nothing here breaks when storage is refused.
What this site does not do
Absence is hard to prove by reading a page, so here it is as a list. None of the following exists anywhere on this website:
- Analytics of any kind. Not Google Analytics, and not one of the privacy-friendly alternatives either.
- Advertising pixels, conversion tags, remarketing scripts and social media trackers.
- A tag manager, which is the box the other three usually arrive in.
- A/B testing, personalisation or any tool that shows different people different pages.
- Session recording, heatmaps, scroll tracking and mouse tracking.
- Fingerprinting: nothing here measures your fonts, canvas, screen or hardware to build an identifier.
- Pop-ups, exit-intent traps, newsletter interruptions and captchas.
- Embedded maps, embedded video and embedded social posts. The Visit page’s map is a link, not an embed.
- Social login, third-party comments and affiliate or referral tracking.
- Accounts, logins, carts, checkouts and payment forms. Card details are never typed into this website and never touch it — see Trust & security for how payment actually works.
The practical result is that we do not know how many people read this page, where they came from, or how far down they got. That is the trade, we made it on purpose, and we are happy with it.
What your visit tells our hosting provider
A page has to be served by a computer somewhere, and that computer sees the request arrive. Our hosting provider receives your IP address, the page you asked for, the time you asked for it, and the browser string your device sends with every request. It keeps its own standard logs of that, the way every web host that has ever served a page does. That is how a server works rather than a decision anybody made about you.
What we can tell you is what happens next: nothing. We add no logging of our own on top of it. We ask for no reports, we have switched on no traffic dashboard, and we build nothing on it. Those logs stay with the provider and age out on the provider’s schedule rather than ours. We do not receive them, so we cannot read yours, search them for you or pull a line out of them — which is worth knowing before you ask us to.
Together with a quote request you actually send, the host log, Termly’s consent requests, and — only if you allowed it — the chat widget, those are the things that leave your browser while you are reading a page here. We would rather name them than pretend nothing leaves at all. The one link that takes you somewhere else has its own section further down, and you have to click it.
What your browser asks for, and the quote form
Your browser has to ask our server for the pages themselves, and for the photographs, the fonts and the code that draw them. All of that comes from this one address. Beyond fetching our own pages, the site makes a request of its own when you ask it to: fill in the form on the classes page, press send, and your browser posts what you typed back to this site’s own server. Termly loads from app.termly.io so the banner can work. The chat widget loads from embed.tawk.to only after you allow that category.
The form stores nothing in your browser. There is no hidden field carrying an identifier, no draft saved as you type, and closing the tab before you send leaves nothing behind.
What we do with what you typed — including anything you tell us about an allergy, which we treat as health information — is set out in Privacy. If you want a copy of it, a correction, or it gone, Your data & choices is the page that tells you how to ask.
The link to the map
Our Visit page has a link to a map of 931 Garst St, Cabool, MO 65689. It is an ordinary link and nothing more. No map is embedded, no frame is loaded and no script runs, so nothing at all reaches Google while you are reading our pages.
Click it and you are on Google’s site, under Google’s terms and Google’s privacy policy, exactly as with any link you follow off any website. It opens in a new tab and it is set so that the page you came from is not handed over with it. What Google does once you are there is between you and Google.
The fonts are ours, not a font service
The four typefaces on this site started life at Google Fonts. They are downloaded once, when the site is built, and then served from our own address along with everything else. Your browser never makes a request to Google to read a page here, so your IP address is never disclosed to Google by simply arriving.
It is worth saying plainly, because a good many privacy pages describe a font service they are still quietly loading on every page. There is no font service here. The fonts are part of the site, like the photographs.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and extensions send a Do Not Track header or a Global Privacy Control signal with every request. Both are ways of saying the same two things: do not track me, and do not sell what you know about me.
We are not going to claim we honour a signal this site never reads. The accurate answer is that there is nothing here for either signal to switch off. There is no tracking to stop, and there is nothing to opt out of, because we do not sell, share, rent or trade anything about you with anyone — whether you send the signal or not, and whether you have ever heard of it or not.
If this site ever gains something one of those signals would properly apply to, we will read the signal, act on it, and say so here.
If we ever add anything
Small businesses change their minds. We would rather tell you now what happens if we do than let you discover it later. If analytics, or anything else that is not strictly needed to put this page on your screen, is ever added to this site, then all of the following apply:
- This page is rewritten before the new thing goes live, not afterwards. It will name what was added, what it stores and what it is for.
- The effective date and version at the top of this page change with it, so you can see that something moved.
- Nothing non-essential is set until you have said yes. A plain question, a real No, and the page works either way.
- We will not add advertising trackers or cross-site tracking to this website. Not for a campaign, not for a season, not for a discount from anybody.
- What we already store does not quietly grow. If a second item is ever stored in your browser, it appears in the table above before it appears on your device.
Until one of those things happens, the table above is the list.
Check us on it
Everything on this page is a claim about software, which means you can test it. Open your browser’s developer tools, look at the storage tab and the network tab, and see whether what we said is what happens. If any of it does not match, tell us at hello@culinaryteaching.com and we will fix the page or fix the site, whichever turns out to be the thing that is wrong. We would far rather be corrected than be wrong in public.
Nearby: Privacy for what we do with what you send us, Your data & choices for making a request, and Trust & security for how the site, the office and your card are protected.