Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 29th October 2025

• Website Disclaimer here.
• Website Terms here.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://thebutterycrust.com.

Commitment to privacy

At The Buttery Crust the privacy of my readers is of utmost importance. I am committed to the security of your personal information when you visit this site. Below you will find information on how personal information may be collected and used when visiting this website.

In order for The Buttery Crust to operate and provide the services that it does, it is sometimes necessary to collect your personal data. Ways in which your 'personal data' is collected are as follows;

1. Information you provide directly, such as entering an email address to subscribe to the newsletter or using the online contact form.
2. Information you provide in the comments sections of this website. The comments you make are viewable by all however your email address will remain confidential.
3. Information that is sent to us automatically by your computer such as your IP address, and the browser and type of device you use.
4. Information about how you use this website, including which pages you visit and the frequency.

All information gathered by The Buttery Crust is used only for the betterment of the website and your experience using the site. I am committed to maintaining the privacy and security of all personal data supplied to The Buttery Crust as outlined above. I practice a 'data minimisation' principle where I can and only gather the information I need to run The Buttery Crust effectively and usefully.

What is Personal Data?

'Personal Data' is defined as information that allows identification of you personally. Obvious examples are your name or email address however, this site can only collect what you provide. Other examples are your IP address or your general geographical location. The Buttery Crust will never ask for your physical address but some applications used by this website to improve user experience will tell us the country you are in. None of this information allows us to identify you directly.

Who does The Buttery Crust share your data with?

Your personal data is only shared on a need to know basis. The Buttery Crust will not sell or share your personal information with third parties unless at your request or if required by trusted services required for the site to operate, where these trusted service providers keep the information confidential unless required by law to share this information.

In particular the third parties used by this website that may have access to this personal data include but are not limited to hosting services, email delivery services and analytics tracking services like Google Analytics.

From time to time, The Buttery Crust may provide links to other websites. If you choose to use these links and leave the site, you will need to refer to the privacy policy of the respective website. The Buttery Crust will not be responsible for the use of any information you provide to these websites.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture, if you have one, is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Email address

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion.  We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.  You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" button in the email.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider (ConvertKit) we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider will not contact you directly.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled "Additional Rights of EEA Residents."

European Union and United Kingdom

If you are domiciled within the European Union or United Kingdom, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") or UK GDPR. Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect and how it is used. Under these laws, we are a data controller and must provide you with certain information regarding the data we collect, our legal bases for doing so, and your rights related to your data.

Our legal bases for collecting your personal data:

• Consent - We may process information if you have provided us with your consent. This includes all voluntarily captured personal information or any information for which you have given us consent.
• Performance of a contract - We may process your information to perform a contract.
• Legitimate Interest - We have a legitimate interest in capturing information related to marketing activities and fraud prevention. Additionally, we capture information regarding your interactions with the Website to ensure that our Website is operating properly and to allow us to make improvements. We may also keep information regarding your interactions with the Website as a form of recordkeeping. We do not process your personal information on this basis if it is outweighed by the impact such processing may have on you.
• Legal Requirement - We may process your personal information if it is necessary for a legal obligation, such as security.
• Vital Interest - We do not process your personal information on this basis.
• Public Interest - We do not process your personal information on this basis.

Where We Hold Your Data: Generally, your personal information may be held in our offices (including our affiliates or parent companies), third-party companies, data processors or service providers.

You also have the following rights:

• Right to Be Informed - You may be informed as to how we use your personal information. This notice includes much information about this, but you may also inquire with us.
• Right to Access - You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request.
• Right to Opt-out - You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also contact us at the email below to be removed from our mailing list.
• Right to Amend/Rectify - You may contact us to amend or update your personal information.
• Right to Erase or Be Forgotten - In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data.
• Right to Restrict Processing - Similar to the right to erase, you may request that we restrict processing of your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability - You have the right to port your personal data, when applicable.
• Right to Object - In some situations, you may have the right to object to how your personal data is being processed by filing a complaint. 
• Rights related to Automatic Decision Making and Profiling - You may have the right to not be subject to automatic decision making and profiling.

You may exercise any of these rights by emailing marie @ the buttery crust.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law. Unless you exercise such rights, we reserve the right to retain your data.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") and the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"), California residents have additional rights related to their data. This Privacy Policy has previously disclosed how we collect information, but California requires that we disclose additional information regarding our data collection practices.

Information Collection and Sharing

The Website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household ("Personal Information"). The Website has collected the following categories of Personal Information from you, which are detailed below.

We may share your Personal Information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose. We only make these disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the Personal Information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose other than performing the contract. We have disclosed the information listed in the categories below for a business purpose.

We do not sell your Personal Information.

In the preceding 12 months, we have completed the activities listed below in the categories covered by CCPA and CPRA.

Identifiers:

This category includes your: real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, email address, account name, social security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

1. The Website does collect information in this category.
2. The Website collects the following information in this category for the following reasons: email and name provided by you, the first to determine that you are a real person and not a bot, the latter to add to a comment you leave.
3. The Website has not sold information in this category in the past twelve months.
4. The Website has not disclosed information in this category in the past twelve months.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Personal Information as Described in California Customer Records Statute (CA Code 1798.80):

This includes your: name, signature, social security number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Protected Classification Characteristics (under California or federal law).

This includes: Age (over age 40), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental health disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or genetic information.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Commercial Information:

This includes records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Biometric Information:

This includes: an individual's physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics, including an individual's DNA, that can be used, singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information:

This includes, but is not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with the Website, application, or advertisement.

Geolocation Data:

This includes your physical location or movements.

1. The Website does collect information in this category.
2. The Website collects the following information in this category for the following reasons: Your geographic location (country & state/province only) to determine quantities of activity from different regions.
3. The Website has not sold information in this category in the past twelve months.
4. The Website has disclosed the following information in this category in the past twelve months for a business purpose: IP address and geographic location. The business purpose was for analytical data tracking.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Other Similar Information:

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Professional or Employment-related information:

This may include your current or past employment history or other information related thereto.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Education Information:

This is defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which includes: records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, schedule, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

The Website does not collect or sell information in this category: Inferences Drawn from Personal Information:

This includes inferences drawn from the Personal Information collected by the Website to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Use of Your Personal Information under CCPA and CPRA

All uses of your Personal Information are provided within this Privacy Policy and are incorporated into your rights under CCPA and CPRA.

Rights related to Your Personal Information under CCPA and CPRA

CCPA and CPRA provide California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Right to Access - You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect and how it has been used over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following:

• The categories of your personal information we collected;
• The categories of your personal information we sold;
• The categories of any third parties to whom we have sold your personal information;
• A list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party; and,
• The categories of your personal information we disclose for business purposes.

Right to Deletion - You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.

Please note that this right does not apply when we need to retain your personal information to do the following:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.

Right to Non-Discrimination - You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under CCPA. In particular, we may not:

• Deny you goods or services;
• Charge you different prices for goods or services, whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties;
• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or,
• Threaten you with any of the above.

How to submit a verifiable consumer request

To exercise these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

• Contacting us at marie @ the buttery crust.com.

Please note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.

You may only make a request under these rights twice in a twelve-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information (or that it is an authorized representative acting on your behalf);
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please email marie @ the buttery crust.com

We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding receipt of your request.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Additional State Privacy Rights

Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia each provide (now or effective in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Obtain data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales (excluding Iowa), or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah)
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit, require consent for, or opt-out of the processing of sensitive personal data, depending on the state's law.

The exact scope and terminology of these rights may vary state by state. To exercise any of these rights, please email marie @ the buttery crust.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer request, please email marie @ the buttery crust.com

Under these statutes, we may sell your information through targeted display advertising.

Nevada Residents

Pursuant to the Nevada Online Privacy Law ("OPL"), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of any personal information. As described above, your personal information may be shared with third-party service providers/operators in order to fulfill purchased products or to communicate with you. We do sell (which is defined in the OPL as "the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration by the operator to a person for the person to license or sell the covered information to additional persons") your covered information, which includes: your first and last name; your address; your email address; your phone number; your social security number; any identifier that would allow you to be contacted either physically or online; or, any other information concerning you, collected from you by the Website and maintained by us, in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable.

If you have any questions regarding our usage of your personal information, please email marie @ the buttery crust.com.

Alternate Phrasing for Nevada for Websites that Do Not Sell Personal Information

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to marie @ the buttery crust.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

CONTACT INFORMATION

At any time, please contact us at marie @ the buttery crust.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and
• Analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac or https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201265( Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Sponsored Content

From time to time The Buttery Crust may provide sponsored content. Sponsored content is content that is compensated in some way by a sponsor of a particular brand or product. All opinions on this site are mine and mine alone. I choose to use and promote only brands and products that I enjoy using and that I believe in and will only work with sponsors of those products. I will not provide sponsored content for products I do not like or have not used and cannot personally recommend.  All sponsored content will be clearly marked.

Affiliate Marketing

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions As with sponsored content, I will only recommend or put forward affiliate type advertising for products I use and / or specifically believe in. Affiliate advertising allows me to refer you to products you may find useful, in return for a small commission at no cost to you.

The Buttery Crust is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

You may refuse these cookies by adjusting your browser settings.

Content on this site

All recipes are mine, researched, developed and photographed by me unless otherwise stated. All images belong to The Buttery Crust and should not be used without express permission. Please do not copy or reproduce any information or recipe from this website unless a) it is written in your own words and b) it is accompanied by a clear link back to the page on this website that you got the information from.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the "Effective Date" posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

Last Updated: 30th October 2025