Privacy

What this site collects

Charcuterie Lab is a food blog run by one person. This page describes, in plain language, what happens to information when you visit.

Analytics

This site uses Statcounter to count visits and see which pages people read and where they arrived from. It records things like the page you viewed, the time, the site or search that referred you, your browser and device type, your approximate location, and your IP address. It is used to understand which articles are useful — not to identify you personally, and it is never sold or shared.

Statcounter sets a cookie to tell a returning visit from a new one. You can block it with your browser's cookie settings, with any ad or tracker blocker, or through Statcounter's own opt-out. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.

The site is hosted on Netlify, which keeps its own basic server logs and aggregate traffic counts as part of hosting.

The newsletter

If you subscribe, your email address goes to beehiiv, which sends the newsletter and records opens and clicks so I can tell which issues were worth reading. Your address is used for the newsletter and nothing else — never sold, never rented, never passed on. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and it works immediately.

Links to other places

Some links lead to Gumroad, where the ebook and the printables are sold, and to Amazon, where the paperback is sold. Purchases happen entirely on those sites under their own privacy policies and payment handling — no payment details ever reach this site, because there is nothing here to pay for. Links may carry a tracking tag so I can tell which article sent someone; that tag identifies the article, not you.

Children

This site is meant for adults and is not directed at children under 13.

Your choices

You can block cookies and trackers in your browser, unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time, or write to me to ask what has been collected about you or to have it deleted. If you are in the EU or UK, GDPR gives you those rights explicitly; I will honour them regardless of where you live.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it.

Last updated: August 2026.