The policy is valid from January 1, 2017, to the present, and was updated in April 2026.
COOKIE POLICY
Website cookie policy and Your User Preferences—This website uses cookies, small text files placed on your machine, to help provide a better user experience. Generally, cookies are used to store user preferences. Cookies store information for features like shopping carts and provide anonymized tracking data to third-party applications such as Google Analytics. Generally, cookies enhance your browsing experience. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this Site and others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting your browser’s Help section or visiting the About Cookies website, which provides guidance for all modern browsers.
For specific information concerning our use of cookies, visit our website’s cookie user preferences page.
CONTACT FORMS
If you leave a comment on our Site(s), you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to enter your details again when you leave another comment. Cookies will last for one year.
When you create a user account and log in to these Sites, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data, and it disappears when you close your browser.
We will also set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices when you log in. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. For example, if you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, it will remove the login cookies.
An additional cookie will be saved in your browser if you edit or publish an article. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
PRIVACY POLICY & DISCLOSURES
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit our Site(s), we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some installed cookies. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and how you interact with the Site.
We collect information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include a unique anonymous identifier. For more information about cookies and how to turn off cookies, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally, when you purchase or attempt to purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing and shipping addresses, and payment information (such as credit card numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers). We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
COMMUNICATION DATA
We also collect communication data, including any communication you send to us, whether through our website’s contact form, email, text, social media messaging, social media posts, or any other communication. We process this data to communicate with you, for record-keeping, and to pursue or defend legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests: to reply to communications sent to us, keep records, and establish, pursue, or defend legal claims.
We may use this data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests in growing our business. We may also use such data to send you other marketing communications. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests.
This privacy notice details how we collect and process personal data when you use our sites, KymberleyPekrul.com, GfreeDeliciously.com, KUP Bookworks, kymberleypekrul.substack.com, Shop-GfreeDeliciously.com, GfreeWellness, and the GfreeDeliciously Recommends Bookshop.
By providing us with your data, you warrant that you are over 13 years of age.
Kymberley A. Pekrul is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
Contact details for Kymberley A. Pekrul:
Name of legal entity: Kymberley A. Pekrul | GfreeDeliciously ™
Email address: hello@gfreedeliciously.com
Mailing address: W1347 Pit Road, Mount Calvary, WI 53057
eNEWS, UPDATES & OTHER EMAILS
If you have subscribed to our Substack eNewsletter, are a member of any of our websites (where you can log in), or have purchased through our shop-gfreedeliciously.com website, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.
We will only send you emails that you have signed up to receive or pertain to the products or services we provide to you.
The name and email address you provide us are used to send you emails. Our Site(s) also log the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent system abuse.
Our websites can send emails using SendFox and the WordPress system plugins. We also send emails through the Substack writing platform and our Fourthwall shop website. These sending services allow us to track email opens and clicks. We use this information to improve the content of our eNewsletters and updates.
No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside our websites except the email address.
THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
COMMENT POLICY
Two words: Be nice. People worldwide already spend too much time tearing each other down and competing with one another.
GfreeDeliciously is not the place for harsh criticisms or negativity – we are all in this together – everyone is on the same team! And while I welcome ideas from readers of all walks of life, I ask that those ideas be expressed with respect and honor for one another with dignity and a little (or, if the situation warrants, BIG) dollop of grace.
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 detect spam.
An anonymized string generated from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, avoid those with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). You don’t want to do this because visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited that website.
These websites may collect your data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This includes tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
ANALYTICS – WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH & HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata remain indefinite. However, it automatically recognizes and approves any follow-up comments rather than placing them in a moderation queue.
Users who register on our website(s) (if any) also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that the user’s username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
THE RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this Site or any of our other sites, or have left comments, you can request an export of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. That data does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
We may check visitor comments through an automated spam detection service.
SENSITIVE DATA
We do not collect Sensitive Data, which refers to details about your race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliations, or sexual orientation.
Where we are required by law or under the terms of the contract between you and us to collect personal data, and you do not provide that data when requested, we may be unable to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you ordered, and we will notify you at that time.
We will only use your data for the purpose for which it was initially collected or, if necessary, for a reasonably compatible purpose. For more information, please email us at hello@gfreedeliciously.com.
We may process your account data without your knowledge or consent, where required or permitted by law.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send marketing communications to you if:
- You have made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services, or
- If you agreed to receive marketing communications, and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving such communications since.
In addition, under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us.
You can ask third parties or us to stop sending you marketing messages at any point in time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you, or by emailing us at hello@gfreedeliciously.com.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this does not apply to personal data provided from other purchases or transactions.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. Access to your personal data is allowed only to employees and partners who have a business need to know it.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under data protection laws, you have rights about your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, object to processing, portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent. If you wish to exercise these rights, please email us at hello@gfreedeliciously.com.
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to request that it be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you want to exercise this right, please email us at hello@gfreedeliciously.com.
Additionally, suppose you are a European resident. In that case, we are processing your information to fulfill any contracts we may have with you (for example, if you place an order through the Site) or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Please note that your information will be transferred outside Europe, including Canada and the United States.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy occasionally to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please get in touch with us by email at hello@gfreedeliciously.com or by mail using the details provided below:
W1347 Pit Road, Mount Calvary, WI 53057-9508, United States
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER
Some sections of our sites will allow you to purchase products and services from other merchants, not us. Some links we post on our Site(s) are “affiliate links.” This means that if you click the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no additional cost to you. *
We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or any other aspects of these products and services. In addition, a merchant will likely have privacy and data collection practices different from ours. Suppose you purchase from a merchant on their Site or on a site to which we have linked. In that case, the information obtained during your visit to the merchant’s online store or Site, and the information you provide as part of the transaction, such as your name, email address, street address, telephone number, and credit card number, may be collected by the merchant and us. For more information about a merchant, its online store, privacy policies, or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit the merchant’s website and click its information links, or contact the merchant directly.
Additionally,
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
*Disclosed per the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”