The short version: I ask for one thing, your email address, and only if you want what I send. I don't sell it, I don't share it, and you can have it deleted by asking.
Nothing at all unless you subscribe.
If you do give me your email address, I store:
That's the entire list. No name, no age, no phone number.
If you send me a message through the form on this site, I keep what you typed: your email address so I can reply, your message, and the date you sent it. I keep it as long as I might reasonably still need to answer you, and I delete it when I don't.
I send you what you signed up for, and occasionally new writing when I have something genuinely useful. That's the whole purpose of the list. I don't sell it, rent it, trade it, or hand it to anybody, and I don't run advertising against it.
Typing your address isn't enough on its own. I send one email asking you to confirm, and if you don't click it, your address sits there inactive and never receives anything else. Someone else typing your address in cannot sign you up.
Two companies, both doing ordinary plumbing:
None of them get your information for their own purposes.
There are none. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no tracking of any kind, and no cookies for ordinary visitors. Nothing follows you from page to page, and nothing follows you off this site. You can read every word here and leave no record behind.
You can ask me what I hold about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. Write to [email protected] and I'll do it. You don't have to give a reason, you don't have to explain, and nothing bad happens to you for asking.
To get off the list specifically, click unsubscribe in any email I've sent you, or just reply and say the word. If you'd rather I delete the record entirely instead of only stopping the emails, say that and I'll do that instead.
I don't sell your personal information, and I don't share it for advertising. I never have. If you're in California, Colorado, or one of the other states with a privacy law that gives you the right to opt out of that, there's nothing here for you to opt out of, because I don't do it in the first place. Your other rights under those laws, to know, to correct, and to delete, are the ones above, and they're open to everybody who writes to me regardless of where they live.
This site is written for adults. It isn't intended for anyone under 16, and I don't knowingly keep information belonging to a child. If you think I have, write to me and I'll delete it.
If I start collecting something new, this page gets updated before I do it, and the date below changes. I'd rather over-explain than surprise you.
Write to [email protected]. It reaches me directly, and I read it.
Annette Thompson operates RecipeMemoir at recipememoir.com, from Boulder, Colorado.
Last updated 2026-08-08.