The Therapeutic Chef

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 11, 2026

A simple promise: we collect the minimum we need to teach you to cook, we never sell your data, and you can ask us to delete it any time.

This Privacy Policy explains what information The Therapeutic Chef, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects when you visit thetherapeuticchef.com (the “Site”), enroll in our cooking course, book a discovery call, or sign up for our free meal plan and newsletter, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. If anything here is unclear, email us at hello@thetherapeuticchef.com.

1.Information we collect

Information you give us directly

Contact details— your name and email address when you sign up for the free meal plan, the newsletter, the course, or a discovery call.
Booking details— the date and time of your discovery call or one-on-one cooking session, plus any dietary preferences and notes you choose to share when scheduling.
Course information— the questionnaire answers, kitchen photos, goals, and dietary preferences you share with Chef Jake during the consultation and one-on-one session, so we can teach you well.
Messages— anything you write to us by email, contact form, or social media DM.

Information collected automatically

Basic analytics— pages viewed, approximate location (city / region), device type, browser, and referring site. We use this to understand which pages are useful and to fix what’s broken.
Cookies and similar tech— small files that keep you logged in to the course, remember your preferences, and power analytics. See Section 6 below.

Information from third parties

Payment confirmationsfrom our payment processor (the last four digits of your card and the billing zip code — we never see or store your full card number).
Course platform data from Kajabi about your progress and login activity.

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Lead-magnet form.When you submit our free meal-plan form, we store your email address, the survey answers you provide, your IP address, and your browser’s user-agent string in our own database. IP and user-agent are retained for up to 12 months for abuse investigation. Your email and answers are also transmitted to Kajabi (our course + email platform) to deliver the meal plan and send follow-up tips; see Kajabi’s privacy policy for their handling.

What we do not collect:we do not ask for, collect, or want sensitive health information, medical records, social security numbers, or government IDs. Please don’t send those to us. The Therapeutic Chef is a culinary education business, not a healthcare provider, and we are not set up to handle protected health information.

2.How we use your information

Purpose	Why
Deliver the course and the one-on-one sessions	To teach you and tailor the work to your kitchen.
Send the free meal plan and weekly newsletter	Because you asked for it. You can unsubscribe any time.
Schedule and follow up on discovery calls	To talk with you and decide if the course is a good fit.
Process payments and prevent fraud	To get you enrolled and protect both of us.
Improve the Site and the course	To know what's working and what to fix.
Reply to your messages	Because you wrote to us.
Comply with legal obligations	Tax, accounting, and lawful requests.

We do not use your information to train machine-learning models, and we do not use it to send you advertising for unrelated products.

3.How we share your information

We share information only with the service providers that help us run the business, and only the minimum they need to do their job. Today these include:

Kajabi— hosts the course, processes course logins and progress.
Our payment processor(e.g., Stripe) — processes payments and stores billing data.
Our email service provider— sends the newsletter and the free meal plan.
Calendly— books discovery calls and one-on-one sessions. Receives the name, email, and dietary preferences you submit when scheduling.
Hosting and analytics providers— keep the Site online and tell us how it’s used.
Professional advisors— our accountant and, if needed, our lawyer.

We also may share information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, to protect our rights or the safety of others, or in connection with a sale or transfer of the business — in which case we’ll let you know.

We do not sell your personal information, and we never have.

4.How long we keep it

We keep your information only as long as we need it for the purposes above, then delete or anonymize it. Specifically:

Newsletter subscribers:until you unsubscribe, then we remove your address from active lists within 30 days (we keep a small suppression record so we don’t accidentally re-add you).
Course students: for the duration of your access plus seven years afterward, for tax and accounting purposes.
Discovery call notes: up to 12 months after the call.
General email correspondence: up to 24 months unless we need it longer.

5.Your rights and choices

Wherever you live, you can email hello@thetherapeuticchef.com to:

Ask what personal information we have about you.
Correct anything that’s wrong.
Ask us to delete your information (subject to legal retention requirements).
Unsubscribe from the newsletter — every email also has an unsubscribe link.
Opt out of analytics cookies.

If you live in California, the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction with specific privacy rights, you also have the right to access, port, restrict, or object to certain processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. We will honor those requests as the law requires. We do not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

6.Cookies

We use a small number of cookies. Strictly necessary cookies keep the Site working and keep you signed in to the course. Analytics cookies help us understand traffic in aggregate. We do not use cross-site advertising cookies. Your browser lets you block or delete cookies; doing so may break parts of the Site (like staying logged in to the course).

7.Children

The Services are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please email us and we will delete it.

8.Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information — encrypted connections, strong passwords, limited access, reputable vendors. No system is perfectly secure, though, so we can’t guarantee absolute security. If we ever discover a breach affecting your information, we’ll notify you as required by law.

9.International visitors

We are based in Colorado, in the United States, and our service providers are primarily in the U.S. If you visit the Site from outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to and processed in the U.S., where privacy laws may differ from those in your country. By using the Services, you consent to that transfer.

10.Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, for material changes, give you reasonable notice (for example, by email or a notice on the Site).

11.Contact

For any privacy question — or just to say hi — email hello@thetherapeuticchef.com. The Therapeutic Chef, LLC is based in Mancos, Colorado, USA.