Privacy policy

Last updated: 25 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Cupindy (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data when you use cupindy.com (“the Site”). By using the Site, you agree to the practices described below. If you do not agree, please stop using the Site.

The short version

  • We sell nothing. We take no orders, no payments and no delivery details.
  • The only personal data you give us on purpose is your email address (if you subscribe) and anything you write to us.
  • We earn from advertising (Google AdSense, and Mediavine, which manages advertising on the Site) and from Amazon affiliate links. We measure the Site with Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.
  • We never sell, rent or give away your email address or your messages.
  • Our advertising partners use cookies to choose and measure ads. Under some US state laws that counts as “selling” or “sharing” personal information. Section 13 explains how to opt out.

What changed on 25 October 2026: we named every service that runs on the Site and added Mediavine (section 5). See section 17.

Contents

  1. What this site is
  2. Personal data you give us
  3. Data collected automatically
  4. Cookies and similar technologies
  5. Advertising — Google AdSense and Mediavine
  6. Affiliate links — Amazon Associates
  7. Analytics
  8. Email and updates
  9. Use of AI technologies
  10. Why we use your data
  11. Who we share data with
  12. How long we keep data
  13. Your rights
  14. Children
  15. Keeping your information safe
  16. Links to other sites
  17. Changes to this policy
  18. Contact us

1. What This Site Is

Cupindy is an independent home and kitchen publication. We do not sell products. We publish research-based buying guides and safety explainers, and we earn money in two ways:

  • Advertising shown on our pages by Google AdSense and by Mediavine and its advertising partners
  • Affiliate commissions when a reader buys something through a link on our site

We stopped selling products in July 2026. Old product pages are kept as an archive. If you find a page on this Site that appears to offer something for sale, it is an obsolete page and nothing can be purchased through it. We take no orders, no payments, and no delivery details.

Our largest group of readers is in the United States, and this policy is written with that audience in mind.

2. Personal Data You Give Us

There are only two ways you can hand us personal data on purpose:

  • Your email address, if you choose to subscribe to our updates
  • Anything you write to us, if you send us a message or report a correction

That is the complete list. We do not ask for your name, your address, your phone number or your payment details, because we have nothing to ship you and nothing to charge you for.

3. Data Collected Automatically

Like almost every website, ours records technical information when you visit:

  • Device type and screen size
  • Browser and operating system
  • IP address, and the approximate location it suggests
  • Pages viewed, time spent, and the page you arrived from
  • How you scroll, click and move through a page (see section 7)
  • Cookie and advertising identifiers

We use this to understand which articles are useful, to find and fix pages that are hard to use, to diagnose faults, and because our advertising and analytics providers require it to function.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. The Site uses them for three purposes:

  • Essential: set by our hosting platform, Shopify, so pages load and work correctly
  • Analytics: set by Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to count visits and see how pages are read and used
  • Advertising: set by Google (AdSense), by Mediavine and by the advertising partners they work with, to select, limit and measure the ads you see

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you will see a consent message that lets you choose how your data is used for advertising.

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the Site from working. Blocking advertising cookies does not remove the ads; it means they are chosen without reference to your browsing.

5. Advertising — Google AdSense and Mediavine

We display advertising supplied by Google AdSense and managed by Mediavine. This section explains what that means for your data.

We do not control which advertisers appear, and we receive no personal information about you from Google or Mediavine — only aggregate reports about how many people saw or clicked an ad.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

6. Affiliate Links — Amazon Associates

Cupindy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click an Amazon link on our Site, Amazon records that the click came from us, usually by setting a cookie that lasts 24 hours. If you buy something in that window, Amazon pays us a commission at no extra cost to you.

We never see who you are, what you bought, or what you paid. Amazon reports only totals: how many clicks came from a given article, how many items were ordered, and what we earned. What happens on Amazon is governed by Amazon’s own privacy notice, not by ours.

A commission never changes which products we recommend or what we say about them, including the drawbacks.

7. Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to measure traffic, and Google Search Console to see which searches bring people here. These tools tell us how many people read an article and where they came from. They do not tell us who you are.

Shopify, our hosting platform, also records basic visit statistics (pages viewed and traffic sources) for us.

We also use Microsoft Clarity to understand how readers use the Site. Clarity records anonymous behavior such as clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, and shows it to us as heatmaps and session replays. We use this only to find pages that are hard to read or use and to fix them. Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising collect this usage data using first- and third-party cookies and similar technologies. For how Microsoft collects and uses this data, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your activity using Google’s browser opt-out add-on.

8. Email and Updates

If you subscribe, we store your email address and use it for one purpose: to tell you when we find something worth knowing — a cookware recall, a manufacturer changing what it publishes, a safety filing that contradicts a label.

  • We do not send on a fixed schedule, and we do not send advertising on behalf of anyone else.
  • We never sell, rent or share your email address.
  • Every email carries an unsubscribe link that works immediately.
  • You can also unsubscribe at any time by emailing us.

Subscriber addresses are held in our hosting platform, Shopify, and are deleted on request.

9. Use of AI Technologies

We think you should know where machines are involved in what you read.

  • We use AI tools to help draft, structure and edit articles. Every published article is reviewed by a person, and the research behind it — manufacturer filings, regulatory documents, product listings — is read and checked by a person before it is written up.
  • Our Arabic-language articles are machine translations of our English originals. They have not all been reviewed by a native speaker, and we say so rather than imply otherwise.
  • We do not use AI to fabricate product photographs, prices, test results or quotations.

If you find something inaccurate, tell us and we will correct it.

10. Why We Use Your Data

  • To run the Site: serve pages, keep them working, diagnose faults
  • To understand our readers: which articles are read, which are not, which searches bring people here, and where pages are hard to use
  • To earn a living from the Site: serve advertising and attribute affiliate clicks
  • To keep in touch: only if you asked us to, by subscribing
  • To meet legal obligations: where we are required to keep or produce records

11. Who We Share Data With

Data is collected by, or shared with, only the services that make the Site work:

  • Shopify — hosting, basic visit statistics and the subscriber list
  • Google — Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console and Google AdSense advertising
  • Mediavine — management of the advertising on the Site, together with the advertising partners it works with
  • Microsoft — Microsoft Clarity analytics (heatmaps and session replays)
  • Amazon — Amazon Associates affiliate click attribution

Each processes data under its own privacy terms. We do not sell, rent or give away your email address or your messages, and we do not share them with data brokers. The advertising cookies described in sections 4 and 5 are the one way in which data about your visit reaches advertising companies. We have no suppliers, no delivery partners and no payment processor, because we sell nothing.

12. How Long We Keep Data

Analytics data is retained according to Google’s and Microsoft’s standard retention periods. Subscriber email addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. Messages you send us are kept while the matter is open and for a reasonable period afterwards.

13. Your Rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

  • Tell you what personal data we hold about you
  • Correct anything that is wrong
  • Delete your data
  • Stop sending you email

In practice, the only personal data we are likely to hold is your email address, so most requests are answered quickly.

Readers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom also have rights to object to processing and to receive a copy of their data in a portable form.

Readers in California and other US states with privacy laws have the right to know, delete and correct personal information, and to opt out of its “sale” or “sharing.” We do not sell your email address or your messages. The advertising cookies set by Google, Mediavine and their partners (section 5) may count as “selling” or “sharing” under those laws. To opt out of them, use Google Ads Settings and optout.aboutads.info, or block advertising cookies in your browser. We will not treat you differently for using any of these rights.

To exercise any of these, email [email protected]. We will not charge you or make it difficult.

14. Children

This Site is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has given us their email address, tell us and we will delete it.

15. Keeping Your Information Safe

The Site runs over HTTPS, and subscriber data is held inside Shopify’s platform under its security controls. Access is limited to the people who run the Site.

We hold very little about you, which is itself the strongest protection we can offer. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we do not claim otherwise.

16. Links to Other Sites

Our articles link to manufacturers, regulators and retailers. Once you follow a link you are on someone else’s site, under their privacy policy, and we have no control over what they collect.

17. Changes to This Policy

We update this page when what we do changes. The date at the top shows the last revision. Material changes will be noted on the page rather than made quietly.

  • 25 October 2026: named Google AdSense and Mediavine as our advertising services (sections 1, 4, 5 and 11); listed every analytics service, including Shopify’s visit statistics (section 7); explained how US state “sale” and “sharing” rules apply to advertising cookies and how to opt out (section 13).
  • 7 October 2026: added Microsoft Clarity (sections 3, 4, 7, 10, 11 and 12) and a short summary at the top.

18. Contact Us

Questions, corrections, or a request about your data:
[email protected]

Email is the fastest way to reach us, and we reply within a few working days.