Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 7, 2026
The Fat Tuscan respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit https://fattuscan.com, sign up for our email list, purchase a gift certificate, register for a cooking class, contact us, or otherwise interact with our website.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through this website. It does not apply to information collected offline, through third-party websites, social media platforms, payment processors, or services that are not controlled by The Fat Tuscan.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://fattuscan.com.
The Fat Tuscan offers cooking classes, private events, team-building cooking classes, gift certificates, culinary experiences, and related services in Gainesville, Florida.
Business name: The Fat Tuscan
Address: 725 NE 1st St, Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 505-5648
Email: info@fattuscan.com
Information We Collect
We collect information in a limited number of ways, including information you choose to provide and information that may be collected automatically through website technology.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
When you interact with our website, we may collect information you provide, such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Billing address
- Shipping or delivery-related information, where applicable
- Gift certificate sender and recipient information
- Gift certificate message details
- Cooking class, private event, catering, or team-building inquiry details
- Newsletter or email signup information
- Information included in your message or inquiry
- Payment-related information processed through a third-party payment provider
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our website unless it is necessary for your order, registration, or inquiry. This includes Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, medical information, passwords, or other confidential information that is not needed to provide our services.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, security tools, analytics tools, cookie consent tools, e-commerce tools, WordPress-related technology, or similar services. This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Referring website or search engine
- Date and time of visit
- General usage and performance data
- Cart, checkout, or order-related technical data
- Cookie and consent preference data
- Accessibility, language, or display preferences, where applicable
How We Use Information
The Fat Tuscan may use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To respond to inquiries and communications
- To process gift certificate purchases and related order details
- To register or communicate with visitors about cooking classes, private events, catering, team-building events, or other services
- To send requested newsletters, recipes, event updates, discounts, or promotional communications
- To provide customer service and follow-up support
- To maintain, operate, secure, and improve the website
- To support website accessibility, usability, and language or display preferences
- To understand general website usage and performance
- To help protect the website from spam, abuse, unauthorized access, fraud, and security threats
- To comply with applicable business, legal, accounting, tax, administrative, or recordkeeping obligations
We do not use website form submissions or order information to make automated decisions about visitors.
Orders, Gift Certificates, and Online Payments
Our website may allow visitors to purchase gift certificates, register for classes, or complete related transactions. When you place an order, we may collect the information needed to process and fulfill that order, such as sender information, recipient information, delivery date, email address, billing details, and order details.
Payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not store complete credit card or payment card details on our website servers. Payment processors may collect and process payment information according to their own privacy policies, security practices, and terms.
We may retain order-related information as needed for customer service, accounting, tax, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and business recordkeeping purposes.
Cooking Classes, Private Events, and Catering Inquiries
If you contact us about cooking classes, private cooking classes, team-building events, catering, travel experiences, or other services, we may use the information you provide to respond to your request, discuss availability, coordinate details, provide pricing or scheduling information, and follow up regarding your inquiry.
Information submitted for event-related purposes may be retained for business, scheduling, communication, and administrative purposes.
Email List and Marketing Communications
Our website may allow visitors to sign up for email updates, recipes, event announcements, special discounts, or other communications from The Fat Tuscan.
If you subscribe to our email list, we may use your email address to send requested communications. You may unsubscribe from non-essential marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the email or by contacting us directly.
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Similar Tools
Depending on the current website configuration, The Fat Tuscan may use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or similar analytics tools to help us understand how visitors use the website and to improve website performance, usability, content, and marketing.
Analytics tools may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the website, browser type, device type, general location data, referral source, and other usage information. These tools may use cookies or similar technologies.
Google may process information according to its own privacy practices. You can learn more about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use Google services here:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
You can also review Google’s Privacy Policy here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Visitors may be able to control or limit certain analytics cookies through our cookie consent tool, browser settings, or opt-out tools provided by Google or other analytics providers.
Marketing, Advertising, and Remarketing Tools
Depending on the tools enabled on the website, we may use marketing, advertising, or remarketing technologies to understand general website performance, measure campaign effectiveness, or show relevant content and advertising.
These tools may use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies. If such tools are enabled, visitors may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies through our cookie consent tool, browser settings, or privacy tools provided by the relevant platform.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to support website functionality, e-commerce features, analytics, security, accessibility features, performance, marketing, and user preferences.
Cookies may be used for purposes such as:
- Remembering cookie consent choices
- Supporting basic website functionality
- Supporting cart, checkout, order, and gift certificate functionality
- Supporting website security and spam prevention
- Measuring website traffic and performance, if analytics are enabled
- Helping pages load more efficiently
- Remembering accessibility toolbar preferences
- Remembering language, display, or usability settings
- Supporting email signup or form functionality
- Supporting WordPress administrator login sessions
- Understanding general marketing or campaign performance, if enabled
Depending on your location, browser settings, and the tools enabled on the website, you may be able to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies through our cookie consent tool.
You can also adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
Website Plugins and Third-Party Tools
Our website is built with WordPress and may use plugins and third-party tools to provide design, e-commerce, forms, checkout, email signup, performance, security, accessibility, analytics, SEO, marketing, cookie consent, and related website functionality.
These tools may process limited technical information as needed to provide their services. Examples may include:
- WordPress: used to build, display, and manage website content.
- E-commerce and checkout tools: used to support cart, order, checkout, and gift certificate functionality.
- Payment processors: used to securely process payments.
- Email signup or marketing tools: used to manage newsletter signups, recipes, event updates, and promotional communications.
- Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or similar analytics tools: used only if enabled to measure website traffic and usage.
- Cookie consent tools: used to display cookie notices and manage visitor cookie preferences.
- Accessibility tools, including OneTap: used to provide accessibility features and may remember accessibility-related preferences selected by visitors.
- SEO, caching, image optimization, and performance tools: used to improve website visibility, speed, and functionality.
- Security tools: used to help protect the website from unauthorized access, spam, abuse, malware, and other security threats.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies and data practices. We do not control the privacy practices of third-party providers.
Accessibility and Language Tools
Our website may use accessibility and language tools, including the OneTap accessibility toolbar, to help improve usability for visitors. These tools may allow visitors to adjust visual settings, contrast, text size, navigation options, language options, or other display preferences.
Accessibility-related tools may use cookies or local storage to remember selected preferences. These tools are provided to support usability and do not replace our ongoing efforts to improve website accessibility.
Security and Spam Prevention
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and security measures to help protect the website and information submitted through it. This may include hosting security, firewall tools, login protection, malware scanning, spam prevention, payment security measures, and review of suspicious activity.
No website, server, email system, online form, checkout process, payment platform, or online transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information submitted through the website will be completely protected from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
Photos, Events, and Public Content
Our website and social media pages may display photos, videos, event highlights, testimonials, class descriptions, food photography, chef information, recipes, or other content related to The Fat Tuscan and its services.
If you submit or authorize the use of photos, videos, testimonials, stories, or event-related content, we may use them for website, social media, marketing, promotional, educational, or business purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Comments and Public User Accounts
Our website is not intended to provide public visitor accounts or public comment areas for general website visitors.
If public comments or visitor account registration are enabled in the future, we may collect information submitted through those features, along with related technical information such as IP address, browser user agent, and spam-prevention data.
Media Uploads
General website visitors are not intended to upload images, videos, documents, or media files directly to this website unless a specific upload feature is provided.
If image or file uploads are enabled in the future, uploaded files may contain embedded metadata, including location data. Visitors should avoid uploading images with embedded location data or other unnecessary personal information.
Embedded Content and Links to Other Websites
Our website may include links to third-party websites or embedded content, such as maps, videos, images, social media links, payment processors, event resources, travel resources, or other external services.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited that website directly. These third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with their content.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, or security of third-party websites.
Social Media
Our website may link to social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, or other platforms. If you interact with those platforms, they may collect information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Who We Share Information With
We do not sell personal information for money.
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the website, process orders, process payments, manage gift certificates, respond to inquiries, send requested communications, maintain security, analyze website usage, manage cookie preferences, provide accessibility functionality, deliver email, provide business support, or perform administrative functions.
These may include website hosting providers, payment processors, email providers, e-commerce tools, analytics providers, marketing platforms if enabled, security tools, cookie consent tools, accessibility tools, and website maintenance providers.
We may also disclose information if required to do so by law, legal process, court order, government request, tax or accounting requirement, or to protect the rights, safety, property, or security of The Fat Tuscan, our website, our customers, our visitors, or others.
How Long We Retain Information
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected, including order processing, customer service, event coordination, business communication, website administration, legal compliance, accounting, tax, fraud prevention, security, and recordkeeping purposes.
Order information, gift certificate information, class registration information, contact inquiries, and email signup information may be retained for business follow-up and administrative purposes unless deletion is requested and we are not required to retain the information for legal, tax, accounting, security, contractual, or legitimate business reasons.
Analytics, cookie, and technical data may be retained according to the settings of our analytics tools, hosting provider, security tools, cookie consent tools, and related website systems.
Your Choices and Privacy Rights
You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have submitted through the website, subject to legal, security, accounting, tax, contractual, or legitimate business retention requirements.
You may also ask us to stop contacting you regarding a website inquiry or unsubscribe from non-essential email communications.
You may manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent tool.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is intended for adults and families interested in cooking classes, private events, gift certificates, and related culinary experiences. It is not directed to children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If information about a child is submitted in connection with a class, event, or family activity, it should be submitted by a parent, guardian, or authorized adult.
If we become aware that we have collected personal information directly from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete or address that information.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is not a uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to them automatically. Visitors may manage cookies through browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent tool.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, plugins, tools, services, business practices, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of the website after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us:
The Fat Tuscan
725 NE 1st St
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 505-5648
Email: info@fattuscan.com
Website: https://fattuscan.com