Your privacy matters to us not just as a legal formality but because we genuinely care about the people who visit our site and trust us with their information. This page explains what we collect, why we collect it, and what you can do about it. We’ve tried to keep it plain and honest. No jargon, no fluff.
1. Who We Are
Lekker Kitchen is a South African-inspired halal food brand based in California. Our website is https://lekkerkitchen.com/. If anything on this page raises a question, you can always reach us through the Contact page. We’re happy to chat.
2. What We Collect and When
We only collect information when there’s a real reason to.
When you place an order, we’ll ask for your name, email, phone number, delivery address, and payment details. That’s what we need to get your order to you properly.
When you fill out a catering inquiry, we collect your name, contact details, event information, and anything specific you share with us so we can respond with something actually useful.
When you sign up for our newsletter, you just enter your email address. That’s it.
When you leave a comment on our blog, you provide your name, email, and an optional website URL. If you tick the box, we can save those details in a cookie so you don’t have to retype them next time.
When you simply browse the site, some technical data is collected automatically (your IP address, browser type, which pages you visit, and how long you spend on them). This is collected through cookies and analytics tools, it helps us understand how the site is performing and where we can make it better.
3. How We Use Your Information
Your information only ever gets used for things that make sense given why you shared it with us in the first place.
If you placed an order, we use it to get that order to you and keep you updated along the way. If you reached out about catering, we use it to respond properly and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. If you subscribed to our newsletter, you’ll hear from us, and if you didn’t, you won’t. We also look at how the site is being used so we can keep improving it, and we take reasonable steps to catch fraud or spam before it becomes a problem. There are legal and accounting obligations on our end, too, so some data needs to be kept for that reason.
Your personal information is yours. We will never sell it, share it for profit, or hand it to anyone who has no business having it.
4. Cookies
Cookies are small files that sit on your device after you visit a website. We use a few different kinds:
Comment cookies—if you leave a comment and choose to save your details, a cookie remembers your name, email, and website for a year, so future comments are easier.
Login cookies — when you visit the login page, a temporary cookie checks whether your browser accepts cookies at all. It holds no personal data and disappears when you close your browser.
Analytics cookies — we use Google Analytics to get a sense of how people use the site. The data this collects is anonymized.
You can manage or switch off cookies in your browser settings at any time. Just know that some parts of the site might not work as well if you do.
5. Embedded Content
Some pages include embedded content from other platforms, a video, a social post, that kind of thing. When that content loads, it behaves as if you’ve visited that external site directly. Those platforms have their own privacy policies and may collect data accordingly. That’s outside our control, but we think it’s worth flagging.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
We don’t share your data broadly. The only people who ever see your data are the ones we genuinely need to keep things running: payment processors to handle transactions, delivery partners to get your order to the right door, email platforms if you’ve signed up for our newsletter, spam filters for comment protection, and analytics tools to help us understand how the site is doing.
Every single one of them is held to the same standard: handle data securely and follow the law. We don’t hand your information to anyone just because it’s convenient.
7. How Long We Keep It
We hold onto your data for as long as we actually need it, then we let it go.
Order data is typically kept for up to seven years because of accounting and legal requirements. Newsletter subscribers stay on our list until they unsubscribe. Comment data is removed when you ask us to delete it.
8. Your Rights
Depending on where you are, you have real rights over your personal data:
- Access—ask us what we hold on you
- Correction — ask us to fix anything wrong
- Deletion — ask us to remove your data
- Objection — push back on how we’re using it in certain cases
- Portability — request a copy of your data in a usable format
We’ll do our best to honor every request. There are some situations with legal obligations, for example, where we might need to hold onto certain data even after a deletion request, but we’ll be transparent about that.
To make a request, just head to our contact page.
9. How We Protect Your Data
We use SSL encryption across the site, meaning any data between your browser and our servers is transmitted securely. We’ve also put sensible technical and organizational safeguards in place. That said, no internet transmission is 100% foolproof, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
10. Images You Upload
If you ever upload images to the site, please be aware that images can carry embedded location data (EXIF GPS data). Other visitors might be able to download those images and extract that information, so it’s worth stripping that data from your files before uploading if privacy is a concern.
11. Changes to This Policy
If we update this policy, we’ll change the date at the top of the page. We’d encourage you to check back occasionally, especially if something changes in how you use the site.
12. Get in Touch
Questions? Concerns? Something seems off? Reach out through the contact page on our website. We read every message.
Lekker Kitchen, California, United States https://lekkerkitchen.com/