Updated: March 6, 2026

Introduction

We care about your privacy online. This Privacy Policy explains how Kalejunkie Inc (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and shares your personal information when you visit kalejunkie.com (the “Website”). Our goal is to safeguard the privacy of all our visitors and users; to explain who we are and how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information; and to explain your rights in relation to your personal information.

By using this Website, you agree to the following Privacy Policy. Please read this policy carefully before using this Website. This Policy applies to this Website, and any sites, mobile apps, or products that display or link to this Policy. It does not apply to any website, mobile app, service, or product that does not display or link to this Policy or that contains its own privacy policy.

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

For avoidance of doubt, you acknowledge that the transmission of certain technical information (such as IP address, browser type, and routing data) is a necessary and lawful part of Internet communication in order to provide you with the information and services of this Website and that you have given your consent for us to collect this information to operate our Website.

By accessing or using this Website, you agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Company’s collection, use, disclosure, or retention of your personal information, including but not limited to any claim under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), or similar state privacy or wiretap laws, shall be resolved exclusively through binding arbitration, rather than in court. You waive any right to a jury trial.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company retains the right to bring or move an individual claim in small-claims court in Marin County, California to resolve disputes that fall within that court’s jurisdictional limits.

Individual Arbitration Only

All disputes must be brought in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class, collective, consolidated, or representative participant. The arbitrator shall not consolidate or join the claims of other users. If a court determines that this waiver of class or representative actions is unenforceable with respect to a particular claim, that claim must be severed and proceed in court while the remaining claims continue in arbitration.

Governing Forum and Rules

Arbitration shall take place in Marin County, California before the American Arbitration Association under its rules. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. This Agreement and any dispute arising hereunder shall be governed solely by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. No other state’s law shall apply extraterritorially to conduct occurring wholly outside that state, unless the Company expressly designates that state’s law in writing for a particular agreement or transaction. All arbitration proceedings shall remain confidential, except as disclosure is required by law.

Pre-Arbitration Notice and Informal Resolution

Before initiating arbitration, you must send a written notice of dispute to nicole@kalejunkie.com identifying your name, contact information, and the specific date and nature of the claim, including any alleged technology or data collection practice involved. Both parties will make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute informally. If the dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days, either party may commence arbitration.

Opt-Out Option

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by providing written notice to nicole@kalejunkie.com within thirty (30) days after first accepting this Privacy Policy or otherwise providing personal information through this Website. If you opt out, you retain your right to bring individual claims in court, but waive participation in any class or representative action.

Safe-Harbor

Nothing in this clause waives any statutory or common-law defenses, including the defense that the Company’s use of cookies, pixels, or analytics technologies is permitted under applicable law.

Survival and Severability

This arbitration provision survives termination of your relationship with the Company. If any portion of this provision is found unenforceable, that portion shall be severed and the remainder enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, except that if the class/representative-action waiver is found unenforceable, the entire arbitration provision shall be void as to that claim.

Website Use

No Use for Children

Our Website and any offerings or services on it are not intended for anyone under 13 years of age or anyone considered a child under their country’s laws. If you are under 13, you may not use or provide any information on this Website, use any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us.

If we learn that we have received personal information from a child without validated parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at nicole@kalejunkie.com.

Personal Information We Collect and Use

We collect a variety of information from you when you visit our Website or interact with us on social media or with advertising partners. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically consent to our collection of the data described below, to our use of the data, to the processing of this data, and to our sharing of the data with third-party processors as needed for our legitimate business interests. We retain this data as long as necessary for business purposes, legal purposes, or dispute resolution.

We use reasonable measures to protect your personal information, including administrative and technical measures, but we cannot guarantee zero security risks.

The information we collect may include:

Personal Data: Personal data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, email address, telephone number, or demographic information like your age, gender, or hometown. You consent to giving us this information by providing it to us voluntarily on our Website. You provide some of this information when you subscribe to our newsletter, enter a giveaway, or contact us. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary.

Derivative Data: Derivative data is information that our servers automatically collect about you when you access our Website, such as your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that you access our Website, and the specific pages you view. If you are using a mobile device, our servers may collect information about your device name and type, your country of origin, and other interactions with our Website.

Social Networking Data: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include your name, your social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture, and any other public information linked to those accounts. If you do not want us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change your relevant privacy settings.

Mobile Device Data: If you use our Website via a mobile device or app, we may collect information about your mobile device, including device ID, model and manufacturer, and location information.

Other Data: On occasion, you may give us additional data by entering a contest or giveaway or to participate in a survey. You will be prompted for this information, and it will be clear that you are voluntarily offering this kind of information.

Tracking Technologies and Online Interactions

We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, session replay tools, and similar tracking technologies to operate our Website, understand how visitors interact with our content, improve user experience, measure performance, enhance security, prevent fraud, and support marketing and advertising efforts.

These technologies may collect information about your interactions with our Website, including pages viewed, features used, clicks, scrolling activity, time spent on pages, referring URLs, and general device or browser information. In some cases, this may include recordings or reconstructions of Website interactions (commonly referred to as “session replay” or interaction monitoring).

We use this information to:

• operate and maintain our Website;
• analyze usage and improve functionality;
• diagnose technical issues;
• protect against misuse or fraudulent activity; and
• support marketing, advertising, or communications efforts.

We do not intentionally use these technologies to capture the contents of private communications, such as payment information, passwords, or sensitive personal data submitted through secure forms.

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to collect and analyze information about how visitors use our Website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website is transmitted to Google. This information is used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on Website activity. For more information about how Google uses data when you use our Website, visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You may opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Meta (Facebook) Pixel

We use the Meta (Facebook) Pixel on our Website. The Meta Pixel is an analytics tool that allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding the actions people take on our Website. The pixel collects data that helps us track conversions from Facebook and Instagram ads, build targeted audiences for future ads, and remarket to people who have already taken some kind of action on our Website. The information collected is anonymous and does not allow us to see the personal data of individual users. However, the collected data is saved and processed by Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta may be able to connect the data with your Facebook or Instagram account and use it for its own advertising purposes, in accordance with Meta’s Data Policy at facebook.com/about/privacy. You can manage your ad preferences in your Facebook and Instagram account settings.

Pinterest Tag

We use the Pinterest Tag on our Website to track conversions, optimize our Pinterest advertising campaigns, and build audiences for future ad targeting. The Pinterest Tag collects data about actions visitors take on our Website after viewing our Pinterest ads. For more information about how Pinterest uses your data, please visit policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy. You can opt out of Pinterest’s personalized advertising by adjusting your ad settings at pinterest.com/settings/privacy.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

This 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 allaboutcookies.org.

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 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 the National Advertising Initiative opt out page at thenai.org/opt-out. You may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website at optout.aboutads.info and the Network Advertising Initiative website at optout.networkadvertising.org to learn more about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at youradchoices.com/appchoices 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.com/ad-partners.

Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our Website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products and services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products and services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud and security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement at microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement.

Email Service Providers

We use Flodesk and Substack to manage our email newsletters and communications. When you subscribe to our newsletter or email list, your email address and any other information you provide (such as your name) is transmitted to and stored by these third-party email service providers. These providers may use cookies and tracking technologies (such as open tracking and click tracking) to measure the performance of our email communications. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of Flodesk (flodesk.com/privacy) and Substack (substack.com/privacy) for more information about how they handle your data. You may unsubscribe from our email communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in every email.

Your Choices

You may control or limit the use of certain tracking technologies through your browser settings, device preferences, or by interacting with any cookie consent or preference management tools made available on our Website. Please note that disabling certain technologies may affect Website functionality.

By accessing or using our Website after being presented with notice of these tracking practices, you acknowledge and consent to our use of tracking technologies as described in this Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

How We Use Your Information

Your personal information allows us to offer you certain products and services, including the use of our Website; to fulfill our obligations to you; to customize your interaction with our company and our Website; and to allow us to suggest other products and services we think might interest you. We generally store your data and transmit it to a third party for processing. However, to the extent we process your data, we do so to serve our legitimate business interests (such as providing you with the opportunity to interact with our Website).

Specifically, we may use the information and data described above to:

• Correspond with you
• Contact you about new offerings that we think you will be interested in
• Interact with you via social media
• Send you a newsletter or other updates about our company or Website
• Deliver targeted advertising
• Request feedback from you
• Notify you of updates to our product and service offerings
• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems
• Administer contests or giveaways
• Generate a profile that is personalized to you, so that future interactions with our Website will be more personal
• Compile anonymous statistical data for our own use or for a third party’s use
• Assist law enforcement as necessary
• Prevent fraudulent activity on our Website
• Analyze trends to improve our Website and offerings

Why We Disclose Your Information

We may share your information with third parties in certain situations. In particular, we may share your data with third-party processors as needed to serve our legitimate business interests, which include administration of our Website, communicating with you, identifying trends, protecting the security of our company and Website, and marketing additional goods and services to you. The legal basis for our disclosure of your data is both your consent to this Privacy Policy and our own right to protect and promote our legitimate business interests.

The following are specific reasons why we may share your information.

Third-Party Processing: We may disclose your information to third parties who assist us with various tasks, including hosting services, email delivery (Flodesk, Substack), analytics (Google Analytics), advertising (Meta, Pinterest, Mediavine), session replay (Microsoft Clarity), and customer service.

By Law: We may share your data as required by law or to respond to legal process, including a subpoena, or as necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others. This includes sharing information with other parties to prevent or address fraud and to avoid credit risks.

To Protect Our Company: We may use your information to protect our company, including to investigate and remedy any violations of our rights or policies. We may also disclose your information as reasonably necessary to acquire and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice, or to exercise or defend against legal claims.

Affiliates: We may share your personal information with our business affiliates who promote our products or services for a commission fee. We require our affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. They are not allowed to spam you and must disclose they are an affiliate for us. If they do not do so, they are in violation of their affiliate terms and this Privacy Policy, and any violation of this nature should be reported to nicole@kalejunkie.com.

Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to run and manage our ads and to produce ads that appear when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visit to our Website and other websites that are contained in web cookies to offer you personalized advertisements about goods and services that might interest you. We cannot control the activities of other advertisers or websites and you should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party advertisers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

Other Third Parties: We may share information with advertisers, our investors, or other third parties for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. If we do so, we will make reasonable efforts to inform you if required by law.

Sale or Bankruptcy: If our whole company or some of its assets are sold, merged, restructured or the company goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, your information may be an asset that is transferred to a third-party successor. Such a successor is not bound by this Privacy Policy and may have its own privacy terms.

User-Generated Content: If you submit user-generated content including any comments, reviews, or posts online, that content may be viewed by others, and we may distribute that content outside the Website for any purpose.

External Links: Our Website may include links to other websites not controlled by us, including affiliate links to products and services. We do not regularly monitor the websites of third parties and are not responsible for any content on those sites or any damages you suffer by using those links. We are not bound by the privacy policies of any third-party website that you access by a link, and they are not bound by ours. We encourage you to read the policies of those third-party websites before interacting with them or making purchases.

Other Purposes: We may disclose your personal data as necessary to comply with any legal obligation or to protect your interests, or the vital interests of others or our company.

International Users and GDPR

If you are located outside of the United States, including in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please note that your personal information may be transferred to, processed, and stored in jurisdictions that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.

Where required by applicable law, we rely on appropriate safeguards to facilitate such transfers, which may include standard contractual clauses or other lawful transfer mechanisms recognized under data protection laws.

You may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws, including the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal information, as well as the right to object to certain processing activities.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of rights, including the rights to:

• Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information.
• Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Policy is already designed to address.
• Correcting any mistakes in your information which we hold.
• Erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations.
• Receiving the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit that data to a third party in certain situations.
• Objecting at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing.
• Objecting to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.
• Objecting in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information and restricting our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of those rights, please email us at nicole@kalejunkie.com with enough information to identify you and a description of your request.

State Privacy Rights and Disclosures

Depending on your state of residence, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, and the right to opt out of certain processing activities, such as targeted advertising or profiling, where applicable.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

As described in the section “Personal Information We Collect and Use,” we may collect or have collected within the past 12 months the following categories of personal information as defined under applicable law:

• Identifiers (e.g., name, email address, IP address)
• Commercial information (e.g., interactions with affiliate products or services)
• Internet or network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search activity, interactions with our site or ads)
• Inference data (e.g., preferences or features we think may interest you)

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed

We may disclose personal information to:

• Service providers and processors who perform services on our behalf (such as website hosting, analytics, email delivery, advertising, and security)
• Professional advisors, including legal or accounting providers, as necessary
• Authorities or other parties where required by law or to protect our rights

We disclose personal information solely for business and operational purposes and do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under applicable state privacy laws.

We provide these disclosures for transparency. Nothing in this section is intended to extend the application of any state’s law outside that state’s borders or modify the Company’s Arbitration and Governing Law provisions, which designate California as the exclusive governing law and jurisdiction for any disputes.

Consumer Privacy Rights

Depending on where you reside, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Know or Confirm – to request details about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, the sources of that information, and the purposes for which it is used or disclosed.
• Right to Delete – to request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Correct – to request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing – to direct us not to sell or share your personal information for targeted advertising.
• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information – to restrict our use or disclosure of sensitive personal information, if collected, to what is reasonably necessary for the services you request.
• Right to Data Portability – to receive your personal information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
• Right to Non-Discrimination – we will not deny services, charge different prices, or provide a different level of quality because you exercised a privacy right.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at nicole@kalejunkie.com.

Identity Verification

To protect your personal information and prevent unauthorized requests, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to certain privacy-related requests. Verification methods may vary depending on the nature of the request and the sensitivity of the information involved. Any information collected solely for identity verification purposes will be used only to process your request and will be deleted or securely disposed of once verification is complete. You may also authorize an agent to submit a request on your behalf by providing written authorization or a valid power of attorney.

Certain information may be exempt from requests under applicable law. If we decline to act on a request, some residents may be eligible for an appeal by emailing us with the subject line “Privacy Appeal.”

Scope and Relationship to Governing Law

This section is provided solely to meet disclosure obligations under applicable state privacy laws. It does not create contractual or statutory rights for residents of other jurisdictions or expand any state law beyond its intended reach. All disputes arising under or related to this Privacy Policy remain subject to the Arbitration and Governing Law provisions above, which designate California as the exclusive governing law and jurisdiction.

Do Not Track Signals

Pursuant to California law, we hereby disclose that we do not currently honor Do Not Track signals issued by browsers or other third-party sources.

Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints

You can contact nicole@kalejunkie.com with any questions or requests about these policies or your personal data.

Legal Disclosures of Personal Information

We may process, store, and disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the site.

We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and, as part of the compliance process, we may be required to disclose whatever information we have for you to a copyright holder who has submitted a complaint to us.

Severability

If any part of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful and/or unenforceable, all other provisions contained herein will remain in full force and effect.

Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with United States law. Any dispute arising out of or related to the information contained herein is subject to the dispute resolution specified in these terms in the State of California.

Privacy Policy Modifications and Updates

We may update and modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your use of the Website and/or its services serves as your acceptance of these updated terms.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at nicole@kalejunkie.com.