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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 October 2026

This policy explains what personal data is collected when you visit pasteurway.com or buy The Complete Food Manual, why it is collected, and what rights you have over it.

1. Who controls your data

This site and The Complete Food Manual are operated by The Pasteur Way. For any question about your data, or to exercise any of the rights below, write to contact@pasteurway.com — that address is monitored and answered.

2. What is collected, and why

If you buy the Manual

Your email address, name if you provide one, country, and a record of the purchase. This is needed to deliver the file, honour the refund guarantee, and meet accounting and tax obligations. Legal basis: performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) for the accounting records.

Card details are never seen or stored here. Payment is handled by Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe, who act as independent controllers for the payment data they process.

If you just visit the site

Aggregate page-view statistics via Cloudflare Web Analytics — pages viewed, referring site, country, browser, device type. No cookies are set and no individual visitor is identified or tracked across sites. Legal basis: legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used (Art. 6(1)(f)).

If you email

Your message and address, kept only as long as needed to deal with the matter.

3. Who else processes it

ServicePurposeLocation
Buy Me a Coffee (Publisherr Inc.)Checkout, file deliveryUnited States
StripePayment processing, payoutsUnited States / Ireland
CloudflareHosting, email forwarding, aggregate analyticsUnited States / global
Google (Gmail)Receiving the emails you sendUnited States / global

Transfers outside the EEA rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Your data is never sold, rented, or shared with advertisers.

4. How long it is kept

5. Your rights

Under the GDPR you may request access to your data, correction of it, erasure of it, restriction of its processing, a portable copy of it, and you may object to processing based on legitimate interest.

Write to contact@pasteurway.com. You will get a reply within one month. If you are unsatisfied, you may lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your own country of residence.

6. Children

This site and the Manual are intended for adults. Data is not knowingly collected from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has provided data, write and it will be deleted.

7. Changes

Any revision appears here with a new date at the top.