Privacy Policy
Last updated 29 October 2026
Adventures with Sugar ("we", "us") runs the website adventureswithsugar.com, the Instagram account @adventureswithsugar and the Pinterest account @adventureswithsugar. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, and what you can do about it. We are based in South Africa and handle personal information in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
What we collect
When you visit the website: our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes standard technical data such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you request, so that the site can be delivered and protected from abuse. We don't use this data to identify you.
We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and see which recipes are popular. It doesn't use cookies or track you across sites, and we only see totals, never individual visitors.
When you comment on a post: we store the name and comment you enter, and your email address if you give one. Your email is never shown on the site. We use it to email you when we reply to your comment, with the conversation so far, and to reply to you privately if we need to. These emails are sent through Resend. Comments only appear once we've approved them. To stop spam, the form is checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, and your IP address is used briefly to limit how often comments can be sent, but we don't store it.
When you subscribe to the newsletter: we ask only for your email address. Kit (kit.com), the service that sends our newsletter, emails you a link to confirm, and you're subscribed only once you click it. Kit stores your address and, like most newsletter services, records whether our emails are opened and their links clicked. We keep our own copy of your address, where you signed up and whether you're subscribed. Every newsletter has a link to unsubscribe. Your browser also remembers that you signed up (in its local storage, not a cookie) so that the form stops showing; that stays on your device.
When you interact with us on Instagram: when you comment on one of our posts, for example to ask for a recipe, we use Instagram's official API to read the comment and reply to it. The reply might be a public comment, a direct message with the recipe link, or both. To do this, we store:
- your Instagram username and the ID Instagram gives your comment
- the text and time of your comment
- whether we replied, and when
We don't collect your password, contact details, followers or any other information from your Instagram account.
Pinterest: we use Pinterest's official API only to manage our own account: to post pins of our recipes to our own boards and to read our own boards and pins. We store the access tokens for our account and the IDs of our pins. We don't collect any information about people who see, save or comment on our pins.
How we use it
We use this information only to show and reply to comments, to reply to your messages, to avoid replying to the same comment twice, and to send the newsletter to people who asked for it. We don't sell or rent it, we don't use it for advertising, and we don't share it with anyone except the service providers that run our tools:
- Meta (Instagram), which delivers comments and messages
- Cloudflare, which hosts our website, tools and database
- Resend, which sends our emails about replies to your website comments
- Kit, based in the United States, which holds the newsletter list and sends the newsletter
How long we keep it
We keep Instagram comment records for up to 12 months, then delete them. Comments on the website stay for as long as the post is up, unless you ask us to remove them; comments we don't approve are deleted within 12 months.
We keep your newsletter email address while you're subscribed. After you unsubscribe we keep a record that the address unsubscribed, so it isn't added again by mistake, until you ask us to delete it.
Your rights and data deletion
You can ask us at any time what information we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it. To have your data deleted, email linsen.loots@gmail.com with your Instagram username, the name and post of your website comment, or your newsletter email address. We will delete every record linked to it within 30 days and confirm by email. Deleting your comment on Instagram doesn't automatically remove our record of it, so please email us as well.
You can also stop our access entirely by not commenting on our posts or messaging us, and you can complain to South Africa's Information Regulator if you're unhappy with how we handle your information.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.