Effective date: November 4, 2026
Southern Food and Fun (southernfoodandfun.com, the “Site”) is owned and operated by Williams Rd Media, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit the Site, subscribe to our emails, join The Red Clay Society, or buy something from us, and how that information is used and shared.
Information you give us
- Email sign-ups. Your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter or request a free download.
- Purchases. Your name, email address, and, for physical products, your shipping address. Payment card details go directly to our payment processors and are never stored by us.
- Membership. Your name, email address, account login, and billing status when you join The Red Clay Society.
- Comments and ratings. Your name, email address, comment, and recipe rating. Your name, comment, and rating appear publicly. Your email address does not.
- Messages. Anything you send us by email or contact form.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the Site, we and our partners automatically collect information about your device and how you use the Site. This includes your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, the pages you view, the page that referred you, the links you click, and the date and time of your visit. This information is collected through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies placed by us and by the third parties described below.
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
These partners may combine information collected on this Site with information they collect elsewhere. Under some state privacy laws, sharing information with advertising partners in this way may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. See Your choices below for how to opt out.
Service providers we use
We use the following service providers to run the Site and our business. Each handles your information under its own privacy policy.
- Google Analytics measures how visitors use the Site.
- Kit sends our emails and handles checkout and delivery for digital products. Our emails contain tracking pixels that tell us whether an email was opened and which links were clicked.
- Memberful runs The Red Clay Society memberships, logins, and billing.
- Stripe processes payments.
- Facebook hosts The Front Porch, the private group for Red Clay Society members. What you post there is handled under Meta’s privacy policy.
- AllSpice provides site search and Lulu, our recipe assistant. It records the questions you type and the pages you view so it can answer you and suggest recipes.
- Akismet, from Automattic, screens comments for spam.
- WP Recipe Maker powers recipe cards, ratings, and comments.
- Hubbub provides the share buttons on the Site. When you share a post, the social network you choose receives that information under its own policy.
- GRO provides shoppable ingredient links. When you click one, the retailer may record the visit and place its own cookies.
- Spillt lets you save recipes to the Spillt app. If you use it, Spillt handles your account under its own privacy policy.
- WP Click Radar records which links on the Site are clicked.
Affiliate links
Some links on the Site are affiliate links, including links to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. When you click an affiliate link, the retailer may place a cookie on your browser to track the referral. We do not receive your purchase details beyond the commission.
How we use information
We use information to run and improve the Site, send the emails you signed up for, deliver products you buy, manage memberships and billing, respond to your messages, show and measure advertising, and protect the Site from fraud and abuse.
How we share information
We share information with the advertising partners and service providers described above, with professional advisers, when required by law, and with a buyer or successor if all or part of our business is sold or transferred. We do not sell our email list.
Your choices
- Interest-based ads. You can opt out of interest-based advertising from many companies at the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative. You can also opt out of the sale or sharing of your information for advertising through the privacy choices link in the Site footer.
- Cookies. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies. Some parts of the Site may not work properly if you do.
- Email. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, or you can write to us.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. To make a request, email rbrewer@williamsrdmedia.com. We will not treat you differently for exercising these rights. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and we may keep some information when the law requires it or to complete a transaction.
How long we keep information
We keep information as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy, including keeping records of purchases and memberships, and then delete it.
Children
The Site is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed.
Contact
Williams Rd Media, LLC
8735 Dunwoody Place, #5056
Atlanta, GA 30350
rbrewer@williamsrdmedia.com