Terms of Use

Cultured Guru (“Cultured Guru,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) welcomes you to our site! You may use the website, services, content, technologies and applications of Cultured Guru (“Our Website”) only on the condition that you abide by the following terms and applicable laws. Use of this website or presence at informational sessions of Cultured Guru indicates that you accept these Terms of Use.

You agree that by using this website, you are at least 18 years of age, or visiting under the supervision of a parent or guardian, and legally able to enter into a contract.

Unless expressly permitted in writing, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, transmit or in any way exploit any part of Our Website or any content thereon and except that you may make one print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. You may not distribute any part of this site or any content thereon over any network, including, without limitation, a local area network, or sell or offer it for sale, unless given prior permission. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database. Just as we from time to time excerpt materials from other sources in order to support the various commentaries and writings contained herein, we respect the right of others to make “fair use” of the materials contained on Our Website; accordingly, you may from time to time excerpt and use materials set forth on this site consistent with the principles of “fair use”.

Except as necessary in order to make reference to Cultured Guru in a purely descriptive capacity, you are expressly prohibited from using any Cultured Guru Content in any manner. These Terms of Use apply to any access to or use of the Website, associated sites or content from this website. Your use of the cultured.guru domain indicates your acceptance of these conditions.

The entire contents of the website and the technology underlying, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, audio files, videos, and digital downloads is copyrighted as a collective work under the United States and other copyright laws, and is the property of Cultured Guru and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property or proprietary rights. The collective work includes all works that are licensed to Cultured Guru. Copyright © 2018, Cultured Guru, LLC. All rights reserved.

Affiliate Discretion

By using this website, you understand that any link you click may result in a commission, compensation, or affiliate payment to Cultured Guru, LLC.

When I link to products and services, those links may be affiliate links. If you click on any of those affiliate links and make a purchase within a certain time frame, I’ll earn a small commission. The commission is paid by the retailers, at no cost to you.

Here’s an example: If I link to my favorite glass jars for fermentation, and you click on that link and complete a purchase within the next 24 hours, I may receive a commission somewhere between 1 to 10 percent of your total order.

I’m careful to link to products and retailers that I use myself and recommend. Money earned keeps Cultured Guru running and allows me to do what I love for a living. Thank you for your support.

SELECT AFFILIATE PROGRAM DETAILS:

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

The information provided on this website (cultured.guru) and any related materials or communications is for general informational and educational purposes only. While we strive to provide accurate, up-to-date, and high-quality content, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, or availability of any information, recipes, or related graphics contained on the website.

All recipes, instructions, and recommendations on this website are intended for use at your own risk. By using this website, you acknowledge and agree that food preparation, fermentation, and preservation carry inherent risks. Cultured Guru and its owners, contributors, and affiliates are not responsible or liable for any adverse outcomes, including but not limited to foodborne illness, allergic reactions, or property damage, that may result from your use of the information or recipes provided.

Nothing on this website is intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The content is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions regarding a medical condition or dietary restrictions. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. If you believe you may have a medical emergency, call 911 or your doctor immediately.

The Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated the statements on this website.

By using this website, you agree that Cultured Guru and its owners shall not be held liable for any damages, injuries, or losses of any kind arising from or in connection with your reliance on any information provided on the site or your implementation of recipes and techniques at home.

Photography

I. Proprietary Rights

All photographs and original visual content on this website and any affiliated sites under the “cultured.guru” domain are the exclusive property of Jon Scott Chachere II and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. All copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in this site remain the sole property of Jon Scott Chachere II.

We affirm that all photographic works presented on cultured.guru are created by Jon Scott Chachere II using real-world photography methods. No artificial intelligence (AI), generative software, or synthetic imagery tools have been used to create, alter, or enhance the original photographs published on this site. This makes these works especially protected under copyright law as unique, human-created artistic expressions.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all photographs on https://cultured.guru are copyrighted.

No permission—express or implied—is granted for the electronic transmission, storage, retrieval, copying, modification, or distribution of the photographs contained herein, except as related to standard web browser caching or for personal use as outlined below. Any other use requires express written consent from the copyright holder, Jon Scott Chachere II.

Your use of https://cultured.guru or viewing of this notice constitutes acceptance of these conditions.

II. Personal Use Criteria

You may print a copy of any photograph for personal reference without further permission.

Students may download images and incorporate them into school reports, presentations, or projects free of charge, provided proper credit and citation are given to the photographer.

You may download images from designated “Desktop/Wallpapers” sections for display on personal devices, provided these are not used for commercial, public, or promotional purposes.

III. Free Web Usage Criteria

You may link to images hosted on cultured.guru on your personal, non-commercial websites or blogs provided:

• Proper attribution is given to the photographer, Jon Scott Chachere II.
• The attribution includes the copyright notice and contact email: [email protected].

For educational, non-commercial online guides or forums directed at photographers, bloggers, or hobbyists, you may display images only if proper attribution is provided as described above.

IV. Commercial Use

Any commercial use of photographs found on this website—including but not limited to use in advertising, marketing, product packaging, or resale—requires prior written consent from the copyright holder.

To request consent for commercial use, please email [email protected] and include:

• The specific image(s) you wish to use
• Where and how they will be displayed
• The intent of their display
• The duration of use
• Any other relevant details

Any commercial use without prior written permission constitutes a violation of United States and international copyright law and may result in legal action.

V. Copyright Infringement is Serious

Copyright infringement is a serious offense under United States and international law and may result in civil and/or criminal penalties, including fines, statutory damages, and imprisonment.

Cultured Guru, LLC works diligently to provide original, high-quality photographic works and respectfully requests that visitors refrain from copying, reproducing, or distributing any photographs, graphics, or written content from this website beyond the limited personal uses outlined above.

We actively monitor for unauthorized use of our photography and will pursue legal remedies against infringement.

Intellectual Property Rights: Science Writing and Educational Content

All information, materials, images, research, articles, blog posts, recipes, functions, text, videos, presentations, slide decks, instructional materials, and other content (collectively, “Our Content”) made available on this website, offered through this website, or provided in any educational setting, class, workshop, webinar, or other instructional environment under Cultured Guru, LLC (collectively, the “Educational Content”) are the exclusive property of Cultured Guru, LLC and/or its licensors, content providers, and contributors.

All copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in or relating to Our Content and Educational Content are protected under the copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. This includes the selection, arrangement, and presentation of Our Content, which is protected as a unique compilation owned by Cultured Guru, LLC.

Cultured Guru, LLC reserves the right to modify, update, or remove any portion of the website or its content at any time without prior notice and for any reason. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

Prohibited Uses

Unless expressly authorized in writing by Cultured Guru, LLC, you may not:

• Copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, display, perform, modify, translate, adapt, create derivative works from, transmit, or exploit any part of Our Content or Educational Content, in whole or in part.
• Enter any part of Our Content into a database, learning management system, or any educational platform for redistribution or reuse.
• Use Our Content for commercial purposes, including teaching, presentations, publications, or products, without prior written permission.

You may, however, download or print a single copy of occasional blog articles or recipes for your personal, non-commercial use and reference only. Any such copy must retain all copyright and proprietary notices as originally displayed.

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Website Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Cultured Guru LLC.  Please read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

Who We Are

Cultured Guru collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The 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 All About Cookies.

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 listed below 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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app 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 Partners.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

This website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 18. Cultured Guru LLC does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 years of age. Cultured Guru LLC prohibits children under the age of 18 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting information. Cultured Guru LLC will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If Cultured Guru LLC learns it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 18, it will delete that information.

The Personal Information We Collect and Use

Information Collected by Us

Cultured Guru LLC may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily sign up for e-mails order a service or product, fill out any type of form, access private wholesale pages, or otherwise contact Cultured Guru LLC via an online form or e-mail form submission. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this website.

Cultured Guru LLC may collect domain information and “cookies” (small files saved on your hard drive by your web browser) to analyze website and advertisement performance, track user patterns, save information from your previous visits and customize your experience.  By using our website you consent to the use of cookies.  Cultured Guru LLC or its third-party vendors may collect non-personal information through the use of these technologies. Non-personal information might include the browser you use, the search engine you use, the type of computer you use and technical information about your means of connection to this website. Cultured Guru LLC’s systems may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit and search terms you use on this website and about the links you may select from within this website to other areas of the Internet.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as controller of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

How we use your personal information

Cultured Guru LLC collects such information in order to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee contests and promotions and improve website performance and customer service. Please note that any comments or information that you post on the website, including social media pages, become public and third parties may use your information. Cultured Guru LLC is not responsible for any unauthorized uses by third parties in such context. You disclose such information at your own risk.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With

Cultured Guru LLC respects your privacy and will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or for the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.

Cultured Guru LLC may release personal information to enforce its Website Terms and Conditions of Use, other Terms and Conditions, manage its business, protect users or the general public, or to otherwise comply with legal obligations.

If you give Cultured Guru LLC your permission, it may also use personal identification information for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes.

On occasion, Cultured Guru LLC may collect personal identification information from you in connection with optional contests, special offers or promotions. Cultured Guru LLC will share such information with necessary third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or promotion. If your web browser uses a “Do Not Track” mechanism, the Cultured Guru website itself will follow the Do Not Track setting; however, the Cultured Guru website uses third-party tools to gather certain information about our website visitors. We will ask for your consent to such disclosure and use of such information, prior to your participation in the contest, special offer or promotion.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

Whether Information Has to Be Provided by You and Why

The provision of providing your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information is required from you to enable us to process purchases made on this website: We do not require you to provide any personal data in order to browse this website. We will inform you when we collect it whether you are required to provide the information to us.

How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept

We will hold a record of your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information from purchases made from this site for 6 years.

Reasons We Can Collect and Use Your Personal Information

Cultured Guru LLC collects and uses your personal information for the following lawful bases: to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee promotions and improve website performance and customer service.

Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the EEA

This website is operated in the United States and third parties with whom we might share your personal information as explained above are also located in the United States.  If you are located in the EEA or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By using this website, participating in any of its services and/or providing your information, you consent to this transfer.

This country does not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. While the European Commission has not given a formal decision that the United States provide an adequate level of data protection similar to those which apply in the United Kingdom and EEA, any transfer of your personal information will be subject to provide details of the appropriate or suitable relevant safeguards e.g., European Commission approved contract General Data Protection Regulation that are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.

If you would like further information, see “How to contact us” below.  We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom OR EEA or to any organization (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

Your Rights

If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from Cultured Guru LLC you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from Cultured Guru LLC includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information

• Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address

• Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold

• Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations

• Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

• Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing

• Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

• Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information

• Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, available at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/ .

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

• Email, call, or write to us

• Provide us enough information to identify you (e.g., name, email, account number, user name, registration details)

• Provide us proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)

• Provide us with the information to which your request relates including any account, confirmation or transaction number, or reference numbers, if you have them.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable authorities of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Please note that any comments or information that you post on the website, including the Cultured Guru social media pages, become public and third parties may use your information. Cultured Guru is not responsible for any unauthorized uses by third parties in such context. You disclose such information at your own risk.

Links to Other Sites

You may see advertising or other content on this website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors or other third parties.  Any products or services reached through a third-party link are subject to separate privacy policies. Cultured Guru LLC is not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party websites.

How to Complain

We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of your information.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

Changes to This Privacy Notice

This policy is effective as of May 23, 2018.  We may change, modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you of any such changes by email or postal mail.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact Kaitlynn Fenley, Owner, [email protected] or 7350 Jefferson HWY STE 485-236 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806.