Cookie Policy

Last Updated: August 19, 2026

Welcome to Soulful Table.

This Cookie Policy explains how Soulful Table may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website.

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, use, and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that a website may place or access on your browser or device.

Cookies can help websites:

  • Function properly
  • Remember visitor preferences
  • Maintain sessions
  • Understand how visitors use the site
  • Measure website performance
  • Support security
  • Remember shopping carts
  • Support newsletters
  • Measure marketing or affiliate activity
  • Provide embedded third-party features

Some cookies remain only while your browser is open.

Others may remain on your device for a defined period or until they are deleted.

Cookies may be placed directly by Soulful Table or by third-party services used on the website.

2. Similar Technologies

When we use the term cookies in this policy, we may also be referring to similar technologies where appropriate, including:

  • Pixels
  • Tags
  • Web beacons
  • Local storage
  • Session storage
  • Tracking identifiers
  • Embedded scripts
  • Software development tools
  • Other browser or device technologies

These technologies can perform functions similar to cookies.

3. Why Soulful Table Uses Cookies

Soulful Table may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Keep the website working properly
  • Protect website security
  • Remember visitor choices
  • Manage newsletter functionality
  • Understand which recipes and resources visitors enjoy
  • Improve navigation
  • Analyze website performance
  • Support shopping and checkout
  • Process payments
  • Remember shopping carts
  • Measure email engagement
  • Support affiliate referrals
  • Measure advertising when advertising is used
  • Provide embedded content
  • Reduce spam or fraudulent activity
  • Improve the overall Soulful Table experience

We aim to use cookies thoughtfully and for understandable purposes.

4. Categories of Cookies We May Use

Cookies used through Soulful Table may fall into several general categories.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies support functions required for the website or a service to work properly.

They may be used for purposes such as:

  • Website security
  • Session management
  • Shopping carts
  • Checkout
  • Payment processing
  • Account authentication
  • Form functionality
  • Fraud prevention
  • Cookie preference management

Because these technologies may be required to provide a service you request, disabling them can cause portions of the website to stop functioning properly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help remember choices or provide optional website features.

They may remember information such as:

  • Whether you dismissed a popup
  • Website preferences
  • Form choices
  • Display settings
  • Certain account or session preferences

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Soulful Table.

They may help answer questions such as:

  • Which recipes are most popular?
  • Which resources do visitors use most often?
  • How do visitors navigate the website?
  • How long do visitors spend on particular pages?
  • Which pages are difficult to use?
  • Which devices or browsers are commonly used?
  • How did visitors discover Soulful Table?

We may use this information to improve content, navigation, performance, accessibility, and website design.

Email and Newsletter Cookies

Some cookies may support Soulful Table’s email newsletter and subscriber-management features.

Soulful Table currently uses MailPoet for newsletter management.

Depending on the MailPoet features enabled on our website, MailPoet may use cookies to support:

  • Subscription forms
  • Remembering whether a visitor dismissed a subscription popup
  • Subscriber engagement analysis
  • Page-view engagement
  • WooCommerce revenue attribution
  • Abandoned-cart emails
  • Other email-related functionality

Not every MailPoet cookie described in this policy will necessarily be active at all times.

The cookies used depend on which MailPoet settings and services Soulful Table enables.

5. MailPoet Cookies

MailPoet documents several cookies associated with optional functionality.

These may include cookies used to:

  • Remember that a subscription popup has been dismissed
  • Recognize subscribers
  • Measure subscriber engagement
  • Understand page views associated with subscribers
  • Connect newsletter clicks with qualifying WooCommerce purchases
  • Support abandoned-cart email functionality

For example, MailPoet currently documents cookie names including:

  • popup_form_dismissed
  • mailpoet_revenue_tracking
  • mailpoet_subscriber
  • mailpoet_page_view

The specific cookies used by Soulful Table may vary according to the MailPoet features we activate.

Soulful Table may change MailPoet settings over time as our newsletter program develops.

6. Payment and Checkout Cookies

Soulful Table may offer products, guides, digital downloads, books, services, or other purchases.

We anticipate using payment providers including Stripe and PayPal.

When you interact with checkout or payment features, these companies may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Process transactions
  • Authenticate users
  • Detect fraud
  • Reduce payment risk
  • Maintain security
  • Remember certain payment preferences
  • Support checkout functionality
  • Analyze performance
  • Provide services requested during a transaction

Stripe and PayPal operate independently and maintain their own privacy and cookie practices.

Certain payment-related cookies may be necessary for the payment service to function.

7. Stripe

Where Stripe is used to process payments or provide checkout functionality, Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies as part of its service.

These technologies may support purposes including:

  • Essential functionality
  • Authentication
  • Fraud prevention
  • Security
  • Payment processing
  • Telemetry
  • Analytics
  • Certain advertising functions on Stripe-operated properties

Which Stripe technologies appear in connection with Soulful Table depends on the Stripe services and checkout configuration we ultimately use.

Visitors who interact with Stripe are also subject to Stripe’s own privacy and cookie practices.

8. PayPal

Where PayPal is offered as a payment option, PayPal may use cookies and similar tracking technologies when visitors interact with PayPal services.

PayPal states that these technologies can be used for purposes such as:

  • Providing access to PayPal services
  • Recognizing users
  • Processing payments
  • Remembering preferences
  • Performing analytics
  • Preventing fraud
  • Reducing risk
  • Promoting trust and security
  • Customizing experiences

Visitors who choose PayPal are also subject to PayPal’s own privacy and cookie practices.

9. Affiliate Cookies and Referral Tracking

Soulful Table may participate in affiliate and referral programs.

These may include programs operated by companies such as:

  • Amazon
  • Boody
  • Other retailers
  • Travel companies
  • Product manufacturers
  • Lifestyle brands
  • Other affiliate partners

When you select an affiliate link, the destination company or affiliate network may use cookies, referral tags, or other identifiers to determine that you arrived through Soulful Table.

This allows the affiliate provider to determine whether Soulful Table is eligible to receive a commission when a qualifying purchase or other action occurs.

Affiliate tracking is generally performed by the third-party affiliate company or network rather than by Soulful Table alone.

Please see our Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure for more information.

10. Amazon Affiliate Links

Soulful Table may participate in the Amazon Associates Program.

Amazon Associates links contain special referral identifiers that allow Amazon to determine whether a visitor arrived through Soulful Table and whether a qualifying purchase results from that referral.

Amazon controls the technologies used after a visitor follows an Amazon link and processes information according to Amazon’s own policies.

The presence of an Amazon affiliate link does not mean Amazon owns, operates, or sponsors Soulful Table.

11. Boody and Other Affiliate Partners

Soulful Table may also participate in affiliate or referral relationships with Boody and other companies.

Those companies or the affiliate networks supporting them may use cookies or similar referral technologies after a visitor interacts with an affiliate link.

Cookie duration, tracking methods, and attribution rules are generally determined by the affiliate provider or network.

12. Advertising Cookies

Soulful Table may display advertising now or in the future.

If advertising technologies are added, advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Deliver advertisements
  • Measure ad impressions
  • Measure clicks
  • Determine campaign effectiveness
  • Limit how often an advertisement appears
  • Provide contextual advertising
  • Provide personalized or interest-based advertising where permitted
  • Understand general audience interests

Where required by applicable law, nonessential advertising technologies will be subject to appropriate consent or opt-out controls.

13. Embedded Videos and Media

Soulful Table may embed or display content from third-party platforms.

Examples may include:

  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
  • Maps
  • Travel services
  • Restaurant services
  • Other multimedia providers

When embedded content loads or when you interact with it, the third-party provider may place or access cookies or similar technologies.

These technologies are controlled by the applicable third party and are subject to its own privacy policies.

Where technically appropriate and legally required, Soulful Table may use consent controls designed to prevent certain nonessential third-party technologies from loading until permission has been given.

14. Social Media Features

Soulful Table may provide social-sharing buttons, feeds, widgets, or links.

Social media companies may receive information when you interact with their features.

Depending on the particular implementation, social media services may use cookies to:

  • Recognize users
  • Track interactions
  • Personalize content
  • Measure engagement
  • Support advertising

Simply linking to an external social platform does not necessarily cause the same cookies to be placed as embedding that platform directly into a webpage.

15. Creators, Chefs, and Sources of Inspiration

Soulful Table may study, reference, discuss, review, learn from, or be inspired by chefs, authors, recipe creators, restaurants, travel writers, brands, websites, YouTube creators, publications, researchers, and other sources.

Those creative or editorial relationships do not by themselves allow those creators to place cookies on Soulful Table or access Soulful Table visitor information.

A creator or company would generally become relevant to this Cookie Policy only when:

  • Their technology is embedded directly on Soulful Table
  • We use their platform as a service
  • A visitor follows a link to their website
  • They provide an affiliate or advertising technology
  • They otherwise operate a technical integration used on the site

Editorial inspiration and technical data access are separate matters.

16. Artificial Intelligence and Cookie Technology

Soulful Table may use artificial intelligence and other digital tools during research, content development, organization, design, and production.

Our internal use of an AI-assisted creative tool does not automatically mean that the tool receives cookie information from visitors to Soulful Table.

If Soulful Table later adds a visitor-facing AI feature, chatbot, recommendation system, or embedded AI tool that uses cookies or collects visitor information, this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy may be updated to describe that feature.

17. Shopping Cart and E-Commerce Cookies

If Soulful Table uses e-commerce functionality, cookies may help:

  • Maintain a shopping cart
  • Remember products added to a cart
  • Maintain checkout sessions
  • Associate orders with sessions
  • Prevent fraud
  • Provide account functionality
  • Support secure transactions

Some e-commerce cookies may be strictly necessary to provide the shopping and checkout experience requested by the visitor.

18. Account and Login Cookies

If Soulful Table introduces visitor accounts, memberships, saved recipes, community profiles, or similar features, cookies may be used to:

  • Keep users signed in
  • Authenticate accounts
  • Maintain sessions
  • Remember account preferences
  • Protect account security
  • Support saved-content features

These cookies may be necessary to provide the applicable account functionality.

19. Search and Interactive Tools

Soulful Table may develop interactive resources such as:

  • Recipe search
  • Ingredient exploration tools
  • Vegan swap tools
  • Cooking-method resources
  • Food-storage tools
  • Meal-building resources
  • Flavor-building tools
  • Other interactive Soulful Table features

Cookies or local-storage technologies may sometimes be used to remember selections, preferences, session information, or feature state.

Where those technologies are nonessential and applicable law requires consent, appropriate choices may be offered.

20. Security and Spam Prevention

Soulful Table may use security, firewall, anti-spam, CAPTCHA, or fraud-prevention services.

These services may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Distinguish people from automated traffic
  • Detect malicious activity
  • Protect forms
  • Prevent spam
  • Reduce fraud
  • Prevent unauthorized login attempts
  • Protect website infrastructure

Some security technologies may be necessary for the website to operate safely.

21. Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

They may be used to maintain a temporary website session or complete a transaction.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on a device for a period determined by the cookie provider or until they are deleted.

They may be used to remember preferences, identify returning sessions, measure engagement, or support other ongoing features.

Cookie duration varies depending on the purpose and provider.

22. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed or controlled through the Soulful Table website domain.

They may support:

  • Website functionality
  • Preferences
  • Forms
  • Session management
  • Shopping
  • Other site operations

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be placed or controlled by companies whose technology is integrated into Soulful Table.

These may include:

  • Newsletter providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Payment processors
  • Advertising providers
  • Affiliate networks
  • Embedded media companies
  • Security providers
  • Social media platforms

Third parties govern their own use of cookies according to their policies.

23. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Where Soulful Table provides a cookie preference or consent tool, you may use it to manage applicable categories of nonessential cookies.

Depending on the technologies active on the website, options may include choices concerning:

  • Analytics cookies
  • Functional cookies
  • Advertising cookies
  • Affiliate or marketing technologies
  • Embedded third-party content

Strictly necessary cookies may not be capable of being disabled through a cookie preference tool because they are needed to provide core website functionality.

24. Browser Controls

Most modern browsers provide controls that allow you to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete cookies
  • Block cookies
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Limit tracking
  • Manage website permissions
  • Clear browsing data

The method varies by browser and device.

Blocking or deleting cookies may cause certain Soulful Table features to behave differently or stop functioning.

25. Global Privacy Control and Similar Signals

Some browsers and privacy tools provide signals that communicate a visitor’s preference regarding certain types of tracking, sale, sharing, or targeted advertising.

Where applicable law requires Soulful Table to recognize a legally valid browser-based privacy signal, we intend to configure applicable technologies accordingly.

Technical implementation may depend on the services, advertising tools, and consent-management system then in use.

26. Consent

Where applicable law requires consent before a nonessential cookie or similar technology is activated, Soulful Table intends to obtain that consent through an appropriate cookie-management mechanism.

Visitors may be able to change their preferences later through a Cookie Settings or similar link available on the website.

27. Withdrawing Consent

Where cookie processing is based on consent, you may withdraw or modify that consent through the available cookie-preference controls.

Changing a preference generally affects future cookie activity.

Previously stored cookies may sometimes need to be removed through the website’s preference tool or through your browser.

28. Third-Party Privacy Choices

Some companies integrated with Soulful Table provide their own privacy and cookie controls.

For example, payment processors, social platforms, advertising services, and other providers may allow users to manage privacy choices directly through their respective websites or accounts.

Those choices are controlled by the third-party provider.

29. Cookies and Personal Information

Some cookies contain or are linked to identifiers that may be considered personal information under applicable privacy laws.

Our handling of personal information associated with cookies is described more fully in the Soulful Table Privacy Policy.

30. Cookies We Do Not Need

Soulful Table does not intend to collect information simply because technology makes it possible.

As the website grows, we aim to evaluate technologies based on whether they meaningfully support:

  • A useful visitor experience
  • Website functionality
  • Security
  • Analytics
  • Communication
  • Commerce
  • Content improvement
  • Sustainable operation of Soulful Table

The goal is purposeful technology rather than unnecessary tracking.

31. Changes to This Cookie Policy

Soulful Table will continue to grow.

We may add or change:

  • Website plugins
  • Newsletter functionality
  • Analytics tools
  • E-commerce features
  • Payment providers
  • Affiliate programs
  • Advertising
  • Social integrations
  • Interactive features
  • Security services
  • Other technology

As our technology changes, this Cookie Policy may also change.

The Last Updated date at the top of this page will identify the most recent revision.

We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.

32. Contact Us

If you have questions about cookies or privacy practices at Soulful Table, please contact us through the Contact page on the Soulful Table website.

Please identify the subject of your request as:

Cookie Question

or

Privacy Request

Soulful Table
Omaha, Nebraska
United States

A Thoughtful Digital Table

Soulful Table is being built to feel inviting, useful, beautiful, and easy to explore.

Technology should support that experience—not overwhelm it.

Cookies can help us remember choices, understand what our readers enjoy, deliver newsletters, operate a shop, protect the website, and support the partnerships that allow Soulful Table to continue creating.

Our goal is to use those tools thoughtfully, explain their purpose clearly, and give visitors meaningful choices where appropriate.

That is part of creating a table people can trust.