Privacy Policy

Marin Cake Studio collects the details you type into the inquiry form and nothing else you have not offered. This page says what those details are, where they go, and how to get them back or have them deleted.

What the inquiry form collects

The form asks for your name, email address and phone number, the date, type and location of your event, the number of guests, and the flavor and filling you are considering. You can also add design idea links, additional details, and how you heard about the studio.

You may attach photographs for inspiration. Those upload straight from your browser to private storage and are never posted anywhere public.

Where it is stored

Every submission is written to a private archive before anything else happens, so an inquiry cannot be lost to a delivery failure. The archive is not public: a request for a stored submission without credentials is refused.

Inquiries also become orders in Bakery Buddy, the software the studio runs on. That is where your date is held, your quote is written, and your order is tracked through to pickup.

Who reads it

I do. Every inquiry comes to me directly rather than to a queue, and the studio does not sell, rent or trade what you send. It is shared only with the services that make an order work — the mail provider that delivers your inquiry, and Bakery Buddy, which holds the order itself.

What the site measures

Marin Cake Studio uses two analytics tools. Vercel Analytics is cookieless: it counts page views and a small number of events — an inquiry submitted, a phone number tapped, a directions link opened — so the studio can tell which pages actually help someone order. Google Analytics counts page views as well, and it does set cookies, described under Cookies below. Neither one has any name, email address, phone number or event date attached to it.

Google Analytics arrives through Google Tag Manager, and that same container carries a Google Ads conversion tag. Its job is to record that an inquiry followed an ad click, so the studio can tell whether an ad was worth running. It measures the ad rather than you: there is no retargeting, no audience list built from your visit, and no social tracking pixel.

If you arrive from a directory listing such as Google, Yelp, The Knot or WeddingWire, the link carries a tag naming the source, and that tag is recorded with your submission. It identifies the listing you came from, not you.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies that recognize a returning browser, so the studio can tell a repeat visit from a first one, and the Google Ads tag described above sets its own when an ad click leads here. Those are the only cookies the site sets. Nothing on this site takes a payment, so no payment processor sets one either — a gift card is bought through the same form as everything else.

None of them are set until you say so. The first time you arrive, a bar at the bottom of the page asks, and both Google tags stay switched off while it waits. Declining leaves them off and the site works exactly as it did. Whichever you choose is remembered by your own browser and nothing else, so clearing your browsing data asks the question again. To change the answer later, use the Cookie choices link in the footer of any page.

To opt out of Google Analytics on every site rather than this one, install Google's browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or use your browser's Do Not Track or cookie-blocking settings.

Affiliate links

The supplies page links to products on Amazon, and the studio earns a small amount on a qualifying purchase. The disclosure on that page carries the full wording. Those links are ordinary Amazon links; the studio receives no information about you from them beyond whether a purchase was attributed.

How long it is kept

Inquiries are kept as long as they are useful to the studio, which for a wedding usually means well past the date itself — a cake ordered in March for an October wedding is a live record for the whole stretch, and past orders are how a returning customer is recognized. Ask and it goes.

Asking for your information, or its removal

Email lindsay@marincakestudio.com and ask. I will tell you what the studio holds, correct anything wrong, or delete it. California residents have these rights under the CCPA, and the studio honors the same request from anyone who makes it, resident or not.

The studio does not sell personal information, and it does not hand what you send to an advertising network. What the Google tags measure is described under Cookies above, along with the bar that asks before they run and the footer link that changes your answer.

Children

The site is meant for adults ordering cakes. Marin Cake Studio does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. A cake is very often for a child, and a child's first name written on one is a design detail rather than a record about them.

Changes

This page is updated when what the studio actually does changes, rather than on a schedule. It was last reviewed in August 2026.