Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy — Chef Aaron

Effective Date: September 8, 2026

Chef Aaron, operated by Aaron Buendorf DBA Chef Aaron (“Chef Aaron,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and share information when you visit Chef-Aaron.com, contact us, request a private dining experience, communicate with us by phone, email, or text message, or otherwise use our services.

Information We Collect

We may collect information you voluntarily provide when contacting Chef Aaron or requesting services, including your name, email address, phone number, event date, alternate date, event location, guest count, occasion, dietary restrictions or preferences, budget information, menu preferences, and other information you choose to provide regarding your event.

We may also collect basic website usage information, such as browser type, device information, pages visited, referring website, and similar information through website hosting, analytics, or cookie technologies.

How We Use Your Information

We use information collected from you to respond to inquiries, discuss and plan events, prepare menus and estimates, schedule and confirm bookings, communicate regarding event details, provide customer service, send invoices or payment reminders, maintain business records, improve our services and website, and comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

We do not sell your personal information.

Text Messaging and SMS

Chef Aaron may use SMS text messaging for one-to-one customer communications related to private dining inquiries and existing bookings, including scheduling, event confirmations, menu questions, arrival updates, payment reminders, changes to an event, and customer support.

You will receive text messages from Chef Aaron only after providing consent to receive SMS communications.

Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out at any time. Reply HELP for assistance.

Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing Chef Aaron's services.

Mobile information, including phone numbers, SMS opt-in information, and text-messaging consent, will not be sold, rented, or shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

SMS information may be provided only to service providers necessary to deliver and operate the messaging service, such as telecommunications carriers and messaging-platform providers, as necessary to provide the requested communications.

Text-message opt-in data and consent will not be shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

SMS Opt-Out

You may stop receiving text messages from Chef Aaron at any time by replying STOP.

After opting out, no further SMS messages will be sent unless you later choose to opt in again.

For assistance with text messaging, reply HELP or contact Chef Aaron directly.

Email Communications

If you provide an email address, Chef Aaron may use it to send information related to your inquiry, proposed menu, estimate, booking, event details, payment, or customer service.

You may request that non-essential email communications stop at any time by contacting us.

Payment Information

When payments are processed through a third-party payment provider, the payment processor may collect information necessary to complete the transaction.

Chef Aaron does not intentionally store complete credit-card numbers or other full payment-card credentials on Chef-Aaron.com.

Payment processors maintain their own privacy and security practices.

Third-Party Services

Chef Aaron may use third-party providers to help operate the business, including website hosting, email, scheduling, payment processing, accounting, calendar, telephone, SMS messaging, and analytics services.

These service providers may receive information only as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf and are subject to their own privacy and security practices.

Chef Aaron may also receive bookings through independent third-party platforms. Information submitted directly to those platforms is governed by the privacy policies and terms of those platforms.

Cookies and Website Technologies

Chef-Aaron.com and its service providers may use cookies or similar technologies to operate the website, understand website usage, improve performance, and provide basic analytics.

You may control cookies through your browser settings where available.

Information Sharing

Chef Aaron may share information when reasonably necessary to provide your requested service, process a payment, operate business systems, comply with applicable law, respond to lawful government requests, protect customers or the business, or work with service providers acting on our behalf.

Chef Aaron does not sell customer personal information and does not provide customer contact information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.

Information Security

Chef Aaron takes reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

No website, email system, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Information Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide services, maintain business and financial records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and maintain appropriate records of customer relationships.

Your Choices

You may contact Chef Aaron to request that we update or correct personal information we maintain about you or to ask questions about how your information is being used.

You may separately opt out of text messaging by replying STOP.

Children's Privacy

Chef Aaron's website and services are not directed toward children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Chef Aaron may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, business practices, technology, or legal requirements.

The current version will be posted on Chef-Aaron.com with the applicable effective date.

Contact Chef Aaron

Questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information may be directed to:

Chef Aaron

Aaron Buendorf DBA Chef Aaron

Email: aaron@chef-aaron.com

Phone: (866) 403-MENU / (866) 403-6368

Website: Chef-Aaron.com