This privacy policy sets out how CostContessa (“we” or “us”) treats the information provided or collected on our website, currently located at www.costcontessa.com.

PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE. COSTCONTESSA MAY MODIFY THIS AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME, AND SUCH MODIFICATIONS SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON POSTING OF THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT ON THE SITE. YOU AGREE TO REVIEW THE AGREEMENT PERIODICALLY TO BE AWARE OF SUCH MODIFICATIONS AND YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE DEEMED YOUR CONCLUSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT.

Who we are

We are CostContessa. Our website address is: https://www.costcontessa.com

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, our website maintains industry standard security systems and protocols.

California Do Not Track

Some browsers allow you to set a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal that tells website operators that you do not want your browsing activities to be tracked. Our Site does not respond to DNT signals at this time.

Contact forms

If you complete a contact form, we collect any personal data included in that form. The Company does not provide this contact information to partners, advertisers or third parties except when required to do so by law or in connection with a merger/acquisition.

We may collect the following information:

  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as zip code, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

How we use cookies

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to understand which pages our users find useful and which they do not. Cookies do not provide us with information that is personally identifying such as your name, email address or phone number.

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on a computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyse web traffic and allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being viewed. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website. We use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

How We Use The Information You Provide to Us

Should you choose to complete our mailing list sign up, we may periodically send you email newsletters. We do not sell this list to third parties.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • You may correct, update and delete information you provided when subscribing to our mailing list.
  • You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it and we request third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same.

We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you provide us with this information.

You may exercise your controls and choices, or request access to your personal information, by contacting us.

We reserve the right to reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require a material technical effort (such as developing new code or materially modifying an existing feature), may adversely affect the privacy of others, or which would be commercially impractical (such as accessing data from legacy systems which are no longer in use).

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, please note that we do not have any control over other third party websites. Therefore, once you have used these links to leave our site, we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Embedded content from other websites

This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We are not responsible for any tracking, cookies, personal data or any action made by third-party sites.

Facebook Custom Audiences

Custom Audience Pixel, a service of Facebook Inc., (1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA), is a small piece of Javascript code which we have integrated into our website. This piece of code provides a number of functions for the sending of application specific events and user defined data to Facebook. We use a Custom Audience pixel in order to record information concerning the way in which visitors use our website. This pixel records and provides Facebook with information concerning the browser setting of the user, a hashed version of the Facebook ID and the URL which is being visited. Each Facebook user thus possesses a clear and device-independent Facebook ID, whereby it is possible to address the user via more than one device on the social network Facebook and to recognise him or her, so that we can target our visitors again for advertising purposes by means of Facebook adverts. After 180 days, the user information is deleted until the visitor accesses our website again. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed to us in relation to the individual website visitors and we can only solicit website customer target groups once the target customer group has reached a critical mass in terms of numbers. Further information concerning Facebook and its private sphere settings above and beyond the details set out can be found in the Data Policy and the Terms of Service of Facebook Inc.

Advertising

We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and CostContessa disclaims all liability in connection therewith.

CostContessa is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here https://www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Use of Services by Children

Our Services are not intended for use by children. If you are under the age of 18, you may not use our Services.

Corporate Transactions 

In the event that we are involved in a corporate event, such as a merger, acquisition, asset sale or an investment event, we may share your information with those parties on an as-needed basis, provided that all such parties must be subject to a contractual obligation to keep that information confidential. We will post a notice here before your information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Limitation of Liability

Use CostContessa at your own risk. In no event shall CostContessa, it’s editors, contributors or owners be jointly or individually liable to users, manufacturers, distributors or visitors for any damages for breach of fiduciary duty by third-parties including advertisers and brands featured on our website, unless the Company’s act or failure to act involves intentional misconduct, fraud, or a knowing violation of the law. We rely on information provided to us in our featured brands and recipes and are not liable in the event incorrect information is provided, product changes (including formulations, nutrition and/or allergens), typos, incorrect/misleading statements or any other aspect of the products or opinions featured on costcontessa or its social media outlets. We use auto-generated nutritional information in our recipes, and you should consult a nutritionist or your doctor before relying on them.

All content on CostContessa is strictly our own opinion and shall not to be construed as nutritional or medical advice. Consumers are responsible for confirming all opinions expressed on CostContessa prior to purchasing or consuming any product or service.

Contact Us

Please contact us at marie @ costcontessa . com