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.

By accessing or using our website, you expressly consent to the collection, interception, storage, and use of your electronic communications and data, as described in this Privacy Policy, for our routine business purposes. All third-party monitoring is performed by entities acting as our service providers for the sole purpose of maintaining and improving our website services. If you do not agree to these terms, please discontinue use of the website immediately.

Please Read Our Terms of Service Before Using Our Site: IMPORTANT NOTICE: OUR TERMS OF SERVICE INCLUDE A BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, A CLASS ACTION WAIVER, AND A MASS ARBITRATION “BATCHING” PROVISION (SECTION 5). THESE TERMS REQUIRE THAT ANY DISPUTES BE RESOLVED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND, IF 10 OR MORE SIMILAR CLAIMS ARE FILED, IN BATCHES OF 5. THIS IS NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT COSTCONTESSA, A VERY SMALL INDEPENDENT BUSINESS, CAN MANAGE DISPUTE COSTS WHILE ENSURING EVERY VISITOR HAS A FAIR PATH TO RESOLUTION. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE TO THESE TERMS.

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. CostContessa does not sell anything, nor does it offer subscriptions or request payments from users. Users should also read our Terms of Service.

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.

Disclosure of Monitoring and Interception

By accessing our website, you expressly consent to the use cookies and various website tracking software to monitor and record your activity and communications on this platform in real-time (such as communications, form submissions, activity, comments and browsing behavior, etc.), directly and/or through our third party service providers such as Raptive and Google. Some cookies may continue to monitor your communications and activities after leaving our site. Our service providers share this data with third parties for commercial use. These are our routine business operations.

We use service providers to record and analyze your interactions with our site in real-time. By using this site, you acknowledge that these interactions are not ‘confidential communications’ and that you provide express prior consent to such recording and disclosure to our service providers (such as Raptive and Google) for routine business purposes.

Contact forms

If you voluntarily complete a contact form, we collect any personal data you include in that form. CostContessa 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 personally identifying 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 ask for this information to send newsletters, 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 website and content.
  • We may periodically send newsletter or promotional emails for advertisers.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes (although we’ve never done that). We may contact you by email, phone, fax (does anyone even have fax machines anymore? lawyers obviously have written this) or mail.

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 by contacting us.
  • Each newsletter email sent contains an unsubscribe option. Clicking that fully removes your identifiable information [all of your information you provided to us] from our database.
  • You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it and request third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same.
  • You can always choose not to provide us with identifiable personal information by not signing up for our newsletter.

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 and phone number.

You can read more about how to disable and delete cookies that have been stored on your devices: all about cookies.

How We Use Cookies

  • We primarily use traffic log cookies to identify which pages on our website are being viewed. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic, what users are interested in (and not) and improve our website content.
  • 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. You may choose not to opt-in.
  • 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.
  • Our advertising service providers use cookie data to customize and deliver targeted advertisements to each user.
  • Our advertising service providers share visitor cookie information with other parties for marketing, traffic analysis, or other commercial uses.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Our site is programmed to generate a pop up that allows you to accept or decline cookies, though some browsers may block pop-ups. Blocking cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can always choose not to utilize this website if you are unsure.

What We Do With Cookies: Real-Time Monitoring and Disclosure

We use various functional and analytical tools to monitor and record your interactions with our website in real-time. This includes, but is not limited to, your clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, and information you enter into forms or search bars. This information is captured as you navigate the site and is simultaneously shared with our third-party service providers (such as Google Analytics and our advertising service providers) to help us analyze site performance and deliver relevant content. By using our site, you provide your express prior consent to this real-time monitoring and disclosure for these routine business purposes.

What We Do With Cookies: Advertising

We use third party advertising service providers to present advertisements on the website. Our advertisers service providers 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 or may visit, 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.

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

Limited Access to Data

We use third-party service providers (such as Google and our advertising service providers) to perform these analytics and advertising functions on our behalf. These service providers may use their own cookies or scripts to collect data directly from your browser. We do not have direct access to, or control over, the specific raw data or the underlying code used by these third parties to track such information across other websites. Our access is limited to aggregated, de-identified reports provided by these entities for the purpose of analyzing our website’s performance and routine business operations.

Please Note:

Under certain circumstances, we may disclose personal data to law enforcement if we are required to do so by law, in order to comply with orders from public authorities or courts, or to defend against legal wrongdoing and/or liability.

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

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)

Although CostContessa does not have registered users or allow users under 18, in an abundance of caution, in the unlikely chance that a user under 18 has left a comment using their gravatar and needs assistance in removing it, we’re posting this information:

California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account.

Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

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 third party 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 cookies, or the protection and privacy of any information or communications 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, social media posts, etc.) from third party websites. Embedded content from third party websites websites behaves in the exact same way as links to other websites (see above).

When you interact with ebedded content, the third party website may collect data about you, deploy cookies, embed their own additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions and communications 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 embedded on CostContessa.

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 may 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.

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), accidental 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 to estimate nutritional values, and you should consult a nutritionist or your doctor before relying on them if you require exact nutritional values.

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