Gustana is an independent food and recipe publication that may provide recipes,
cooking guides, meal-planning ideas, saved recipes, kitchen tools, product
recommendations, newsletters, interactive features, advertising, and affiliate links.
This policy should be read together with our
Privacy Policy,
which explains how Gustana may collect, use, protect, and share personal information.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device when you visit a website.
They help websites remember information about your visit, such as your preferences, session settings, consent choices, or interactions with website features.
Gustana may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, software development kits, and device identifiers. For simplicity, this policy refers to all of these technologies as cookies.
Why Gustana Uses Cookies
Gustana may use cookies to help the website work properly, understand how visitors use the website, remember preferences, improve content and features, measure advertising, support affiliate relationships, and provide a more relevant experience.
Depending on your location, device, browser settings, consent choices, and the features you use, cookies may be used for the purposes described below.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for basic website operation and security.
They may help Gustana:
- Keep the website functioning properly
- Maintain security and prevent fraudulent or abusive activity
- Remember cookie consent choices
- Enable forms, navigation, and other core functions
- Support website performance and load balancing
- Save certain settings required for a feature to work
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the website, they may not always be disabled through the cookie preference tool.
Preference and Functional Cookies
Preference cookies help Gustana remember choices you make while using the website.
For example, these cookies may help remember:
- Saved recipes or favorites stored in your browser
- Meal-planning, list, calculator, or tool settings
- Language, display, or accessibility preferences
- Newsletter or form-related choices
- Previously viewed content or user-interface settings
- Cookie consent preferences
Some saved recipe, planner, list, or tool information may be stored directly in your browser through local storage rather than on Gustana’s servers. Clearing browser cookies or site data may remove that information.
Advertising Cookies
Gustana may display advertising now or in the future.
Advertising cookies may be used by Gustana, advertising networks, and their technology providers to measure ad delivery, limit how often an advertisement is shown, understand ad performance, detect fraud, and, where permitted, make advertising more relevant.
These cookies may collect or receive information about your interaction with Gustana and other websites or services over time.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential advertising cookies will be activated only after the required consent is obtained through the cookie preference tool or another appropriate consent mechanism.
You may be able to manage personalized advertising through your browser settings, device settings, advertising-provider controls, or available industry opt-out tools. Your choices may need to be set separately for each browser and device.
Affiliate Tracking Cookies
Some Gustana pages may contain affiliate links to retailers, manufacturers, marketplaces, or other third-party websites.
If you select an affiliate link, the third party may place cookies or use similar technologies to recognize that you arrived from Gustana. This can help attribute a qualifying purchase or other action to Gustana.
Gustana may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through affiliate links, at no additional cost to the reader.
Affiliate cookies are controlled by the relevant third party and may be subject to that party’s own privacy and cookie policies. Gustana does not control how third-party retailers, affiliate networks, or marketplaces use their cookies after you leave our website.
For more information, please read our Affiliate Disclosure.
Third-Party Content and Embedded Features
Gustana may include or link to content and features provided by third parties, such as:
- Embedded videos
- Social media content
- Newsletter and email services
- Commenting or submission tools
- Maps, media players, or other embedded content
- Retailer links and product widgets
- Advertising technology
- Analytics services
- Interactive tools or technical integrations
When you interact with third-party content, the provider may set cookies or collect information according to its own policies.
Gustana does not control third-party cookies. We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party service you use.
How to Manage Your Cookie Choices
When required, Gustana provides a cookie notice or preference tool that allows you to accept, reject, or manage certain non-essential cookies.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- Review and delete cookies
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Block all cookies
- Receive a notice before a cookie is stored
- Clear local storage and other website data
Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect how Gustana works. Some features, preferences, saved recipes, tools, forms, or personalized settings may not function properly after cookies or site data are removed.
Your browser or device may also offer controls for advertising preferences.
Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and browser extensions allow users to send a Global Privacy Control signal or similar privacy preference signal.
Where required by applicable law and technically supported, Gustana will process qualifying signals as a request to limit certain data uses, including certain forms of targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information.
A Global Privacy Control signal may apply only to the browser and device from which it is sent.
Cookies and Children
Gustana is not directed to children under 13 years of age.
We do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate consent where required by law. If you believe a child has provided personal information through Gustana, please contact us at hello.thegustana@gmail.com.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
Gustana may update this Cookie Policy when our website, cookies, technologies, legal requirements, advertising practices, affiliate relationships, or third-party services change.
When we make changes, we will update the Last updated date at the top of this page.