Last updated: September 17, 2026
GUSTANA respects the privacy of its readers and is committed to being transparent about how personal information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit or interact with https://thegustana.com/ (the “Website”).
This Privacy Policy applies to information processed through the Website, including contact forms, recipes and saved-recipe features, interactive tools and calculators, email communications, analytics, cookies, advertising technologies, affiliate links, social-media features, and other services operated by or on behalf of GUSTANA.
This Policy does not govern the privacy practices of third-party websites, retailers, marketplaces, social-media platforms, or other services that may be linked from the Website.
GUSTANA is an independent digital publication focused on recipes, cooking inspiration, kitchen know-how, meal-planning resources, useful cooking tools, and Kitchen Gear recommendations.
For purposes of applicable privacy and data-protection laws, GUSTANA determines how and why personal information collected directly through the Website is processed.
Website: https://thegustana.com/
Operator: Débora Justo, operating from Brazil
Privacy contact: hello.thegustana@gmail.com
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:
Submit a contact form or send us an email
Request a correction, submit feedback, or make an editorial, media, partnership, or business inquiry
Subscribe to an email list or newsletter, if that option is offered
Enter a giveaway, survey, promotion, or similar feature, if offered
Submit a comment, rating, recipe, photograph, or other content, if those features are enabled
Enter information into a tool or feature that clearly states that information will be transmitted to GUSTANA
This information may include your name, email address, the content of your message or submission, professional or business information included in an inquiry, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not send passwords, payment-card information, government identification numbers, medical records, or other highly sensitive personal information through our general contact forms or email. You should also avoid entering detailed health information or allergy information into any interactive feature unless that feature specifically requests it and explains how it will be handled.
Submitting a message to us does not automatically subscribe you to marketing email.
When you visit the Website, we and our service providers may automatically collect technical and usage information, including:
IP address
Browser type and version
Device type, operating system, and screen or device settings
Language and regional settings
Referring website, search source, and campaign information
Pages viewed, recipes read, links clicked, searches performed, and general interaction information
Date and time of access, time spent on pages, and approximate location derived from IP address
Cookie identifiers, advertising identifiers, and similar online identifiers
Error, performance, security, and fraud-prevention logs
We use this information to operate and secure the Website, understand readership and content performance, improve recipes, tools, design, accessibility, and functionality, measure advertising and affiliate performance, detect spam or misuse, and troubleshoot technical issues.
GUSTANA may offer recipe-saving features and interactive resources, such as meal planners, shopping or ingredient lists, serving-size converters, cooking and baking calculators, cost calculators, kitchen tools, or similar features.
Depending on the feature, you may enter or generate information such as saved recipes, ingredients, quantities, serving sizes, meal plans, budget amounts, notes, cooking preferences, or dietary preferences. Many of these features are designed to process or store information locally in your browser or on your device using local storage or similar technology. When information is stored locally, it is generally not transmitted to GUSTANA unless the feature clearly says otherwise or you choose an option that requires transmission.
Information saved only in your browser or device may be lost if you clear browser data, use a reset feature, change browsers or devices, use private browsing, remove the Website’s storage, or reinstall or reset your browser. GUSTANA cannot recover information that is stored only on your device.
If a tool permits you to copy, print, download, export, share, or create a link to information, you control the information you choose to share. Anyone who receives the resulting file or link may be able to view the information it contains.
If GUSTANA later offers account registration, cloud synchronization, or another feature that stores saved recipes or tool data on our servers, we will clearly explain that collection at or before the point of collection and update this Policy as appropriate.
We may use personal information to:
Operate, maintain, protect, and improve the Website and its features
Provide recipes, saved-recipe features, calculators, and other requested tools
Respond to questions, feedback, correction requests, and business inquiries
Send newsletters or other requested communications
Understand traffic, reader engagement, searches, and content performance
Improve recipe presentation, content quality, usability, accessibility, and the reader experience
Measure advertising, affiliate, and campaign performance
Maintain records of consent and privacy preferences
Detect, investigate, and prevent spam, fraud, abuse, security threats, and technical problems
Enforce our policies and protect our rights, readers, and others
Comply with legal obligations and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
GUSTANA does not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects for readers.
Where laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, or Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) apply, we process personal information only where we have an appropriate legal basis. Depending on the activity, this may be:
Your consent, such as for optional cookies or email marketing
Our legitimate interests in operating, securing, analyzing, and improving the Website, where those interests are not overridden by your rights
Steps taken at your request, such as answering an inquiry
Performance of an agreement, where applicable
Compliance with a legal obligation
Establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims
Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before you withdrew consent.
GUSTANA and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, SDKs, local storage, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used for essential Website functions; security and fraud prevention; remembering privacy or interface preferences; saved recipes and tool functionality; analytics and performance measurement; advertising; affiliate tracking; conversion measurement; and embedded content or social-media features.
Cookies may be necessary, preference, analytics, advertising, or affiliate cookies. Where required by applicable law, we will use nonessential cookies only after obtaining the appropriate consent. You can review or change available choices through the cookie or privacy settings offered on the Website. You may also restrict or delete cookies in your browser, although doing so can affect saved recipes, tools, preferences, and other Website features.
GUSTANA may use Google services and other analytics or technology providers to measure Website use, maintain technical integrations, and support advertising. These services may include Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Site Kit, Google AdSense, Google Ads, and related measurement services.
Depending on the service, your consent choices, and the relevant configuration, these providers may process information such as IP address, browser and device details, cookie identifiers, pages viewed, interactions, and advertising data. Google processes information under its own Privacy Policy, and you may manage certain Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
GUSTANA does not control how Google or another independent provider processes information under that provider’s own privacy policy.
GUSTANA may display advertising through Google AdSense or other advertising partners. Advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver advertisements, limit how often an ad appears, measure impressions, clicks, and performance, detect invalid traffic or fraud, and provide personalized or non-personalized advertising depending on consent and applicable law.
Where required, you will be offered controls regarding personalized advertising and nonessential advertising technologies. GUSTANA does not receive your payment-card information simply because you view or click an advertisement.
Some pages on GUSTANA, especially Kitchen Gear comparisons, buying guides, rankings, reviews, and product recommendations, may contain affiliate links. When you click an affiliate link, a retailer, marketplace, affiliate network, or tracking provider may collect information about the click and may place a cookie or similar identifier on your device.
If you make a qualifying purchase, the affiliate provider may report limited conversion information to us, such as that a qualifying action occurred, the transaction date, retailer, an order or transaction reference, commission amount, and general product or category information. We do not directly receive or process payment-card details for purchases made through third-party retailers.
Affiliate links and any compensation relationship are disclosed separately in our Affiliate Disclosure and, where appropriate, near relevant recommendations.
If you subscribe to a GUSTANA email list, we may send newsletters, recipes, editorial updates, seasonal content, Kitchen Gear recommendations, or promotional communications. We send marketing messages only when there is an appropriate legal basis, such as your consent where required.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us. We may still send transactional, administrative, security, or direct replies to your inquiries when necessary.
If comments, ratings, recipe submissions, or other public-contribution features are enabled, the information you submit may be visible to other visitors. Do not include personal, confidential, or sensitive information in a public submission. We may use moderation, spam-prevention, and security services to review or protect these features.
The Website may include embedded videos, images, social posts, Pinterest content, or other material supplied by third-party platforms. Such content may function as if you visited the third party directly. The provider may collect information, use cookies, track your interactions, or associate your activity with an account you hold with that provider.
We may also link to platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, or other social networks. Your use of those platforms is governed by their own privacy policies and settings.
We may share or allow access to information with service providers that help us operate the Website, including website-hosting and content-delivery providers; analytics and technology services; advertising providers; affiliate networks, retailers, and marketplaces; email and communication services; contact-form providers; cookie-consent providers; security, spam-prevention, and fraud-detection services; technical support and development providers; embedded-media and social-media platforms; and professional advisers when reasonably necessary.
We may also disclose information when required by law, regulation, court order, or valid legal process; to protect the rights, property, safety, and security of GUSTANA, our readers, or others; to investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or policy violations; or in connection with a financing, reorganization, merger, acquisition, or sale of all or part of the Website or business.
GUSTANA does not rent personal information to third parties.
GUSTANA does not sell personal information in exchange for money. However, certain advertising, analytics, affiliate, or social-media activities may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use of personal information for targeted advertising under some privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged for the information itself.
Where applicable, you may opt out through the Website’s available cookie or privacy settings or by contacting us. Where required by law, we will honor legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control, for the browser and device sending the signal.
GUSTANA does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 for targeted-advertising purposes.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing requested communications or features, maintaining operational and security records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, meeting legal, accounting, or regulatory requirements, and establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
The appropriate retention period depends on the type of information, why it was collected, legal requirements, and the settings of our service providers. Information stored solely in your browser or device remains there until you delete it, it is cleared by your browser, or the relevant storage is otherwise removed.
We use reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures intended to protect personal information. No website, storage system, transmission method, or internet service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please use care when submitting information online.
GUSTANA is operated from Brazil and may use service providers located in Brazil, the United States, and other countries. Your information may therefore be processed in a country other than the country where you live, and privacy laws in those countries may differ. Where required by applicable law, we and our service providers will use an appropriate legal mechanism or safeguard for international transfers.
Depending on where you live and which law applies, you may have the right to know whether we process your personal information; request access to it; request a copy; correct inaccurate information; request deletion; request anonymization, blocking, or restriction; object to certain processing; withdraw consent; request portability; opt out of marketing; opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising; request information about categories of recipients; request review of certain automated decisions; lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority; and exercise applicable rights without unlawful discrimination.
These rights may be subject to legal exceptions. To protect privacy and security, we may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and authority before acting on a request.
To submit a privacy request, email hello.thegustana@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” If you use an authorized agent where allowed by law, we may request proof of the agent’s authority and verification of your identity.
If California privacy law applies to our processing, California residents may have rights to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected; know the sources, business or commercial purposes, and categories of recipients; request correction or deletion; obtain a copy of certain information; opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; use an authorized agent; and exercise privacy rights without discriminatory treatment.
GUSTANA does not knowingly use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about readers. California residents may use available cookie settings, a legally recognized Global Privacy Control signal, or the privacy contact above to submit an applicable request.
Visitors in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom may have rights under applicable data-protection law, including access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent. They may object to processing based on legitimate interests and may lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority in their country. When consent is the legal basis for optional cookies or marketing, it may be withdrawn without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
Visitors in Brazil may exercise applicable rights under the LGPD, including confirmation of processing, access, correction, anonymization, blocking, deletion, portability, information about sharing, opposition, and withdrawal of consent. Requests should first be sent to GUSTANA. You may also have the right to petition Brazil’s data-protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, where applicable.
GUSTANA is intended for a general audience interested in recipes, cooking, and kitchen resources. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will review the request and take appropriate action when required.
Children should not submit personal information through our forms, public-contribution features, or interactive tools.
The Website may link to external websites, retailers, brands, marketplaces, and other services. We do not control their privacy practices, security, content, or data collection. Review a third party’s privacy policy before providing personal information or completing a transaction.
We may update this Privacy Policy when our features, service providers, legal requirements, or information practices change. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.
For questions, privacy requests, or concerns about this Policy, contact:
Email: hello.thegustana@gmail.com
Website: https://thegustana.com/