Site Policy
Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Gustana, including its recipes, cooking guides, meal-planning resources, saved-recipe features, calculators, product recommendations, newsletters, comments, links, tools, and other content or services available through the website.
Last updated: September 19, 2026
Welcome to Gustana.
Gustana is operated by Débora Justo from Brazil and serves readers internationally.
By accessing or using Gustana, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.
Changes to These Terms
Gustana may update these Terms of Use from time to time as the website, its features, applicable requirements, or editorial practices change.
The Last updated date at the top of this page shows when these Terms were most recently revised. Your continued use of Gustana after changes become effective means that you accept the updated Terms.
Use of Gustana
You may use Gustana for personal, non-commercial purposes and in accordance with these Terms.
You may browse recipes, save content where that feature is available, use website tools, share links to public pages, subscribe to communications, and use the website’s information for your own household, cooking, meal-planning, and shopping decisions.
You may not use Gustana in a way that interferes with the website, harms other users, violates applicable law, infringes intellectual-property rights, or creates a false association with Gustana.
Recipes, Food Content, and Personal Responsibility
Gustana publishes general food and cooking information. Recipes, ingredient suggestions, storage guidance, substitutions, serving information, nutritional estimates, cooking methods, and other content are provided for general informational and educational purposes.
You are responsible for your own decisions when selecting ingredients, preparing food, handling raw ingredients, using kitchen equipment, storing leftovers, reheating food, serving meals, or consuming food.
Recipe outcomes can vary based on ingredients, measurements, kitchen equipment, oven calibration, preparation methods, altitude, temperature, skill level, substitutions, and other conditions.
Please review our Disclaimer for important information about food safety, allergens, nutrition, raw or undercooked ingredients, alcohol, product recommendations, and the limits of the content published on Gustana.
Food Safety, Allergens, and Nutrition
Gustana does not provide medical, nutritional, dietary, allergy-related, or other professional advice.
Readers are responsible for checking ingredient labels, identifying allergens, preventing cross-contact, following safe food-handling practices, using appropriate cooking temperatures, and determining whether a recipe or ingredient is suitable for their own needs.
Nutritional information, dietary labels, serving estimates, and ingredient substitutions are provided as general guidance only and may vary.
If you have allergies, intolerances, a medical condition, dietary restrictions, pregnancy-related dietary concerns, or other specific needs, please consult an appropriately qualified professional.
Kitchen Tools and Interactive Features
Gustana may provide meal planners, ingredient lists, serving-size converters, cooking or baking calculators, cost calculators, saved recipes, and other interactive features.
These tools are provided for general informational and practical purposes only. Their results may depend on user input, calculation assumptions, ingredient data, technical limitations, and other factors.
You are responsible for reviewing any result before relying on it. Gustana does not guarantee that tool outputs will be complete, accurate, suitable for a particular purpose, or appropriate for your individual circumstances.
Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the text, recipes, graphics, branding, website design, logos, original photographs, illustrations, tools, compilations, and other content on Gustana are owned by or licensed to Gustana and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, modify, scrape, translate, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit Gustana content without prior written permission.
You may share a public link to a Gustana page and quote a short excerpt when you clearly credit Gustana and include a link to the original page.
You may not republish full recipes, full articles, substantial portions of content, recipe collections, images, or tool outputs as your own content without permission.
Recipe Sharing and Social Media
We welcome readers sharing links to Gustana content through social media, email, messaging platforms, and personal websites.
When sharing a recipe or article, please link to the original Gustana page rather than copying the complete content elsewhere.
You may not remove copyright notices, imply that Gustana endorses your content or business, or use Gustana’s name, logo, or brand elements in a misleading manner.
User Submissions and Communications
If you submit a comment, question, recipe idea, feedback, image, review, suggestion, or other material to Gustana, you are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary rights to submit it.
You must not submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, misleading, infringing, invasive of privacy, sexually explicit, harmful, or otherwise inappropriate.
By submitting content to Gustana, you grant Gustana a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, adapt, publish, and distribute that content in connection with operating, promoting, improving, and providing the website.
Gustana may remove, edit, refuse, or moderate user-submitted content at its discretion.
Prohibited Uses
You agree not to:
- Use Gustana for an unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, or deceptive purpose
- Copy or scrape website content at scale without permission
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, server, accounts, or systems
- Interfere with the website’s security, performance, availability, or normal operation
- Upload malicious code, viruses, spam, or harmful material
- Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with Gustana
- Use Gustana content to train, develop, or operate a competing content database or service without permission
- Collect personal information about other users without authorization
- Use the website in a way that infringes the rights of Gustana or any third party
Product Recommendations, Affiliate Links, and Advertising
Gustana may publish product recommendations, shopping guides, comparisons, reviews, rankings, affiliate links, advertising, sponsored content, or commercial partnerships.
Not every product mentioned on Gustana has been personally purchased or tested. Gustana will not describe a product as personally used, tested, expert-reviewed, or professionally approved unless that statement is accurate and supported by the relevant editorial process.
Product details, prices, availability, warranties, retailer policies, specifications, and seller information can change. You are responsible for confirming current information directly with the manufacturer, retailer, or seller before making a purchase.
Gustana may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through affiliate links, at no additional cost to you. Learn more in our Affiliate Disclosure.
Third-Party Websites and Services
Gustana may contain links to third-party websites, retailers, manufacturers, advertisers, social-media platforms, embedded content, or external services.
These third parties are not controlled by Gustana. We are not responsible for their content, availability, practices, products, privacy policies, security, terms, prices, or services.
Your use of third-party websites and services is subject to their own terms and policies.
AI-Supported Technology
Gustana may use AI-supported tools for research organization, drafting, editing, visual workflows, technical development, and operational support.
AI-supported tools do not replace human editorial judgment and do not establish professional credentials, firsthand experience, testing, or expert review.
Please review our AI Transparency page for more information.
Website Availability
Gustana aims to keep the website available and useful, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, complete security, or permanent availability of every page, feature, tool, or link.
We may modify, suspend, remove, or discontinue any portion of the website at any time.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Gustana is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Gustana makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, safety, availability, suitability, or results of the website, its content, recipes, tools, product recommendations, links, or services.
Your use of Gustana is at your own risk.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Gustana and its operator will not be liable for any loss, injury, illness, damage, claim, cost, or expense arising from your use of, inability to use, or reliance on the website or its content.
This includes, without limitation, losses or harm related to recipes, ingredients, allergens, food preparation, food storage, kitchen equipment, third-party purchases, external links, technical issues, or user-submitted content.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit any rights that cannot be limited under applicable law.
Contact Gustana
For questions about these Terms of Use, please contact Gustana at hello.thegustana@gmail.com.