Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 19, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Stella Chef (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit or interact with our website at https://www.stellachef.com/ (the “Website”).

It also explains the choices and privacy rights that may be available to you under applicable laws.

By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Information included in contact forms
  • Newsletter subscription information
  • Recipe comments, ratings, or feedback
  • Questions and other messages you send to us
  • Information submitted through giveaways, surveys, or promotions, if offered

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through comments, contact forms, or other public areas of the Website.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically by us or by service providers that help operate, analyze, secure, or monetize the Website.

This information may include:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • General geographic location
  • Referring website or traffic source
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Time and date of visits
  • Time spent on pages
  • Advertising identifiers
  • Cookie identifiers
  • Diagnostic and performance data
  • Information about interactions with advertisements and Website features

When you access the Website through a mobile device, we may also receive information about the device model, mobile browser, operating system, and similar technical details.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the Website and understand how it is used.

Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device. Cookies may be:

Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Provide core Website functionality
  • Remember preferences and consent choices
  • Understand how visitors use the Website
  • Measure traffic and Website performance
  • Prevent fraud, spam, and security threats
  • Support social media features
  • Measure the effectiveness of content and promotions
  • Display and measure advertisements
  • Provide personalized or interest-based advertising where permitted

You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking cookies may affect the availability or performance of certain Website features.

Where required by applicable law, we or our advertising partners may display a consent-management tool that allows you to accept, reject, or manage certain cookies and data-processing purposes.

Analytics

We may use third-party analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand Website traffic and visitor behavior.

Analytics providers may collect information such as your IP address, device information, browser information, pages visited, approximate location, referral source, and interactions with the Website.

We use this information to:

  • Understand which recipes and pages readers find useful
  • Measure Website traffic and engagement
  • Diagnose performance problems
  • Improve navigation and content
  • Evaluate marketing and referral sources
  • Prevent fraud and misuse

Google and other analytics providers process information according to their own privacy policies and settings.

Grow by Mediavine

The Website may use Grow by Mediavine to provide engagement features, subscription tools, recommended content, consent-management functions, and other services.

Grow or its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to recognize visitors, remember preferences, measure engagement, and provide relevant Website features.

Information processed through Grow is subject to Mediavine’s applicable privacy practices and the choices presented through its consent-management tools.

Advertising

The Website may work with third-party advertising providers to display, personalize, deliver, and measure advertisements.

Advertising providers may use cookies, advertising identifiers, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to collect information about:

  • Your browser and device
  • Your approximate location
  • Pages and content viewed
  • Advertisements displayed
  • Interactions with advertisements
  • Referral sources
  • Visits to this and other websites
  • Cookie or advertising identifiers

This information may be used to:

  • Select and display advertisements
  • Measure advertisement performance
  • Limit how often an advertisement appears
  • Detect invalid traffic and fraud
  • Provide contextual advertising
  • Provide interest-based or personalized advertising where permitted

Declining personalized advertising does not necessarily prevent advertisements from appearing. You may still receive contextual or non-personalized advertisements based on factors such as the content of the page or your general location.

When Journey by Mediavine advertising is enabled, additional advertising privacy disclosures may be added to this page to identify relevant advertising practices and partners.

Google Services

The Website may use services provided by Google, including Google Analytics and advertising technologies.

When these services are used, your browser may send information to Google, including the page URL, IP address, device data, cookie information, and information about your interactions with the Website.

Google may use this information to provide and improve its services, measure advertising, prevent fraud and abuse, and personalize content or advertisements depending on your settings and consent choices.

You can manage certain advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings and may use Google’s available browser tools to limit Google Analytics measurement.

Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content

The Website may contain affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, Stella Chef may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate networks and merchants may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Record that you followed a link from the Website
  • Attribute purchases or other actions
  • Calculate commissions
  • Detect fraud
  • Measure campaign performance

The Website may also publish sponsored content or participate in paid promotional campaigns. Sponsored relationships will be disclosed where required.

Third-party merchants, affiliate networks, and sponsors operate under their own privacy policies.

Email Communications

If you subscribe to a newsletter or other email service, we may collect your name, email address, subscription preferences, and information about how you interact with emails.

We may use this information to:

  • Send recipes, newsletters, and Website updates
  • Deliver requested downloads or resources
  • Manage your subscription
  • Measure email performance
  • Prevent spam or misuse

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.

We may still send non-promotional communications when necessary, such as responses to messages you send us.

Comments and Public Information

If you leave a recipe comment, review, rating, or other public contribution, the information you submit may be visible to other Website visitors.

This may include your chosen display name, comment, rating, avatar, and any other information you voluntarily make public.

We may use automated spam-detection or moderation services to review comments and protect the Website from abuse.

Do not post information in a public comment that you do not want others to see.

How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Operate and maintain the Website
  • Publish and improve recipes and content
  • Respond to questions and messages
  • Provide newsletters and requested communications
  • Personalize Website features
  • Understand Website traffic and engagement
  • Measure content and advertising performance
  • Display and manage advertisements
  • Administer affiliate programs and sponsored campaigns
  • Detect fraud, spam, abuse, and security problems
  • Enforce our Terms of Use
  • Protect our rights and the rights of others
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Legal Bases for Processing

Where laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation or United Kingdom GDPR apply, we may process personal information under one or more of the following legal bases:

Consent, when you have given permission for a specific use.

Contractual necessity, when processing is needed to provide something you requested.

Legitimate interests, when processing is reasonably necessary to operate, protect, analyze, or improve the Website and those interests are not overridden by your rights.

Legal obligation, when processing is necessary to comply with applicable law.

You may withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

How We Share Information

We may share information with:

  • Website hosting and infrastructure providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Email and newsletter providers
  • Advertising partners
  • Affiliate networks
  • Consent-management providers
  • Comment and spam-prevention services
  • Security and fraud-prevention providers
  • Professional advisers
  • Contractors who support Website operations
  • Government authorities when legally required
  • A buyer, successor, or other party involved in a business transfer

Service providers may process information only as needed to perform services for us or according to their own disclosed privacy practices.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information for money.

However, certain uses of cookies and advertising technologies may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing for targeted advertising under some United States state privacy laws, even when no money is exchanged for personal information.

Where required, eligible visitors may be provided with a method to opt out of:

  • The sale of personal information
  • The sharing of personal information
  • Targeted or interest-based advertising

Available choices may be presented through a cookie banner, consent-management tool, “Manage Privacy Preferences” link, or similar Website control.

Browser-based preference signals may be honored where required by applicable law and supported by our systems.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Retention periods may depend on:

  • The reason the information was collected
  • Legal and regulatory requirements
  • Security and fraud-prevention needs
  • Contractual obligations
  • The need to resolve disputes
  • The need to enforce agreements

Usage and analytics information may be retained in aggregated or de-identified form for a longer period.

International Data Transfers

Stella Chef and its service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.

These countries may have privacy laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required, reasonable safeguards may be used to protect information transferred internationally. These may include contractual protections, consent, adequacy decisions, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of certain information
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Request a portable copy of certain information
  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising
  • Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
  • Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request
  • File a complaint with a privacy or data-protection authority

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal limitations or verification requirements.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at contact@stellachef.com.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, but we may require evidence of their authority.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

California and Other United States Privacy Rights

Residents of California and certain other states may have additional rights regarding access, correction, deletion, portability, targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information.

The categories of personal information we may collect include:

  • Identifiers
  • Internet and network activity
  • Device information
  • General geolocation information
  • Contact information
  • User-submitted content
  • Inferences related to Website interests or interactions

We collect and use these categories for the business and commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 for targeted advertising purposes.

Eligible users can submit a request by emailing contact@stellachef.com or by using an available privacy-preferences control on the Website.

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under applicable data-protection laws.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection authority in the country where you live or work.

Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, or similar technologies, those technologies should not be used until the appropriate consent has been obtained.

Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information.

However, no internet transmission, electronic storage method, or security system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

The Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that such information has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you believe that a child has submitted personal information to the Website, contact us at contact@stellachef.com.

Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. There is currently no single universally accepted standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals.

We may respond to legally recognized browser-based privacy signals where required and technically supported.

Links to Other Websites

The Website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, merchants, or services.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third parties.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of each third-party website or service you visit.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes will be posted on this page, and the “Last updated” date will be revised. Material changes may also be communicated through the Website or another appropriate method.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to submit a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: contact@stellachef.com

Website: https://www.stellachef.com/