1. Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.cookingwithettore.com. This website is owned and operated by Chef Ettore Anastasio, based in Siracusa, Italy.
2. Cooking Classes and Dietary Requirements
When you book a cooking class through our website, we collect your name, email, phone number, and any dietary requirements or allergies you voluntarily provide. This health-related data is strictly collected for your safety during the culinary experience and to allow the Chef to prepare the appropriate ingredients. This specific data is not shared with third parties or used for marketing purposes, and is handled with the utmost confidentiality.
3. Online Shop and Book Orders
When you purchase a book or product from our website, we ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number. We use this information for purposes such as:
- Sending you information about your account and order
- Responding to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Processing payments and preventing fraud
- Complying with any legal obligations we have (such as calculating taxes)
We accept payments through direct bank transfer and PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
4. Comments
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. 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.
5. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
6. Cookies
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. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
7. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
8. Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Order information is shared securely with our payment gateways (like PayPal) to process your transactions.
9. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
10. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
11. Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.