Content Usage
All the content on mezze & tapas is copyrighted material and I’ve worked very hard to produce it. I respectfully ask that you observe the following policies if you want to use my work.
Photos
Unless otherwise credited, all photos here are taken by me or by The Elegant Baker and are copyrighted by us.
If you want to use mezze and tapas photo(s) to promote my recipe or my blog in general: You may share one photo as long as you prominently link back to the original post. If it is feasible, please include a link to my home page, https://v60jcmtj5c8.c.updraftclone.com, as well. Please let me know if you promote my work!
If you want to use mezze and tapas photo(s) to promote something else: You must request permission beforehand. I do not allow my photos to be used as clip art/stock images unless we’ve worked out a deal in advance.
Recipes
You may not republish my original recipe(s). I do not allow other websites or publications to publish my original recipes. I simply receive far too many requests, and I want mezzeandtapas.com to remain the exclusive source for my original recipes. Again, my recipes are copyrighted material and may not be published elsewhere.
Other recipes: Occasionally, I will review and publish a recipe I have found elsewhere. I will always do so in accordance with the policies of the source for that recipe. Additionally, I will provide a link back to the original source of the recipe. If you would like to use one of these recipes, it is your sole responsibility to adhere to the policies and copyright limitations of the copyright owner of the recipe.
All other Content
If you want to use my content to promote my blog or my recipes: You may share quote mezze & tapas as long as you prominently link back to the original post. If it is feasible, please include a link to my home page, https://v60jcmtj5c8.c.updraftclone.com, as well. Please let me know if you promote my work!
Product Review Policy
I will only review products and services that I purchase on my own and that I have used in my kitchen, in my travels, or in production of mezze & tapas. I do not accept products or services from manufacturers or vendors in exchange for my reviews. As such, all my reviews are my own opinion of how well a product or services works in the real world. If I recommend it, I like it and think you may find it useful too.
Affiliate Disclaimer
mezze & tapas is a member of several affiliate programs, including the Amazon Affiliate program (Amazon Services LLC Associates Program). These affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to affiliate sites to purchase a product. If you click on any of the affiliate links and make a purchase within a certain time frame, I will earn a small commission. The commission is paid by Amazon, not by you. The money I earn helps me to keep doing what I love, which is sharing great foods, kitchen tips and gorgeous photos with you.
When I recommend a product, I will provide a link where you can purchase it as well. That link will be through one of the affiliate program I am a member of. That may not be the only source for the product.
Ad and Embedded Link Policy
No sponsored posts, embedded links or ads: I do not accept sponsored posts or embedded text links. No ads, display or otherwise
Guest Post Policy
I will consider including guest posts on mezze & tapas on the following conditions:
- The post is relevant to the topics of mezze & tapas
- The post adheres to my policies regarding ads, sponsored posts, and the like.
- Links in the post only go to other content on mezze & tapas or to the author’s own domain/blog/landing page. No links to ads, third party content, or similar non-related destinations. No affiliate links in a guest post.
- The guest post author will be credited, but all guest posts on mezze & tapas become the property of mezze & tapas.
- I retain the absolute right to review, approve, post and remove all content posted at the mezzeandtapas.com
- The author enter into a written agreement with me regarding the guest post
Comment Policy
If you wouldn’t say it out loud, in person, to your grandmother, please don’t say it here.
mezze & tapas reserves the right to restrict comments that do not contribute constructively to the conversation at hand, contain profanity or crude language, personal attacks, false information, copyrighted information or seek to promote a personal or unrelated business.
Any post found to be in violation of any of these guidelines will be modified to remove the offending text or deleted without warning.
By submitting your content, you grant mezze & tapas permission to reproduce your content to our discretion. For example, I may choose to use your comment as an endorsement in future recipe roundups, “best ofs”, cookbooks, or other places I may reprint mezze & tapas recipes. and media kits. If you don’t want your comment to be used for such purposes, explicitly state so within the body of your comment and I will respect your wishes.
If you find evidence of copyright infringement in the comments of mezzeandtapas.com, contact me at at john@mezzeandtapas.com and I will remove the offending material as soon as possible.
Questions or concerns? Please contact me via email at at john@mezzeandtapas.com.
The fine print
Any and all content, comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, concepts, questions or other communications (collectively “User Generated Content” and “UGC”) that you submit or post on the mezzeandtapas.com shall be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary.
By submitting or posting any UGC, you grant to mezze & tapas a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, and transferable license to copy, publish, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, reproduce or use the UGC in any commercial or non-commercial manner whatsoever. mezze & tapas will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such UGC for any purpose whatsoever.
Regarding UGC, mezze & tapas shall have no obligation to use, display, monitor, respond to, or compensate you for submitting UGC. mezze & tapas retains the right at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to remove, revise or refuse to post any UGC for any reason or no reason.
Privacy Policy
Last updated September 24, 2024
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at mezze & tapas (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at john@mezzeandtapas.com.
When you visit our website https://v60jcmtj5c8.c.updraftclone.com, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website https://v60jcmtj5c8.c.updraftclone.com). Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities on the Services or otherwise contacting us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:
Publicly Available Personal Information.
We collect email addresses and first name. In addition, you may be providing a maiden name, last name, and nickname; and other similar data.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
- To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS” below).
- Request Feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
- To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons and Contractual.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
- For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.
WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
- Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Services, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Services over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than 6 months.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at john@mezzeandtapas.com.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Services visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
DATA BREACH
A privacy breach occurs when there is unauthorized access to or collection, use, disclosure or disposal of personal information. You will be notified about data breaches when mezze & tapas believes you are likely to be at risk or serious harm. For example, a data breach may be likely to result in serious financial harm or harm to your mental or physical well-being. In the event that mezze & tapas becomes aware of a security breach which has resulted or may result in unauthorized access, use or disclosure of personal information mezze & tapas will promptly investigate the matter and notify the applicable Supervisory Authority not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy policy.
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at john@mezzeandtapas.com
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the laws of some countries, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form by clicking here. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
