Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 12, 2026
Cocina Hacks respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit https://cocinahacks.com, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
Who We Are
Cocina Hacks is a recipe and cooking website created for readers who enjoy authentic Puerto Rican recipes, American favorites, and practical cooking inspiration.
Website: https://cocinahacks.com
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us through our Contact page:
Information We Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- Submit a contact form.
- Leave a comment.
- Submit a recipe rating.
- Subscribe to updates, if this option is available.
- Communicate with us by email or through the website.
- Participate in surveys, promotions, or other website features.
This information may include your name, email address, website address, message, comment, recipe rating, and any other information you choose to provide.
We may also automatically collect limited technical information when you visit Cocina Hacks, including:
- Your Internet Protocol address.
- Browser and device type.
- Operating system.
- Referring website or page.
- Pages viewed and actions taken.
- Approximate location derived from your IP address.
- Date and time of your visit.
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, analytics services, security tools, and advertising technologies.
How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Operate and maintain Cocina Hacks.
- Display recipes and provide website functionality.
- Respond to questions and contact requests.
- Process and display comments and recipe ratings.
- Personalize and improve website content.
- Understand how visitors use the website.
- Measure website traffic and content performance.
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
- Display and measure advertisements.
- Diagnose technical problems.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
Where required by law, we rely on consent or another appropriate legal basis to process personal information.
Comments
When visitors leave comments, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information, to help detect spam and prevent abuse.
An anonymized string created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. After your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image may be visible publicly alongside your comment.
Gravatar is operated by Automattic. You can review Automattic’s privacy policy at:
Please do not include sensitive or confidential personal information in public comments.
Recipe Ratings
When you submit a recipe rating, the website may store the rating and limited technical information needed to prevent duplicate submissions, spam, or manipulation.
Recipe ratings may be displayed publicly in an aggregated form.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cocina Hacks and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, web beacons, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
- Remember visitor preferences.
- Provide essential website functionality.
- Protect the website from spam and abuse.
- Measure website traffic and performance.
- Understand how visitors interact with recipes and other content.
- Deliver, personalize, and measure advertising.
- Remember cookie-consent choices.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Where required by applicable law, non-essential analytics and advertising cookies will be used only after you provide consent.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain website features.
Cookie Consent
Where required by applicable privacy laws, Cocina Hacks may display a cookie-consent notice that allows visitors to accept, reject, or manage certain categories of cookies.
You may be able to change your consent choices later through the cookie settings link displayed on the website.
Google Analytics
Cocina Hacks may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages viewed.
- Session duration.
- Approximate location.
- Browser and device information.
- Referring websites.
- Interactions with website content.
Where required by law, Google Analytics will operate only after the visitor has provided the necessary consent.
Information collected through Google Analytics is handled according to Google’s privacy practices. You can learn more at:
Advertising and Google AdSense
Cocina Hacks may use Google AdSense and other advertising partners to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements.
Google may use advertising cookies to display advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Cocina Hacks or other websites, where permitted by applicable law and the visitor’s consent choices.
Google and its advertising partners may process information to:
- Deliver advertisements.
- Personalize advertisements where permitted.
- Measure advertising performance.
- Limit how often an advertisement appears.
- Detect and prevent fraud and abuse.
- Produce aggregated advertising reports.
You can learn more about how Google uses information from websites that use its services at:
You can manage personalized advertising preferences through Google’s My Ad Center:
Where required by applicable privacy laws, visitors will be provided with appropriate consent or opt-out choices before certain advertising cookies or similar technologies are used.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
Cocina Hacks does not sell personal information for money.
However, the use of certain personalized advertising technologies may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” under some privacy laws.
Where applicable, visitors will be provided with the required consent or opt-out choices.
Embedded Content
Recipes and articles may include embedded content from third-party websites, such as:
- Videos.
- Images.
- Social media posts.
- Maps.
- Recipe tools.
- Other external content.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.
These third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
Their collection and use of information are governed by their own privacy policies.
External Links
Cocina Hacks may include links to external websites.
We do not control and are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.
Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers to help operate Cocina Hacks, including providers of:
- Website hosting.
- Content delivery and performance optimization.
- Analytics.
- Advertising.
- Spam prevention.
- Website security.
- Backups.
- Contact forms.
- Email delivery.
- Technical support.
These providers may process limited information as necessary to provide their services, protect their systems, or comply with applicable law.
International Data Transfers
Some service providers may process information in countries other than the visitor’s country of residence, including the United States.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards or other lawful transfer mechanisms may be used.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The retention period may depend on:
- The reason the information was collected.
- Whether the information is needed to operate the website.
- Security and fraud-prevention requirements.
- Legal or regulatory obligations.
- The need to resolve disputes.
Comments and associated metadata may be retained so that follow-up comments can be recognized and approved.
Contact messages may be retained for as long as necessary to respond to the request and maintain appropriate records.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of personal information.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Request a portable copy of certain information.
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data sharing.
- Request information about categories of information collected or disclosed.
- Submit a complaint to an appropriate privacy or consumer-protection authority.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
To submit a privacy request, contact us through:
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. Where permitted by law, you may also use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf.
Children’s Privacy
Cocina Hacks is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the website, please contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when website features, service providers, or legal requirements change.
The revised Privacy Policy will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy or how Cocina Hacks handles personal information, please contact us through: