Last updated: July 22, 2026

De l’Amour en Cocotte places great importance on protecting your privacy and personal information.

This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit delamourencocotte.com, how it is used, with whom it may be shared, and what rights you have.

In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to De l’Amour en Cocotte.

1. Scope of this policy

This policy applies to information collected when you:

visit the website;
use its features;
perform a search;
post a comment;
communicate with us;
click an advertisement or a link to an external service;
accept certain cookies or similar tracking technologies.

2. Information we may collect

Information you provide voluntarily

When you leave a comment on the website, we may collect:

your name or pseudonym;
your email address;
your website address, if you choose to provide it;
the content of your comment;
any other information you choose to include.

Your name or pseudonym, your comment and, where applicable, the link to your website may be published on the website. Your email address is not published.

When you contact us directly by email or by another method, we may also collect your email address and the information contained in your message.

We recommend that you not publish sensitive personal information in a comment.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, or service providers, including:

your IP address;
your browser type and version;
your device type and operating system;
your browser language;
the date, time and approximate duration of your visit;
the pages you view;
the links you click;
the page or website that referred you to our website;
your approximate geographic region;
identifiers associated with cookies or your device.

This information may be considered personal information when it can be used to identify you directly or indirectly.

3. How we use information

We may use the information collected to:

operate, secure and improve the website;
display pages and features correctly;
respond to your comments, questions or requests;
manage and moderate comments;
detect and block spam, fraud and malicious activity;
measure our audience and understand how the website is used;
produce statistics;
correct technical problems;
display, measure and personalize advertisements, where you have consented;
comply with our legal obligations;
protect our rights and those of website users.

We do not use your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those described in this policy unless you consent or the law permits it.

4. Comments and Akismet

The website uses Akismet, a spam-detection service operated by Automattic.

When you submit a comment, certain information may be sent to Akismet, including:

the content of the comment;
your name;
your email address;
your website address, if provided;
your IP address;
information about your browser.

This information is used to determine whether a comment is spam or otherwise unwanted. Akismet’s processing is also subject to the Akismet Privacy Policy.

Legitimate comments may be retained for as long as the article and its comment section remain published, unless you request deletion and no legal obligation requires us to retain them.

5. Cookies

A cookie is a small file stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies allow a website to operate, remember certain choices, measure usage and display advertising.

The website may use the following categories of cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies support the operation, security and technical administration of the website. They generally cannot be disabled through our website.

WordPress may use cookies to:

support certain website features;
protect the website;
facilitate comment management;
remember information for a user who chooses to save it for a future comment.

Analytics cookies

With your consent, tools such as Google Analytics may collect information about how you use the website.

This information helps us understand matters such as the number of visitors, pages viewed, general sources of traffic and devices used.

Advertising cookies

The website may display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising partners.

With your consent, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:

deliver advertisements;
limit how often an advertisement is shown;
measure advertising performance;
detect advertising fraud;
personalize advertisements based on your activities and interests.

If you refuse advertising cookies, non-personalized advertisements may still be displayed.

To learn more about Google’s use of data, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

You may also change certain advertising settings in Google My Ad Center.

6. Managing your consent

Where required by law, analytics, personalization and advertising cookies are activated only after we obtain your consent.

You may accept or refuse the cookie categories presented in the website’s consent banner. You may also change or withdraw your consent later by using the “Manage privacy preferences” or “Cookie settings” link displayed on the website.

Withdrawal of consent does not operate retroactively and does not affect processing completed before consent was withdrawn.

You can also configure your browser to block or delete certain cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect the operation of some parts of the website.

7. Service providers

We may use service providers to operate and fund the website, including for:

web hosting;
WordPress administration;
security and backups;
spam detection;
audience measurement;
advertising display and measurement;
technical and maintenance services.

These providers receive access only to the information necessary to provide their services. However, they may apply their own privacy policies when acting as independent data controllers.

Our main providers may include:

our web-hosting provider;
WordPress;
Automattic and Akismet;
Google Analytics;
Google AdSense and Google’s advertising partners.

We do not directly sell your personal information.

8. Transfers outside Quebec

Some of our providers, including Google, Automattic or our hosting provider, may process or store information outside Quebec and Canada.

That information may then be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is processed and may be accessible to authorities in that jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law.

Where required by law, we assess the risks associated with communicating personal information outside Quebec and take reasonable measures to protect it.

9. Embedded content and external links

Website articles may contain videos, images, maps, social-media posts or other content from external websites.

Embedded content generally behaves as though you had visited the website providing it directly. These services may collect information, use cookies and track your interaction with their content, particularly if you have an account with the service and are signed in.

The website also contains links to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X/Twitter, WhatsApp, Yummly and other external websites. When you leave our website, your activities are subject to the practices and policies of the relevant external service.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.

10. Retention of information

We retain personal information only for the period reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including to:

manage comments;
respond to requests;
maintain website security;
comply with our legal obligations;
resolve disputes;
enforce our rights.

The exact retention period depends on the nature of the information, how it is used, and applicable legal requirements.

Aggregated or anonymized statistical data that can no longer identify an individual may be retained for a longer period.

11. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alteration or destruction.

However, no Internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Children’s privacy

The website is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent from a parent or guardian, please contact us so that we can review the situation and, where appropriate, delete the information.

13. Your rights

Subject to exceptions provided by law, you may request:

access to personal information we hold about you;
correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
withdrawal of your consent;
that the dissemination of certain information cease;
deletion or de-indexing of information where provided by law;
information about how your personal information has been used and disclosed;
that certain computerized personal information be provided in a structured and commonly used technological format, where this right applies.

We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

You may also make a complaint about our handling of personal information to the person identified below or to the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.

14. Privacy officer

The person responsible for the protection of personal information for De l’Amour en Cocotte is:

Jorge Martins

De l’Amour en Cocotte

Email: [email protected]

To exercise your rights, ask a question or make a complaint, please contact this person in writing.

15. Changes to this policy

We may modify this policy to reflect changes to the website, our practices, our providers or applicable laws.

The date of the latest update appears at the beginning of this policy. Any material change will be identified on the website or communicated by another appropriate method where required by law.