Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 2026
At Mona Recipes (accessible from monarecipes.com), maintaining the trust and privacy of our visitors is one of our highest priorities. This comprehensive Privacy Policy document outlines the specific types of personal and non-personal information that is collected, recorded, and processed by Mona Recipes, and exactly how we utilize it to improve your experience.
If you have additional questions, concerns, or require more clarification about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact our privacy team directly.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to our online activities and is exclusively valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they share and/or that we collect on Mona Recipes. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline, via direct mail, or via channels other than this specific web property.
1. Consent
By accessing and using our website, you hereby explicitly consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to all of its terms and conditions. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website.
2. Information We Collect
The specific personal information that you are asked to provide, and the exact reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made completely clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
Directly Provided Information
If you contact us directly via email or our contact forms, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other specific information you may voluntarily choose to provide. When you sign up for our email newsletter or create an account to save recipes, we require your email address and name.
Log Files and Automated Collection
Mona Recipes follows a standard industry procedure of using log files. These files automatically log visitors when they visit websites. All professional hosting companies do this as a fundamental part of hosting services' analytics and server security. The information collected automatically by log files includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
- Browser type and version
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Date and time stamp of your visit
- Referring/exit pages (where you came from and where you went)
- The number of clicks and navigation patterns throughout the site
Importantly, these data points are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The sole purpose of collecting this automated information is for analyzing broad user trends, administering and securing the site, tracking users' movement on the website to improve user experience, and gathering high-level demographic information.
4. Advertising Partners and Third-Party Policies
This website works with premium advertising partners and networks to provide personalized ad experiences and to optimize ad placements. These third-party partners help us deliver relevant advertisements that keep Mona Recipes free for you to use, while continually improving your overall browsing experience.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Mona Recipes, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.
These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Mona Recipes has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Ezoic Advertising Privacy Policy
For complete, legally up-to-date details about how our primary advertising partner collects and uses data on this website, please carefully review the dynamically generated information below:
5. GDPR Data Protection Rights (European Users)
We would like to make completely sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Every European user is explicitly entitled to the following:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data stored by us. We may charge you a small, reasonable administrative fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is factually inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure ("Right to be forgotten"): You have the right to request that we securely erase your personal data from our active databases, under certain legally permissible conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we pause or restrict the active processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to legally object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected directly to another organization, or directly back to you, in a standard machine-readable format.
If you make a GDPR request, we are legally required to have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact our privacy team immediately.
6. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the CPRA, among other rights, California resident consumers have the specific legal right to:
- Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the exact categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
- Request that a business permanently delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
- Request that a business that routinely sells or shares a consumer's personal data, absolutely not sell or share the consumer's personal data.
Mona Recipes does not independently sell your personal data to data brokers. However, the use of targeted advertising networks may be classified as a "sale" or "sharing" of data under California law. If you make a CCPA request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise these rights or opt-out, please contact us.
7. Children's Information
Another incredibly important part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We strongly encourage parents and guardians to actively observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children's online activity.
Mona Recipes does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain EU jurisdictions). If you strongly believe or suspect that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our absolute best efforts to promptly and permanently remove such information from our server records.
8. Data Security and Retention
We implement commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your personal information and ensure that it is not accidentally lost, misused, accessed without authorization, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. This includes using SSL/TLS encryption for all website traffic.
However, no electronic transmission over the public Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot absolutely promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is explicitly required by law.
9. Contact Us Regarding Privacy
If you have any questions, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer:
- By email: