Privacy Policy for Polish Feast
Effective Date: 14/06/2024
Welcome to Polish Feast (the “Website”), accessible at polishfeast.com. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect the personal information you provide when you use our Website.
1. Information We Collect
Notice of Collection:
Voluntarily Provided Information: We collect information that you provide when you sign up for our newsletter, including your name and email address.
Automatically Collected Information: We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your device and your interactions with our Website. We use essential cookies to ensure the proper functioning of our Website. You can find more details about the cookies we use and how to manage your preferences in our Cookie Policy below.
2. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal information based on:
- Your consent (for sending newsletters and using non-essential cookies).
- Contractual necessity (to provide the services you request, such as newsletter delivery).
- Our legitimate interests (to improve and maintain the Website, analyze usage data, and optimize our services). We will only process your data for our legitimate interests in a way that does not violate your rights and freedoms.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Operate and maintain our Website.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Website.
- Analyze usage of our Website and optimize our services.
- Communicate with you, including sending newsletters and promotional material, but only based on your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
4. Your Rights Under GDPR and CCPA
Your Rights Under GDPR:
- Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
- Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
- Restriction of Processing: You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data.
- Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for our legitimate interests.
- Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another controller.
Additional Rights Under CCPA:
- Right to Know: You can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you, along with the categories of sources from which the data is collected, the business purposes for collecting the data, and the categories of third parties with whom we share the data.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data collected by us.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
- Right to Opt-Out: California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. We do not sell your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information below.
5. Data Protection Officer
For questions regarding our privacy practices and GDPR and CCPA compliance, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].
6. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with service providers under strict confidentiality agreements to help us provide our services (e.g., email marketing platforms).
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
8. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country that is not regarded as ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data under European Union law. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with GDPR. This may include using standard contractual clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission.
9. Data Breach Notification
We will notify the appropriate authorities within 72 hours of becoming aware of any data breach that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms.
10. Children’s Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.
11. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files sent from our server to your browser and stored on your device. They contain a unique identifier made up of letters and numbers. Each time your browser makes a request to our server, the cookie’s identifier is sent back, allowing our server to recognize your browser during your visit. Cookies can be classified into two types:
- Persistent Cookies: These remain on your browser until their set expiration date, unless you choose to delete them sooner. They help remember your information and settings when you visit our website in the future.
- Session Cookies: These are temporary and expire when you close your browser. They are used to manage your session on our website.
We do not use cookies to collect personal information that identifies you directly; however, the information we gather from cookies may be associated with any personal information you provide us.
Purposes of Using Cookies:
- Authentication: Cookies help verify your identity and enable you to navigate our website securely.
- Email Communications: Cookies facilitate the operation of our email list by ensuring that messages are sent to the right recipients.
- Security: We employ cookies as part of the security measures to protect your account and our website from unauthorized access and fraudulent activity.
- Advertising: Cookies are used to display advertisements that are more relevant to you.
- Analytics: We analyze the performance and usage of our website using cookies to improve our services.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings, where you can refuse or delete cookies. Instructions for managing cookies vary by browser:
Please be aware that blocking cookies may affect the functionality of many websites, including ours. Certain features may not be available without cookies.
Google Analytics We use Google Analytics, which utilizes cookies to collect data about website usage. This data helps us understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics may use your IP address to provide reports. If you prefer, you can opt out of Google Analytics by installing a browser add-on available here.
For more about Google’s data handling practices, please visit their privacy policy.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Contact Page: polishfeast.com/contact