Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Culinary Chronicles ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website gossipoasis.sbs (the "Website"), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Website.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Personal Data

We may collect personal identification information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you:

• Subscribe to our newsletter
• Submit a contact form
• Register for an account
• Leave comments on blog posts
• Participate in surveys or promotions
• Make a purchase

The personal information we may collect includes:

• Name
• Email address
• Postal address
• Phone number
• Payment information (for purchases)
• Social media profile information (if you choose to connect your accounts)

2.2 Non-Personal Data

We may automatically collect certain non-personal information when you visit our Website, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages you visit on our Website
• Time and date of your visit
• Time spent on those pages
• Other statistics

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our Website
• To improve, personalize, and expand our Website
• To understand and analyze how you use our Website
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for:
  • Customer service
  • Providing updates and other information relating to the Website
  • Marketing and promotional purposes
• To process transactions
• To send periodic emails and newsletters
• To find and prevent fraud

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

4.1 Types of Cookies We Use

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Website to function properly.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our Website. This helps us improve the way our Website works.
• Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you.
• Targeting Cookies: Record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

4.2 Third-Party Cookies

We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this Website:

• This Website uses Google Analytics to help us understand how our Website is being used. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the Website and the pages that you visit.
• We use Facebook Pixel to deliver advertisements to you and track conversions. This allows us to serve relevant advertisements to users who have visited our Website.

4.3 Managing Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• Service Providers: We may share your information 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose 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, or as evidence in litigation.
• Consent: We may share your information with your consent or at your direction.

6. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that your information will not be accessed, viewed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification – the right to have your information corrected if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object to our processing of your personal data.
• The right of restriction – the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability – the right to be provided with a copy of your personal data in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent – the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. 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 and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:

• By email: [email protected]
• By phone: +442289198232
• By mail: 5 Laura Lane, East Theo, SL4 1YB, United Kingdom