At Cherry and Spice, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow because your privacy is very important to us:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.
It is the policy of Cherry and Spice to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
How Information is Collected
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access our website. For example, when you use our website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times you accessed our website. We also collect information about actions you take when using our website, such as links clicked.
Cookies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein. Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software program. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.
How Information is Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Cherry and Spice website.
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to unsubscribe and opt-out of future mailings.
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts.
- To respond to your comments or questions.
- To provide you with user support.
- To track and measure advertising on our website.
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
Our website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics: This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Please refer to Google Analytic’s privacy policy for further information.
SlimStat: This service provides reports of website usage obtained from Google Analytics data. Please refer to SlimStat’s privacy policy for further information.
MailerLite: This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your email address and name (if provided) for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailerLite’s privacy policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at our discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If you leave a comment on our website, certain information may be publicly visible, such as your name and comment. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar and a link to your website. Users may see your username, avatar, and website information.
AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
Our website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into our website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Cherry and Spice is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, our website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
NEWSLETTERS
On our website, you may subscribe to receive Cherry and Spice emails and newsletters, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at cherry@cherryandspice.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to cherry@cherryandspice.com.
Amend: You may contact us at cherry@cherryandspice.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to cherry@cherryandspice.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to our website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Our website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from persons under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in our database, please contact us immediately at cherry@cherryandspice.com and we will promptly remove such information from our records.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at cherry@cherryandspice.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: 22 May 2018.