Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://teaandkumquats.com.

You can use our contact form or email us at info@teaandkumquats.com to get in touch with us.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you choose, you may link a social network profile (Facebook) using their Facebook Login method. This shows us your public profile and email address in order to create an account on our system. This process is not required to leave comments on our site.

You can read more about how Facebook uses your data by reviewing their privacy policy – https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ or their cookie policy https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

If you wish to remove your comments – contact info@teaandkumquats.com

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Third party vendors, including Amazon, Google, and Facebook, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of Google personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

Other third parties may use information about you for advertisting purposes. To read more about this, and how to opt out, visit www.aboutads.info

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Products from Amazon are displayed on this site. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to view website traffic and see how users found and accessed our content. We also see the search terms used in our search field.

To learn more about how Google uses information gained from this site visit this page – https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. If you wish to adjust settings that affect advertisements you see visit – https://adssettings.google.com/ . If you wish to opt-out from Google Analytics visit – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

We also use cookies and other storage technologies from Facebook to measure traffic, activity, and target ads. If you would like to opt-out of Facebook ad tracking visit this page – https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen

Who we share your data with

Some data is shared to Facebook and Google’s systems to monitor traffic, behavior, and assist with advertising.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Ben Taylor – ben@teaandkumquats.com