Privacy Notice

INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice describes how Catnip Kitchen (“we” or “us”) will handle personal data collected from site visitors (“visitors” or “you”) on https://catnipkitchenadventures.com/ (the “Website”), as well as information collected via our social media channels and other information we may collect when you use our services. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what Personal Information we may collect and how it may be used.

“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal Information does not include publicly available information that is made available from federal, state, or local government records.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1. Information You Provide To Us

When you visit our Website, you may be required or permitted to share information with us or our service providers through various methods, including but not limited to:

• Contacting Us. When you contact us through the various communication channels provided on the Website, we collect personal data and other information that you provide. Examples of such personal data include your name, e-mail address and telephone number, or online forms completed by you. You may also submit Personal Information by leaving a comment on a blogpost or submitting a contact form.

• Email Newsletters: If you choose to provide us with your email address, we may send you email communications from time to time to share updates about our recipes, events, courses, and other details that may interest you. You can opt out of receiving email communications from us by following the instructions and unsubscribe links contained in any communication we send to you.

• Social Media: You may provide Personal Information to us through use of our social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest). Please remember that any information you post will become publicly available. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with your account. The Website utilizes the WordPress commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear. We may use your Personal Information to locate you via social media for marketing purposes.

• Use of Other Services: Our Website offers certain services, such as making online purchases, which may require you to share Personal Information, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number and credit card information. We may use third-party service providers to offer these services to you. Each third-party service provider’s use of your Personal Information is dictated by its respective privacy policy. We encourage you to review those privacy policies. For more information about our third-party service providers, please see the below section “Third-Party Use of Personal Information.”

2. Automatically Collected Information

We may automatically collect certain activity and usage information about when you use our Website, such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, operating system type, browser type, referring URL, pages you view and links you click on our Website, the dates/times when you access the Website, and other activity data. We collect this information in order to improve our Website and help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit the Website. We may use several technologies to help collect this information as discussed below in “Cookies and Related Technologies.”

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

We do not sell your Personal Information and do not share your Personal Information with third parties, except for as otherwise provided in this section. We share Personal Information with the following categories of recipients.

• Third-Party Service Providers: The Website may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website and provide us with services such as website hosting, information technology services, and related infrastructure, e-mail delivery, auditing and similar services. These service providers may have access to your Personal Information to perform their functions but are prohibited from using Personal Information for any purpose other than providing services to us.

• To Perform Services for You: We may disclose your Personal Information to third-party service providers who provide services to you. In the event that you choose to use a service offered by, or advertised on our Website that allows or requires you to interact with such a third-party service provider, that provider’s separate terms of use and privacy policy may govern the collection and use of your Personal Information.

• Other Legal Reasons: We may share your Personal Information with third parties if we conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our Company, its customers, or the public. Additionally, we may disclose your Personal Information 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.

• Marketing: We may use third parties for our marketing purposes, as described further below in “Advertising and Third Party Data Collection.”

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may track visits to the pages, links on our websites, and create and use other forms of anonymous information (aggregate or deidentified information that does not identify you as an individual). 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.

COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

We also use cookies or similar technologies that collect certain Website usage information when you access, view, and use the Website. A cookie is a data file placed on a computer or mobile device when it is used to visit websites. You may disable cookies in your browser’s settings (e.g., under the “Preferences” or “Internet Options” features of your browser). Note, however, that some features of the Website may not function properly if you disable the use of cookies. For detailed information on how to manage or delete cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Cookies may also be used by third-party web analytics services, such as Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect and analyze Website usage information, such as information about referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here.

Our advertising and marketing partners may also use cookies, as described further in “Advertising and Third Party Data Collection.”

ADVERTISING AND THIRD PARTY DATA COLLECTION

• Retargeting Ads: From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third- party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

• Affiliate Program Participation: The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the 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.

• Newsletters: On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, 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

Your Rights

Subject to the relevant legislative provisions, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your personal data are being processed and, where this is the case, access to the personal data. You also have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data.

The right to rectification

You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data about you that you think are inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete data you think are incomplete. This right always applies.

The right to erasure

This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your data where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using the data. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions, e.g. if we have a legal obligation to keep your data.

The right to restriction of processing

You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

The right to data portability

This right only applies to personal data you have given us. You have the right to ask that we transfer the data you gave us to another organization or give the data to you.

The right to withdraw consent

Where you have provided us with consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing that has been carried out based on your consent prior to the withdrawal.

The right to object

When we process your personal data for purposes of pursuing our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to such processing at any time. If you object, we will stop the processing unless we have strong and legitimate reasons to continue using your data. Where we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to such processing, including for profiling purposes to the extent that it is related to direct marketing.

If you would like to learn more about any of these rights, please contact catnipkitchenadventures@gmail.com

The right to lodge a complaint

If you have concerns about the way we handle or process your personal data, please contact us and we will investigate the matter and report back to you. If you are still not satisfied after our response, depending on the law of the country where you live or work, you may have the right to complain to a data-protection regulator. If you are concerned about a breach of your privacy and wish to make a complaint, please provide a written complaint to us at: catnipkitchenadventures@gmail.com.

LINKS

This website contains links to third-party sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects Personal Information.

INFORMATION PROTECTION

This site has reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that the Website has received the Personal Information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us as described at the end of this Privacy Policy.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any inquiries about this Privacy Notice, if you would like to update information we have about you, or if you wish to exercise your data protection rights, you may contact us via email at catnipkitchenadventures@gmail.com.