Privacy
The privacy of our readers is extremely important to us. You may like to know how we collect certain information or data about you and your visit to our website when you use www.eatsamazing.co.uk. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by this site and how it is used.
Who we are
Eats Amazing is a personal blog written and edited by Grace Hall. Our website address is: https://www.eatsamazing.co.uk
What information do we collect and how is it used?
We collect information about you for three reasons: firstly, to process any online orders/enquiries, secondly to provide news if you are a subscriber, and thirdly to provide you with the best possible service.
Company:
relates to any legitimate company, by which you are directly employed, authorised on behalf of, or plan to start
Individual:
relates to you as a visitor to the website
GDPR:
relates to The General Data Protection Regulations which came into effect on 25th of May 2018
We will be collecting:
- Search terms that you have used to either find our website or used on our website and a record of browsing behaviour including links clicked. This information is collected via a cookie which is set on your first arrival to our website and the contents of any form you submit to us. Our complete cookie policy can be found here
- Anonymous data regarding the gender, age and interests of website visitors. Although this information is collected through your Google ad settings, it is not provided to us in a personally-identifiable format. This means we cannot identify what information is about you. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising using the Google Ad settings or through the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
- Information that will help us contact you in the future like: name, company name, address, phone and email. All personal information disclosed by you to us will be retained securely and we will not seek to append personal data from external sources
- Information on engagement with the emails and SMS messages you receive from us
- The IP address your router freely transmits to our web servers
- Your browser user agent, as freely transmitted by your computer. This includes your browser build information, your device type and your computer’s operating system
We will not be collecting:
- Information about browsing habits outside of our own domains (www.eatsamazing.co.uk).
This data is held in a state of the art highly protected data storage environment within the UK and will be used to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Help improve the content we display on our website
- Improve the content and relevance of what we send to you
- Provide you with the fastest access to the latest content relevant to you
- Answer any questions you may have submitted and retain this information to ensure a fast and effective service in the future
- Send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts
- Process any online orders placed through the Eats Amazing Shop
- Track and measure advertising on the website
- Ensure we remain compliant under the terms of the GDPR
Where do we store your data?
We store our data with WPopt Hosting. Your data will never be transmitted outside of the EU unless you have specifically requested us to do so.
Data security
Due to the open nature of the internet transmitting data to WPopt, this must only be done via approved data transmission channels. We will endeavour to ensure your data is transmitted to us using the known best practice approaches. It’s important to note, any data you send to us is sent at your own risk.
Once your data is received, it will be stored within the WPopt secure data environment, where we have robust processes and procedures to keep it safe.
Eats Amazing Shop
In order to process orders made through the Eats Amazing Shop, Eats Amazing needs to collect your personal information such as name, company name, address, phone, email and payment information including email address for your PayPal account.
The use of this information is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you, including posting out your orders and issuing refunds when necessary. All payments are processed through Paypal so we do not collect or store credit card or bank account details.
It’s also important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase, what products they are most interested in and what products they buy, so we track and store this kind of data. This means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price for our products. It also helps us to understand your needs as a customer, allowing us to supply the most relevant and useful products possible in the Eats Amazing Shop.
Email and SMS options
Eats Amazing uses MailerLite to send email updates and newsletters, which may be used for advertising purposes. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mailer Lite’s privacy policy for further information.
By submitting your information into www.eatsamazing.co.uk you are confirming the following:
- You are doing so in your capacity as a representative of the company (see previous definition) or as an individual
- You are over 18 years of age
- You are accepting the relevance of our marketing email communications
- You are providing contact information that will facilitate the communication between Eats Amazing and you
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 behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.
Should you wish to stop receiving emails from us
You may use the unsubscribe link, which will be present within the footer of every email and SMS we send to you. Your subscription preferences will be immediately updated.
Display Ads
Eats Amazing uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Please see more information about this further down this page.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the website may engage in re-marketing 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.
You can opt-out of Facebook re-marketing here and opt-out of Google remarketing here.
Disclosing your information
We will only pass on the personal information collected if we have a legal obligation to do so.
We will not share your information with any third parties not listed on our list of partners.
Your rights
Eats Amazing is working hard to ensure it sets an exemplary standard in data management and usage. Specifically, under the GDPR you have the right to request the following:
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at grace@eatsamazing.co.uk to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to grace@eatsamazing.co.uk.
Amend – You may contact us at grace@eatsamazing.co.uk 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 grace@eatsamazing.co.uk.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
For more information on GDPR and your rights please see the ICO website.
External Links
Eats Amazing may from time to time link to third party websites displaying useful content. It’s important to note this privacy policy specifically covers the www.eatsamazing.co.uk domain only.
Please ensure you have verified the privacy policies on any external websites before submitting personal information.
Contact information
If you have questions concerning the processing of your personal data please contact us at grace@eatsamazing.co.uk
Disclosure
Eats Amazing accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
Eats Amazing abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of Eats Amazing is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though we receive compensation for posts or advertisements, we always give honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely our own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
Eats Amazing includes some paid advertising on the site as detailed above. This shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement for any product advertised.
Eats Amazing is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.couk. As part of this Amazon Associates program, this website will post customised links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising 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. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Mediavine partners with the following data processors:
- Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
- Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
- RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
- The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
- Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
- RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
- Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
- 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
- Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.