Privacy Policy

Use of Data

Bo Smit uses the collected data for various purposes:

• • To provide and maintain our Website

• • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so

• • To provide customer support

• • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website

• • To monitor the usage of our Website

• • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about things we think you will be interested in

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Bo Smit’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Bo Smit may process your Personal Data because:

• • We need to perform a contract with you

• • You have given us permission to do so

• • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights

• • To comply with the law

Retention of Data

Bo Smit will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Bo Smit will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

Bo Smit may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• • To comply with a legal obligation

• • To protect and defend the rights or property of Bo Smit

• • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website

• • To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public

• • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Bo Smit aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

• • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

• • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

• • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

• • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

• • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Bo Smit 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.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Website Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Website Providers”), provide the Website on our behalf, perform Website-related Websites or assist us in analysing how our Website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Website Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Website.

• Google Analytics
  Google Analytics is a web analytics Website offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google Websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
  You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
  
  
• Google Tag Manager
  

  In order to monitor and provide diagnostics about system stability, performance, and installation quality, Google Tag Manager may collect some aggregated data about tag firing. This data does not include user IP addresses or any measurement identifiers associated with a particular individual. Other than data in standard HTTP request logs, all of which is deleted within 14 days of being received, and diagnostics data noted above, Google Tag Manager does not collect, retain, or share any information about visitors to our customers’ properties, including page URLs visited. Learn more about our use of Google Tag Manager data in our terms of service.

• Burst Statistics
  This website uses Burst Statistics, a Privacy-Friendly Statistics Tool to analyze visitor behavior. For this functionality we (this website) collect anonymized data, stored locally without sharing it with other parties. For more information, please read the Privacy Statement from Burst.

Advertising

We may use third-party Website Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Website.

• • Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
    Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Website or other websites on the Internet.
    You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Other

We may use third-party Website Providers for site security, email marketing, cookie consent and other plug-ins.

• MailChimp
  We use MailChimp as our marketing automation platform. Personal Data processed: email address; first name; Trackers. Place of processing: United States. By subscribing to Earthy Vibes newsletters you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy & Terms.
  
  
• Wordfence Security

  We use the Wordfence Security Plugin to prevent hacking attacks and other unauthorized access or malicious cyber attacks. Wordfence temporarily stores information such as IP addresses, country of origin, date and time stamp and visited pages. This data is not being used for any other purpose than making this website as secure as possible and will be deleted automatically after 30 days maximum. Data transmission to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. For more information visit https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/

• Akismet
  We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

• WP Recipe maker

  Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores. When user ratings are enabled we store a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam. When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam. With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.

• Complianz Cookie Consent 
  We use the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website may contain links and embedded content to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or Websites.

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