At Tea Tattler, we are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
This Privacy Policy effective August 14, 2014 outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used. We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us by email at [email protected].
Log Files
Like many other sites, we use log files. The information gathered in there include:
1. Internet Protocol addresses (IP)
2. Types of browser
3. Internet Service Provider (ISP)
4. Date and time stamp of visit(s)
5. Referring and exit pages
6. Length of visit
All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable and is used mainly to analyze trends, administer the site, and adapt the content of the site to better suit the visitors.
We may also collect the following information:
1. contact information including email address
2. demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
3. other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
1. We may use the information to improve our products and services.
2. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
3. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Cookies
We sometimes use cookies, small files which ask permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Our advertising partners include but are not limited to:
• Google Adsense
If you wish to disable cookies you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so and for other cookie-related management can be found on the specific web browsers’ websites.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
1. Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
2. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Opt Out
Please visit Ads Settings to opt out of DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by Google Adsense. You can also opt out of some third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us.
Others
If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. This information is not made available to third parties.
We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.
(Last updated October 30, 2015)