Effective Date: November 12, 2019
Zimmy’s Nook found at https://www.zimmysnook.ca (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
Hi, I’m James Synowicki the content creator, influencer and brand ambassador behind Zimmy’s Nook. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
We may collect and store personal information from users and site visitors that you many voluntarily submit to the website such as; your name, email address, company or any other personal information. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In addition, you are able to create a user profile, which allows you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.
HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure performance and advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
- To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you; or,
- To send promotional materials.
We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.
THIRD-PARTY AND AUTOMATILLY-COLLECTED USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
TRACKING: This Website may use various marketing tools that help create a better user experience. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking: Google Analytics: Privacy Policy
REMARKETING: This Website may use remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting the Website. In addition, Zimmy’s Nook may use custom audiences based on e-mails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:
- Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here
- Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here
WEB BEACONS: This Website engages in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is fully disclosed. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. No personally identifiable information collected by the Website is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.
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 visit our login page, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
COMMENTS: This Website uses Word Press to allow you to leave comments on a blog post. 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.
NEWSLETTERS: This Website uses Mail Chimp for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. We are strongly opposed to spam and will only send email to users that have explicitly requested to received emails from Zimmy’s Nook. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy here.
You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at zimmysnook@gmail to be removed from our mailing list.
CONTACT FORMS: If you choose to use our contact form your personal data is captured; name, email and comment. Contact form submissions are retained indefinitely and kept for customer service purposes. We do not use the information submitted this form for marketing purposes unless you agree to join our mailing list when asked.
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 an account on this site, or 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.
WEB LINKS
The Website may occasionally contain links to other sites. Zimmy’s Nook is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites, when leaving our site we encourage you to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Zimmy’s Nook.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at zimmynook@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
COPYRIGHT/CONTENT POLICY
All photos, posts and photography are the property of James Synowicki and Zimmy’s Nook. You may post a thumbnail and link to any recipe roundup without permission with a link back to Zimmy’s Nook’s site. Please do not copy and paste the entire post/photos in a recipe round up, that is bad for both of us in terms of SEO. If you are unsure, you are welcomed to contact us for clarification. Reposting without credit is not allowed. Any other uses of photos, recipes, posts please request permission from zimmysnook@gmail.com or via the contact form.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACTY NOTICE
We reserve the right to change or add to this Privacy Notice from time to time and will post any revisions on this Website. We will indicate at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. Your continued use of the Website subsequent to any change to this Privacy Notice constitutes your acceptance of the change. Please review this statement periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes or updates to this Privacy Notice.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any further questions or comments regarding the Website or this Privacy Policy, you may contact zimmysnook@gmail.com