1. Introduction

Welcome to The Tasty Guide! We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy and cookies policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website www.thetastyguide.com (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you in accordance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Information We Collect

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your account and order
• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• Process payments and prevent fraud
• Set up your account for our store
• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
• Improve our store offerings
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

3. 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.

4. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5. MailPoet newsletter & emails

If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website (you can log in) or if you have purchased on our website, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.

We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.

To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Below is a list of cookies that may be generated by MailPoet (note that some cookies are only utilized when WooCommerce is installed and activated):

• Cookie name: mailpoet_page_view
  Cookie expiry: 3,650 days.
  Cookie description: The purpose of this cookie is to track the last time a subscriber viewed any page on the site.

• Cookie name: mailpoet_revenue_tracking
  Cookie expiry: 14 days.
  Cookie description: The purpose of this cookie is to track which newsletter sent from your website has acquired a click-through and a subsequent purchase in your WooCommerce store.

• Cookie name: mailpoet_subscriber
  Cookie expiry: 3,650 days.
  Cookie description: The purpose of this cookie is to track subscriber engagement. It is used when the user logs in, signs up in a form, confirms subscription to a newsletter, or places an order through WooCommerce.
  Note: User must be opted-in and a confirmed subscriber.

• Cookie name: popup_form_dismissed_{$formId}
  Cookie expiry: the expiration date varies and can be set per form.
  Cookie description: This cookie is used to track if a user has previously dismissed a specific form, preventing the re-display of the form until the cookie’s expiration date. It is applicable for popup, slide-in, or fixed bar forms.

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

6. How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new customer.
• To process and deliver your orders.
• To manage our relationship with you.
• To provide you with marketing materials (where you have not opted out).
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

7. 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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

8. How We Share Your Information

We do not share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) unless such transfer is compliant with the GDPR.

9. Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

10. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

11. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, transfer, or object to processing, and the right to data portability.

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.

12. Changes to This Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your data, please contact us at:

Il Forchettiere s.a.s. di Marco Gemelli

Via San Jacopino 14

50144 Firenze, Italy

hello @ thetastyguide . com