As owner of this website (lavendergypsy.com, referred to as either “Website”, “we”, “us”, “our” or “Lavender Gypsy”), we care a lot about your privacy and fully understand the importance of protecting your personal data and handling it with care. In the following section, we explain what personal data the Website collects, why the Website collects them, and how the Website may use them. Rest assured that protecting your personal data is our priority. We promise, we will never give your personal information (like your name and email address) to any third parties unless you specifically authorised us to do so (please read carefully, which data may be given to third parties).
Please note that we do not collect any of your personal information (like name or email address) unless this information was given to us by you (the Website’s site-visitor and/or user) by agreeing to our terms.
What personal data the Website collects:
- Lavender Gypsy collects the voluntarily given information of your name and your email address when you comment, submit a contact form
- Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
- When you access the service by or through a mobile device, Lavender Gypsy may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. The Website may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit Lavender Gypsy or when you access Lavender Gypsy by or through a mobile device.
How your personal information might be used
The Website may use, store, and process personal information which may be used like this:
- to enable us to communicate with you
- to respond to your comments and/or inquiries,
- to send you updates, administrative emails, security alerts, account notifications, or updates on policies
- to provide, understand and improve Lavender Gypsy for your convenience
- to track and measure advertising on the Website
- to operate and maintain the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Cookies
Please also refer to our cookie policy.
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses. If you leave a comment on the Website 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.
Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse this Website.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of Lavender Gypsy.
Cookie Banner
To manage the cookies and similar technologies used (tracking pixels, web beacons, etc.) and related consents, we use the consent tool "Real Cookie Banner". Details on how "Real Cookie Banner" works can be found at https://devowl.io/rcb/data-processing/.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data in this context are Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR and Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the management of the cookies and similar technologies used and the related consents.
The provision of personal data is neither contractually required nor necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide the personal data. If you do not provide the personal data, we will not be able to manage your consents.
Advertising
Display Ads
Lavender Gypsy displays ads on the Website. These Display Ads serve content and advertisements whenever you visit My Website. Cookies may be used to choose what content or advertisements are displayed.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing 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.
Affiliate Program Participation
Please refer to our Affiliate Disclosure
What are affiliate links? Very simple, whenever you click on a link and you purchase the product we recommend, we will earn a small commission at no cost to you. This is helping us to keep the blog up and running. So, all the commissions we earn are being put straight back into our website (or are donated to charity!). Please note that we only recommend products that we have tested and used, and we find valuable (unless indicated otherwise). None of the products are displayed to only make money – because, that’s not the point!
If you have any questions or any concerns, please always feel free to contact us at julia@lavendergypsy.com.
Contact Form
Filling out a Contact Form, you are required to provide your name (you are free to choose, and may choose to use a nickname rather than your real name) and your email address (it’s important that you provide your actual email address, otherwise we won’t be able to contact you). Your name and your email address are only required, so we can reply to your message. You may also leave a note that you do not want to be contacted.
Lavender Gypsy is only keeping your contact form submissions for up to 3 months for customer service purposes, but the Website does not use the information submitted through the Contact Form for marketing purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Third-party Service Providers
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorise us to share your information.
Lavender Gypsy may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. For more information about each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies which each will be linked below.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics tracks the different uses of the Website and provides information about user action on the Website. This service provider collects data like your IP address but never your personal data.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Children under 16
Lavender Gypsy is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, please do not provide any information on the Website.
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 julia@lavendergypsy.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Residents of the EEA (European Economic Area)
If you are a resident in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, to ensure the accuracy of your personal data, to have me to erase your personal data, and/or to restrict further processing of your personal data.
If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by Lavender Gypsy, please contact us at julia@lavendergypsy.com.
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection.
Residents of California, USA
Due to the Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2019 (“CCPA”), you have certain rights with respect to your personal information. For the purposes of this section, personal information is used as defined in the CCPA.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at julia@lavendergypsy.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: 14 Nov, 2023