Privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how Piloncillo&Vanilla (Ale Cooks) uses and protects your information.

Who we are

Our website addresses are https://www.piloncilloyvainilla.com and https://www.alecooks.com/.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Information we collect automatically

When you visit this website to browse, read, or download information:

• Your web browser automatically sends us (and we may retain) information such as the:
  • Internet domain through which you access the Internet
  • Internet Protocol address of the computer you are using
  • type of browser software and operating system you are using
  • date and time you access our Site, and
  • The Internet address of the Site from which you linked directly to our Site.
• We will use this information as aggregate data to help us maintain this Site, such as to determine the number of visitors to different sections of our Site, to ensure the Site is functioning correctly, and to improve the accessibility and value of our Site.
• We will not use this information to identify individuals, except in cases where it is necessary for site security or law enforcement purposes.
• We will not collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit our Site, unless you choose to provide such information.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to assist with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you choose to identify yourself (or otherwise provide us with personal information) when you use our online forms:

• We will collect (and may retain) any personally identifiable information, such as your name, street address, email address, and phone number, as well as any other information you provide. We will use this information to fulfill your request and provide service to you. We will not disclose such information to third parties except as specified in this privacy policy or except as permitted by you.
• If you request information, services, or assistance, then we may disclose your personal information to third parties that (in our judgment) are appropriate to fulfill your request. We will only do so as specified in this Privacy Policy and as explicitly consented to by you. If, when you provide us with such information, you specify that you do not want us to disclose the information to third parties, we will honor your request. Note, however, that if you do not provide such information, it may be impossible for us to refer, respond to, or fulfill your request.

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 you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this Site, 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.

Suppose you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and s mply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 same way as if the visitor had 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use services that collect information about the use of this Site. These analytics services collect information, such as how often users visit the Site, which pages they visit when they do so, which links they click on the Site, and what Site referred the user to the Site. We use the information we get from analytics software only to improve this Site. Analytics services collect only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of analytics services with personally identifiable information.

Although the analytics services plant a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but the service that set the cookie. The ability of analytics services to use and share information collected about your visits to this Site is restricted by each service’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

You can prevent analytics software from recognizing you on return visits to this Site by turning off cookies on your browser.

You can prevent analytics software from tracking your visits to this Site by enabling the Do Not Track feature of your web browser(s).

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information about website usage through cookies. The information gathered about our website is used to create reports on its usage. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

The following services are used to track visitor information:

• Google Analytics (privacy policy)
• wordpress.com (privacy policy)

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (AdTh ) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. AdThrive uses standard and widely available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google, and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia collects and uses specific data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CCafeMedia’s data usage, click here https://www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “impression” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end f the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user; however, personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Thrive, Google, and our other third-party partners. You can view, delete, or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or by using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained.  

For European Economic Area Residents

Suppose you reside in a country within the European Economic Area (EEA). In that case, you have rights under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws, including the right to access, erase, and/or restrict the further processing of your personal data. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) that we or AdThrive maintain related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at info@piloncilloyvainilla.com and AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using a cookie, like he ad preferences link at the bottom of the Site. (Available in the EU.)

Who we share your data with

This site serves ads provided by third-party ad networks. These networks are:

• AdThrive (Privacy Policy)
• Google AdSense (privacy policy)
• Amazon Affiliates (privacy policy)

These companies use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Some of these advertisers plant cookies in your web browser to assist in the conduct of their services. We do not control the cookies placed by advertisers.

In addition to cookies, some advertisers (e.g., BlogHer/She Knows Media, Vibrant Ads, Amazon Affiliates, and Google AdSense) use web beacons or similar technologies to serve advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing this and other sites, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before, and to avoid showing duplicate advertisements.

These advertisers collect non-personal data such as your browser type, operating system, web pages visited, times of visit, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. These advertisers control the data they collect.

The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising services is subject to their own privacy policies. This website publisher disclaims all liabilities in connection with 3rd party advertisers.

How long do we retain your data?

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or other data that enables you to access certain parts of a website, you are responsible for keeping this password and any other login details confidential. We recommend that you do not share your password or other login details with anyone. You will be responsible for all activity under your username/login details. We will keep your personal data for only so long as is necessary or as otherwise required by applicable law.

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the EEA. It may also be processed by staff operating on the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in various activities, among other things, providing support services. By submitting your personal data, you consent to its transfer, storage, and processing. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information simultaneously (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do 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 that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Additionally, as a data subject, you may have rights in relation to y ur personal data which include:

• Right to rectification. You may request that we rectify any inaccuracies or incomplete personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent. You may at any time withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data carried out by us based on your previous consent. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on such previous consent.
• Right to make a subject access request (SAR. You may request in writing copies of your personal data. However, compliance with such requests is subject to certain limitations and exceptions, as well as the rights of other individuals. The AC request should make clear that a SAR is being made. You may also be required to submit proof of your identity and any payment permitted by law, where applicable.
• Right to object to processing occurring, including automated processing and profiling. We often make automated decisions about data subjects. However, we may rely on information provided by third parties, such as credit reference agencies, which may collect subjects based on automated decisions. Profiling may be carried out for business administration purposes, such as monitoring trends in user visits to our website, and to deliver relevant content to users’ devices. We will comply with valid objection requests unless we have a compelling, overriding, and legitimate ground for continuing our process or another lawful reason to refuse such a request. We will comply with each valid opt-out request regarding marketing communications.
• Correct the error. You may request that we erase your personal data. We will comply, unless there is a lawful reason not to do so. For example, there may be an overriding legitimate ground for retaining the personal data, such as our business record retention obligations that we must comply with.
• You may request that we restrict our processing of your personal data in various circumstances. We will comply, unless there is a lawful reason not to do so, such as a legal obligation to continue processing your personal data in a specific manner.
• Right to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may request that we provide a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have it transferred to another provider of the same or similar services. To the extent that it applies to you, on a role, we will comply with such a transfer request. Please note that transferring to another provider does not imply the erasure of your personal data, which may still be retained for legitimate and lawful purposes.
• Right to complain to the supervisory authority. We suggest that you contact us with any questions or concerns in relation to how we process your personal data. However, each data subject has the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority directly.

Where we send your data

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

Our contact information

The administrators and owners of this website can be contacted by email at info@piloncilloyvainilla.com.

Additional information

The legal basis for processing your Personal Data

To comply with applicable data protection laws, we are required to set out he legal basis for processing your Personal Data. In accordance with the purposes for which we collect and use your Personal Data, as set out above, the legal basis for processing your personal data will typically be one of the following:

• Our own or thirdparties’’ legitimate business interests (for example, in maintaining and promoting our business by providing customers with feedback opportunities or other instances where we have carried out a legitimate interests assessment and have established an existing legitimate interest);
• The performance of the contract that we have in place with you.
• Your consent where appropriate;
• To protect your vital interests, or
• Compliance with our legal obligations.

How we pr te t ou data

This Site is stored on a secure web server. All data that forms this Site is stored on this web server and is protected by anti-hacking devices.

Contact forms used within this Site send copies of contact messages to the third-party email services used by the Site’s owner and administrators. Anti-hacking devices protect these 3rd-party malware services. These emails may be forwarded to additional users, such as desktop computers and mobile devices. These computers and devices are protected at all times.

What data breach procedures do we have in place

If a data breach occurs and the accessed data is personal to visitors, we will notify affected visitors within 72 hours of discovering the breach.