Privacy Policy
Introduction
Hearth & Harvest Co. ("we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, hearthandharvest.co, which provides recipes, cooking tips, and step-by-step cooking guides, along with other culinary media and content. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using our site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
We may collect personal identification information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our online platform. The types of personal information we may collect include:
- Personal Data: Name, email address, postal address, and phone number when you register for an account, subscribe to our newsletters, participate in community cooking challenges, or interact with our culinary event planning services.
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our site, such as your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. This helps us understand what content is popular (e.g., recipe views, cooking tutorial video engagement) and how we can improve our services.
- Preference Data: Information about your cooking preferences, dietary restrictions, or interests in specific kitchen gadgets, which you may provide when you customize your profile or interact with our content.
- Interaction Data: Information you provide when participating in chef interviews, submitting content for cookbook creation, or engaging in discussions related to food photography and styling.
We may also collect non-personal identification information about users whenever they interact with our site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer, and technical information about users' means of connection to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Service: To operate and deliver our online platform's core functions, such as providing recipes, cooking tips, and step-by-step cooking guides.
- To Personalize User Experience: To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site, allowing us to tailor content, including recipe recommendations and kitchen gadget reviews, to your interests.
- To Improve Our Site: We continuously strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you, including enhancing our cooking tutorial videos and nutritional information for recipes.
- To Process Transactions: To manage your participation in culinary event planning and community cooking challenges.
- To Send Periodic Emails: To keep you updated on new recipes, cooking tips, or information related to our services, if you have opted in to receive such communications.
- To Administer a Contest, Promotion, Survey, or Other Site Feature: To provide users with content they have agreed to receive.
- For Analytics and Research: To understand and analyze how you use our site, including performance of various content like food photography and styling guides or chef interviews.
How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our site. Our security measures are designed to be relevant to the sensitivity of the information we collect.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. We may use third-party service providers to help us operate our business and the site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
We may also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
Subject to certain conditions, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Hearth & Harvest Co. has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
Hearth & Harvest Co.
382 King's Road, Suite 201,
London, Greater London, SW3 5EE,
United Kingdom