Privacy Policy

The short version

I use common sense.

The longer version

When you visit an online site, cookies are often stored on your device. Descriptions such as “to make your experience better” are used in this context. It is unclear whether the experience would be dramatically worse without these cookies. Anyway, you will be asked to click a button to answer whether you accept cookies.

Ironically, these questions can create even more cookies. Because when you answer, then… dang, there’s another cookie. Your answer is stored in a cookie, so you don’t have to answer the question again when you return to the site using the same device and browser – and haven’t cleared your browser cookies.

On the theme of “improving your experience”, other information may also be saved on your computer; it is “cached”. This is so that your computer does not have to download unchanged data again on your next visit, and in this way, future visits are speeded up. Why should we be in such a hurry, you may wonder?!

About your visit here

On the site you are currently visiting, tastencreate.com, some information is stored when you interact. If you leave a comment on the site, the collected data is shown in the comments or subscription form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

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

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: automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

I don’t use your information for any other purpose than to communicate with you. And honestly, it must be considered okay since you somehow asked for it, right?

Details about cookies here

If you leave a comment on this site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you want to see the information stored about you, correct it or want me to delete your data, contact me, and I will arrange it. I am just a contact form away. The same applies if you believe I am not following the GDPR. You have the right to protest (didn’t we have that before?) Here, I want to raise a finger of warning and once again emphasize that you are sharing your data with me if you contact me. 🙂

How long your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

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 exactly 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.

Now let’s talk a bit more about GDPR

The background to GDPR began as early as 1950. The text below is from gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr.

The right to privacy is part of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, which states, “Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.” From this basis, the European Union has sought to ensure the protection of this right through legislation.

As technology progressed and the Internet was invented, the EU recognized the need for modern protections. So in 1995 it passed the European Data Protection Directive, establishing minimum data privacy and security standards, upon which each member state based its own implementing law. But already the Internet was morphing into the data Hoover it is today.

In 1994, the first banner ad appeared online. In 2000, a majority of financial institutions offered online banking. In 2006, Facebook opened to the public. In 2011, a Google user sued the company for scanning her emails. Two months after that, Europe’s data protection authority declared the EU needed “a comprehensive approach on personal data protection” and work began to update the 1995 directive.

The GDPR entered into force in 2016 after passing European Parliament, and as of May 25, 2018, all organizations were required to be compliant.

GDPR, in a nutshell, when it comes to people’s privacy rights

The list below can be found on the same GDPR information page I mentioned above, and it all boils down to 8 points. I have listed them here so there is no doubt about your rights.

  1. The right to be informed
  2. The right of access
  3. The right to rectification
  4. The right to erasure
  5. The right to restrict processing
  6. The right to data portability
  7. The right to object
  8. Rights about automated decision-making and profiling.

The entire GDPR

If you feel like reading the full GDPR, you can find it here: gdpr.eu/tag/gdpr.
If you are wondering what the GDPR stands for, the answer is General Data Protection Regulation.

But wait, there is more!

We can not finish this whole thing off and not mention something about CCPA.

CCPA

CCPA or “California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018” is privacy law by the state of California to regulate how businesses worldwide can collect, use and share the personal information of California residents. It has been effective since January 1, 2020, and is the first law of its kind in the United States.

The CCPA protects the residents of California against third-party sales or disclosure of their personal information. You can read about the act and your rights on the Californa Legislative Information website.

The CCPA provides these privacy rights to California consumers:

  1. The right to know what personal information a business collects about them and how it is used and shared.
  2. The right to delete the personal information collected from them.
  3. The right to opt out of selling their personal information to third parties.
  4. The right to nondiscrimination for exercising their CCPA rights.

You can also read more about user rights on the Forbes Advisor website.

In conclusion

Yes, that’s it. Any questions?

/Cecilia
Founder of Taste ‘n’ Create