PRIVACY POLICY

Effective as of March 23, 2020

At 30 Days of Greek Food, accessible from https://30daysofgreekfood.com/ (referred to as the “Website”), your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by our Website and how we use and disclose such information.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our Website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in 30 Days of Greek Food. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this Website.

By using our Website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. Our privacy policy may be updated periodically and it is your responsibility to review this policy to be aware of any updates and changes.

1. AN OVERVIEW OF DATA COLLECTION, INFORMATION & PROTECTION

GENERAL

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide it.

The following gives an overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit 30 Days of Greek Food. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form or data collected automatically by our IT systems as soon as you enter our Website.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR DATA?

Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could be data you enter on a contact form or subscription to our newsletter. When you visit our Website, other data are collected automatically by our IT systems. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using when you entered our page and they have been collected automatically.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

30 Days of Greek Food collects information that relates to, directly or indirectly, could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household. Our Website may have collected the following data from you: real name, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. Additionally, we may have collected browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with our Website, application, or advertisement.

Our Website does not collect information in the following categories:

Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Other Similar Information, Biometric Information, Commercial Information, Education Information, Geolocation Data, Inferences Drawn from Personal Information, Professional or Employment-related information, Protected Classification Characteristics (under California or USA federal law).

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EEA (EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA) RESIDENTS

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

access your personal data
ensure the accuracy of your personal data
ask us to delete your personal data
restrict further processing of your personal data, and
complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

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. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence.

Furthermore, you may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us to 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com.

CHILDREN UNDER 18

We care about protecting the privacy of children and we won’t knowingly allow anyone under 18 to provide us any personally identifying information. Children should always get permission from their parent or guardian before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet. If you’re under 18, please do not provide us with any personally identifying information.

If a parent or guardian believes that our Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com and we will promptly remove such information from our records.

WHAT RIGHTS WE 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 we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You may contact us at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com.

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We require information to understand our visitors’ needs and provide them with better service. We may use the information to improve our services, products and customize the Website according to your interests. Part of the data is used to analyze how visitors use the site and other data can be collected to ensure the proper functioning of the Website.

Our Website may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable electronic and managerial procedures to secure the information we collect from our Website.

Our Website uses SSL encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content you send to us. The encrypted connection in your browser’s address line can be recognized when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar.

Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

2.DATA COLLECTION ON OUR WEBSITE

COOKIES

We may log information using cookies which are small text files stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Some of our web pages use cookies as they make our Website more user-friendly. Cookies do not harm your computer, do not contain any viruses and do not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Cookies help make our Website efficient, secure and more user-friendly. We may use both session cookies, which are automatically deleted after your visit, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you visit the site.

You may configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies and decide whether to accept or reject a cookie. You may also automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser.

Please note that blocking or disabling cookies may have a negative impact on the functionality of our Website and prevent you from taking full advantage of it. It is important to know that the Website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors.

SERVER LOG FILES

The Website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in “server log files”. These are:

IP address

Browser type and browser version

Time of the server request

Host name of the accessing computer

Operating system used

Referrer URL

These data will not be combined with data from other sources.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Website. Google Analytics gathers information about Website use by means of cookies with a randomly generated Client ID on your browser. Google does use your personal information such as your IP address in order to capture the reporting for our Website regarding the usage. The information gathered relating to the Website is used to create reports about the use of our Website. Google’s privacy policy is available here.

Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting is in use on this Website. Collected aggregate data (such as age, gender, and interests) is used to guide content in order to better serve visitors. It may also be cited in media kits and referenced in discussion with potential partnerships.

For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, find this link.

You may opt-out of Google Analytics with a browser add-on, which is available here.

COMMENT

When you use our Website, we collect data that you provide voluntarily. If you use the comment function on this site, your name or nick-name as provided, your email address and comment will be stored.

You may also sign up to receive the comment feed after registering. Your email address will be checked with a confirmation email. You can unsubscribe from this function by clicking the link in the emails at any time. The data provided when you subscribed to the comments feed will then be deleted unless you have submitted this data to us for other purposes (for example newsletter subscription).

The comments and the associated data (e.g. IP address) are stored and remain on our Website until the content commented upon has been completely deleted or the comments are required to be removed for legal reasons (slander, upon your request etc.).

You may ask us to delete your comment from our Website at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com.

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

If you would like to receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address and accordingly information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address. No additional data is collected and we use this data only to send the requested newsletter.

You can revoke consent to the storage of your data and email address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. through the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

MAILCHIMP

Our Website uses the services of MailChimp to send newsletters. This service is provided by Rocket Science Group LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

MailChimp organizes and analyzes the distribution of newsletters and when you provide data (e.g. name, nickname and your email address) to subscribe to our newsletter, it will be stored on MailChimp servers in the USA. MailChimp is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement.

If you don’t want to receive a newsletter by our Website and MailChimp, you will have to unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we may find a link in every newsletter that you receive. The data will be deleted from our servers and those of MailChimp. However, data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remains unaffected.

For details, see the MailChimp privacy policy.

3.DISPLAY ADS

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our Website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt-out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt-out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.

FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA RESIDENTS

If you reside 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, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or Mediavine related to advertising on our Website, you may contact us at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com and Mediavine at webmaster@mediavine.com.

FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

California law gives residents the right to opt-out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request and to opt-out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, please contact us at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com and webmaster@mediavine.com.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Our Website may contain links to third party websites, resources and to other websites of interest. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

We will not sell, distribute your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or the practices of our Website, please contact us at 30daysofgreekfood@gmail.com.