Eat & Thrive Kitchen (“Eat & Thrive Kitchen”, “We”, “Our”, “Us”, the owner and operator of this website, inclusive of any services) respects the privacy concerns of its users. The following Privacy Policy provides an explanation of what information is gathered during a visit to the website (eatandthrivekitchen.com – collectively known as the “Website”, and inclusive of any provided services) and how such information may be used. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Us at support@eatandthrivekitchen.com.

By visiting and using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website after posting of any changes to Our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the Website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

1. Personal Information Collected – When you visit, use, or navigate the Website, personal information may be collected depending on how you interact with the Website, the choices you make, and the features you use.

No personal information is collected automatically from your visits to the Website. However, Eat & Thrive Kitchen collects certain information when you visit, use or navigate this Website. This non-personal information (does not contain your name or contact information) is recorded as per standard operation of Eat & Thrive Kitchen’s servers and may include usage information (such as your IP address), browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use this Website, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed and used to maintain and enhance your Website experience, and for internal analytics and reporting purposes.

While using the Website, you may voluntarily provide certain personal information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your first name and email address.

Your email address may be collected, but only if you provide it voluntarily. This may occur if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, leave a comment, or enter a promotion. Your email address will only be used for the purposes for which you provided it to Eat & Thrive Kitchen. 

When voluntarily commenting on content or subscribing the newsletter, the Website will record your first name as provided. You are welcome to use a nick-name or username instead, if you prefer not to reveal your real name. Your comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We may also collect information about you through other voluntary methods, including research surveys.

2. Disclosure of Personal Information – As a general rule, Eat & Thrive Kitchen will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent with the exception of the following:

1. Your personal information may be disclosed to trusted third parties that work with Eat & Thrive Kitchen such as Website hosting partners, email marketing service providers, other service providers that assist in the operation of the Website, and any other affiliates/subsidiaries that are required to provide the services offered.
2. Your personal information may be disclosed where necessary for compliance with legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body, regulatory agency, and copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to this Website.
3. Your information may be disclosed to the successor and/or acquiring party in the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution, or partial sale in the future. However, your personal information will be transferred to the acquiring party in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3. Transfer of Personal Information – The Website and various information We collect are operated on servers located in the United States. When you access or use the Website and/or services, personal information about you may be transferred to, stored and processed outside the country in which you are situated and by those third parties with whom We may share your personal information.

4. Control of Your Personal Information – You can request, and We will provide you with access to, any personal information Eat & Thrive Kitchen holds about you (subject to any applicable legal exceptions). If you have previously agreed to Us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes or any other reason, you can also request that Eat & Thrive Kitchen erase any personal information held about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Requests should be submitted by email to support@eatandthrivekitchen.com. Where records are found to be inaccurate, We will promptly rectify any inaccuracies on the basis of the further information you provide.

Information provided by you via general e-mail enquiries to Eat & Thrive Kitchen such as your name and e-mail address is used only to respond to your enquiries in the ordinary course of business, and is never shared with third parties.

5. Children Aged 16 and Under – Eat & Thrive Kitchen recognises the special obligation to protect personally identifiable information obtained from children aged 16 and under. If you are 16 years old or younger, it is requested that you do not submit any personal information to the Website. If you are a parent or guardian, and you are aware that your child has provided personal data via the Website, please contact Eat & Thrive Kitchen at support@eatandthrivekitchen.com. If We become aware that personal data has been collected from anyone under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, steps will be taken to remove that information from Our records.

6. Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area), UK (United Kingdom), Switzerland, and Canada Residents – If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, UK, Switzerland or Canada, you have the certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These rights give you, among others to:

• Access and obtain a copy your personal information,
• Ensure the accuracy of your personal information,
• The right to have Eat & Thrive Kitchen delete your personal information,
• The right to restrict further processing of your personal information by Eat & Thrive Kitchen, and
• The right to 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 information protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for information protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

7. Additional Rights Under California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA Compliance) – If you reside in California, you are entitled to additional rights under California law and We ensure compliance with the CCPA. These rights give you, among others to:

1. Know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed to third parties,
2. Say no to the sale of your personal information,
3. Access your personal information, which We will provide within 30 days of such a request.
4. Know what personal information is collected from you and how it is used, which We explained in this Privacy Policy,
5. Have your personal information deleted, and
6. Data portability and the right to request your personal information and use it for your own purposes

8. Additional Rights for Residents of Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia – This section only applies to residents of Connecticut, Utah or Virgina. Under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), or Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), if you reside within one of the applicable states, you have the right to:

• Be informed whether or not your personal information is being processed,
• Access your personal information,
• Correct inaccuracies in your personal information,
• Request deletion of your personal information,
• Obtain a copy of the personal information previously shared with this Website, and
• (CONNECTICUT & VIRGINIA ONLY) Opt out of the processing of your personal information if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal information, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (‘profiling’), OR
• (UTAH ONLY) Opt out of the processing of your personal information if it is used for targeted advertising or the sale of personal information

However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, We may decline your request as permitted by law. To submit a request to exercise the rights described above, please email Us at support@eatandthrivekitchen.com subject line “Personal Information Review Request” and specify which state law is applicable to your circumstances.

If Eat & Thrive Kitchen declines to take action regarding your request and you wish to appeal this decision, please email Us at support@eatandthrivekitchen.com with the subject line “Personal Information Review Request Appeal” and include your state within the email. Within a specific timeframe according to your applicable state of receiving an appeal, Eat & Thrive Kitchen will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation for the reasons for the decision.

9. Use of Cookies – Cookies are small information files that a website transfers to an individual’s computer or mobile device hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Eat & Thrive Kitchen) are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set the third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Eat & Thrive Kitchen uses both first- and third-party cookies. This helps with the analysis of data about webpage traffic and improve the Website to user needs. This information is only used for statistical analysis purposes. Cookies help Eat & Thrive Kitchen to provide you with a better Website, by enabling Us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way provides access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with Us. Cookies used on this Website are for the following purposes:

1. Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our Website and as you navigate our Website;
2. Email: We use cookies to help Us to send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to Our email list;
3. Security: We use cookies to protect Our Website and services generally;
4. Advertising: We may use cookies to help Us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and
5. Analysis: We use cookies to help Us to analyse the use and performance of Our Website and services.

10. Website Analytics – We also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics, to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Website through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyse and track users’ use of the Website, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing this Website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policies and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or review: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

11. Social Media – Sharing to social media options are available on this Website. Social media websites (Facebook, X, Pinterest, Instagram, etc) can track your personal information. Should you chose to interact with Eat & Thrive Kitchen on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information, making it no longer private. This information becomes public and can be collected and used by other users. Eat & Thrive Kitchen has no control over and takes no responsibility for the use, storage, or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you via social media. Eat & Thrive Kitchen accepts no liability related to personal information misuse associated with any interactions via social media.

12. Comments – When you post a comment on the Website, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing personal information. All information posted when commenting is made public and may be viewed, collected and used by other users. Eat & Thrive Kitchen has no control over and takes no responsibility for the use, storage, or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you in comments. Eat & Thrive Kitchen accepts no liability in any form related to the misuse of your information by others from commenting on this Website.

13. Email Newsletter – If you elect to subscribe to the newsletter, you will receive notifications of new blog posts, updates and occasionally news regarding the Website. Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider for the distribution of email newsletters (Sender). You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email.

Eat & Thrive Kitchen uses a third-party technology provider to send newsletters to subscribers, in this instance We use Sender. Your first name and email address may be shared with Sender when you sign up to the Eat & Thrive Kitchen newsletter for the purposes in which you provided it. Information transferred to Sender for processing is done so in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.sender.net/privacy-policy/

14. Targeted Advertising – Eat & Thrive Kitchen allows third party vendors to serve ads on its Website, which may collect certain anonymous information when you go to these websites or applications. The use of cookies by such third-party advertisers or ad servers is not subject to this Privacy Policy, but is subject to their own respective privacy policies. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Our Website, based on the user’s prior visits to this Website and other websites. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to Our Website and other websites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following link: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads

15. Web Beacons and Pixels – In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, web bugs, or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of Our Website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behaviour data. This information may be relevant to third parties such as the ad networks used on Our Website to tailor the advertising based on your behaviour and interests.

16. Embedded Content from Other Websites – Content on this Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way 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.

17. Security – Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely important to Us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to attempt to protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorised access and improper use. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while We strive to protect your personal information, Eat & Thrive Kitchen cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit via the internet. By transmitting any such information to Eat & Thrive Kitchen, you accept that you do so at your own risk.

By using this Website, you agree that Eat & Thrive Kitchen will not be liable for any security breach and for any unauthorised use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that Eat & Thrive Kitchen cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our Website without Our knowledge and consent.

18. Links to Third-Party (External) Websites, Services or Applications – Eat & Thrive Kitchen may contain links to other third-party websites of interest, online services, or mobile applications, and/or contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with Us which may link to other websites, services or applications. Accordingly, We do not make any guarantee regarding any such third parties and will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such third-party websites, services, or applications. The inclusion of a link towards a third-party website, service or application does not imply an endorsement by us. Once you have used these links to leave this Website, you should note that Eat & Thrive Kitchen has no control over that other website and cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any information collected from third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. Therefore, Eat & Thrive Kitchen cannot be responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including websites, services or applications that may be linked to or from this Website. You should exercise caution and review the privacy policy applicable to the third parties in question and contact them directly for any questions you may have.

19. Modifications to this Privacy Policy – Eat & Thrive Kitchen reserves the right to make alterations to this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on this Website. Depending on the nature of the change, Eat & Thrive Kitchen may announce the change on the Website homepage or by email (if We have your email address). In any event, by continuing to use the Website and/or service following any changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes.

20. Your Acceptance of this Privacy Policy – By using the Eat & Thrive Kitchen Website, you accept the policies and restrictions set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Website.

21. Contact – If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact Us by sending an email to: support@eatandthrivekitchen.com.

This policy was last updated on the 1st of December, 2023.