Privacy Policy
Last modified: 05/18/2022
Introduction
Zested Lemon LLC., (“Company” or “We”) understand your privacy is of critical importance and are committed to protecting it through compliance of this policy.
This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the website ZestedLemon.com (referred to as our “Website”) and how we use and disclose such information.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you visit our website, we may collect information from you such as you name, email and IP address. Below details the areas in which information may be collected and why such information is collected.
- Information You Voluntarily Submit to Our Website: We may collect personal information such as your name and email address in which you voluntarily provide. Examples include subscribing to a newsletter, leaving a comment or submitting a contact form via our Website.
- Information Automatically-Collected: When you visit our Website, we automatically collect certain information about you and how you use our Website. For example, when you visit our Website we log the referring pages, pages visited, links clicked, exit pages and dates/times of when you visited our Website. We also automatically collect data about the device used to access our Website such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is used to improve our Website and user experience.
- Use of Cookies: We may collection information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by our Website. The use of cookies is to you with a more personalized experience when visiting our Website.
Details of collected information and cookies are outlined below.
Cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier that is sent to and stored on your browser when you visit and navigate through a website. Like most other sites, our Website uses cookies. Cookies don’t typically contain any information that personally identifies a user. However, information obtained from and stored by cookies may be linked to personal information that we store about you.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To identify you when you visit and navigate our Website;
- To send relevant emails to users who have subscribed to our email list;
- To protect user accounts by preventing fraudulent use of login credentials
- To protect our Website and services
- To display advertisements relevant to you
- To analyze the use and performance of our website and services.
You may block cookies by changing settings in your browser. Instructions available at https://www.attacat.co.uk/resources/cookies/how-to-ban. Please note that blocking cookies will have cause a negative impact on your experience at our Website as well as many other sites. Some features and functions may cease to be available to you.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our Website is used to learn how our Website is used and improve user experience.
Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Comments
If you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not 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 you 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
When visitors leave comments on our Website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Registration or Account Data
We may collect information from you when you register on our Website in order to use various features such as name, email, birthday, screen name and password (if applicable). We collect other data as you use the site such as comments you post.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We will collect information you voluntarily provide through other methods such as social media platforms, surveys, polls or requested feedback on our Website. We use this information to understand how our Website is used, to enhance user experience and to improve our Website. This information is not shared with third party services without your explicit consent.
Email Addresses
We will collect your email address if you voluntarily provide it to us for purposes such as a contact form, newsletter opt-in or to enter a promotion. We will use your email for the purpose in which you provide it to us and may use it to provide information that may be of interest to you. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email.
Contact forms
We collect information you voluntarily provide when submitting a contact form. That information is only used for customer service purposes and is not used for marketing purposes. This information is kept indefinitely for customer service purposes. We can delete your information upon request. Please contact [email protected]
Newsletters
If you subscribe to a newsletter on your Website, your information may be used for advertising purposes. Newsletters may contain tracking pixels or web beacons. For example, web beacons track certain behavior such as whether the email sent was delivered and opened and whether links within the email were clicked.
We use this information to measure our success of the email campaign and to enhance the effectiveness of our services and allows our Website to adapt to the interests of the user.
If you subscribe to a newsletter, we keep your information indefinitely. You can subscribe at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email.
Advertising
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.
MailChimp
We collect your name and email when you subscribe to a newsletter on our Website. We use MailChimp as our email automation provider and data processor. Mailchimp collects and stores the information you voluntarily submit when you subscribe to a newsletter on our Website.
When you subscribe to a newsletter on our Website, you understand and accept your information will be sent to Mailchimp for collection and data storage in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any newsletter email you receive from us. You can also edit your information at any time by contacting us directly at [email protected], contacting MailChimp directly or by updating your preferences via email received from us.
ConvertPro
Zested Lemon uses ConvertPro to send information such as name and email addresses to other services listed here such as, MailChimp. ConvertPro does not store any of this information and acts in accordance with their privacy policy.
Akismet Anti-Spam
We use Akismet Anti-Spam to protect our Website from spam comments. Akismet collections personal information from a user when the user leaves a comment such as name, email address and the user’s comment. For more information, read their privacy policy.
Links to Other Websites
This Website may participate in affiliate marketing by embedding tracking links into our Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. We do not claim or accept responsibility for any privacy policy, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only and solely to the information collected by our Website.
If you click on any of the social sharing buttons available on this site, the corresponding social sharing site may place cookies on your browser and your information is subject to their privacy policies. The privacy implications vary by social network and may depend on the privacy settings you have chosen on each network.
Zested Lemon, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, our Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. Please see their privacy policy for more information.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties with your explicit authorization.
We may disclose personal information when required by law such as is response to a court order or subpoena or law enforcement agency request.
In the event of a merger, sale of company assets or acquisition of our business by another company, the information collected by our Website will be transferred to the purchasing third party. Although we do not anticipate the occurrence of any such event, we will take the appropriate action to notify you.
We will not sell, rent, distribute or disclose your email address or other personal information in any way that is contrary to the commitments made in this privacy policy.
Media
If you upload images to the 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles 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.
What rights 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 we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that our Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will use our efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Additional Rights of 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
- Ensure accuracy of your personal data
- have us erase your personal data
- restrict its further processing of your personal data
- Complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
Please contact us at [email protected] for privacy-specific inquiries and concerns.