Last updated on 16th April 2023
Who we are
Our trading name is SpiceMazing, registered in The Netherlands. The company’s number is 81299192 and the VAT number is NL003553992B89.
Our contact information
Website:
Post address:
St. Maartendreef 96
3564 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone:
+31 642962485
Email:
info@spicemazing.com
Your privacy is very important to us, we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and meets all the requirements for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We save your personal information as long as we have a reason to keep it only. The purpose of this privacy policy is full transparency on how we collect, use, and share your personal information.
This privacy policy applies to information that we gather when you use:
- Our website
- Our mobile applications
- Our other automatic services and features available on our website such as payments features WooCommerce, Jetpack, and the websites of our partners.
In this document, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to SpiceMazing.
Hereunder is explained what we collect, why we collect, how we collect, use, and share your information.
What personal data we collect, how we collect it, and why we collect it
- Your account information
Your basic account information(email address and password) is needed in order to set up your account.
- Payment and contact information
If you buy something with us we have to collect personal and payment information(your name, credit card, and contact information) to process the payments and billing. We may also need your financial details to set up payment integration such as your bank account information or your PayPal account. We also keep a record of your purchases.
- Content information
When you leave comments on the site, for example on a blog post 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 see if you are using it.
Concerning 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.
- Location information
We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We gather and use this information to, for example, calculate the number of people visit our website and buy our products from specific geographic regions for analytics purposes.
- Cookies & pixel tags
If you leave a comment on our website, in contact forms, for example, 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 visit our login page, we may 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 a couple of 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.
We use pixel tags(small blocks of code placed on websites and emails) to enable us to identify and track visitors, usage, and access your preferences, and also to track visitors for effective targeted ads.
- 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 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.
Moreover, we use your information for several other purposes such as:
To provide good customer service, process orders and payments, and backup and restore our website.
To maintain safety, ensure quality, improve our services, and monitor how you interact with our services. The aim is to efficiently manage our website and improve our service.
To use and place effective advertisements on our website and monitor advertisement performance. And also to develop a good marketing plan that will heat our target groups and deliver effective marketing messages.
To detect fraud, security issues and protect us against illegal activities and fix issues with our services.
To have two ways communication with you; for example exchanging emails, asking for your feedback or review, share tips, and offering you promotion deals.
How we share your information and who we share your data with
In restrained occurrences and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy we share your information with:
- The administrators of the site, you make a payment via a payment link to a site then your information may be shared with the site owner.
- Third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to you on the website.
- To another company in case of any acquisition of our company by a third-party, merger, or sales of company assets.
- Subsidiaries who need your information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf.
We do not sell our users’ information to data brokers or any other companies.
How long we retain your data
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.
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 do not store your personal data longer than strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which your data is collected. For taxes and technical reasons, we keep your personal data for 3 years.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We do our best to protect your information against misuse, alteration, unauthorized changes, unauthorized access, loss, and unwanted disclosure. We have implemented, electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online from you and we monitor our services for malware attacks and vulnerabilities. Do not hesitate to contact us if you feel that your information is not correctly saved or properly secured.
Our website may contain links to redirect you to other websites; we are therefore not responsible for the protection and privacy of your personal information you provide whilst visiting these websites.
What are your rights?
If you live in the countries in which the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies you have the right to request access to, correction, or deletion of your personal. You can request that we limit our use, processing, and portability of your personal data.
