Privacy & Disclosure Policy
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1. Introduction
Welcome to TeaTrade. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your email address and password, that you voluntarily give to us when you register for an account to use our "My Library" feature.
- Saved Data: When you use the "My Library" feature, we store a list of the products, recipes, and jobs you save. This information is linked to your user account and is used solely to provide this feature to you.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site. This is collected via services like Google Analytics.
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Provide the "My Library" functionality.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the site.
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for internal use.
4. Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the site to help customize the site and improve your experience. When you access the site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology.
5. Third-Party Advertising (Google AdSense)
We use third-party advertising companies, such as Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit the site. These companies may use 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.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
For more information about how Google collects and uses data, please see the Google Privacy & Terms page.
6. Third-Party Services
- Google Firebase: We use Google Firebase for user authentication (to manage your login and password) and for our Firestore database (to store your saved items). Firebase may collect certain data to provide its service. You can learn more at Firebase Privacy.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand our site traffic and user behavior. This service uses cookies to collect and store anonymous data.
7. Affiliate Program Disclosure
TeaTrade participates in affiliate marketing programs. Some of the links on this site, particularly on the "Products" page, are affiliate links. This means that if you click on the link and purchase an item, we may receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the site and allows us to continue to provide valuable content.
8. Your Data Rights
You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your account (if this feature is available).
- Contacting us directly using the contact information provided below.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and associated information from our active databases.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@teatrade.co.uk