This policy describes the types of information The Emerald Palate may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.emeraldpalate.com and its practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Children Under the Age of 13
This website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. The Emerald Palate does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information, make any purchases, use any of the interactive or public comment features on this website.
Information Collected About You
The Emerald Palate collects several types of information from and about users of this website, including personally identifiable information, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); and/or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access this website and usage details.
How Your Information Is Collected
You give The Emerald Palate permission to store and use the information you provide through comments, forms, email signups, surveys, contest entries, email or social media correspondence, and other registrations on the website.
Information about you may also be collected automatically as you navigate through the website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, equipment used, browsing patterns, traffic data, location data, logs, communication data, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
The information collected automatically is statistical data and may include personal information, that can be maintained or associated with personal information collected in other ways or received from third parties. This improve the website and allows The Emerald Palate to deliver a better and more personalized service, including storing information about your preferences, customizing the website according to your individual interests and recognizing you when you return to this website.
The technologies used for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). This website uses cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your device to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain your preferences, remember items you add to your shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics so companies can improve their website. All of this information is used to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website, which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of this website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on this Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
- Web Beacons. Pages of this website and The Emerald Palate e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit The Emerald Palate, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
- Mediavine Programmatic Advertising. Learn more about Mediavine below. For information regarding data collection by Mediavine ad partners, including how to opt out of data collection, click here.
The Emerald Palate may also gain your information through third parties, for example, business partners or advertisers like Mediavine. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use this website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
The Emerald Palate does not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How Your Information Is Used
The Emerald Palate uses information collected about you or that you provide, including any personal information:
- To present this website and its contents to you
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it
- To remind you while you’re on other websites about the content you saw in the past on www.emeraldpalate.com (also referred to as “remarketing”)
- To carry out obligations and enforce The Emerald Palate’s rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and The Emerald Palate, including for billing and collection.
- T notify you about changes to this wbsite or any products or services offered or provided though it
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on this website
- To contact you about The Emerald Palate’s and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you
- In any other way described when you provide the information
- For any other purpose with your consent
The Emerald Palate may use the information collected from you to display advertisements to advertisers’ target audiences. Even though The Emerald Palate des not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
The Emerald Palate may disclose aggregated information about its users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
Your personal information my also be disclosed in the case of:
- Transfer to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of The Emerald Palate’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by The Emerald Palate about this website’s users is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply these terms of service and privacy policy and other agreements.
- If The Emerald Palate believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Emerald Palate, LLC, its customers, or others.
Request Your Information
You may request your person information as is your right based on GDPR at any time.
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.