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    Privacy Policy + Disclosure

    Umami Girl found at https://umamigirl.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

    We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

    What information do we collect, and how is it used?

    Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by subscribing to a newsletter or submitting a contact form.

    Information We Collect from Others: From time to time, we may receive information about you from other sources. 

    Automatically-collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

    Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

    How your information may be used

    We may use the information collected in the following ways:

    • To operate and maintain the Website;
    • To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
    • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
    • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
    • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
    • To provide you with user support;
    • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
    • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

    Third-party use of personal information

    We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

    Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

    The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

    Google Analytics — this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

    ConvertKit — this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to ConvertKit’s privacy policy for further information.

    Slickstream — this service is used to provide search results and suggest related content on Website. Please refer to Slickstream's privacy policy for further information.

    At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

    Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

    Anonymous data

    From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

    Publicly visible information

    If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly. 

    Other users may see your username.

    Cookies

    The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

    Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

    Advertising

    Display Ads

    This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia ("CafeMedia") for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia's data usage, click here www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

    Retargeting Ads

    From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

    Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

    Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here

    Affiliate Program Participation

    The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the 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.

    Website 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, the 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.

    Webiste also participates in the following affiliate programs. You can learn more about each partner’s privacy policy by following the links below.

    ButcherBox: https://www.butcherbox.com/privacy-policy/

    Bright Line Eating: https://brightlineeating.com/privacy-policy/

    ShareaSale: https://www.shareasale.com/PrivacyPolicy.pdf

    CJ: https://www.conversantmedia.com/legal/privacy

    RewardStyle: https://www.liketoknow.it/legal/privacy

    Impact: https://impact.com/privacy-policy/

    Newsletters

    On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

    Social media services

    You can choose to access certain third party social media websites and services (such as Facebook) through our site. When you do so, you are sharing information with those sites and the information you share will be governed by their privacy policies (including that the site may share information with us). You may be able to modify your privacy settings with these third party social media websites. Please refer to the relevant provider policies for more information.

    The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies from Umami Girl, you may not be able to access portions of our site.

    External links and social plug-ins

    If any part of the Umami Girl website links you to other websites, those websites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. Umami Girl recommends that you examine the privacy policies posted on these other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

    Rights related to your personal information

    Opt-out — You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list.

    Access — You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected]

    Amend — You may contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.

    Forget — In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected]

    Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

    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's information

    The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the 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 best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

    Contact information

    At any time, please contact us at [email protected] for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

    Changes to this policy

    We reserve the right to update or change this privacy policy at any time. Any such change, modification, or addition to the privacy policy on Umami Girl will become effective immediately upon posting on the site.

    Last updated: August 26, 2020.

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