Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.theteabuddy.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
The privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. In theteabuddy.com we use cookies, like many sites on the Internet, and our advertising agencies ask to download cookies in the user’s device, and in both cases the use is completely safe.
You have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third parties.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.
Google Ads uses the DART cookie system, which knows your interests across the web and pays attention to the sites you visit, but does not receive any of your personal data.
Google explains in detail the privacy policy around ads and according to the latest GDPR terms here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/
This information is used to display ads on Google Ads pages based on your browsing of sites so that ads appear closer to you, personally.
Theteabuddy itself does not resell your interests or personal data to any party.
Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, feedback, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.
When visitors leave comments on the Theteabuddy website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string generated 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 your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Site visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site 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 are logged in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you sign in, we also set several cookies to save your login information and your display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. You will remain logged in for two weeks when you choose to “remember me”, and if you log out of the account, the login cookies will be deleted.
An additional cookie will be saved to your browser if you edit or publish an article. This file does not contain any personal data, it just refers to the ID of the article you edited. It will expire after one day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with such embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that site.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to have 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 delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Visitor comments can be checked through an automatic spam detection service.
