Who we are

Our website address is: https://privatechefmontalcino.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site 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 the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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.

Contact forms

The personal data collected from the inquiry form on this site is mainly email addresses, names, and IP addresses. It has a retention period of about one year, but I would like to mention that it is not used for marketing purposes.

Cookies

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 visit our login page, we will 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 two 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.

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.

Analytics

This site uses the access analysis tool “Google Analytics” by Google to grasp the usage status of the site and to improve the quality of the site. This access analysis tool uses cookies to collect traffic data. This data is non-personal data, not personal data. In addition, the information collected by cookies is used to improve services such as making advertisements more effectively and improving the user experience. How we handle the data we collect and how we protect our privacy is governed by Google policy. For more information, see “About the use of information sent by your browser on Google | Google Policies and Terms“.

About advertising

This site has advertisements provided by Google and Google’s partners (third-party distributors). Cookies are used to deliver the advertisement, and the advertisement is delivered based on the past access information to this site and other sites. By using advertising cookies, Google and its partners display appropriate advertisements based on the information we receive when we visit this site and other sites. You can disable personalized ads on the Google Accounts ad settings page (https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated). You can also visit the aboutads.info page to disable the cookies of third-party distributors used for personalized advertising. For more information about how Google handles cookies in advertising, please see our policies and terms page (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads).

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

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.