BigCityVegan.com (“Website”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit our site, and how we safeguard your information. By using the Website, you expressly consent to the collection, storage, disclosure and use of your information as we have outlined in this Privacy Policy. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
What Information Do We Collect? Information provided by you-
You may provide us with certain personally identifiable information when you:
- sign up for newsletters, email alerts and special offers;
- comment on a post;
- enter a contest or give-away;
- contact us via contact form or email.
Such information may include your name, email address, or shipping address.
How We Use Your Information
We use the personally identifiable information you provide to:
- communicate with you about the content on the Website;
- send you newsletters;
- track and evaluate the use of the Website;
- fulfill requests for information;
- deliver on contest or give-aways.
Information collected by Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our Website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies.
Email Information
This is a free content site. We do not require any information from you (email, user name or password) unless you fill out a contact form, enter a give-away, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter. We do not sell any information from our site to any outside party. The only e-mail sent from our website is in response to an inquiry that you may send us or as a result of joining our double opt-in e-mail list. We collect the information that you voluntarily submit to us when you use our contact form or newsletter sign up.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials via email may opt-out at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of any email sent from us. You may also contact us at info@bigcityvegan.com to request we manually remove you from our list.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are small text files which are sent to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies act as a memory for a website, allowing that website to remember your device on your return visits. Cookies can also remember your likes and preferences, improving the user experience as well as tailoring adverts you see to those most relevant to you.
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our Website.
We may also use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., on our Website. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the Website by collecting website visitor traffic information. Information collected by these cookies will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the USA in accordance with its privacy practices.
- Learn more about Google’s privacy policy here: google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
- If you would like to opt-out of the Google Analytics information collection, you can learn how here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Website 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.
Third party websites
When you access the BigCityVegan.com Website, you may be directed to other third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties or the content of linked websites. If you click a link that takes you to a third party website not owned by us, you are then subject to the privacy policy of that website.
Social Media Features and Widgets
Our Website includes social media features, such as the Pin-it button that run on our Website. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy at bigcityvegan (dot) com.