Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.tastingthestars.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you visit Tasting the Stars, we collect personal information about you to enable us to process and deliver your order. This information may include your name, date of birth, contact details.
By submitting your details on our website, you consent to Tasting the Stars to maintaining, recording, holding and using the personal data we collect about you. All data is collected lawfully and maintained in accordance with Australian privacy law.
We may also collect your personal information from you when enter into one of our competitions or otherwise interact with us (such as through the social media channels of Tasting the Stars). This may include information such as preference information and other usage data. We may also collect your personal information from third parties where you have agreed with them that your information may be disclosed.
In addition, we collect information regarding activity on our website and other services, such as the number of visitors to the website or social media application, the date and time of those visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns and, where relevant, the websites visited before visiting the website.
On our website, your visits are associated with cookies which are unique identifiers. This information may be collected on Tasting the Stars’ behalf by web analytics companies. This information provides us with statistics that we can use to analyse and improve our website and services. The information we collect may also be used to allow Tasting the Stars to send you offers which we feel will be of interest to you, and to send notifications via SMS. If you would prefer not to receive these e-mails please send us a quick email to info@thetruffleman.com.au and we will remove you from that list.
We may combine personal information we receive about you with other information we hold about you. This includes information received from third parties. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold is protected from misuse, interference and loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure by the use of various methods, including secure storage. Where we store your personal information with a third party data storage provider, we require them to keep it secure and only use or disclose it for the purpose for which it was provided.
Please contact us immediately if you become aware or have reason to believe there has been any unauthorised use of your personal information that we hold.
We take your privacy very seriously and will not pass your details to any third party without your permission.
If you opt-out of emails from Tasting the Stars, you will only be contacted by us regarding service issues such as significant changes to terms and conditions and non-marketing e-mails.
GDPR Compliance
Collection of Data
We process Data you provide directly to Us, in particular when you complete a data collection form.
For example, we collect Data when you sign up for a newsletter, register for an event or otherwise communicate with Us.
The Data may include the following data as well as any other type of information that we specifically request you to provide to Us through Our collection forms, such as:
- name
- email address,
- postal address,
- phone number,
- information about your company and current position.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY THROUGH COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
We may use cookies, web beacon and other similar technologies on our online Services to collect information and provide you with the services or products that you have requested.
- A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed onto an Internet user’s web browser or device and which is used to record information related to the navigation or the use of a device or a website.
- A “web beacon” is a small object or image that is embedded into a web page, application, or email and is used to track activity. They are also sometimes referred to as pixels and tags (also known as “tracking pixels”). It may be used in Our Services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. For more information about cookies, and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.
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 you log in to this site, 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.
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.
We use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We may also combine the information collected by these technologies with information we have collected about you by other means that are described in this Privacy Policy.
Some of the cookies are used for the exclusive purpose of enabling or facilitating communication or are strictly necessary for the provision of Our Services.
These are essentially of session cookies for authenticating and connecting to the Services, as well as memorizing navigation items during a session.
You have the ability to decline cookies by changing the settings on your browser but this might prevent you from benefiting from some elements of the Services. You can also consult or destroy cookies if you wish, since they are stored on your hard disk.
We may also use these technologies for other purposes than the Services operation such as:
- To improve Our Services;
- To remember you, for your convenience, when you visit Our Services;
- To provide you with advertising tailored to your interests;
We inform you, in particular, that We use Google Analytics to collect information about use of Our Services. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. We inform you that Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit Our site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google Analytics.
Tasting the Stars also uses social media including but limited to Facebook and Instagram which may utilize your core profiling information to target an online advertisement of our products and services to you.
Minors
We do not collect data from Persons under 18 year of age. We will require you to enter your date of birth to ascertain this minimum age requirement. Persons under 18 years of age will be rejected from our list.
How we use the Data
We may use information about you for the following purposes:
- Provide, maintain and improve Our Services;
- Provide and deliver the Services you request
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
- Respond to your comments, questions and requests
- Communicate with you about services, promotions and events offered by Tasting the Stars and The Bubble Diva
According to the Regulation, each Data processing is performed on one of the following legal basis:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the Service subscribed by you.
- The legitimate interests pursued by Us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or your fundamental right and freedoms.
The period of data retention
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.
Tasting the Stars will retain your data on file until you actively elect to have your data removed from our records by means of unsubscribing.
Online Complaint
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, We commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your Data. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact Us at:
info@thetruffleman.com.au
Security
WE ARE COMMITTED TO TAKING APPROPRIATE MEASURES DESIGNED TO KEEP YOUR DATA SECURE. OUR TECHNICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND PHYSICAL PROCEDURES ARE DESIGNED TO PROTECT DATA FROM LOSS, THEFT, MISUSE AND ACCIDENTAL, UNLAWFUL OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, DISCLOSURE, ALTERATION, USE AND DESTRUCTION. WE FOLLOW GENERALLY ACCEPTED STANDARDS TO PROTECT THE PERSONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED TO US, BOTH DURING TRANSMISSION AND ONCE IT IS RECEIVED. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU CAN CONTACT US AT INFO@THETRUFFLEMAN.COM.AU
Your Rights
ACCORDING TO THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF JANUARY 6TH, 1978, AND THE REGULATION 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OF 27 APRIL 2016 (THE “REGULATION”), YOU HAVE – AT ANY TIME – A RIGHT OF ACCESS, RECTIFICATION, OPPOSITION ON LEGITIMATE GROUNDS AND LIMITATION WHERE APPROPRIATE, AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO DEFINE GUIDELINES RELATED TO THE FATE OF YOUR DATA AFTER YOUR DEATH.
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.
You may exercise your rights by contacting Us in writing, with a proof of your identity, at the address provided in the “Contact Us” section below or at the address provided in our Data collection form. We inform you that you also may update, correct or delete by yourself your account information by logging into your online account.
You can also contact Us by sending an email to info@thetruffleman.com.au to request to be removed from Our mailing list.
Finally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Media
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have any questions relating to this policy, contact us by e-mail on: Info@thetruffleman.com.au
