Privacy Policy

We recognise that your privacy is very important and take it seriously. This Privacy Policy describes Chef Notepad’s policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the Chef Notepad Service, chefnotepad.com, your device. We will not use or share Capitalised terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service.

By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to the Site, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Chef Notepad and the authorised third parties referred to herein.

Definitions

Service: Is the chefnotepad.com website operated by Chef Notepad

Personal Data: Means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data: Is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies: Are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller: Means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers): Means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Subject (or User): Is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Consent

Before we can process your personal data, we will ask you to give your consent for certain processing activities. Please note that if you have earlier expressed your consent, you may freely withdraw such consent at any time by emailing us. If you withdraw your consent, and if we do not have another legal ground for processing, then we will cease handling your personal data, and if we do not have another legal ground for processing, then we will cease handling your personal data. Please be advised that in case we need to handle your personal data for the purpose of managing the Website and/or providing our Services, but you argue or do not agree with us handling your personal information, the Website and/or our Services may become not accessible for you.

Information Collection And Use

When you use the Services, we collect a variety of information from and about you, your devices, and your interaction with the Services. Some of this information identifies you directly or can be used to identify you when combined with other data. Accordingly, our privacy policy may apply to you even if you do not submit information to us through the Sites. Depending on the services you use, we may collect and store the following information:

personal and contact information such as name, email address, postal address, and telephone number;

financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers;
information automatically collected by web beacons and cookies on the devices you use to access the Sites (i.e., computers and/or mobile devices, as well as internet browsers and other applications on a device that interacts with the internet);
information based on your interactions with the Sites or Other Sites and their advertising, such as search information, device sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to, from and within the Sites or Other Sites, ad data, IP address, and standard web log information;
cross-device data, which includes the collection of data from devices that are believed to be linked or related (based on statistical analysis);
device locations, including specific geographic locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals; and
Connection information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number and IP address.

In the event you close an account, we do retain personal information in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Service, and for purposes otherwise permitted by law. We may also collect information about your access device(s) to mitigate risk and for fraud prevention purposes.

WHY WE COLLECT AND PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are extremely serious about your privacy and use your personal information except for legal reasons and in compliance with personal data protection law, for purposes such as:

to ensure that our Website content is presented on your device in the most effective way;
to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Chef Notepad.
to manage your account
to keep our Website safe and secure;
to notify you about changes in our Services;
to respond to, and handle any comments, queries or complaints addressed by you regarding the Website and our Services, and any similar comments, queries or complaints from other customers;
to conduct research, statistical and behavioural analysis;
to contact you for marketing purposes, where applicable;
to manage our website and for domestic operations, including diagnostic, analysis of data, testing, investigation, survey purposes, and statistical use.
to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other customers of our site about services that may interest you or them.
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information
In addition, we may use cross-device data to provide you with interest-based advertising services and deliver tailored ads across multiple devices.

Legal Basis For Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Chef Notepad legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this privacy policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information. Chef Notepad may process your personal data because:

Chef Notepad needs to perform a contract with you
You have given us permission to do so
Processing your personal information is in our legitimate interests
For payment processing purposes
Chef Notepad needs to comply with the law

Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable steps to accurately record the personal information that you provide to us and any subsequent updates.

We encourage you to review, update and correct the personal information that we maintain about you, and you may request that we delete personal information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant for legitimate purposes, or are being processed in a way which infringes any applicable legal requirements, by contacting us. At our election, instead of deleting such information, we may retain it with your comment or correction noted in our records. By contacting us, you may also object to our further use of your personal information if you have compelling legitimate grounds (this may involve closing your account). We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any inaccuracies, or delete any information. Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your personal information may be limited, subject to the law or your jurisdiction: (i) if your requests are abusive or unreasonably excessive, (ii) where the rights or safety of another person or persons would be encroached upon, or (iii) if the information or material you request relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between you and us, or providing access to you would prejudice negotiations between us or an investigation of possible unlawful activity.

Retention Of Data

We will retain your personal information while you have an account with us and thereafter for as long as we need it for purposes not prohibited by applicable laws. Thereafter, we will either delete your personal information so that it is anonymous and not attributed to your identity. Your rights to request that we delete your personal information are set forth in the "Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Information" section above.

How We Share Your Information

We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that varies from what is disclosed in this statement. Chef Notepad will share aggregated demographic information with its partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personally identifiable that can identify any individual person.

We may also share your physical address with carefully selected business partners. These businesses may use the information we share to mail you valuable opportunities and offers. You can opt out of future postal mailings from our business partners by sending an email to admin@chefnotepad.com.

We may share your information with third parties who provide services on our behalf to help with our business activities. These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. We use a credit card processing company to bill users for services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We value your privacy at Chef Notepad, and will never release any account information to anyone outside of the necessary core groups that help our business function unless our customers give us the authority to do so.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial or bankruptcy proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request and to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

Usage Data

Usage Data is used by Chef Notepad for administrative, analytical, research, optimisation, and other purposes. For example, Chef Notepad may use statistical analyses of Usage Data in order to measure interest in the various areas of the Site, for development purposes and to inform advertisers and partners in aggregate and anonymous terms about consumers who click on their advertising or other messages. IP Addresses are also used for systems administration and for related troubleshooting purposes.

With respect to promotional materials and newsletters that Chef Notepad may send via email from time to time, Chef Notepad will not continue to send you such communications if you ask us not to. However, you agree that Chef Notepad may send to you, and you cannot opt out of, communications of a transactional or relationship nature, including, but not limited to, communications regarding fraudulent or illegal activity, account status, changes to this Policy, as well as communications to confirm, fulfil, and follow up on your registration, service, or a request submitted through the Site.

Transfer Of Data

Please be aware that your Personal Information may be transferred, stored and processed in countries outside your country of residence from which the information was collected, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. This means that your Personal Information will be subject to a different standard of data protection than that available in your country of residence. Chef Notepad will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of Personal Information are in accordance with applicable laws and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests. To this end:

We ensure transfers within Chef Notepad will be covered by an agreement entered into by members of Chef Notepad (an intra-group agreement) which contractually obliged each member to ensure that Personal Information receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within Chef Notepad.
Where we transfer your Personal Information outside Chef Notepad or to third parties who help provide our products and services, we obtain contractual commitments from them to protect your Personal Information. Some of these assurances are well-recognised certification schemes like the EU – US Privacy Shield for the protection of Personal Information transferred from within the EU to the United States or other countries; or
Where we receive requests for information from law enforcement or regulators, we carefully validate these requests before any Personal Information is disclosed.
Subject to applicable laws, You have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place to ensure the adequate protection of your Personal Information when it is transferred as mentioned above.

Credit Card Processing and Security Of Data

Making payment/use of your credit cards on Chef Notepad website is absolutely safe, you never have to worry about credit-card safety. We guarantee that each transaction is protected and safe. If fraudulent charges are ever made, you will not have to pay for them.

We use the latest encryption technology to keep your personal information safe. All your information, including your name, address, and the credit card number is encrypted using a secure server for maximum security. To ensure that your information is even more secure, once we receive your credit card information, we store it on a server that isn't accessible from the Internet.

Credit card transactions are handled by a third-party financial institution, which receives the credit card number and other personal identifying information only to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions. If you feel more comfortable doing so, you are welcome to call in your credit card information and complete your purchase by phone.

We have put in place appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help prevent unauthorised access, maintain data security and correctly use the information we collect. No system can be completely secure, however, and we do not guarantee that unauthorised disclosures and access will not happen. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object.
The right of restriction.
The right to data portability
The right to withdraw consent

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

LINKS

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Chef Notepad is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Collection of Information by Third Parties

As noted in this Policy, Affiliates and other third parties may collect information about you when using the Site through the use of cookies and web beacons and/or other similar technologies. For example, we work with companies that collect statistical information regarding Site usage and provide related analytical services. Also, Chef Notepad uses third-party companies to serve advertisements when you visit the Site, to collect statistical information regarding Site usage, and to generate metrics related to the delivery of such advertisements. Third-party advertising companies may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Site and other web sites in order to provide targeted advertisements about goods and services which may be of interest to you across their networks of web sites (which may or may not include this Site). These third parties also may use this information for determining or predicting the characteristics and preferences of their respective advertising audiences, for measuring the effectiveness of their advertising, and for other purposes. In addition, Chef Notepad may share statistical and behavioural data about visitors to the Site with these third-party advertising companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on the Site and/or on other web sites. For example, we use Re-marketing with Google Analytics to advertise Chef Notepad across the Internet, in particular on the Google Search Network, to people who have previously visited the Site. These third-party advertising companies may note some of the pages you visit on the Site through the use of web beacons. In the course of serving advertisements to you, these third-party advertising companies may also place or recognise a unique cookie on your computer to allow them to recognise web beacons and otherwise improve advertising effectiveness.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable sites.

Service Providers

Chef Notepad may work with related and unrelated third parties that provide services on its behalf. Examples include providers of analytical, developmental, promotional, research, credit card processing, technology, support, and other services. For example, Chef Notepad may work with third parties who host or operate the Site or may ask that a third party conduct an online survey or sweepstakes or send newsletters or other email communications on its behalf. Similarly, if you make a payment to Chef Notepad by credit card, Chef Notepad may share personally identifiable information and credit card information with a third party in order to process credit card transactions, or such information may be collected directly by the credit card processing service provider on Chef Notepad behalf. In such cases, Chef Notepad shall endeavour to require that the third party maintain personally identifiable information as confidential and use the information only to perform the services specified by Chef Notepad.

Site and service updates

We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regard to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

Children’s Policy

We understand the importance of protecting the privacy of children, especially in an online environment. In particular, our websites are not intentionally designed for, or directed at, children under the age of 18.

Chef Notepad does not knowingly collect personal information from users under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to use the Website or to disclose Personal Information using the Website. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at (admin@chefnotepad.com)

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at admin@chefnotepad.com