PRIVACY NOTICE
This privacy notice for (“we,” “us,” or “our,”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Web Site”), such as when you:
- Visit our website at The Chinese Table, that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our services.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our “Web Site,” we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the “Web Site,” the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about the personal information you disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our “Web Site.” We communicate with you for security, fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about how we process your information.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? We do not share, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. We may use aggregated, non-personal information to improve our website and user experience. We may disclose personal information to comply with legal obligations.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about your privacy rights.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by visiting https://thechinesetable.celesteho.com/contact/. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the privacy notice in full.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the “Web Site,” or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the “Web Site,” the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- names
- email addresses
- country
Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
We process your information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our “Web Site,” including:
- To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
- Audience development and content improvement. Send newsletters, recipe updates, blog updates, cooking tips, and promotional emails in order to:
- Build and maintain a community of food enthusiasts
- Provide valuable content and recipes to users
- Understand user preferences and interests
- Improve content creation and curation
- Measure the effectiveness of content and marketing campaigns
- Customer support and business improvement. Respond to inquiries, provide customer support, and gather feedback in order to:
- Provide excellent customer service
- Address user issues and concerns
- Improve website functionality and user experience
- Gather feedback for content improvement
- Identify potential business opportunities
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR requires us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following bases to process your personal information:
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with law enforcement body or a regulatory agency, exercise or defend legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permissions can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted, under applicable law, to process your information without your consent, to comply with legal obligations.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES?
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or your mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, me) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both persistent and session cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies. Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Us. Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
- Functionality Cookies. Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Us. Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.
- Necessary / Essential Cookies. Type: Session Cookies. Administered by: Us. Purpose: These cookies are essential to providing you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Authentication. We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
- Advertising. We use cookies to help us display advertisements that will be relevant to you.
- Analysis. We use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services.
How can i control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preference in the Cookies Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with the services.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner of our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may alos set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
How can i control cookies on my browser?
As the means by which you can refuse the cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies in the most popular browsers.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
Why do we use cookies?
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5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
6. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protections laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information; (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section “How can you contact us about this notice?“ below.
We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied, depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section “How can you contact us about this notice?“ below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
7. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
If you are a resident of, you may have the right to request access to and received details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.
Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in “What information do we collect?”
Learn about how we use your personal information in the section “How do we process your information?”
Your Rights
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data.
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your personal rights
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similar significant effects (“profiling”)
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by visiting https://thechinesetable.celesteho.com/contact/ or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an unauthorized agent who does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the applicable laws.
Request Verification
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine if you are the same person about whom we have information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request, and the agent will need to obtain written and signed permission from you to submit such a request on your behalf.
8. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES?
9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE?
10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE?
Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to correct inaccuracies or request to delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. If you have any questions or wish to request an update or deletion of your personal information, please reach out to us through this page: https://thechinesetable.celesteho.com/contact/.