All About The Tea found at https://allaboutthetea.com/ (“Website”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect and how it is used and protected. This statement applies solely to this Website.

Information We Collect

Information You Voluntarily Submit: We may collect personal information such as your name and email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or filling out a contact form.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device you use to access the Website. This may include your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your browser until deleted) to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

How Your Information May Be Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website
To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and
customize the Website for your account
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters (each email
promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future
mailings)
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative
emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies,
or security alerts
To respond to your comments or inquiries
To provide you with user support
To track and measure advertising on the Website
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics: This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Mailchimp: This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mailchimp’s privacy policy for further information.

Advertising Partners: We may partner with third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Website. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email
address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent. However, we may disclose or transfer personal information
collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may result from a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly Visible Information

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

Cookies

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by the Website by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet
browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google or Facebook, to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at support@allaboutthetea.com to be removed from our mailing list. Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to support@allaboutthetea.com. Amend: You may contact us at support@allaboutthetea.com to amend or
update your personal information. Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget
your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to support@allaboutthetea.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at support@allaboutthetea.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Contact Information

All About The Tea, LLC
5000 Lake Street
Unit 5583
Lake Charles, LA 70605

At any time, please email us at support@allaboutthetea.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

Last updated: May 17, 2024