PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: June 22 2023

NOTICE: Please read the Privacy Policy set forth below carefully, as it is designed to provide important information on how and why we collect, use, store and share your personal information. It also outlines the rights you can exercise regarding your personal information and how you can contact us if you have any questions or complaints.

Please read the entire Privacy Policy before you visit or use the website or perform any Actions (as defined below). By visiting the website or performing any Actions (as defined below), you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator and Privacy Policy Solutions.

Who We are

This is a food, travel and lifestyle blog that is focused on providing travel guides and restaurant review articles based on the experiences of the author who writes them. Currently, Discover Delish is operated by a single author as a ‘personal’ blog. the website URL is: https://discoverdelish.com

PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION

We use your information for business and commercial purposes. For example, we may use your information to:

  • Register you for a course, presentation or class.
  • Grant you access to a public or private membership group or other account, and maintain and service your profiles for such accounts.
  • Validate and authenticate your profile when logging into a public or private membership group or other account
  • Analyze interactions with you to improve quality.
  • Secure our website and data.
  • Provide promotional and marketing communications and information if you elect to receive it, including email marketing.
  • Improve the design, functionality and ease-of-use of our website and Products.
  • Respond to any inquiries, reviews or other feedback you submit to us.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Administer affiliate programs.
  • Detect security incidents and protect against, stop, resolve and prevent any fraud and fraudulent transactions and any malicious, deceptive or illegal activity.
  • Comply with all applicable law.
  • Respond to legal and regulatory inquiries and assist law enforcement.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site 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.

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

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.

This website also collects the following cookies:

  • Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
  • Basic statistics cookies which anonymously tracks user interaction with the website such as pages viewed, session times and country of origin.

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.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

For your convenience we offer links to external sites such as social media sites and booking sites. Once you click on one of these links, we no longer have any control over how your data is handled, your personal data will be subject to that third parties privacy policy.

Who we share your data with

Your data is stored and shared according to WordPress privacy policy.

The following is a list of third parties we may share your data with:

  • Affiliate Partners. We may share your information with affiliate partners to generate traffic or leads or for other business purposes.
  • Analytics Providers. We may share your information with analytics providers.
  • Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service by Google that uses data for analytics and measurements to understand how websites are used. Google Analytics primarily uses cookies to study user interactions. To learn about the privacy practices of Google Analytics, please review their privacy policy, which can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US. To opt-out of Google analytics, you can download the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, which allows users to disable the use of data by Google Analytics JavaScript. The add-on is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
  • Email Marketing and Advertising Providers. We may share your information with marketing and advertising providers, including email marketing and campaign providers, marketing software providers, direct mail providers, marketing analytics providers and sales funnel providers. We may share your information with email marketing service providers, in order to send you emails, newsletters, promotional materials, marketing materials or other information.

WE DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to any third parties, as we value your privacy. We also do not “sell” your personal information as defined by the Australian Consumer and Privacy Law.

How long we retain your data

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.

If you sign up to any mailing list on DiscoverDelish, we will save your information provided for as long as you remain subscribed to that list. You can manage your subscription preferences at any time.

What rights you have over your data

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.

It is important that you understand your choices regarding how your personal data is collected:

Opting Out of/Blocking Cookies. Most browsers accept cookies by default. However, most browsers will allow you to prevent accepting new cookies, disable cookies, and/or receive a notification when you receive new cookies. If your browser has such functionalities, information on how you can change your cookie settings can typically be found in the help section of the browser toolbar. Please note that if you do disable cookies, this may have an impact on or interfere with your user experience, including your ability to use the website, or receive personalized content.

Managing “Do Not Track”. 

Unsubscribing from Email Marketing. If you receive any email marketing from us, you can opt out by clicking the “unsubscribe” link contained in each email. Please note that unsubscribing from email marketing does not necessarily unsubscribe you from other emails we may send, such as emails about any Products you purchase.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you submit a form on the website, the information you provide is sent to administrator email address so that administrators may respond to your requests.

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