Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Welcome!

We respect your privacy and we are committed to protect personally identifiable information you may provide us through our Website.

We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. It applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

Mary Peppy is part of Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda, a Portugal’s Registered Company located at:
Street Padre Joaquim Alves Correia, nr. 7, 2nd floor, Letter C, 2795-110, Lisbon, Portugal.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from marypeppy.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", "Mary Peppy", "marypeppy.com" or “website”).

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit marypeppy.com, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse our website, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what other websites or search terms referred you to marypeppy.com, and information about how you interact with us. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org;

- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps;

- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
- Communicate with you;
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS
If you are an European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CONTACT US
We are fully available to answer any questions you may have about our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.

If you do, please contact us by:

- our webshop chat;

- telephone: +351 918 141 596;

- writing us to support@marypeppy.com.

 

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. 

Marypeppy.com purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use its website.

From time to time, Marypeppy.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Marypeppy.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Marypeppy.com blog posts. Marypeppy.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda's websites choose to interact with Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda in ways that require Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

Transactions

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using SSL software, which encrypts information you input.

Through SSL, your credit card information is shared between Shopify and our additional payment services providers such as PayPal.

Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda does not have access to your credit card information.

The only personal information that we receive is your order information, which includes your name, shipping address, billing address and email.

Marypeppy.com uses the following services to handle our transactions:

- Shopify, handles all of the transaction details (Shopify’s Privacy Policy);

- Paypal, if selected as a payment option, provides additional payment services to Shopify which brokers the transaction for Marypeppy.com. It securely collects your credit card information and notifies Shopify if you are approved or not approved (Paypal’s Privacy Policy);

- Mail Chimp, handles our email list and email service for the Cookbook Village email marketing and newsletters. MailChimp services including subscribing, unsubscribing, spam filtering and ancillary services (Mail Chimp Privacy Policy).

Security

The security of your Personal Information is very important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites, products or services.

Aggregated Statistics

Marypeppy.com may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Marypeppy.com uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

Marypeppy.com uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their access preferences.

Marypeppy.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Marypeppy.com use of cookies. 

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda – by purchasing Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Marypeppy.com.

Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda's sole discretion. Meia-Risca, Unipessoal Lda encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Any questions?

We are fully available to answer any questions you may have about our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy or any other kind.

If you do, please contact us by:

+ our webshop chat;

+ telephone: +351 918 141 596;

+ writing us to support@marypeppy.com.