Privacy and Data Policy

This privacy and data policy was last updated on [last-modified].

At Lauren Caris Cooks (https://www.healthygreenkitchen.com), the privacy of our visitors is extremely important to us. This privacy and data policy outlines how we use your personal information, and the types of personal information that we receive and collect.

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy and data policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected]

Who we are

Lauren Caris Cooks (https://www.healthygreenkitchen.com) is owned and operated by Lauren Short, trading as Short Media Enterprises.

Lauren Caris Cooks is affiliated with That’s Sage (http://thatssage.com), the food photography tips and resources site also owned by Short Media Enterprises.

Queries should primarily be sent to us by email at:
[email protected]

Short Media Enterprises is registered at:
Seestrasse 65
CH-8810 Horgen
Switzerland

Why and how we use your personal information

When you sign up for additional content on our site, so we can deliver the content, and keep you informed about information you are interested in

If you sign up through opt-in forms on Lauren Caris Cooks, we may collect information such as your name, email address, and where and when on our website you signed up, in order to deliver you additional content to your email.

E.g. if you sign up for our vegan starter guide, we would send you a copy of the guide to your email.

Due to the interest you have expressed in the content, we also subscribe you to our related email newsletter, where we send our recipes and other food related topics. Upon occasion, we may also promote food photography related information for That’s Sage.

When you subscribe to our newsletter, we keep track of how you engage with our emails, such as which of our emails you open and what links you visit from those emails, so that we can send you information that you’re most interested in.

We are lawfully able to use this information due to our legitimate interest to provide you with information related to the topics you have expressed an interest in, by signing up for content on the website.

When you use our website, to display ads

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

When you purchase a product, so we can deliver the product to you, and keep you informed about information you are interested in

In the future, you may purchase one or more products from us through this website. Should we begin to provide this service, we would collect information during the payment process in order to process your payment, and to deliver the product to you. The information obtained during your purchase or transaction may include your name, address, method of payment, credit card number, and billing information. This information may be collected both by us, and our payment processing company, Stripe. This information is encrypted throughout the purchase and delivery process.

We may also use this information for purposes such as collecting recurring payments (e.g. if purchasing through a payment plan), and resolving disputes.

We are lawfully able to use this information due to our legitimate interest to provide you with the product when you make the purchase.

When you purchase a product, we may also collect information such as your name, email address, and where and when on our websites you signed up, in order to let you know more about the product.

Due to the interest you have expressed in the product, we also subscribe you to our related email newsletter, where we send information about our recipes, and where we may occasionally promote food photography related information for That’s Sage.

We are lawfully able to use this information due to our legitimate interest to provide you with information related to the topics you have expressed an interest in, by purchasing a product.

When you interact with embedded content from other websites

Pages on the Lauren Caris Cooks website may include embedded content (e.g. videos or images, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Please refer to these sites’ privacy policies and terms of use for further information on how they process your personal data.

E.g. some of our blog posts contain videos hosted on a partner platform. By watching these videos, the platform may track you having watched the video, to increase the video’s “view count”.

When you use our websites, so we can understand how you use them

If you allow cookies in your web browser settings, by using the Lauren Caris Cooks website, we will collect non-personally identifiable information about how you use the websites. This helps us to learn about how our users engage with our content, so that we can continue to provide the most helpful content in the future. We use our partner Google Analytics to process this data. Google Analytic’s privacy policy can be found at their website.

We may also publish this data, but in an “aggregated” form, i.e. about a large number of users, and not about individual usage.

You may disable cookies through your web browser settings at any time if you do not wish for this information to be collected. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

How long we retain your personal information

Where personal data is controlled and processed directly by Short Media Enterprises, we will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to continue providing these services and to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy and data policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Who receives your personal information from us

If you sign up for emails through opt-in forms on Lauren Caris Cooks, or if you purchase a product, your personal information will be processed by our email content delivery partner, ConvertKit. Their privacy policy, including information such as their data retention period, and their Privacy Shield certification, is published on their website.

If you purchase a product through Lauren Caris Cooks, your personal information will be processed by our payment processing partner, Stripe. Their privacy policy, including information such as their data retention period, and their Privacy Shield certification, is published on their website.

If you provide consent for cookies to be placed on your device, your personal information may be processed by our advertising partner, Mediavine. If you would like more information and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of data collection for this purpose, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Your choices and rights regarding your data

You can opt out of receiving our email newsletter, so that we don’t use your personal data to send you information about food photography. You can request that we stop sending our emails about our recipes and occasional food photography related information to you at any time, by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email. Please note that if you purchased a product from us, we may still email you with important information that is required to provide you with this product.
You can disable cookies in your web browser, so that we don’t collect personal data from your use of our websites. You may disable cookies through your web browser settings at any time if you do not wish for information to be collected about how you use our websites. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
In addition to opting out of our newsletter and disabling cookies, you have the right to object to the processing of the personal data we hold about you. If you would like to object to our use of your personal data and wish for us to stop processing it in one or more ways, you may request us to do this by contacting us at any time, which you can do by emailing us at [email protected] This would result in us being unable to continue providing you with services relating to that processing of your data, e.g. providing you with updates to a product that you have purchased, or sending you information about our recipes through our newsletter.
For your protection and security, we may only process objections to the usage of personal data related to the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before we complete the request. We will endeavour to process your request as soon as is reasonably practicable.
You have a right to be informed of how we use your personal data. We will inform you of the information in this privacy and data policy at the time that we collect and process your data. You may request further information from us about how we use your data by contacting us at any time, which you can do by emailing us at [email protected] We will endeavour to process your request as soon as is reasonably practicable.
You have a right to access the personal data we hold about you. If you would like to review, correct, or update your personal data that we have collected, you may do so by contacting us at any time, which you can do by emailing us at [email protected] For your protection and security, we may only disclose personal data related to the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before we complete the request. We will endeavour to process your request as soon as is reasonably practicable.
You have the right to erasure of the personal data we hold about you. If you would like for the personal data that we have collected about you to be erased, you may request us to do this by contacting us at any time, which you can do by emailing us at [email protected] This would result in us being unable to continue providing you with services that you have requested, e.g. providing you with updates to a product that you have purchased, or sending you information about our recipes through our newsletter.
For your protection and security, we may only erase personal data related to the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before we complete the request. We will endeavour to process your request as soon as is reasonably practicable.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Should you believe that our processing of your personal data is in anyway unlawful, you retain the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Before doing so, we would request that you contact us with your concerns, as we will always endeavour to deal with these as soon as possible.
As Short Media Enterprises is registered and operates in Switzerland, the jurisdiction of this privacy and data policy is according to the law of Switzerland. Complaints should therefore be lodged with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Changes to this Privacy and Data Policy

We regularly review and, where necessary, update our privacy and data policy with new, additional or changed information.

If we plan to use your personal data in a new way that is not covered in this privacy and data policy, we will update the policy and communicate these changes to you before we begin this processing.

E.g. if we provide a product as part of the Lauren Caris Cooks suite of products, and this involves new ways of processing your personal data, we will update this privacy and data policy accordingly and ensure it is communicated to you at the time you can purchase the product.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order 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 visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.