WHO WE ARE
This website, https://TheGRBeerBlog.com, is an online media production owned by Areopagitica, LLC. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. You can contact us if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you. By visiting/using this site or/and our services, you consent to the processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
DEFINITIONS
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/Us/TheGRBeerBlog (either capitalized or not) – Areopagitica, LLC.
DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
We promise to follow the following data protection principles:
- Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before processing personal data. We will provide you with information regarding processing upon request.
- Processing is limited to the purpose. Our processing activities fit the purpose for which personal data was gathered.
- Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and process the minimal amount of personal data required for any purpose for which it is gathered.
- Processing is limited to a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed. 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 own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators may also see and edit that information (except your username).
- We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of your data.
- We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.
DATA SUBJECTS RIGHTS
The Data Subject has the following rights:
- Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
- Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
- Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
- Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
- Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
- Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
- Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
- Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data
DATA WE GATHER ABOUT YOU
– Information you have provided us with
This includes information you have provided voluntarily to us via contact forms, comment forms, your online profile, status comments you post to this website and other interactive parts of the website where you voluntarily share information.
– Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address. This information is used to improve visitor experience. When you look at the contents of this website, your activities may be logged. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
– Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.
-Embedded/Integrated Content
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.
–Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
We use your Personal Data in order to:
- provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.
- enhance your customer experience;
- fulfill an obligation under law or contract;
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.
On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to identify you;
- to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;
- to communicate either for sales or invoicing;
On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
- to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behavior and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;
- to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behavior to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
- For the purpose of knowing general user information of demographics, traffic and use of this website and sharing this information in aggregate form for the purpose of attracting businesses/organizations to advertise on this website. By aggregating this information, we do not share specific identifying information about individual visitors, users, members of our website to potential or existing advertisers;
- for other purposes we have asked your consent for;
We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymize Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymized. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.
We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
- the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
- the further Processing would not harm your interests and
- there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
WHO ELSE CAN ACCESS YOUR DATA
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties as described in this policy or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so.
HOW WE SECURE YOUR DATA
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymization and pseudonymization where suitable. Even though we try our best we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur. If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
CHILDREN & AGE VERIFICATION
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services. TheGRBeerBlog is intended for a United States audience and only for use by persons who are at least 21 years old. By using the age verification gate upon first visiting TheGRBeerBlog.com, you attest to your age. Areopagitica, LLC will not be held liable to individuals who lie about their age in order to bypass the age verification gate.
COOKIES OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
- You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
We rely on third-party services In order to deliver our content and to optimize our service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those entities so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of the following services we may use on this website:
CloudWays
This website is hosted at CloudWays (Privacy Policy)
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
SlimStat
We use SlimStat to collect information about the use of this site, especially to track the performance of posts/articles in relation to calculating compensation to our contributing content creators. You can review the SlimStat Privacy Policy at https://www.wp-slimstat.com/terms-and-conditions.
CONTACT INFORMATION
TheGRBeerBlog
Areopagitica, LLC privacy@areopagiticallc.com
Federal Trade Commission
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Areopagitica, LLC reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy as we deem necessary. Last modification was made October 17, 2018.
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