PRIVACY
Privacy Statement
SUMMARY
This Privacy Statement outlines how your personally identifiable information and other information about you (your “user information”) will be collected, used, and shared in connection with your access to and/or use of https://scented-shelf.blogspot.com (the Blog) and any content, features, services, or other offerings that Scented Shelf may provide in connection therewith.
This Privacy Statement also describes your choices and rights regarding the use, access to and correction or deletion of your user information.
By using the Blog, you acknowledge that you understand that we will use your user information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
If you are located in the EU, you will also be asked to provide clear and unequivocal affirmative consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your user information via cookies and similar technologies where required by law.
Notice to EU Individuals: this Privacy Statement is intended to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and provide appropriate protection and care with respect to the treatment of your user information in accordance with the GDPR.
To enhance, personalize, and support your experience on Scented Shelf, among other things, we collect, use, and share your user information.
As detailed below, your user information may also be used by Scented Shelf to tailor content, provide social media features (e.g., features that allow you to share content directly to your preferred social media platform), track your preferences, analyze traffic, and provide similar services and content.
Scented Shelf is committed to your privacy and will not share any user information with any third party without your consent, except as outlined in this Privacy Statement or as permitted by law.
If you have any requests, comments, or questions about this Privacy Statement or your user information, please contact us in the manner provided below.
WHAT THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT COVERS
This Privacy Statement covers the Blog.
While you may encounter links on the Blog to other websites, please note that these websites are not covered by this Privacy Statement.
This Privacy Statement does not apply to the activities of Scented Shelf’s third parties, such as the social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) or the other web places that may collect your user information while you use such third party’s services in connection with your use of the Blog (e.g. social media and sharing services).
The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement applies only to user information collected by us.
To learn more about such third party policies, we encourage you to read and review the privacy statements of each third-party service that you may choose to use.
GATHERING OF INFORMATION
We collect user information when you use this blog. Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected automatically.
When you use the Blog, your user information may be collected, used, and shared in a variety of manners:
Voluntary Submitted Information
Scented Shelf may collect user information (including personally identifiable information) that is voluntarily provided by you or with your permission.
For example, we will ask you for the personal information, such as your email address, if you wish to become a registered e-mail subscriber of the Blog.
You always have the option not to provide the information we request.
If you choose not to provide the information we request, you may be unable to access this service, provided by the Feedburner.
When you register or become a member of the Blog or provide information to Scented Shelf, your e-mail address will be used only to provide the requested service.
From time-to-time, we may provide you with the opportunity to participate in a giveaway on our site. If you participate, we will request certain user information from you, such as your name, email and home address.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you, therefore, have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
We use this information to notify giveaway winners and to deliver the perfume to You.
Information that We Collect Automatically
Scented Shelf may collect certain user information automatically from your device. In some territories, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws.
Specifically, the user information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect user information about how your device has interacted with our Blog, including the pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Blog, where they come from, and what content on our Blog is of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Blog to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further below.
- Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that is written to your computer's hard drive by your web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect user information, such as a user identification code or IP address, that a website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The data read from these cookies may be linked to your user information, so our use of these cookies may allow us to better understand how you use our Blog, or to serve you with personalized advertising.
In particular, we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies on the Blog to personalize and optimize your browsing experience and the Blog by:
- enabling social media features,
- analyzing trends, traffic, and user behaviour,
- administering the Site,
- gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole,
- tracking web analytics throughout the Blog
- educating ourselves about how we can continue to improve the content of the Blog.
Required Cookies
Certain cookies are used for specific purposes that are essential to your secure use and navigation of the Blog. Without them, Scented Shelf may not be able to provide core Blog functions and features to you, and the Blog would not operate as well as you or Scented Shelf would like. These cookies collect and use information such as your server preferences, single-session data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files (detailed below), and other credential-related information.
Functional Cookies
Other cookies may be used to collect and process information about your preferences and similar choices in connection with the Blog in order to optimize your browsing experience.
Functional cookies include social media cookies, which collect information about your social media usage and other data you may have provided in connection with such usage (if you access the Blog through a social media website or mobile application, you may have social media cookies).
If you wish to modify or change your social media cookies, please visit and review the settings on your applicable social media account(s).
Functional cookies also include analytics cookies, which provide us with data that allows Scented Shelf to better understand its users and improve the Blog based on what we have learned from that data.
Please be aware that if you do choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Site, you may not be able to use or benefit from certain features of the Site, particularly the features that are designed to personalize your experience.
To learn more about the use of cookies or how to manage or delete them click here.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but generally allow users to modify their browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, to accept cookies only from certain websites, and/or to refuse all cookies.
Please do review your web browser settings if you want to use your web browser to control our cookies.
Log Files
The Site’s web and ad servers log information about a user's IP address, browser type and the current URL the user is requesting.
This information is always provided by a user's browser and automatically logged by most websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Site.
Information that We Obtain from Third Party Sources
Scented Shelf receives anonymized personal information about you from third party source, which we use for our business purposes (for example, in order to better serve you with content or promotions):
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you engage with our site. Google Analytics collects your location via an anonymized version of your IP address (the last octet of the IP address is removed) and holds this information for a limited time.
The data is deleted by Google Analytics after 14 months.
You may install a Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Button here. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be read here.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We use third parties to provide email services (Feedburner) and to host services on the Blog (Blogger). We will share your user information only as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your user information for any other purpose.
If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.
The Blog includes social media features, widgets and/or interactive mini-programs that run on our site (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). These features are small content modules that can be embedded on the Blog (or other sites) and may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, or set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly.
Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
CONSENT
As outlined in this Privacy Statement, Scented Shelf will not process your user information without a lawful basis to do so. Our legal basis for collecting and using your user information as described above will depend on the user information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. In general, Scented Shelf will process your user information on the legal bases of consent.
Scented Shelf may also process certain user information on the basis of the following legitimate interests, provided that such interests are not overridden by your privacy rights and interests: delivering and continuing to develop and improve the Site, learning from your behaviour on the Blog (e.g., analyzing traffic) to better serve you and other Blog users, helping us modify or enhance the Blog and its content, receiving insight as to what users do (and don’t) like about our Blog or aspects thereof, and providing a stable, consistent, and secure user experience in connection with the Site.
CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION
You have a variety of rights regarding the use and control of your user information.
All users may elect to stop receiving email subscription from Scented Shelf or on behalf of an external third party (Feedburner) by following instructions at the end of any such email received. Your rights and controls with respect to the user information that may be collected, used, or shared in connection with cookies are outlined above.
If we have collected and processed your user information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time.
However, please note that withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your user information conducted in relation on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You also have a right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your user information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
You can modify your cookie preferences by following the procedure outlined in the Cookie section of the Privacy Statement above. Of course, if you have any questions, please contact us as outlined below.
PRIVACY STATEMENT UPDATES
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or content developments.
When we update our Privacy Statement, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.
For example, if we make any material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this Blog prior to the change becoming effective.
We will obtain your consent to any material changes if and where consent is required by applicable laws.
We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACT
Please contact us if you have any questions or requests.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement or how to remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free to contact us via mail.
SCENTED ShELF values your privacy.
