Privacy Policy

Updated November 13, 2020

This policy outlines how we 1) collect information from you; 2) how we use this information; 3) how we share this information with third parties; 4) your rights under applicable laws to get information about, stop collection, and delete existing personal information collected by this Site.

Cookies

We use cookies, pixels, and other technologies (collectively, "cookies") to recognize your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services and for additional purposes, including:

  • Conducting research and diagnostics to improve Lavender and Spice’s content

  • Preventing fraudulent activity

  • Improving security

  • Delivering content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our site and third-party sites

  • Reporting. This allows us to measure and analyze the performance of our services

Approved third parties may also set cookies when you interact with our services. Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies. Third parties use cookies in the process of delivering content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Lavender and Spice.

Lavender and Spice has implemented the Google Analytics Advertising Demographics and Interests reporting feature to determine the aggregate age, gender, and personal interests of our readership. Lavender and Spice will not identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature unless we have robust notice of, and the user's prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that identification or merger, and are using a Google Analytics feature that expressly supports such identification or merger. We will not attempt to disaggregate data that Google reports in aggregate.

Users can opt out of our use of the Google Analytics Cookie by changing their Ads settings, Ad Settings for mobile aps or other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out). You can manage browser cookies through your browser settings. The 'Help' feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, how to block cookies, and when cookies will expire. Google suggests that readers interested in opting out of the use of cookies review their currently available opt-outs for the web.

Who Do We Share Your Information With?

Service Providers.  We engage Service Providers to provide services such as credit-card and billing processing, shipping, marketing, advertising optimization and interest-based targeting, email and text message distribution, data processing, mobile and website analytics, user authentication, security and promotions management.  We may share any information we collect about you with these Service Providers and authorize them to collect information from you directly to support the services they provide to us.  We do not authorize our Service Providers to share or use your information with any other third parties.

Social Media Platforms.  We may offer features made available by social media platforms (such as likes or social sharing).  Some social media platforms may collect information directly from you pursuant to their own separate privacy policies which may differ from ours. Some social media platforms also act as our data partners, which means that we may share your personal information with them as described below under “Data Partners.”

Advertisers.  We are able to provide our content to you for free with the help of the Advertisers who promote their products and services on our Sites.  Brands with ad-supported Sites share aggregate visitor information with Advertisers, which includes information about your demographics, Internet activity information, interests and preferences.  If you sign up for a special email offer from one of our Advertisers, our Brands will also share your email address and any other information you provided with your request with the advertisers you selected.

Data Partners. Google Analytics provides us with additional information about you (such as your interests, preferences or demographic information). 

Legal Compliance, Business Transfers, and Other Disclosures.  We disclose information about users of our Sites when we believe the law requires it. For example, to respond to compulsory process or law enforcement requests, to enforce our Terms of Service, or to protect the rights, property or safety of users, the public, Lavender and Spice, Service Providers, Social Media Platforms, Advertisers, Data Partners, or third parties.  Over time, we may reorganize or transfer various assets and lines of business. We reserve the right to disclose or transfer any information we collect to third parties in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, foreclosure, liquidation, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of this website.

How Can You Control Our Use of Your Information?

You have the right to ask us to tell you what personal information we collect use, disclose and sell about you and the right to ask us to delete this information.. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. You have the right to request access to and to edit certain personal information that you have provided to us through our Sites. We are only legally required to honor these rights in certain jurisdictions, but will work to honor them for all users. Contact us at admin@lavenderandspice.com for any information or deletion requests.

Rights for California Residents

You have all the rights listed above. In addition, if you’re a resident of California, you have the right to:

  • Request that we not sell your personal information.

  • Disclose to you whether we share your information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

  • If you would like to exercise these rights, email us at admin@lavenderandspice.com.