Privacy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.rubytapas.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact form

If you contact us via the contact form on this website, the information you provide will be forwarded to an email account, just like if you sent us an email directly. No additional copies of this information are stored on the server or elsewhere. We keep your information as long as we feel it’s useful to do so, or until you ask us to delete it.

If you upload images via our contact form, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Payments

We accept payments through Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Stripe Privacy Policy

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may install a browser extension such as Disable Cookies (Chrome) which will block cookies. Cookies may also be set by the analytics services we use, such as Mixpanel and Google Analytics.

Mixpanel privacy statement

Google privacy policy

If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may install a browser extension such as Disable Cookies (Chrome) which will block cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Analytics

We use web analytics services, such as Mixpanel and Google Analytics, to improve the usability of our customer experience. These services may record anonymous data such as mouse clicks, movement, and scrolling activity, but we’ll never use them to collect personal data from you. We only use this data internally to help us understand and enhance your experience on this website.

Mixpanel privacy statement

Google privacy policy

Who we share your data with

Payments

If you make a purchase on our site, we share data with our payment processor, Stripe.

Stripe Privacy Policy

How long we retain your data

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, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. We keep this information for as long as your account exists.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You can see, edit, or delete your account information at any time (except for your username).

Where we send your data

This website is hosted by Dreamhost on servers based in the U.S.

Dreamhost privacy statement

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

If you have any privacy-related concerns, please contact us via our contact page.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

You have the option of enabling two factor authentication on the WordPress login form. This option can be enabled on your user profile page.