Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://pleasantplacesbulgaria.com

We are ex-pats living in central Bulgaria. Our names are Susan and Jeff Ashwell. This blog documents our lives here, and provides information on the area etc. Our company name is Pleasant Places Bulgaria. You can reach us by email on pleasantplacesbulgaria@gmail.com. This document will describe how we use your information when you visit our site.

Topics covered here include:

• What data do we collect?
• How do we collect your data?
• How will we use your data?
• What happens if you leave a comment?
• what are Third Party inbeds and how do they affect your privacy.
• Jetpack Analytics and how they affect you.
• How do we store this data?
• What are your data protection rights?
• What are cookies
• What types of cookies we use
• How cookies are managed
• Privacy policies of other web sites – Third party ‘inbeds’
• Changes to our privacy policy
• What happens if you engage with WP Recipes on our site
• Akismet spam detection service specifics

What personal data we collect?

Our Company collects the following data:

• Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number) if you choose to supply it.
• Identification information when you leave a comment – including of your Gravatar (see below)
• Technical information via the use of Jetpack security (see below)
• Technical information through the use of cookies (See below)
• Technical information via the use of 3rd party ‘imbeds’ (see below)
  

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide our company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on a message board or via email.
• Use or view our website – by your browsers cookies
• Use or view our website by the Jetpack analytics service we use to protect our site and provide us with statistical information on how viewers are using our site (see below).
• Subscribe to our news letter.
• From any comments that you leave .
• By clicking on any 3rd party ‘inbeds’

How will we use your data?

• To forward you our newsletter
• For spam detection – When visitors leave comments
• For analytical purposes – to see how people are using our site (see below)
• For feedback – when visitors Leave comments.

what Happens if you leave a Comment

• If you leave a comment we will use your information for identification – an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) will be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The 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
• If you leave a comment we will use your comment for guidance, improvements, suggestions etc.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images .

Third party Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: 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. This also includes links to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest etc.

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.

When enabling the share buttons or any of our partner integrations you will be including their code on your website. By doing so you’re agreeing to their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. For the share buttons this can be Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, etc

We encourage you to research the privacy policies of any third party imbeds you visit.

Jetpack analytics

We use this program to protect our web site from spam and to analyse statistics of how many people have used our site, which posts are most popular, if people have clicked on our videos etc. For more information on how Jetpack uses your information click here: https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/

How will we store your data?

We do not store your data in hard copy. Any information will be stored on a P/c or mobile device – both of which are password protected. Only ourselves have access. Devices are stored in a secure location.

What are your data protection rights?

Our Company would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request our company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that our company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request our company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that our company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that our company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that our company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email address above.

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that our company has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

What are Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Any visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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.

How do we use cookies?

Our company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping you signed in
• Understanding how you use our website
• spam detection

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we can collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar

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.

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.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

What kind of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

• Functionality – our company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
• your browsing patterns on our website.
• If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy Policies of other websites

Our company website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

We encourage you to research the privacy policies of other websites linked here.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be sent through our spam detection service – Akismet (see below)

Changes to our privacy policy

Although most changes are likely to be minor, We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 13th May 2020.

WP Ultimate Recipe

Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Ultimate Recipe, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Cookies

When user ratings are enabled we store a WPURP_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.

When the User Menus feature is enabled we store WPURP_Shopping_List_Recipes_v2, WPURP_Shopping_List_Servings_v2 and WPURP_Shopping_List_Order_v2 cookies to be able to show the same shopping list to a guest on later visit. This does not contain any personal data.

When the Meal Planner feature is enabled we store WPURP_Meal_Plan_ID and WPURP_Meal_Plan_ID_%id% cookies to be able to show the same meal plan to a guest on later visit. This does not contain any personal data.

IP Address

When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.

Their own manually input information

With the User Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name.

Third party embeds

When enabling the share buttons or any of our partner integrations you will be including their code on your website. By doing so you’re agreeing to their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. For the share buttons this can be Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn. For partners integrations we have MediaVine, AdThrive, BigOven, Food Fanatic, Yummly and Chicory. All can disabled on the settings page.

Fonts in the recipe templates will be loaded from the Google Web Font API (fonts.googleapis.com) unless changed in the Template Editor. You will be agreeing to their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

How long we retain your data

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Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).