Welcome to our Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

The Truffle Lady is located at:

The Truffle Lady (PTY) LTD
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It is The Truffle Lady policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.thetrufflelady.co.za (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “thetrufflelady”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through this website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Service posted on our website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website. Depending on your activities when visiting our website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Truffle Lady collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, the date and time of each visitor, Cookie information, which pages and products you have viewed and search terms. The truffle lady purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Truffle Lady visitors use its website. From time to time, The Truffle Lady may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Truffle Lady also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on https://thetrfuflelady.co.za blog posts. The Truffle Lady only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Truffle Lady websites choose to interact with The Truffle Lady in ways that require The Truffle Lady to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Truffle Lady gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter at https://thetrufflelady.co.za to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Truffle Lady and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our website and emails may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms of service of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products, or services.

The Truffle Lady uses Google AdWords for remarketing

The Truffle Lady uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Truffle Lady discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Truffle Lady behalf or to provide services available at The Truffle Lady website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Truffle Lady website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Truffle Lady will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Truffle Lady discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or another governmental request, or when The Truffle Lady believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Truffle Lady, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://thetrufflelady.co.za and have supplied your email address, The Truffle Lady may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Truffle Lady and our products. We primarily use our newsletters to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep these types of emails to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Truffle Lady takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

The Truffle Lady may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. The Truffle Lady may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Truffle Lady does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Truffle Lady uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.

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. The Truffle Lady uses cookies to help The Truffle Lady identify and track visitors, their usage of https://thetrufflelady.co.za, and their website access preferences. The Truffle Lady visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Truffle Lady websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Truffle Lady websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Truffle Lady’s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with The Truffle Lady – by purchasing The Truffle Lady services or products are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Truffle Lady collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Truffle Lady. The Truffle Lady does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below and visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Truffle Lady may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Truffle Lady’s sole discretion. The Truffle Lady encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Personal Data Transfer

We will only transfer personal data in a secure manner in accordance with the previsions set out in the Protection of Personal Information Act.