Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: October 25th 2024

Sustainable Rookie

hello@sustainablerookie.com

This document is the privacy policy of the website www.sustainablerookie.com

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures to collect, use and sharing of Your information when You use the Service. It also explains Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may use your personal data to:

-          Send you newsletters

-          Manage contacts

-          Send Messages

-          Send you information, services or products that you have requested

-          Interact with external social networks, platforms, or apps

-          Make sure that the content on the website is well presented for you

-          Allow access to third party services’ accounts

-          Carry out remarketing and behavioral targeting

-          Carry out commercial affiliation

-          Show content for platforms outside this website

 

DEFINITIONS

The words that start with an capital letter have meanings that are specified below, which have the same meaning both in singular and plural form.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account refers to a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of it.

  • Affiliate: means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

  • Business: for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the State of California.

  • Company: (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Sustainable Rookie.

  • Consumer: for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

  • Cookies: are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device you may use by a website, that contains the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Country: means Florida, United States

  • Device: is any device from which You or anyone can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

  • Do Not Track: (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.

  • Personal Data: is any information that relates to an individual that’s identified or identifiable. For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

  • Sale: for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's Personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

  • Service: refers to the Website.

  • Service Provider: refers to any physical or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. These are third-party companies or individuals that are employed or used by the Company to facilitate or provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service or assist the Company to analyze how the Service is used.

  • Third-party Social Media Service: refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

  • Usage Data: refers to data collected automatically, either generated using the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the bounce rate).

  • Website: refers to Sustainable Rookie, which is accessed from the following URL www.sustainablerookie.com

  • You: refers to the individual that is accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

 

TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT

PERSONAL DATA

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with some personally identifiable information that can be utilized to contact or identify You. Personal identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Usage Data

 

 We collect your Personal Data in the following ways:

Automatic Information
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you arrived to Our Service, if any, as well as the name of the website you’ll visit when you leave Our Service. This information could also include your computer’s IP address /the proxy server you use to access the Internet, browser version, your Internet service provider’s name, the type of web browser you use, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity, for example time and date of your visit, when using Our Service. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve Our Service.

When Entering and Using Our Service
When You enter and use Our Service and accept Cookies, some of these Cookies may contain your Personal Data.

When You Submit an Online Form
When You sign up to Our newsletter, when You sign up to receive notifications, or when You give us your contact information to get a free digital product, we collect (but not limited to) your name and email address. When You fill out a contact form We collect your first and last name, your website address, your email address and any other information We ask for and You willingly choose to provide to us. You should limit the information You provide to Us to what is only necessary to answer your inquiries.

When Buying Products or Services
If you buy products or services from Us, We collect your first and last name, email address, physical address, billing address, credit card or other payment information, phone number, and other information listed.  

 

COOKIES

The Service uses Cookies and similar technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

·         These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, Our hosting platform, to securely serve this Service to You.

·         These analytics and performance Cookies are used on the Service, as described below, only when You acknowledge our Cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service.

You can set Your browser to reject all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. Nonetheless, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of Our Service.

By agreeing to accept Our use of Cookies, You are giving Us and the third parties We partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the Cookies described below on your computer.

We use Session and Persistent Cookies, the first ones being those that are deleted when You close your browser, so they are not stored long-term, while the second ones are those that are still on your device when you go offline. The purposes for this are expressed below.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are necessary for the proper functioning of Our Service. It includes logging in, displaying content, responding to your requests, among other functions. They also help to authenticate users. These Cookies may identify You as an individual visitor. We may also use them for future testing of our features or advertisements, among others. If You disable these Cookies in your web browser, You may not be able to properly access features on the Service.

Performance Cookies

These are administered by third-parties and they collect data about how users utilize the Service and traffic, and can include the pages You visited, sources of traffic, content management, and other performance measurements.

Functional Cookies

These enable the Service to remember users’ choices when using the Service, which include but are not limited to the language and username, in order to provide a personalized experience and providing a practical solution to You.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

These are used by advertising companies to consider your interests to place advertisement on other websites that relate to those interests.

 

Google AdSense

Google Advertising Cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner's website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The cookie may collect information relating to Your use of the Website, information about Your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if You arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

Google AdSense serves content and advertisements when You visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies.

 

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.

  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to You based on Your visit to Our Website and/or other sites on the Internet.

  • The cookies of other third-party vendors described in this Privacy Policy or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on Our Website. You can opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting those websites. Alternatively, You can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

The data Google collects from You is protected by privacy laws. Your IP addresses, browsing histories, website preferences, device location and even device preferences all are collected by Google.

For more information, you can read Google’s use of cookies and other technologies in advertising, by clicking here.

 

Media Cookies

These can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special content or features. They could be used by third parties who we work with.

Notice Acceptance Cookies or Cookie Policy

These identify if You have accepted the use of Cookies on the Service.

 

We may also use cookies for:

  • Our Service analytics

  • Identifying the areas of Our Service that You have visited

  • Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details

  • Personalizing content that You see on Our Service

  • Targeting advertisement and serving ads relevant to your interests

  • Remarketing Our products or services to You

  • Affiliate marketing

  • Enabling You to post comments

  • Enabling You to share content with social networks

 

Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

  • To contact You: To contact You, whether it be by email, telephone calls, text messages, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about. This is unless You have opted not to receive this type of information.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

  • For Business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates. In this case We will require these affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include parent companies or any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  • With Business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.

  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will hold Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes explained in this Privacy Policy and as necessary to fulfill our obligations rising from law and/or use Your Personal Data for options provided by law, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

·         the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;

·         the further Processing would not harm your interests and

·         there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

 

TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's in any place where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps within reason that are necessary to ensure that Your data is treated in a secure way and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law Enforcement

In certain circumstances, the Company could be required to disclose Your Personal Data, if requested to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that this is necessary to:

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

  • Comply with a legal obligation

  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

  • Protect against legal liability

 

 

How We Secure Your Personal Data

We do Our best to keep Your Personal Data safe. is important to Us. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of this information, as no method of transmission over the Internet, or of electronic storage is 100% secure, even though We use safe protocols and try to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data.

 

 

Processing Your Personal Data

Service Providers have Your Personal Data to perform their tasks for Us.

 

Visitor Data

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

·         Information about your browser, network and device

·         Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·         Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

 

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

·         Information about your browser, network, and device

·         Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·         Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

·         Clicks

·         Internal links

·         Pages visited

·         Scrolling

·         Searches

·         Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

 

Regarding External Links, Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. You will be directed to a third-party’s site if you click on a third-party link. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy 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 or services.

 

 Emails

We may use Your Personal Data to send you marketing emails, newsletters, promotional material or other kinds of information that could be of interest to You. You can unsubscribe from them by clicking the unsubscribe link and instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting Us. We could share Your contact information with Squarespace or MailChimp, our email marketing providers, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

·         Information about your browser, network, or device

·         Your IP address

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.

For more information on Mailchimp’s privacy practices, visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

  

Analytics

We may use third-party services in order to supervise and analyze the use of Our Service.

 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service that is offered by Google and that tracks, reports, and analyzes website traffic, for which it uses the data that is collected, and may use it to personalize ads.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

 

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Users based in the European Union have the right to do the following:

•         Withdraw their consent at any time where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.

•         Object to processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.

•         Access their data, learn if data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.

•         Verify and seek rectification, to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

•         Restrict the processing of their data, under certain circumstances. In this case, we will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.

•         Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed, under certain circumstances.

•         Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any undue delay.

•         Lodge a complaint before their competent data protection supervisory authority.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us via our contact form or at hello@sustainablerookie.com

These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as soon as possible and always within thirty (30) days.

 

 Your Rights Under the CCPA
Users who reside in California have the right to request any of the following 

  • The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of Personal Data and specific pieces of personal information that are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

  • The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that We have collected from You in the past 12 months.

  • The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party's direct marketing purposes.

  • The right to opt out of the sale of Personal Data. You have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

  • The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the categories of Personal Data collected, the categories of sources from which we collected it, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data, the categories of third parties with whom We share it, and the specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You.

  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your CCPA rights, unless permitted by the CCPA, including by:

    • Denying You goods or services

    • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

    • Providing You a different level or quality of goods or services

    • Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

 

Requests to exercise your right to opt out can be submitted by you or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf by email to hello@sustainablerookie.com or by submitting Your request via Our web form.

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonable necessary and with prior notice.

 

We do not sell personal information. However, the Service Providers We partner with may use technology on the Service that "sells" personal information as defined by the CCPA law.

If you wish to opt out of the use of Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, You may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

 

Website and Mobile Devices

You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by modifying it from Our "Cookie Consent" notice banner, Our "CCPA Opt-out" notice banner, Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" notice banner, or from Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link.

The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

Regarding Your mobile device, it may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests–"Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android devices, or "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices.

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

 

 CalOPPA (CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT)

We agree to users visiting Our Service anonymously.

Do not track signals

Pursuant to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we hereby disclose that We do not currently honor “do not track” signals issued by browsers or other third-party sources.

Nonetheless, some third party websites keep track of Your browsing activities. If that is the case, and You are visiting this kind of websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform those websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.

 

COPPA (CHILDREN ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT)

For the collection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) years old, We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

The Website is intended for individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. 

By visiting and using the Website, You represent and warrant that You are of legal age and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.

The Website is not intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age.

We do not specifically market to children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13).

If You are under thirteen (13) years of age, please do not use the Website or provide any information on the Site, including Your name, screen name, username, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.

If We learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen (13) years of age without verification of consent from a parent or guardian, the personal information collected or received shall be deleted with no delay.

If you believe we might have any information concerning a child under thirteen (13) years of age, please contact us via our contact form and we will endeavour to delete such information with no delay.

California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

To request removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the web form or to our email, and include the email address associated with Your account.

Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 05/31/2021 and will remain in effect with exception of any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change Our Privacy Policy at any time and You should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of Our Site after We post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute Your acknowledgment of the modifications and Your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If We make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify You either through the email address you have provided Us, or by placing a prominent notice on Our Website.

We will update our Privacy Policy at least once every twelve (12) months, and with this, We will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

 

Affiliate Links Disclosure

Throughout this blog, I may include affiliate links to products or services that I recommend because I believe are good sustainable alternatives to less eco-friendly products, or are from companies that have somehow committed to being more sustainable. If you click on these links and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support the maintenance of this blog and allows me to continue providing valuable content.

Please note that I only promote products and services that I have personally consider beneficial to my readers. Your support through these links is greatly appreciated!

CONTACT US

If You have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact Us by email via our contact form.