COOKIE POLICY

Last Updated: November 20th, 2024

USE OF COOKIES
The website TheGourmetSprouters.com and its sub-domains (the "Website"), owned by Stephanie Pernin and located at Apartado de Correos 188, 46192 Montserrat (Valencia), Spain, uses "cookies" to help personalize your online experience.

Cookies are small data files that are downloaded to your computer when you access certain pages of the website. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user's browsing habits or those of their device, depending on the information they contain and how you use your device.

Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We may use both session cookies (which expire when you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website.

Additionally, they can enhance your browsing experience by allowing the website to offer the user information that may be of interest based on their usage of the content.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize TheGourmetSprouters.com pages or register with TheGourmetSprouters.com website or services, a cookie helps TheGourmetSprouters.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as email addresses, billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use TheGourmetSprouters.com features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies.

If you do not wish to accept cookies, please configure your Internet browser to delete them from your computer's hard drive, block them, or alert you when they are installed. To continue without changes to the cookie settings, simply remain on the website.

If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the The Gourmet Sprouters services or websites you visit.

CONSENT
The cookies we use do not store any personal data nor any type of information that can identify you, unless you voluntarily choose to register in order to use the services we provide or to receive information about promotions and content of interest to you.

Upon your first visit, an explanatory banner about the use of cookies will appear. You can accept all cookies or choose to accept only essential or technical cookies, which are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, excluding analytical and advertising cookies. This consent is valid for a period of 12 months.

If you do not agree, you can you can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device through your browser settings (see below “HOW TO BLOCK OR DELETE INSTALLED COOKIES”.).

LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY
Our Privacy Policy can be located here: www.thegourmetsprouters.com/private-policy

Our Privacy Policy describes our practices for any personal data that our first-party cookies collect, store, or use, including our legal basis for processing personal data. We rely on the following legal basis to process personal data collected through our first-party cookies: The Gourmet Sprouters/Stephanie Pernin may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Gourmet Sprouters/Stephanie Pernin or the website;;
b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Gourmet Sprouters/Stephanie Pernin; and/or
c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Gourmet Sprouters/Stephanie Pernin, or the public.

TYPES AND PURPOSES OF COOKIES
Cookies can be classified based on their duration as follows:

Session Cookies: These expire when the user closes the browser.

Persistent Cookies: These expire depending on when the purpose for which they serve is fulfilled (for example, to keep the user logged into the website and its services, or when they are manually deleted).

Cookies can be classified based on their purpose as follows:

Strictly Necessary Cookies
Our website requires the use of these cookies to properly operate or provide necessary functions relating to the services you request. They include cookies that do the following:

Enabling you to securely log into our website

Use a shopping cart

Purchase products

These are persistent cookies that generally last no longer than 12 months in a user's browser history. However, the users can manually delete persistent cookies from their browser settings at any time. The purpose of strictly necessary cookies is to enable the core functionality of a website, allowing it to operate correctly and efficiently. These cookies are essential for the users to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Cookies that allow web shops to hold users' items in their cart while they are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies.

Functionality Cookies
These cookies (also known as “preferences cookies”) enable helpful but non-essential website functions that improve your website experience. By recognizing you when you return to our website, they may, for example, allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, or remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies may enable visitor identification over time, but not across different websites. These are persistent cookies that generally last no longer than 12 months.

Performance and Analytical Cookies
These cookies (also known as “statistics cookies”) allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.

This helps us improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that users can easily find what they need on our website. These cookies generate aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile. None of this information can be used to identify the users. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. These are persistent cookies that generally last no longer than 12 months.

Performance Cookies (technical and personalization): This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools available in the services, so you do not have to reconfigure the service each time you visit. For example, in this category include: volume settings for video or sound players and video streaming speeds compatible with your browser.

Analytical Cookies: Each time a User visits a service or information on the website or a tool from an external provider (like Google Analytics, or Google Tag Manager-GTM, or Comscore, and similar ones that may be added to this list if they change concerning the current ones), an analytical cookie is generated on the user's computer.This cookie, which is only generated during the visit, will serve in future visits to the website services to anonymously identify the visitor.

The main objectives pursued are:

Allowing the anonymous identification of browsing users through the cookie (identifies browsers and devices, not people) and therefore the approximate counting of the number of visitors and their trend over time.

Identifying anonymously the most visited and, consequently, most attractive content for users.

Determining whether the accessing user is new or a returning visitor.

Important: Unless the user decides to register for some service or content on the website, the cookie will never be associated with any personal data that could identify them. These cookies will only be used for statistical purposes to help optimize the user experience on the website. These are persistent cookies that generally last no longer than 12 months.

Registration Cookies (technical and personalization)
Registration cookies are generated once the user has registered or subsequently logged in, and they are used to identify the user in the services with the following objectives: 

Keep the User identified so that, if they close a service, the browser, or the computer, and later re-enter that service at another time or day, they remain identified, facilitating navigation without needing to log in again. This functionality can be disabled if the user clicks the "log out" feature, in which case this cookie is deleted, and the next time they enter the service, the user will need to log in to be identified.

Check if the user is authorized to access certain services, for example, to participate in a contest.

Geolocation Cookies
These cookies are used to determine which country you are in when a service is requested. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help tailor content to your location.

Advertising, Tracking or Targeting Cookies
These cookies enable different advertising related functions. They may allow us to record information about your visit to our website, such as pages visited, links followed, and videos viewed so we can make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. These cookies may enable visitor identification over time, but not across different websites. These are persistent cookies that generally last no longer than 12 months. The purpose of these advertising cookies is for proper website functions, and deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times an ad is seen.

First-Party Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used by the website owner to manage whether a User has visited or not the included advertisements. They also allow for the management of advertising spaces on the website by storing data about the User's browsing behavior to offer them targeted advertisements..

Third-Party Advertising Cookies
Our website may contain helpful but non-essential features or plug-ins enabling third-party services that use cookies, such as social network connectors, maps, advertising networks, or web traffic analysis services. In addition to the advertising managed by the website in its content or services, advertisers may have the option to serve ads through third parties ("AdServers"). In this way, these third parties can store cookies sent from the content of the website originating from Users' browsers and access the data stored in them. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites over time and are likely to be analytical, performance, or targeting cookies. We do not control the third party's use of those cookies, their duration, or their ability to share information with other third parties. The companies that generate these Cookies have their own privacy policies. Please review each party's cookie disclosure before consenting to this use category.

YOUR COOKIE CHOICES
You may withdraw your consent for our use of any cookies that are not strictly necessary.

Most web browsers allow you to directly block all cookies, or just third-party cookies, through your browser settings. Using your browser settings to block all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, may interfere with proper website operation.

HOW TO BLOCK OR DELETE INSTALLED COOKIES
The users can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on their device through the configuration settings of their browser. They can find information on how to do this for the most common browsers via the links included below:

Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/kb/278835

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&sjid=4827801054836994466-EU

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox

Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042

However, please note that deactivating certain cookies may prevent or hinder navigation or the provision of services offered on the website.

CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE USE POLICY
The website TheGourmetSprouters.com and its sub-domains, owned by Stephanie Pernin, with an address at Apartado de Correos 188, 46192 Montserrat (Valencia), Spain, and identification number Y4618760, may modify this Cookie Policy based on legal requirements or to adapt this policy to the instructions issued by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD-Agencia Española de Protección de Datos).

Therefore, we reserve the right to change this Cookie Policy as we may deem necessary or as may be required by law. We will post any changes to the way we use cookies on these web pages and/or indicate on our website that we updated this Cookie Policy. Your continued use of this website after we make a change is deemed to be an acceptance of those changes.

For this reason, we advise users to visit it periodically. When significant changes are made to this Cookie Policy, they will be communicated to users either through the website or via email to registered users.

This "Cookie Policy" was updated on November 20th, 2024, to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27th, 2016, regarding the protection of natural persons concerning the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (GDPR).

CONTACT INFORMATION
The Gourmet Sprouters/Stephanie Pernin welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you have any questions, please contact us at:

The Gourmet Sprouters (Stephanie Pernin)
Apartado de Correos 188
46192 Montserrat (Valencia)
Spain

Email Address: support@thegourmetsprouters.com
 

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