Privacy Policy

‘Veva Vegan’ (also referred to as either ‘We’, ‘Us’ or ‘Our’) privacy policy sets out how any information that you give to us is used and protected when you use this website.

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Veva Vegan is committed to ensuring confidentiality and that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

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Veva Vegan may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Please check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from October 2020.

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What information we collect

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When you visit ‘Veva Vegan’ website, no personal identifiable information is kept.

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If you sign up for a newsletter from our website, we collect the following information:

• Website account membership registration details (as below)

• Name and Address

• Contact details including e-mail and telephone number

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What we do with the information we collect

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We use this information for the following reasons:

• We may use the information to improve our products and services and improve our website

• We may periodically send you promotional material, special offers, menu updates and relevant material only with your consent.

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Is this information shared with anyone else?

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Veva Vegan will not share your information with any third-party company.

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How we protect your data

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We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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We take data protection seriously and therefore use SSL encryption on our website to limit the ability of unauthorised people to see information communicated between website users and our website, and to securely process your online transactions and orders. We also implement a website firewall and regular anti-virus scanning to try and prevent intrusion. Finally, we purposefully limit the amount of data we collect about website visitors and do not share any data to third parties (unless legally required to do so) in order to minimise our exposure in the unlikely event of a breach.

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Embedded content and other websites

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Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) or links to other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

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How you can control your personal information – how to contact us.

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You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by us for direct marketing purposes

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

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You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to us via info@vevavegan.com.

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If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

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.

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Plugins

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

Our website uses various plugins to add functionality to the website and keep it secure. The following plugins on our website store information about website visitors:

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Cookies

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Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We use Google Analytics to track how users interact with our website and improve the user experience. The tool captures information about website visitors, including IP address, date and time people visited our site and the individual pages viewed, which is then processed by Google’s servers in the United States. Google does not associate this data with any other data held by Google. Google Analytics uses the following cookies to track user interaction:

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_ga cookie – is used to identify unique users and it expires after 2 years.

_gat cookie – is used to throttle the request rate and it expires after 1 minute.

_utma cookie – is a persistent cookie which remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitor metrics including first visit and last visit.

_utmb cookie & __utmc cookie –  are used to calculate user visit length, including arrival time and exit time of the user. _utmb is a sessional cookie and the _utmc cookie expires if no new page view is recorded within 30 minutes.

_utmz cookie – monitors where a visitor arrived from (search engine, organic, social media or direct) and what keyword is generated and and geolocation data. This cookie lasts 6 months.

_utmv cookie – is a persistent cookie used to improve audience segmentation.

You can read more about Google’s privacy policy at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

As mentioned above, our website is hosted on wix.com and Wix.com implements the following cookies to improve user experience on its websites

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