Introduction
It is Plates Magazine’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.platesmagazine.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.platesmagazine.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties, and the Terms and Conditions of the use of this Service.
These Terms and Conditions (these “Terms”, these “Conditions” or “Terms and Conditions”) contain herein on this webpage, shall govern your use of this website, including all pages within this website (collectively referred to herein below as this “Website”). These Terms apply in full force and effect to your use of this Website and by using this Website, you expressly accept all terms and conditions contained herein in full. You must not use this Website, if you have any objection to any of these Terms and Conditions.
These Terms and Conditions applies to www.platesmagazine.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.platesmagazine.com“), all of its contents (text, images, audio, video, branding, logo) as well the products sold on this website. “Products”, “Product”, “Purchases, “Purchase”, “Content”, “Contents” refer to both digital and physical Products purchased by you, using the shopping cart function/online payment transaction function on the Website.
This Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions 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 and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website and its Services. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
This Website is not for use by any minors (defined as those who are not at least 18 years of age), and you must not use this Website if you are a minor.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Plates Magazine 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, and the date and time of each visitor request. Plates Magazine’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Plates Magazine’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Plates Magazine may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Plates Magazine also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://www.platesmagazine.com blog posts. Plates Magazine 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 Plates Magazine’s websites choose to interact with Plates Magazine in ways that require Plates Magazine to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Plates Magazine gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at http://www.platesmagazine.com 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 Plates Magazine and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Read our Advertising Policy.
Links To External Sites
Our Website 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 and conditions 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.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Plates Magazine 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 Plates Magazine’s behalf or to provide services available at Plates Magazine’s 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 Plates Magazine’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Plates Magazine 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, Plates Magazine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Plates Magazine believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Plates Magazine, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of http://www.platesmagazine.com and have supplied your email address, Plates Magazine 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 Plates Magazine and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email 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. Plates Magazine 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
Plates Magazine may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Plates Magazine may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Plates Magazine does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Plates Magazine 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. Plates Magazine uses cookies to help Plates Magazine identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.platesmagazine.com, and their website access preferences. Plates Magazine visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Plates Magazine’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Plates Magazine’s 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 Plates Magazine’s use of cookies.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Plates Magazine – by purchasing Plates Magazine’s 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, Plates Magazine collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Plates Magazine. Plates Magazine 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.
When you buy from us, you will need to provide personal information like name, email address, shipping and billing addresses. For subscriptions this information is stored securely by WooCommerce and MailChimp, our subscriptions management provider, third-party order fulfilment companies, and is used to process payments and deliver magazines to you or your recipients. Read about WooCommerce’s privacy policy.
For single purchases this information is stored securely by WooCommerce, our online store provider, and is used to process payments and deliver magazines to you or your recipients.
From 1 February 2019, email addresses provided during the purchase process will only be used to contact you about your purchase. This includes automated emails from WooCommerce, PayPal, MailChimp, and any third-party order fulfilment companies, for example confirming a purchase, notifying you of the end of your subscription, or confirming a change to your details.
It also includes a monthly email sent to you or your recipient, confirming that a magazine is on its way. We use Mailchimp to manage these emails, and you can unsubscribe from them at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. Read about Mailchimp’s privacy policy.
When you buy from us, you will need to provide payment details in one of the following forms:
Card payment, processed by PayPal
PayPal payment, processed by PayPal
Your payment details are processed and stored securely by the payment providers named above. Plates Magazine does not process or store your card or bank account details. Read about Stripe, GoCardless and PayPal’s privacy policies.
When you buy from us, you will be required to provide a telephone number. This information is stored securely by WooCommerce and MailChimp, our subscriptions management provider, and is used to contact you or your recipient about the delivery of your magazines and the management of your subscription.
Your telephone number it will only ever be used to contact you regarding the management of your subscription, and it will never be used for marketing or other purposes.
You may also choose to sign up to our email newsletter, which includes magazine news and offers. We use Mailchimp to manage these emails, and you can unsubscribe from them at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. Read about Mailchimp’s privacy policy.
You represent and warrant that: (i) you have the legal right to use any credit card(s) or other payment method(s) in connection with any Purchase; and that (ii) the information you supply to us is true, correct and complete.
Plates Magazine may employ the use of third party services for the purpose of facilitating payment and the completion of Purchases. By submitting your information, you grant us the right to provide the information to these third parties subject to our Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to refuse or cancel your order at any time for reasons including but not limited to: product or service availability, errors in the description or price of the product or service, error in your order or other reasons.
We reserve the right to refuse or cancel your order if fraud or an unauthorised or illegal transaction is suspected.
Intellectual Property Rights
Other than the content you own, which you may have opted to include on this Website, under these Terms, Plates Magazine and/or its licensors own all rights to the intellectual property and material contained in this Website, and all such rights are reserved.
You are granted a limited license only, subject to the restrictions provided in these Terms for purposes of viewing the material contained on this Website.
Restrictions
You are expressly and emphatically restricted from all of the following:
Publishing any Website material in any media;
1. Selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercialising any Website material;
2. Publicly performing and/or showing any Website material;
3. Using this Website in any way that is, or may be, damaging to this Website;
4. Using this Website in any way that impacts user access to this Website;
5. Using this Website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in a way that causes, or may cause harm to either the Website, or to any person or business entity;
6. Engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Website, or while using this Website;
7. Using this Website to engage in any advertising or marketing;
Certain areas of this Website are restricted from access by you and Plates Magazine may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality of such information.
Availability, Errors and Inaccuracies
We are constantly updating product and service offerings on the website. We may experience delays in updating information on the website and in our advertising on other website. The information found on the website may contain errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. Products or services may be mispriced, described inaccurately, or unavailable on the website and we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information found on the website.
We therefore reserve the right to change or update information and to correct errors, inaccuracies, or omissions at any time without prior notice.
Contest, Sweepstakes and Promotions
Any contests, sweepstakes or other promotions (collectively, “Promotions”) made available through the website and any third party platforms (e.g. Google Forms, Instagram/Facebook) may be governed by rules that are separate from these Terms and Conditions. If you participate in any Promotions, please review the applicable rules as well as our Privacy Policy. If the rules for a Promotion conflict with these Terms and Conditions, the Promotion rules will apply.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Plates Magazine and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Service, by you or any person using your account and password, or b) a breach of these Terms and Conditions.
You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent Plates Magazine from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses (including attorney’s fees) rising out of or in any way relevant to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.
Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Plates Magazine, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Website and its Products and Services; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the website; (iii) any content obtained from the website; and (iv) unauthorised access, use or alteration of your transmissions or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or any other legal theory, whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damage, and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.
Disclaimer
Your use of the website is at your sole risk. The Website and its Products and Services are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Website and its Products and Services are provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.
Plates Magazine its subsidiaries, affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that a) the website will function uninterrupted, secure or available at any particular time or location; b) any errors or defects will be corrected; c) the website is free of viruses or other harmful components; or d) the results of using the Service will meet your requirements.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is”, with all faults, and Plates Magazine makes no express of implied representations of warranties, of any kind related to this Website or the materials contained on this Website. Additionally, nothing contained on this Website shall be constructed as providing consult or advice to you.
Content
Our CMS (content management system) is provided by WordPress and third party plugins. Read WordPress’s privacy policy. We also use the following services to help present the content on Plates Magazine:
YouTube
Instagram
Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience on Plates Magazine. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. This can then be used to remember your actions and preferences. We also use the following third-party services that set cookies:
OptIn Monster and Crazy Egg (to track how users use our site)
Facebook (to link to our Facebook targeting)
Security
Our website uses https, which means that anything sent between your device and our servers will be encrypted. Our SSL certificate tells you that pages you visit on our website are provided by us. Our website is hosted on secure servers by BlueHost.
Business Transfers
If Plates Magazine, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Plates Magazine goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Plates Magazine may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Plates Magazine may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Plates Magazine’s sole discretion. Plates Magazine 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.
Entire Agreement
These Terms, including any legal notices and disclaimers contained on this Website, constitute the entire agreement between Plates Magazine and you in relation to your use of this Website, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings with respect to the same.
Variation of Terms
Plates Magazine is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this Website you are expected to review such Terms on a regular basis to ensure you understand all terms and conditions governing use of this Website
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, please contact us via email at hello@platesmagazine.com.