Susie Cooks Thai | susiecooksthai.com

Operated by Susie Cooks Thai, LLC

As the owner of this website (susiecooksthai.com, referred to as the “Site”), Susie Cooks Thai, LLC understands that your privacy is critical. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information. By using the Site after the Effective Date of this Policy, you consent to its terms.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The Site collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked—directly or indirectly—with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”). The categories below describe what we collect, use for business purposes, and sell.

Categories We DO Collect:

Identifiers: real name, email address, IP address, online identifier, account name, and similar identifiers.
Personal Information per CA Customer Records Statute (CA Civil Code § 1798.80): name and other identifying information voluntarily submitted.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity: browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with the Site, including data collected via cookies and display advertising.
Inferences Drawn from Personal Information: inferences derived from your browsing and interaction data by our advertising partners (e.g., Raptive) for purposes of targeted advertising. See Section 6 for details.

Categories We Do NOT Collect:

Protected classification characteristics (race, religion, gender, etc.)
Commercial information (purchase records or consumer histories)
Biometric information
Geolocation data
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
Professional or employment-related information
Education information

2. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

Information You Voluntarily Submit

We may collect Personal Information such as your name or email address when you leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, submit a contact form, or create a user account. We store your username; your password is stored only in encrypted form and is never visible in our records.

Information We Collect from Others

We may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you use third-party software through the Site, those providers may transfer information to us for fulfillment purposes.

Automatically Collected Information

When you access the Site, we automatically log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, and the dates and times of access. We may also collect information about actions you take on the Site, such as links clicked.

Cookies

We may log information using cookies—small data files stored on your browser. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain until deleted) to provide a more personalized experience on the Site.

3. OUR USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a file containing an identifier sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page. We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: to identify you when you visit and navigate the Site.
Email: to send relevant emails to subscribers.
Security: to protect user accounts and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
Advertising: to display advertisements relevant to you, including through our advertising partner Raptive. This may involve the collection and sale of Internet activity data and inferences—see Sections 5 and 6.
Analytics: to analyze the use and performance of the Site.

Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. Please note that blocking cookies may negatively impact the functionality of many websites, including this Site. For instructions on managing cookies, please refer to your browser’s help documentation:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze use of the Site. Google Analytics gathers information via cookies using a randomly generated Client ID. Your IP address may be used for reporting purposes. You may opt out via the Google Analytics browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Comment Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year. Login cookies last two days; screen display cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks.

4. INFORMATION WE USE FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES

A “business purpose” is the use of Personal Information for operational purposes reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. Over the past twelve months, we have used the following categories of Personal Information for business purposes:

Identifiers: name and email address (voluntarily provided); IP address (automatically collected via cookies).
Personal Information per CA Customer Records Statute: name (voluntarily provided).
Internet or Electronic Network Activity: browsing history and Site interaction data collected via cookies.
Inferences Drawn from Personal Information: inferences derived from browsing and interaction data by our advertising partners for targeted advertising purposes.

5. INFORMATION WE SELL

A “sale” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating a consumer’s Personal Information to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

We currently sell, or have sold within the past twelve months, the following categories of Personal Information through our display advertising partner, Raptive:

Identifiers (e.g., online identifiers, IP address): sold via display advertising, ongoing.
Personal Information per CA Customer Records Statute: sold via display advertising, ongoing.
Internet or Electronic Network Activity: sold via display advertising, ongoing.
Inferences Drawn from Personal Information: sold via display advertising, ongoing.

We do NOT sell the following categories of Personal Information:

Protected classification characteristics
Commercial information
Biometric information
Geolocation data
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information
Professional or employment-related information
Education information

You have the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information. To do so, please submit a request via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact. California, Virginia, and Colorado residents have additional opt-out rights described in Sections 13, 14, and 15.

6. INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Through this relationship, Raptive may collect Internet activity data and draw inferences about your interests and preferences in order to serve targeted advertisements. This activity constitutes a “sale” of Personal Information under applicable privacy laws, including the CCPA.

To learn more about Raptive’s data practices and your opt-out options, please visit: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

7. EMAIL ADDRESSES

We may collect your email address only if you voluntarily provide it—for example, when signing up for a newsletter or entering a promotion. We will use your email address for the purpose for which it was provided, and from time to time to send information about the Site or products and services we believe may interest you. You may opt out at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” in any email we send.

We will not share your email address with any third parties, other than our newsletter service provider ConvertKit as described in Section 10.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to Section 12 (Additional Rights of EEA Residents) below.

8. REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT DATA

When you register an account with the Site, we may collect your name, screen name, postal code, and password (stored in encrypted form only). As you use the Site, we may collect additional data you voluntarily provide, such as comments.

We may also collect information through research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, and public sources, and may combine such data with your registration data to maintain a more complete profile.

We may use your Personal Information for internal business purposes, including improving the user experience, diagnosing malfunctions, understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations.

9. TRANSACTIONAL DATA

We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services made through the Site. Transactional data may include your contact details, payment card details, and transaction details, and is processed for the purposes of fulfilling purchased goods and services and maintaining proper records.

Payment processing is handled by PayPal and Stripe. We share transaction data with these providers only to the extent necessary for processing payments, issuing refunds, and handling related complaints. Their privacy policies are available at:

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy

10. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Cloudflare

Susie Cooks Thai uses Cloudflare for website security and performance caching. Cloudflare does not share any Personal Information it obtains with third parties.

ConvertKit

Susie Cooks Thai uses ConvertKit to manage and deliver newsletters. Information shared with ConvertKit is limited to what you voluntarily provide for subscription purposes. ConvertKit will not share your information with any third parties.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Site participates in affiliate marketing by embedding tracking links. If you click an affiliate link, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track sales for commission purposes.

Susie Cooks Thai, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, the Site earns from qualifying purchases.

Newsletters

Newsletters sent from the Site may contain tracking pixels that allow us to analyze email campaign performance—including whether and when an email is opened and which links are clicked. This allows us to tailor future newsletters to the interests of our subscribers. This behavioral data is not passed on to third parties.

11. THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so. The Site uses third-party service providers as detailed in this Policy; each provider’s use of your information is governed by its own privacy policy.

Except as required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or disclose your Personal Information without your consent, except as described in this Policy (including our display advertising relationship with Raptive described in Section 6). We may also disclose or transfer Personal Information to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business through merger, sale of assets, or in connection with bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings.

12. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF EEA RESIDENTS

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights, among others:

The right to access your Personal Information.
The right to ensure the accuracy of your Personal Information.
The right to request deletion of your Personal Information.
The right to restrict further processing of your Personal Information.
The right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact.

13. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you are entitled to the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”):

Right to Access

You have the right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the business purpose for collection, the categories of third parties with whom we share it, and the categories of Personal Information we have sold.

Right to Deletion

You have the right to request deletion of your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., where retention is necessary to complete a transaction, comply with law, or for security purposes).

Right to Opt-Out of Sale

You have the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information, including the sale of Internet activity data and inferences through our display advertising partner Raptive. To opt out, please submit a request via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact or visit Raptive’s opt-out page at https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement.

Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge different prices, or provide a different level or quality of service.

How to Submit a Verifiable Consumer Request

To exercise your CCPA rights, submit a verifiable consumer request via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact. Only you, or an authorized representative registered with the California Secretary of State, may make a request on your behalf. You may make no more than two requests in a twelve-month period. We will respond to verifiable requests within 45 days.

14. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF VIRGINIA AND COLORADO RESIDENTS

The following definitions apply for purposes of this section:

“Personal Information” means information that is linked to or could reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable individual.
“Sensitive Personal Information” means data revealing race or ethnicity, biometric or genetic data processed to uniquely identify an individual, or precise geolocation data.
“Sale” means the exchange of Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration.
“Targeted Advertising” means displaying advertisements selected based on personal data obtained or inferred from a consumer’s activities across non-affiliated websites or applications over time.

As described in Sections 5 and 6, we do sell Personal Information and engage in targeted advertising through our display advertising partner Raptive. Your rights include:

Right to Know and Access: the right to know how we process your Personal Information and to access it, subject to exceptions.
Right to Delete: the right to request deletion of your Personal Information.
Right to Correct: the right to request correction of inaccurate Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Opt-Out: the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information and its use for targeted advertising.
Right to Non-Discrimination: the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact. We may require verification of your identity before processing your request.

15. NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Pursuant to the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act (“NPICICA”), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of certain covered personal information. Nevada’s definition of “sale” under NPICICA is narrower than under the CCPA and applies specifically to the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration to a person who then licenses or re-sells that information.

The covered information we collect includes online identifiers and Internet activity data, which may be shared with our advertising partner Raptive as described in Section 6. If you are a Nevada resident and wish to opt out, please submit your request via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact.

16. UPLOADED MEDIA AND EMBEDDED CONTENT

Media

If you upload images to the Site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the Site may be able to download and extract location data from images.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

Articles on the Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

17. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Site does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Site has collected personally identifiable information from a child under 16, please contact us immediately via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

18. YOUR DATA RIGHTS

If you have an account on the Site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the Personal Information we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase any Personal Information we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes. To make such a request, please contact us via our contact form at susiecooksthai.com/contact.

19. SALE OF BUSINESS OR ASSETS

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern—whether by merger, sale of assets, or otherwise—or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, the Personal Information we have collected may be one of the assets sold or transferred in connection with that transaction.

20. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” at the top. If we make any material changes to this Policy or to how we handle Personal Information, we will provide a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. By using the Site after the Effective Date of a revised Policy, you are deemed to consent to its terms.

21. CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, please contact us via our contact form at:

Contact Page

Or write to us at:

Susie Cooks Thai, LLC
1727 N Congress Ave #1010
Boynton Beach, FL 33426

This Privacy Policy was prepared for Susie Cooks Thai (susiecooksthai.com), operated by Susie Cooks Thai, LLC.