General
Steepwell Tea Co. uses WooCommerce as our account managing software – an industry standard for e-commerce companies. We share WooCommerce’s privacy policy, which offers peace-of-mind security in transparency in this day and age. Steepwell Tea Company does NOT buy, sell or trade ANY of our customers data. We have never and will never entertain buying / selling / trading our customers data to any business. We don’t deal with mega-corporations who are greedy for your data. Steepwell Tea Company is a small, family-owned and operated business and we intend on keeping it that way.
Cookies
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.
If you visit our login page, 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.
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.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
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.
Spam Detection – how your comments are involved…
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Any and all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the consumers of Steepwell Tea Co. will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list. Joining of the Steepwell Tea Co. mailing list is the sole choice of the end user. Membership on the Steepwell Tea Co. mailing list can be terminated at any time by the user, the listserv hosting service, and/or the list manager.
Cookies
The use of advertising cookies sent by Steepwell Tea Co. servers and/or third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Steepwell Tea Co. cannot and does not control these cookies.
Traffic Data
Each time a visitor comes to a steepwelltea.com, information is collected to improve the overall quality of our sites. Steepwell Tea Co. collects the visitor’s domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from apple.com or wisconsin.edu or 255.255.255.1), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a Steepwell Tea Co. site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Google browser on a Windows platform).
Steepwell Tea Co. also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor’s activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at Steepwell Tea Co. sites. Culinary Teas may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. Steepwell Tea Co. will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When Steepwell Tea Co. does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research firms and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you. For any questions or clarifications regarding this statement, please contact us directly.