Privacy Policy

Here at MyNewMicrobiome.com we are committed to safeguarding your privacy.  By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the processing of your personal data as described in

this Privacy Policy. Please read the entire policy to make sure you understand our practices fully.

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data
Data subject – a natural person whose personal data is being processed
Child – a natural person under 18 years of age
We/us (either
capitalized or not) – MyNewMicrobiome.com

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data-protection principles:

• Processing is lawful, fair, and transparent. Our processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before processing personal data. We will provide you information regarding processing upon request.

• Processing is limited to the purpose. Our processing activities fit the purpose for which personal data was gathered.

• Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and process the minimal amount of personal data
  required for any purpose.

• Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.

• We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.

• We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

EU Data Subject’s Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to: (a) request access to your Personal Data and rectification of inaccurate Personal Data; (b) request erasure of your Personal Data; (c) request restrictions on the processing of your Personal Data; (d) object to processing your Personal Data; and/or (e) the right to data portability (“collectively, “Requests”). We can only process Requests from a user whose identity has been verified. To verify your identity, please provide your email address when you make a request. For more information about how to get access to Personal Data and for exercising your rights, you can submit a request here. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Data We Gather and How We Use It

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience. Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.

To improve our website and customer service. We continually strive to improve our website information and offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you. Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

Site Visitation Tracking. Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, Internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to personally identify you, but Google does not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor

(see here). GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

For your information, our website uses scripts generated by Google Tag Manager to implement GA.

Disabling cookies on your Internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

User Registration. Should you choose to register and set up a user account with MyNewMicrobiome, the name and email address you submitted will be saved to this website’s database, along with the time and date that you registered. This information is only used to identify you as a user of the website and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Your name will only be shown when you are logged in to the website, although if the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account, your Gravatar photo will also be displayed. If you are a child, you MUST obtain parental consent before registering a user account on our site.

Blog’s Comments Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date you submitted the comment. This information is only

used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email us here using the email address that you commented with.

If you are a child, you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: you should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

Media. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location

data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

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 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. 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. Please read our cookie policy for more info.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Email Newsletter.  If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit will be saved to our database. Your email address will remain in our database until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list. If you are a child, you

MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

Contact Forms. Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact Us page, none of the data you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third-party data processors. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our own SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL), meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the Internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices. However, not all mail servers are

secured in such a way. Therefore, we would suggest that you always consider email as an insecure medium and not include personal, confidential or otherwise sensitive information within an email.

Who Has Access To The Data We Collect?

We process and have the access to the data we collect from you. However, we also use third parties to assist us with operating our website who might have access to your personal data including the following categories of recipients:

– Financial payment processors (processing your payments)
– Customer service
– Email communication platform
– Website management services
– Website design and programming services

These third parties have a contract with us in which they are prohibited from utilizing, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than we dictate.

How Long Do We Keep You Data?

We keep your personal data for different periods of time depending on the reason it was gathered in the first place.

Opt-In To Email newsletter: Until you or we unsubscribe you
Transaction: Four years

If a legal claim arises involving your data, we will store and disclose that data until the matter has resolved.

Your Right To Ask For Corrections, Erasure, And Export Of Your Data

You have the right to control your personal data. Specifically, you have the following rights:

The right to be informed: We are informing you now with this policy.
The right of access: We’ll provide you with the data we have about you.
The right to rectification: Request we fix incorrect data about you.
The right to erasure: Request we erase certain data about you.
The right to restrict processing: Ask us to restrict certain type of processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability: Ask us to provide your personal data we have for export.
The right to object: Object to how we use your data.
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: We don’t profile you, but keep in mind you have this right with other sites.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us with your request.

Contacting Us, Complaints

You can contact us at info@mynewmicrobiome.com with any questions or requests regarding these policies or your personal data.

Consent to our Privacy Policy

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website. You consent by using our site to our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

Please contact us here if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your personal data and we will gladly assist you.

Last updated: 26.05.2022