Policies: Terms of Service

The term PURPLECHEF.EU used in this document refers to PurpleChef and ALL ASSOCIATED BRANDS.

We enable anyone to create and share content and to view and/or purchase such content over our various platforms. These Terms apply to all your activities throughout all PURPLECHEF.EU materials and websites and other related services (“Services”).

If you contribute ANY material to PURPLECHEF.EU, you must also agree to the Contributor Terms. We also provide details regarding our processing of personal data of our users and contributors in our Privacy Policy.

Accounts

You need an account for most activities on our platform. Keep your password somewhere safe, because you’re responsible for all activity associated with your account. If you suspect someone else is using your account, let us know by contacting our info@purpleroclet.eu. You must have reached the age of consent for online services in your country to use PURPLECHEF.EU.

You need an account for most activities on our platform, including to purchase and enrol in a recipe/s or to submit a recipe/s for publication. When setting up and maintaining your account, you must provide and continue to provide accurate and complete information, including a valid email address. You have complete responsibility for your account and everything that happens on your account, including for any harm or damage (to us or anyone else) caused by someone using your account without your permission. This means you need to be careful with your password. You may not transfer your account to someone else or use someone else’s account without their permission. If you contact us to request access to an account, we will not grant you such access unless you can provide us the login credential information for that account. In the event of the death of a user, the account of that user will be closed.

If you share your account login credential with someone else, you are responsible for what happens with your account and PURPLECHEF.EU will not intervene in disputes between users or contributors who have shared account login credentials. You must notify us immediately upon learning that someone else may be using your account without your permission (or if you suspect any other breach of security) by contacting our info@purpleroclet.eu. We may request some information from you to confirm that you are indeed the owner of your account.

Contributors must be at least 18 years of age to create an account on PURPLECHEF.EU and use the Services. If we discover that you have created an account and you are younger than the required age for consent to use online services (for example, 13 in the US), we will terminate your account. Under our Contributor Terms, you may be requested to verify your identity before you are authorized to submit a recipe/s for publication on PURPLECHEF.EU.

You can terminate your account at any time by contacing info@purpleroclet.eu. Check our Privacy Policy to see what happens when you terminate your account.

User Account and Lifetime Access

When you enrol on the site, you get a license from us to view it via the PURPLECHEF.EU Services and no other use. Don’t try to transfer or resell material/s in any way. We grant you a lifetime access license, except when we must disable mateial because of legal or policy reasons.

Under our Contributor Terms, when contributors publish a recipe/s on PURPLECHEF.EU, they grant PURPLECHEF.EU a license to offer a license to the recipe/s to users. This means that we have the right to sublicense the recipe/s to the users who enrol in the recipe/s. As a platform user, when you enrol in a recipe/s, whether it’s a free or paid recipe/s, you are getting from PURPLECHEF.EU a license to view the recipe/s via the PURPLECHEF.EU platform and Services, and PURPLECHEF.EU is the licensor of record. Material/s are licensed, and not sold, to you. This license does not give you any right to resell the recipe/s in any manner (including by sharing account information with a purchaser or illegally downloading the recipe/s and sharing it on torrent sites).

In legal, more complete terms, PURPLECHEF.EU grants you (as a platform user) a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the material/s and associated content for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your personal, non- commercial, educational purposes through the Services, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with a particular material/s or feature of our Services. All other uses are expressly prohibited. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or use any recipe/s unless we give you explicit permission to do so in a written agreement signed by a PURPLECHEF.EU authorized representative. This also applies to content you can access via any of our APIs.

We generally give a lifetime access license to our users when they signup with the site. However, we reserve the right to revoke any license to access and use material/s at any point in time in the event where we decide or are obligated to disable access to a recipe/s due to legal or policy reasons, for example, if the recipe/s you enrolled in is the object of a copyright complaint. The lifetime access is not applicable to add-on features and services associated with a recipe/s, for example translation captions of material/s may be disabled by contributors at any time, and an instructor may decide at any time to no longer provide teaching assistance or Q&A services in association with a recipe/s. To be clear, the lifetime access is to the recipe/s content but not to the instructor.

Contributors may not grant licenses to their material/s to platform user directly and any such direct license shall be null and void and a violation of these Terms.

Payments, Credits, and Refunds

When you make a payment, you agree to use a valid payment method. If you aren’t happy with your recipe/s, PURPLECHEF.EU offers a 30-day refund or credit for most recipe/s purchases.

Pricing

The prices of material/s on PURPLECHEF.EU are determined based on the terms of the Contributor Terms. In some instances, the price of a recipe/s offered on the PURPLECHEF.EU website may not be exactly the same as the price offered on our mobile or TV applications, due to mobile platform providers’ pricing systems and their policies around implementing sales and promotions.

We regularly run promotions and sales for our material/s and certain material/s are only available at discounted prices for a set period of time. The price applicable to material/s will be the price at the time you complete your purchase of the material/s (at checkout). Any price offered for a particular product may also be different when you are logged into your account from the price available to users who aren’t registered or logged in, because some of our promotions are available to new users only.

If you are logged into your account, the listed currency you see is based on your location when you created your account. If you are not logged into your account, the price currency is based on the country where you are located. We do not enable users to see pricing in other currencies.

If you are a platform user located in a country where use and sales tax, goods and services tax, or value added tax is applicable to consumer sales, we are responsible for collecting and remitting that tax to the proper tax authorities. In certain countries, the price you see may include such taxes.

Payments

You agree to pay the fees for material/s that you purchase, and you authorize us to charge your debit or credit card or process other means of payment (such as Boleto, SEPA, direct debit, or mobile wallet) for those fees. PURPLECHEF.EU works with third party payment processing partners to offer you the most convenient payment methods in your country and to keep your payment information secure. Check out our Privacy Policy for more details.

When you make a purchase, you agree not to use an invalid or unauthorized payment method. If your payment method fails and you still get access to the recipe/s you are enrolling in, you agree to pay us the corresponding fees within thirty (30) days of notification from us. We reserve the right to disable access to any recipe/s for which we have not received adequate payments.

In some cases, we may issue credits to your account. These credits will be automatically applied towards your next recipe/s purchase on our website, but can’t be used for purchases in our mobile or TV applications. Credits may expire if not used within the specified period, and have no cash value.

Refunds and Credits

If the recipe/s you purchased is not what you were expecting, you can request, within 30 days of your purchase of the recipe/s, that PURPLECHEF.EU credit/refund your account. We reserve the right to apply a credit or a refund, at our discretion, depending on capabilities of our payment processing partners or the platform from which you purchased your recipe/s (website, mobile or TV app). No credit or refund is due to you if you request it after the 30-day guarantee time limit has passed.

As detailed in the Contributor Terms, contributors agree that users have the right to receive these credits or refunds.

At our discretion, if we believe you are abusing our credit/refund policy, we reserve the right to ban your account and to restrict all future use of the Services. If we ban your account or disable your access to a recipe/s due to your violation of these Terms, you will not be eligible to receive any credit or refund.

Content and Behaviour Rules

You can only use PURPLECHEF.EU for lawful purposes. You’re responsible for all the content that you post on our platform. You should keep the reviews, questions, posts, material/s and other content you upload in line with the law, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. We can ban your account for repeated or major offenses. If you think someone is infringing your copyright on our platform, let us know.

You may not access or use the Services or create an account for unlawful purposes. Your use of the Services and behaviour on our platform must comply with applicable local or national laws or regulations of your country. You are solely responsible for the knowledge of and compliance with such laws and regulations that are applicable to you. You may not access our Services if you are from a territory where U.S. businesses are prohibited from engaging in business (such as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria) or if you have been designated a Specially Designated National, Denied Person, or Denied Entity by the U.S. government.

If you are a platform user, the Services enable you to ask questions to the contributors of material/s you are enrolled in, and to post reviews of material/s. For certain material/s, the instructor invites you to submit content as “homework” or tests. Don’t post or submit anything that is not yours.

If you are an instructor, you can submit material/s for publication on the platform and you can also communicate with the users who have enrolled in your material/s. In both cases, you must abide by the law and respect the rights of others: you cannot post any recipe/s, question, answer, review or other content that violates applicable local or national laws or regulations of your country. You are solely responsible for any material/s, content, and actions you post or take via the platform and Services and their consequences. Make sure you understand all the copyright restrictions set forth in the Contributor Terms before you submit any recipe/s for publication on PURPLECHEF.EU.

If we are put on notice that your recipe/s or content violates the law or the rights of others (for example, if it is established that it violates intellectual property or image rights of others, or is about an illegal activity), if we discover that your content or behaviour violates our guidelines, or if we believe your content or behaviour is unlawful, inappropriate, or objectionable (for example if you impersonate someone else), we may remove your content from our platform. PURPLECHEF.EU complies with copyright laws. Check out our Intellectual Property Policy for more details.

PURPLECHEF.EU has discretion in enforcing these Terms.  We may terminate or suspend your permission to use our platform and Services or ban your account at any time, with or without notice, for any violation of these Terms, if you fail to pay any fees when due, upon the request of law enforcement or government agencies, for extended periods of inactivity, for unexpected technical issues or problems, or if we suspect that you engage in fraudulent or illegal activities. Upon any such termination we may delete your account and content, and we may prevent you from further access to the platforms and use of our Services. Your content may still be available on the platforms even if your account is terminated or suspended. You agree that we will have no liability to you or any third party for termination of your account, removal of your content, or blocking of your access to our platforms and services.

If one of our contributors has published a recipe/s that infringes your copyright or trademark rights, please let us know. Under our Contributor Terms, we require our contributors to follow the law and respect the intellectual property rights of others. For more details on how to file a copyright or trademark infringement claim with us, see our Intellectual Property Policy.

PURPLECHEF.EU’s Rights to Content You Post

You retain ownership of content you post to our platform, including your material/s. We’re allowed to share your content to anyone through any media, including promoting it via advertising on other websites.

The content you post as a platform user or instructor (including material/s) remains yours. By posting material/s and other content, you allow PURPLECHEF.EU to reuse and share it but you do not lose any ownership rights you may have over your content. If you are an instructor, be sure to understand the recipe/s licensing terms that are detailed in the Contributor Terms.

When you post comments, questions, reviews, and when you submit to us ideas and suggestions for new features or improvements, you authorize PURPLECHEF.EU to use and share this content with anyone, distribute it and promote it on any platform and in any media, and to make modifications or edits to it as we see fit. In legal language, by submitting or posting content on or through the platforms, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (existing now or later developed). This includes making your content available to other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with PURPLECHEF.EU for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication of content on other media. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to authorize us to use any content that you submit. You also agree to all such uses of your content with no compensation paid to you.

Using PURPLECHEF.EU at Your Own Risk

Anyone can use PURPLECHEF.EU to create and publish material/s and contributors and we enable contributors and users to interact for teaching and learning. Like other platforms where people can post content and interact, some things can go wrong, and you use PURPLECHEF.EU at your own risk.

PURPLECHEF.EU enables anyone anywhere to create and share educational material/s. We host more than 100,000 material/s on our online learning marketplace. Our platform model means we do not review or edit the material/s for legal issues, and we are not in a position to determine the legality of recipe/s content. We do not exercise any editorial control over the material/s that are available on the platform and, as such, do not guarantee in any manner the reliability, validity, accuracy or truthfulness of the material/s. If you enrol a recipe/s, you rely on any information provided by an instructor at your own risk.

By using the Services, you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive, indecent, or objectionable. PURPLECHEF.EU has no responsibility to keep such content from you and no liability for your access or enrolment in any recipe/s, to the extent permissible under applicable law. This also applies to any material/s relating to health, wellness and physical exercise. You acknowledge the inherent risks and dangers in the strenuous nature of these types of material/s, and by enrolling in such material/s, you choose to assume those risks voluntarily, including risk of illness, bodily injury, disability, or death. You assume full responsibility for the choices you make before, during and after your enrolment in a recipe/s.

When you interact directly with a platform user or an instructor, you must be careful about the types of personal information that you share. We do not control what users and contributors do with the information they obtain from other users on the platform. You should not share your email or other personal information about you for your safety.

We do not hire or employ contributors nor are we responsible or liable for any interactions involved between contributors and users. We are not liable for disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to the conduct of contributors or users.

When you use our Services, you will find links to other websites that we don’t own or control. We are not responsible for the content or any other aspect of these third-party sites, including their collection of information about you. You should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies.

PURPLECHEF.EU’s Rights

We own the PURPLECHEF.EU platform and Services, including the website, present or future apps and services, and things like our logos, code, and content created by our employees. You can’t tamper with those or use them without authorization.

All right, title, and interest in and to the PURPLECHEF.EU platform and Services, including our website, our existing or future applications, our APIs, databases, and the content our employees or partners submit or provide through our Services (but excluding content provided by contributors and users) are and will remain the exclusive property of PURPLECHEF.EU and its licensors. Our platforms and services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Nothing gives you a right to use the PURPLECHEF.EU name or any of the PURPLECHEF.EU trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding PURPLECHEF.EU or the Services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments, or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.

You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the PURPLECHEF.EU platform and Services:

• access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the platform, PURPLECHEF.EU’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of PURPLECHEF.EU’s service providers.
• disable, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platforms related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems.
• copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of or content on the PURPLECHEF.EU platform or Services.
• access or search or attempt to access or search our platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available search functionalities that are provided via our website, mobile apps, or API (and only pursuant to those API terms and conditions). You may not scrape, spider, use a robot, or use other automated means of any kind to access the Services.
• in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information (such as sending email communications falsely appearing as PURPLECHEF.EU); or interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the platforms or services, or in any other manner interfering with or creating an undue burden on the Services.

Miscellaneous Legal Terms

These Terms are like any other contract, and they have boring but important legal terms that protect us from the countless things that could happen and that clarify the legal relationship between us and you.

Binding Agreement

You agree that by registering, accessing or using our Services, you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with PURPLECHEF.EU. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not register, access, or otherwise use any of our Services.

If you are an instructor accepting these Terms and using our Services on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so.

Any version of these Term in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.

These Terms (including any agreements and policies linked from these Terms) constitute the entire agreement between you and us.

If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by applicable law, then that provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms will continue in effect.

Even if we are delayed in exercising our rights or fail to exercise a right in one case, it doesn’t mean we waive our rights under these Terms, and we may decide to enforce them in the future. If we decide to waive any of our rights in a particular instance, it doesn’t mean we waive our rights generally or in the future.

Disclaimers

It may happen that our platform is down, either for planned maintenance or because something goes down with the site. It may happen that one of our contributors is making misleading statements in their recipe/s. It may also happen that we encounter security issues. These are just examples. You accept that you will not have any rerecipe/s against us in any of these types of cases where things don’t work out right. In legal, more complete language, the Services and their content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no representations or warranties about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, security, lack of errors, or accuracy of the Services or their content, and expressly disclaim any warranties or conditions (express or implied), including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We (and our affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no warranty that you will obtain specific results from use of the Services. Your use of the Services (including any content) is entirely at your own risk. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

We may decide to cease making available certain features of the Services at any time and for any reason. Under no circumstances will PURPLECHEF.EU or its affiliates, suppliers, partners or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability of such features.

We are not responsible for delay or failure of our performance of any of the Services caused by events beyond our reasonable control, like an act of war, hostility, or sabotage; natural disaster; electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage; or government restrictions.

Limitation of Liability

There are risks inherent into using our Services, for example, if you enrol in a health and wellness recipe/s like yoga, and you injure yourself. You fully accept these risks and you agree that you will have no course to seek damages against even if you suffer loss or damage from using our platform and Services. In legal, more complete language, to the extent permitted by law, we (and our group companies, suppliers, partners, and agents) will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages (including loss of data, revenue, profits, or business opportunities, or personal injury or death), whether arising in contract, warranty, tort, product liability, or otherwise, and even if we’ve been advised of the possibility of damages in advance. Our liability (and the liability of each of our group companies, suppliers, partners, and agents) to you or any third parties under any circumstance is limited to the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or the amount you have paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to your claims. Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Indemnification

If you behave in a way that gets us in legal trouble, we may exercise legal course against you. You agree to indemnify, defend (if we so request), and hold harmless PURPLECHEF.EU, our group companies, and their officers, directors, suppliers, partners, and agents from an against any third-party claims, demands, losses, damages, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from (a) the content you post or submit, (b) your use of the Services (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any rights of a third party. Your indemnification obligation will survive the termination of these Terms and your use of the Services.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Poland without reference to its choice or conflicts of law principles. Where the “Dispute Resolution” section below does not apply, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and courts in Mauritius.

Legal Actions and Notices

No action, regardless of form, arising out of or relating to this Agreement may be brought by either party more than one (1) year after the cause of action has accrued.

Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given by registered or certified mail return receipt requested, or email (by us to the email associated with your account or by you to info@purpleroclet.eu).

Relationship Between Us

You and we agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists between us.

No Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms (or the rights and licenses granted under them). For example, if you registered an account as an employee of a company, your account cannot be transferred to another employee. We may assign these Terms (or the rights and licenses granted under them) to another company or person without restriction. Nothing in these Terms confers any right, benefit, or remedy on any third-party person or entity. You agree that your account is non-transferable and that all rights to your account and other rights under these Terms terminate upon your death.

Dispute Resolution

If there’s a dispute, our info@purpleroclet.eu is happy to help resolve the issue.

Going to Arbitration

If we can’t resolve our dispute amicably, you and PURPLECHEF.EU agree to resolve any claims related to these Terms (or our other legal terms) through final and binding arbitration, regardless of the type of claim or legal theory. If one of us brings a claim in court that should be arbitrated and the other party refuses to arbitrate it, the other party can ask a court to force us both to go to arbitration (compel arbitration). Either of us can also ask a court to halt a court proceeding while an arbitration proceeding is ongoing.

No Class Actions

We both agree that we can each only bring claims against the other on an individual basis. This means: (a) neither of us can bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class action, consolidated action, or representative action; (b) an arbitrator can’t combine multiple people’s claims into a single case (or preside over any consolidated, class, or representative action); and (c) an arbitrator’s decision or award in one person’s case can only impact that user, not other users, and can’t be used to decide other users’ disputes. If a court decides that this “No class actions” clause isn’t enforceable or valid, then this “Dispute Resolution” section will be null and void, but the rest of the Terms will still apply.

Changes

Notwithstanding the “Updating these Terms” section below, if PURPLECHEF.EU changes this “Dispute Resolution” section after the date you last indicated acceptance to these Terms, you may reject any such change by providing PURPLECHEF.EU written notice of such rejection by mail or hand delivery to: info@purpleroclet.eu, within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated by the “last updated on” language above. To be effective, the notice must include your full name and clearly indicate your intent to reject changes to this “Dispute Resolution” section. By rejecting changes, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any dispute between you and PURPLECHEF.EU in accordance with the provisions of this “Dispute Resolution” section as of the date you last indicated acceptance to these Terms.

Updating These Terms

From time to time, we may update these Terms to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different practices (such as when we add new features), and PURPLECHEF.EU reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify and/or make changes to these Terms at any time. If we make any material change, we will notify you using prominent means such as by email notice sent to the email address specified in your account or by posting a notice through our Services. Modifications will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise.

Your continued use of our Services after changes become effective shall mean that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.

How to Contact Us

The best way to get in touch with us is to contact our info@purpleroclet.eu. We’d love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about our Services.

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Policies: Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

When we mention “PurpleChef”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy, we mean PurpleChef, Inc, or the relevant PurpleChef company responsible for processing your data. PurpleChef legal entities are listed in section 16.

2. About this privacy notice

This Privacy Notice explains how PurpleChef collects, uses, and discloses data about you and processes information that identifies or can be used to identify you (sometimes referred to as “personal data” or “personal information” under applicable privacy and data security laws, and hereinafter “personal data”) when you use our website(s), mobile apps, and other online products or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”) or when you otherwise interact with us. From time to time we partner with third parties to provide you with products, promotions or other experiences. We will show you the privacy policies belonging to those third parties when they will receive information in connection with those experiences. Their privacy policy will govern the collection of your personal data, in addition to this Privacy Policy.

3. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We’re likely to update this Privacy Policy in the future and when we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, will notify you through the Services, such as on our homepage, or via email or other communication. Please come back and check from time to time for the latest information on our privacy practices.

4. How to contact us

If you have questions or concerns about the information in this Privacy Policy, our handling of your personal data more generally, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under the law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

PurpleChef
info@purplechef.eu

5. What personal data we collect and how

5.1 Personal data you provide to us.

We collect data you provide directly to us.

• Account data. If you sign up for a PurpleChef.com account (“Account”), we will collect data you give us related to your Account, including your name, email address, username and password. We describe this more fully in Section 5.4 below.
• Payment data. To order products or services through our Services, you may need to provide certain financial information (like your bank account or credit card information) in order to facilitate the processing of payments. We will collect the data we need in order to process that purchase (for example, payment details). However, your financial information is collected and stored by our third-party payment processing company, and use and storage of that data is governed by the third-party payment processor’s applicable privacy policy.
• Purchase data. If you make a purchase from a third party after clicking on an affiliate link through the Services, we will receive data about the purchase for the purpose of managing our business relationship.
• Additional Account data. You may provide additional data as part of your Account (such as your personal description). This data will be publicly visible to others. If you do not wish to share this information with us or others, do not provide the information as part of your Account.
• Other data you share through the Services. You may provide us with data when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your Account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, provide us with feedback, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Services.

5.2 Data that indirectly identifies you and automatically collected data.

When you access or use the Services, we collect data that indirectly identifies you and we automatically collect other data about you, including:

• Log Data. We automatically receive and record information from your device or web browser when you interact with the Services. For example, we collect your internet protocol (IP) address, mobile device ID, time zone setting, language preference, operating system, platform, internet service provider (ISP), and links you have clicked on or shared with others, including through email and social media. If you sign up for an Account, we also create a user ID that indirectly identifies you. We use this information to collect data about your activities through the Services. We associate information that indirectly identifies you with your Account (if you have one) and other information we have collected about you.
• Cookies. When you visit the Services, we will set certain “cookies” and similar tracking technologies on your device, including cookies and web beacons. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see our “Cookie Policy” section below.

We also may use these technologies to collect data about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking).

The information we collect automatically may include personal data, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.

5.3 Location data.

We use your IP address to infer your approximate location. We may also collect the language option or country you choose. When we provide certain services, such as providing you with a version of our Services that is localized to your country, we link location data to other information we have collected about you in order to do so.

5.4 Profile data.

If you sign up for an Account, we will collect certain data you give us as part of your Account sign-up as described above, the information you give us in connection with purchases or orders made by you, and your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. Your interests and preferences are inferred from data we collect regarding what types of content you have interacted with, how long you interacted with them, how often you interacted with them, and the nature of your interaction with the content. We do not disclose email addresses to other users except where it is necessary to comply with the law, to protect our rights, or to protect the rights of our users.

5.5 Special category data.

When we conduct research or carry out surveys and you participate in our research or surveys, we may collect sensitive personal data about you, for example, information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation. We will get your explicit consent for our collection, use, or sharing of this data as required by law.

6. Aggregated data

1. 6.1 We analyze and aggregate personal data we collect, such as the number and frequency of your visits to the Services, to produce anonymized metrics and statistical information that does not identify you as an individual.
2. 6.2 We combine information about you with information about other users to create audience segments of aggregated data, for example, statistical, demographic and usage data. If we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data, we treat the combined data as personal data and deal with it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

7. How we collect personal data

1. 7.1 You may give us your personal data directly, for example when you create an Account, fund us by donation, support us by paying for a subscription, buy products or services, subscribe to our newsletters, opt-in to marketing communications, publish posts or comments, enter a competition, participate in a promotion or survey, ask for user support, or contact us for any reason.
2. 7.2 We automatically collect personal data when you interact with our Services. We collect information about your devices and browsing actions and interests by using cookies and similar technologies. Our “Cookie Policy” section provides more details on how this works.
3. 7.3 Third parties who provide advertising and related services (such as analytics providers and ad networks) may give us your personal data so that we can compare it to personal data we hold in order to determine if you are the same individual (this is sometimes called “cookie-matching”). We may collect data from unaffiliated third parties so we can better understand you and provide you with information and offers that may be of interest to you. For example, we may receive information about your interests or preferences as well as contact information, such as email address.
4. 7.4 We may receive your personal data from third parties when you buy things through our Services or when you buy things from a third party after clicking on an affiliate link in our content. This information may include your contact details and financial and transaction data (such as items purchased and purchase price) from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
5. 7.5 If you access our Services using your Facebook or Google credentials, we will automatically collect certain information, such as your Facebook or Google user ID. We will use any information collected from Facebook or Google, including the user ID Facebook or Google attribute to you, only in accordance with Facebook’s or Google’s policies and your preferences selected through Facebook or Google.

7.6 What we use your data for:

We use the data we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our Services. We also use the data we collect to:

• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages and to respond to your comments, questions and customer service requests;
• Communicate with you about products, services, offers, and events offered by PurpleChef and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
• Personalize and improve the Services and provide advertisements, content or features that match user profiles or interests. Your interests and preferences are inferred from data we collect regarding what types of content you have interacted with, how long you interacted with them, how often you interacted with them, and the nature of your interaction with the content;
• Facilitate contests, sweepstakes and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards;
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services and personalize and improve the Services;
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of PurpleChef and others; and
• Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the data was collected.

8. Marketing choices

When you sign up for a promotion like a sweepstakes, or subscribe to or create an Account to use our Services, we use your personal data to help us decide which products, services and offers may be of interest to you. We will send marketing messages to you if you have asked us to send you information, bought goods or services from us, or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion. If you opt-out of receiving marketing messages, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations. We will ask for your consent before we share your personal data with any third party for direct marketing purposes.

You may unsubscribe from marketing messages through a link we include on messages we send you. You can also ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at: info@purplechef.eu

9. Sharing your personal data

In general, your personal data will remain with PurpleChef but we may share personal data about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

• PurpleChef We share your personal data within PurpleChef’s legal entities where necessary to fulfil a contract or pre-contractual measures, or where we have a legitimate interest in doing so or a legal obligation to do so. PurpleChef’s legal entities are listed in our “PurpleChef Legal Entities” section;
• With vendors, consultants, and other service providers who process your data on our behalf when they provide services to us, for example, data analytics, ad networks, research, marketing and financial services;
• With third parties who use it for their own purposes if you have provided consent;
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company;
• We may be legally required to disclose or share your personal data without your consent in some circumstances, for example, to comply with a court order or law enforcement. In such circumstances, we will only disclose your personal data if we have a good-faith belief that such sharing is required under applicable legal obligations.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may share aggregated or de-identified information with our ad partners and service providers so that we, and they, can understand how people use our Services; this helps us grow our business and improve and develop our products and services. We may also share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.

10. UK and EU users: international transfer of your personal data

1. When we process your personal data within PurpleChef, we will do so in countries in the EU.
2. Our agreements with those third parties include Commission-approved standard contractual clauses and otherwise make clear the standards we expect of them in order to safeguard your information and your legal rights.

11. Retaining your personal data

1. We keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected.
2. When we decide how long we will keep your information we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, why we need it, and any relevant legal requirements (such as legal retention and destruction periods).
3. We may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes.

12. Third-Party Sites

1. Our sites and apps may include links to third-party sites, apps and social media platforms (“Third-Party Sites”). Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not endorse or control Third-Party Sites, each of which may be governed by its own terms of service and privacy policy and we encourage you to read their privacy policies and terms so that you understand how they process information about you. You are solely responsible for all liability for any damages or other harm, whether to you or third-parties, resulting from your use of Third-Party Sites. Please take all protections necessary to protect yourself when accessing Third-Party Sites, particularly when downloading or purchasing anything therefrom.
2. The Services may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on our Services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. We also use the analytics tools provided by the social media platforms to help us to understand how people interact with our social media presence, to identify trends and to carry out joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote certain content.

We also use the analytics tools provided by the social media platforms to help us to understand how people interact with our social media presence, to identify trends and to carry out joint promotional activities with those platforms. For example, sometimes we agree with a social media platform that we will jointly promote certain content.

We receive aggregated statistical information from social media platforms about the performance of our posts and promoted content, such as numbers of views and kinds of viewers. This data is aggregated and anonymized by the social media platform prior to being made available to us.

We also use the paid advertising and paid content tools provided by the social media platforms to help us carry out advertising campaigns for our ad partners and to promote our content on the social media platforms. For example, we use the “Promoted Pins” tool on Pinterest to promote editorial or paid content to visitors to Pinterest. Again, we receive from the social media platforms only aggregated statistical information about interactions with our ads and paid content, such as number of views, number of times shared and so on.

We process information provided to us by the social media platforms on the basis of our legitimate interest in interacting with our audience on social media and using social media to promote our content.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features or your use of the social media platforms, please visit the privacy policies of the respective entities at the following links:

• Facebook and Instagram – https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy
• YouTube – https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
• Snapchat – https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-center/
• Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/privacy-policy/
• TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/en/privacy-policy
• Pinterest- https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
• Tumblr – https://www.tumblr.com/privacy
• LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
• LINE – https://terms.line.me/line_rules

13. Cookie policy

1. Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server during a browsing session. Cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used by web sites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. The use of cookies automatically identifies your browser whenever you interact with a site. A “web beacon,” also known as a tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, is used to transmit information back to a web server. When we talk about “cookies” in this Privacy Policy, we mean not just cookies, but web beacons and similar technologies.
2. Cookies and similar technologies allow us to collect the following types of personal data: a unique ID assigned to your device; IP address; device and browser type; operating system; referring URLs; content viewed or other actions taken through our Services; time and date of those actions; country and language selected.
3. Browsers and devices have tools that allow you to disable cookies on sites and apps. If you disable cookies you may not be able to access all the features of our services. We suggest that you keep our essential cookies (described below) active for a better user experience and to help us keep improving and developing our products and services.
4. Our Services use our own cookies to recognize you and remember you as a unique user.

• Session cookies remember you during your session on our Services. They are deleted when you log out of the Services and when you close your web browser. Session cookies are used to ensure you are served content correctly, to balance and monitor load on our servers, and for other technical matters essential to the operation of our Services. You can configure your device to reject these cookies, but our Services will probably not work correctly, or at all, if you do.
• Consent cookies are used by our consent management platform we employ to record your preferences about third-party cookies described below, and to store and share your preference with those third parties. These cookies are essential for compliance with the legal obligations imposed on us and on third parties with whom we have a business relationship to ensure we request your consent, record your consent preferences, and act on such consent preferences.

13.3 Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies are used by us and by third parties who process data for us for data analytics purposes (for example Google Analytics) so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our Services and for monitoring, auditing, research and reporting.

We have activated Google’s IP anonymisation function on our Sites. This will cause your IP address to be cut by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Sites, to compile reports on Site activity and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

With respect to Google Analytics, you can read about how Google uses data gathered for that purpose here.

13.4 Third-party cookies: advertising and affiliate links

Our ad partners and our affiliate links partners collect personal data from you for the purposes they disclose through our cookie consent management platform.

• Ad partners include ad networks such as third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms.
• Affiliate links partners pay us when you buy things from them or another third party after clicking on an affiliate link in our content.

Our ad partners use third party cookies to serve ads to you and to target you with tailored (or personalized) ads when you are using the Services and when you visit Third-Party Sites. They also use cookies to measure traffic on the Services (for example to track ad views).

Ad partners and affiliate links partners may view, edit or set their own cookies on your mobile device or web browser when you interact with our Services. They use cookies to track your use of our Services and your activities elsewhere online. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties and we encourage you to read their privacy policies so that you understand how they process information about you.

14. Privacy information for EEA and UK users

14.1 Information for UK/EU Users (including legal bases)

We will use your personal data only for the purposes for which we collect it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason that is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for another purpose, we will explain the legal basis we rely on.

The table below shows what we use your personal data for and the lawful basis for processing it in each case.

Purpose	Type of data	Lawful basis
Recognize you and analyze how you, and other users, navigate the Services and apps and what type of content you’re interested in, and to manage and improve the Services by testing new features of our sites and apps. We do this by using cookies or similar technology as explained in our “Cookie Policy” section.	Data that indirectly identifies you such as your IP address, mobile device ID and location data. This data does not include anything that allows us to identify you by name or contact details.	Legitimate interest.
Recognize you and analyze how you, and other users, interact with ads on our Services and what type of ads you’re interested in. We do this by using cookies or similar technology as explained in our “Cookie Policy” section.	Data that indirectly identifies you such as your IP address, mobile device ID and location data. This data does not include anything that allows us to identify you by name or contact details.	Consent.
Communicate legal information to you.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) and data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address and information you include in your user profile).	Legitimate interest.
Analyze comments and feedback you have given us including comments, feedback and reviews you have posted on our Services in order to use the information to carry out journalistic activities, to improve our services and content offerings, and to enforce our Terms of Service.	Data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address) and data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data).	Legitimate interest.
Provide you with communications and services you’ve signed up, for such as our newsletters.	Data that directly identifies you such as your name, username, email address and location data.	Consent.
Register you as a user of our Services and other products and services and administer your Account.	Data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address and other information included in your user profile).	Creation or performance of a contract.
Publish content on our Services including articles, feedback, reviews and user comments about our posts.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) and data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address and information included in your user profile).	Creation or performance of a contract.
Fulfill orders for subscriptions, products or services placed through our Services.	Data that directly identifies you including your name and address, email address, other contact details, financial and transactional data.	Creation or performance of a contract.
Collect money you owe us.	Data that directly identifies you including your name and address, email address, other contact details, financial and transactional data.	Legitimate interest.
Verify or obtain payments due to us when you buy something from a third party after clicking on an “affiliate” link in our content, measure the performance of affiliate links, analyze and develop this part of our business.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID) or data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, email address and location data).	Legitimate interest.
Communicate our terms, notify you about changes to them and communicate with you about non-compliance.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) or data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username and email address).	Creation or performance of a contract.
Communicate our Privacy Policy and notify you of changes to them	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) or data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address).	Compliance with a legal obligation.
Conduct surveys or undertake similar types of research so that we can improve and develop our business, our Services.	Data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, name, email address and location data)	Consent.
Allow you to take part in a prize draw, sweepstake, or other competition or other promotional activity.	Data that directly identifies you such as your name, username, and email address.	Creation or performance of a contract.
Administration and protection of our business including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, user support, reporting and hosting data, administration and IT services, network security, fraud prevention, customer services and business reorganization, including exchanging information with third parties for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) and data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address).	Legitimate interest.
Send marketing communications to you if you subscribe to our newsletters or other products and services. We explain how we comply with the law and how you can manage your preferences in our “Marketing choices” section.	Data that directly identifies you such as your name and email address.	Consent
Communicate with you about our services that you sign up to receive when you create an Account and transactions that you conduct using our services, including published content you visit, content you submit for publication on PurpleChef.com, and content posted by you on PurpleChef.com (including your comments on content, feedback and reviews).	Data that directly identifies you such as your name and email address.	Creation or performance of a contract
Comply with applicable laws, regulations and legal and regulatory processes.	Data that indirectly identifies you (such as your IP address or mobile device ID and location data) and/or data that directly identifies you (such as your name, username, and email address).	Creation or performance of a contract

14.2 Legal rights for EEA and UK users

If you are an EU or UK resident, you have certain rights in respect of the information that we hold about you. Below is a short overview of those rights:

• Access. With some exceptions designed to protect the rights of others, you have the right to a copy of the personal data that we hold about you. Where the data is data that you have given to us, you have the right to receive your copy of it in a common electronic format, and to provide copies of it to other people if you wish.
• Correction. You have the right to have the personal data we hold about you corrected if it is factually inaccurate. This right does not extend to matters of opinion, such as views expressed in editorial content.
• Deletion. In some limited circumstances, you have the right to have personal data that we hold about you erased (the “right to be forgotten”). This right is not generally available where we still have a valid legal reason to keep the data (for example, because we are obliged to do so by law).
• Objection. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on “legitimate interests” as our legal basis for processing, but we may be able to continue processing if our interest outweighs your objection.
• Withdrawing consent. If we are processing your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, in which case we will stop that processing unless we have another legal basis on which to continue.

14.3 How to exercise your rights

To exercise your rights, email info@PurpleChef.com. In order to protect your privacy and that of others, we will ask you to prove your identity before we take any steps in response to a request you have made. If a third party is making a request on your behalf, we will ask them to prove that they have your permission to act for you.

We may contact you to ask you for further information to help you exercise your legal rights or to speed up our response. We will try to respond to requests within one month and we will let you know if we need to take longer, for example, because your request is complicated. We may have an overriding lawful basis for processing your personal data, or certain exemptions may apply. If we refuse your request, we will explain why.

14.4 Complaints

You have the right to complain about data privacy matters to the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk), or the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence. You can contact the ICO on 0303 123 1113. We invite you to raise your concerns with us first so that we can try to resolve them.

15. PurpleChef legal entities

• PurpleRocket
• PurpleChef
• I/I/TF

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