Privacy Policy

At Little Merkado, accessible at littlemerkado.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Little Merkado and how we use it.

Little Merkado’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

  • Little Merkado needs to perform a contract with you
  • You have given Little Merkado permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in Little Merkado legitimate interests
  • Little Merkado needs to comply with the law

Little Merkado will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

What type of information do we collect?

We collect information when you fill out a contact form, submit comments on our website, or subscribe to a newsletter. We collect the following data:

  • Personal identification such as name and email address

How do we collect the data?

You directly provide Little Merkado with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Fill out a contact form on our website
  • Subscribe to a newsletter
  • Voluntarily provide feedback on any of our comment boards or by email
  • Comment on a post or reply to comments
  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies

Little Merkado may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Cookies
  • DoubleClick DART cookie
  • Google Analytics
  • Advertising

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

What do we do with that information?

We may use the information in a number of ways:

  • To follow up with communication and correspondence via email or comment replies
  • To improve our website to better serve the user’s needs
  • To tailor the type of content and product offerings delivered on our website
  • To personalize user experience
  • To administer surveys, promotions, or other site features

How do we protect your information?

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems.

Email & Contact Information

When you provide Little Merkado with your contact information directly by email or comment submissions, the collected information is never used for anything besides their intended purpose of communication and comment post notification. We are the data controller of your information. We would never sell or distribute this collected data to third parties.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are strive to protect it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell or distribute your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties unless we notify users in advance. This does not apply to website hosting partners or other parties who may help to maintain and operate our website so long as those parties keep this information confidential. We may release information when we need to and is appropriate to comply with the law.

Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be used by other parties for marketing, advertising, analytical, or other purposes.

Little Merkado’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You may find a list of these Privacy Policies and their links below.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Little Merkado uses ‘cookies.’ Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visiters’ browser type and/or other information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How to Manage Cookies & Do Not Track (DNT)

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result. Please refer to instructions for your specific browser to turn the “Do Not Track” feature on or off.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Google Analytics

Little Merkado uses Google Analytics and other tracking pixels to collect demographic and advertising information. None of this information is personally identifiable – it is completely anonymous. Little Merkado does not share this information with third parties or for sponsorship purposes.

If you would like to opt-out of providing information to Google Analytics, please use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Tool.

Advertising

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to Little Merkado and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
  • You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personlized advertising by visiting  www.aboutads.info

Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to withdraw consent

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: thelittlemerkado@gmail.com

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using this website. The content presented on this site is intended for individuals over the age of 18.

We do not specifically market to or collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Privacy Policies of Other Websites

Our Little Merkado website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here.

Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please refrain from accessing or using this website.

Contact

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue. Please contact us at thelittlemerkado@gmail.com

Effective Date of this Privacy Policy: 2/22/21