Last Updated: April 4, 2023
Welcome to Gabby & Min Publications! Gabby & Min is a venture of Delio Enterprises. This means that the parent company, Delio Enterprises, is doing business as (DBA) “Gabby & Min” or “Gabby & Min Publications”, and is the main contact for any concerns at [email protected].
Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any further inquiries or need additional details regarding our Privacy Policy.
Gabby & Min (“G&M”, “us”, “our” or “we”) prioritizes the privacy and protection of your information. It's important to us that you understand our practices for collecting, utilizing, and sharing information, including personal information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding our use and disclosure of user information collected on the G&M website (www.gabbyandmin.com and all sub-domains), mobile websites, applications and any other G&M products, services or tools that link to this Privacy Policy (the “Services”).
When you access or use the Services, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into by reference and subject to the Terms of Service.
As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “Service Providers” means third-party companies that help us deliver or manage our Services (e.g., analytics, hosting, software maintenance, satisfaction surveys, database maintenance and magazine subscription management).
1. Consent
2. Information we collect
3. How we use your information
4. How We Share the Information Collected
5. Choice/Opt-out
6. Log Files
7. Cookies and Web Beacons
8. Blogs and Community Forums
9. Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
10. Third Party Privacy Policies
11. Third-Party Links
12. Children's Information
13. Security
14. Updating and Deleting Personal Information; Data Retention
15. Users from Outside the United States
16. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
17. Your California Privacy Rights
18. Changes to this Privacy Policy
19. Contact
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
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In the pursuit of improving our services, we collect personal information (such as your name, address, and email) and non-personal information pertaining to you and your use of our services through the following methods:
A. Information provided to us directly by you:
✦ Website Forms and Newsletters – When signing up for newsletters, filling out online forms, making a donation, applying for jobs online, or providing feedback on our services, we may request that you provide personal information to us.
✦ Magazine Subscriptions – To subscribe to the Gabby & Min's Literary Review or other publications through our services, you may need to create an account either with us or one of our Service Providers. Creating an account through G&M's website may require you to provide personal information and payment data, including credit card information. This information could be utilized and stored by G&M and/or the Service Provider to fulfill your subscription, process payments, and offer other products or services that may be relevant to you.
✦ Surveys – Occasionally, G&M and our Service Providers may gather personal information via online surveys, polls, or other interactive activities centered around subjects related to our programs or services. Taking part in these surveys is completely optional.
✦ Contests and Special Offers – When you engage with contests or special offers, G&M obtains personal information like your name and email.
B. Data gathered through your usage of the Services:
✦ Cookies and Other Technologies – Automatically collected information may comprise of usage details (such as the web pages you have viewed on our website or the duration of time spent on a page), IP addresses, and information acquired through browser cookies. A cookie is a tiny piece of data that gets saved on the hard drive of your computer. Activating the appropriate setting on your browser will enable you to refuse browser cookies. However, if you do select this option, you may be unable to access specific areas of the Services. By utilizing the Services with your browser setting adjusted to accept cookies, you approve our use of cookies on the Services. The types of cookies we may use include, but are not limited to:
✧ Google Analytics – Web traffic tracking and analytics. Learn more at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, and to opt out, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
✧ Google Tag Manager – Web traffic tracking. Learn more at https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6102821.
✧ Philantro – Facilitation of online donations. Learn more at https://www.philantro.com/cookie-policy.php
✧ Cloudflare – Content delivery and security. Learn more at https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do-
✦ Local Storage Objects and Advertising: Local Storage Objects ("LSOs") such as HTML5 may be utilized by us to save content information and preferences. We also collaborate with Service Providers to offer certain features on our website and Services or to exhibit advertising based on your web browsing activity using LSOs such as HTML5 to gather and retain information. Numerous browsers offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
✦ Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting: To show advertisements on our Services or to administer our advertising on other websites, we may employ a third-party ad network such as Facebook Pixel and Google Tag Manager. Our ad network and magazine subscription Service Providers might employ cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personal information regarding your activities on our Services and other websites. This is done to offer targeted advertising based on your interests.
✦ Social Media Widgets: Social media features, such as Facebook's "Like" button, "Share" button, and interactive mini-programs may be included on our Services. These features may collect information such as your IP address and other data, and may use cookies to function properly. These may be hosted either by a third-party or directly on our Services. The privacy policy of the company providing these features governs your interactions with them.
✦ Facebook Custom Audiences: Our participation in Facebook's Custom Audience program allows us to show personalized ads to individuals on our email lists when they visit Facebook. To do this, we provide Facebook with personal information, such as your email address and phone number, which is used to identify whether you have a registered account with Facebook. If you wish to opt-out of Facebook Custom Audience, you can send us an email from the same email address you want to opt-out for.
✦ Do Not Track Signals: At present, we do not take any measures to respond to "Do Not Track" signals as there is no consistent technological standard in place. We keep examining new technologies and may implement a standard when one becomes available.
C. Information Collected from Service Providers.
✦ Our Service Providers may collect personal information on our behalf in certain situations. For instance, we engage Service Providers to manage and fulfill subscriptions to the Gabby & Min's Literary Review. These Service Providers collect data and information (including personal information) from the Gabby & Min's Literary Review subscribers, which we use for various purposes, such as communicating with you about your subscription. Additionally, our Service Providers may send you emails and/or mailings about other products and services that may interest you. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails anytime by following the “unsubscribe” instructions at the bottom of each email. To opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes and unsubscribe from other mailings, you can change the privacy settings in your Service Provider account or contact them directly.
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We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:
✦ to communicate with you, such as responding to your inquiries and providing you with the information you requested from us.
✦ to send you email newsletters, mailings, and other information about programs, initiatives, and events.
✦ to handle the processing and fulfillment of subscriptions to the Gabby & Min's Literary Review and other publications
✦ to contact you regarding other products, programs, or services that we think might be of interest to you.
✦ to provide, maintain, and improve our Services, which includes analyzing user behavior and usage patterns to conduct research and generate analytics.
✦ to manage and safeguard the Services, including the identification, analysis, and deterrence of activities that may contravene our policies or laws.
✦ to enforce the terms and conditions that regulate your use of our Services and/or to accomplish the purposes for which you provided the information.
We will solely utilize your personal information for the objectives we obtained it for, unless we reasonably ascertain that we need to apply it for another motive that aligns with the initial intention(s) and/or as mandated or permitted by law.
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We keep your personal information confidential and do not disclose it to any third parties unless stated in this Privacy Policy or authorized by you.
We may disclose your information to Service Providers who may utilize the information to carry out services on our behalf, including but not limited to website hosting, information technology services, analytics, subscription fulfillment, and data management. Additionally, in certain cases, they may use your information to offer, enhance and communicate with you about their own products and services.
We may share your information with our funding or grant partners or other strategic partners, both non-profit and for-profit, when it is related to events, activities, opportunities, products, or services that might be of interest to you. However, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing emails at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of each email.
We may disclose your information when required by applicable laws, to comply with requests from public, governmental, and regulatory authorities, to seek legal remedies or limit our damages, and to safeguard the rights, safety, or property of our employees, you, or others.
In the event that we merge with or are acquired by another organization or entity, or assign all or part of our Services to another organization or entity, we may transfer your personal information to the involved party or parties as part of that transaction. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that any such transfer of personal information is done in accordance with applicable laws and this Privacy Policy.
We may also share information with third parties in an aggregated and anonymous manner. These third parties may use such aggregated non-personally identifiable information to further their own marketing, products, and services.
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To stop receiving our email communications, including newsletters, you can choose to unsubscribe by clicking the "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of each email. Alternatively, you may be able to adjust the settings in your account to manage your email preferences.
Occasionally, we may need to send out notifications related to the services we provide, such as if a Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance. In such cases, we may send users an email notification about the suspension, and users may not be able to opt out of these communications.
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Gabby & Min Publications employs a common practice of using log files, which record information when visitors access our website. This is a standard feature of hosting services' analytics, and all hosting companies use them. The data gathered in log files consists of internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamps, referring/exit pages, and perhaps the quantity of clicks. This data is not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of this information is to analyze trends, manage the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic data.
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Gabby & Min Publications employs the use of cookies, similar to other websites. These cookies store information such as visitors' preferences and the pages they accessed or visited on the website. The collected information is utilized to enhance the user experience by personalizing the website content according to the visitor's browser type and other relevant details.
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Our Services may provide publicly accessible blogs, community forums, or other public areas where users can submit information and content. It's important to note that any information you provide in these areas may be accessed, collected, and used by others. If you want your personal information to be removed from a blog or community forum, please contact us using the information provided above. We'll make an effort to remove your personal information, but there may be cases where we're unable to do so. In such cases, we'll inform you of our inability to remove your personal information.
Third-party applications may manage our blogs and community forums and may require registration to post comments. We do not have access to or control over the information posted to these blogs. If you want personally identifiable information that was posted to the comments section removed, you will need to contact or log in to the third-party application. To learn how the third-party application uses your information, please review its privacy policy.
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You can refer to the list below to access the Privacy Policy of each of our advertising partners.
Please note that third-party ad servers or ad networks use various technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons to display their ads and links directly to your browser when you visit Gabby & Min Publications. These technologies automatically collect your IP address. Their main purpose is to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and to customize the advertising content displayed on websites you visit.
Please be aware that Gabby & Min Publications does not have access to or control over these cookies used by third-party advertisers.
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The Privacy Policy of Gabby & Min Publications is limited to our own website and does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more information on their practices and how to opt-out of certain options.
If you'd like to disable cookies, you may do so through the settings of your web browser. For detailed information on cookie management with specific web browsers, please refer to the relevant browser's website.
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We may provide links to third-party websites on our Services. However, we do not have control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. We recommend that you review the privacy statements and terms of use of any website you visit after leaving our Services.
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Gabby & Min’s websites and mobile services are intended for a general audience and are not intended for children under the age of 13. We refrain from intentionally gathering personal information from minors under the age of 13. If you have any concerns about the possibility of your child's information being collected, please contact us.
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We have implemented sensible physical, electronic, and managerial measures to protect and ensure the security of the information we gather online. However, it is impossible to guarantee that transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure. As a result, we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the information.
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We will keep your personal information for as long as it is required to fulfill our legitimate interests, in compliance with our retention policies and applicable laws.
If you want to review, correct, restrict, or delete your personal information that you have given to us previously, object to the processing of your personal information, or request an electronic copy of your personal information to transmit it to another company (if provided by applicable law), please contact us at the email address below. We will handle your request in compliance with applicable laws.
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The Services, unless stated otherwise, are managed and operated by G&M within the United States.
By utilizing the Services, you (a) acknowledge and agree that your information will be handled as outlined in the Policy; and (b) give your consent to the transfer of your information to G&M and/or our third-party service providers, within the United States or outside of it, as described in the Policy.
If you are an EU resident or a non-EU resident living in the EU, we will transfer your personal data to the United States in compliance with EU data protection regulations. We may use standard contractual clauses that have been approved by the European Commission for this purpose. In some cases, we may also transfer your data with your explicit consent or to fulfill a contract or request.
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We are dedicated to complying with the GDPR, a European regulation that governs the usage and handling of personal data. This means that we process the personal information of visitors from the EU to our Services in accordance with the GDPR.
We process your information for the specific purposes listed above based on the following legal bases:
✦ We deem it necessary to maintain our legitimate interest in engaging with you and managing our interactions with you in relation to the Services.
✦ There may be certain situations where we are required to process your information to comply with a law or regulation. In such cases, you may not be able to object to this processing, but you will typically have the right to access or review your information, unless doing so would hinder our legal obligations.
We will make reasonable efforts to respond promptly to any requests from you to exercise your rights under the GDPR:
✦ You have the right to request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you;
✦ You have the right to request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we may have about you;
✦ You may also request that we delete your personal information once it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which you provided it;
✦ You have the right to request that we limit the processing of your personal information to certain specific purposes, in cases where erasure is not possible;
✦ Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request that we provide a copy of your personal information to a third party of your choice; and
✦ You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information on the basis of our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) if there are specific circumstances related to your situation that lead you to object to such processing.
To exercise any of the aforementioned rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Additionally, you have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that your rights have been violated.
The Services are owned and operated in the United States, which means that your information will be collected, stored, and processed in the United States, as well as in any other countries where we may transfer your information as part of our business operations. If you are accessing the site from a country other than the United States, please be aware that your information will cross international borders. Please note that the level of protection for your information in the United States may not be the same as the level of protection provided in your own country.
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G&M is committed to complying with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (the “CalOPPA”) when processing your personal information. If you are a California resident and wish to review and request changes to your personal information collected by G&M, please contact us.
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From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy, and we will notify you of any changes by posting the updated version on this page and updating the "Last updated" date above. Your continued use of the Services after the changes have been made will indicate your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
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If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]
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