Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: 6th day of September 2018; Last Revised 24th Day of September 2022

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY

THIS STATEMENT PROVIDES GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIVACY STATEMENT OF THIS WEBSITE AND ITS RELATED APP.

YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE BY YOU OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT.

THE BANANNIE DIARIES (collectively, “THE BANANNIE DIARIES”, “we”, “our” and “us”.) has created this privacy statement (“Statement”) in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to the privacy of the details that you provide to us when using www.thebananniediariesbyannie.com    (“collectively “the website or site”), as the data controller for the purposes of the United States relevant Data Legislation, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016 and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for users accessing the service from the United States.

At THE BANANNIE DIARIES, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of all visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that the website is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.

We believe your business is no one else’s. Your Privacy is important to you and to us. So, we’ll protect the information you share with us. To protect your privacy, THE BANANNIE DIARIES follows different principles in accordance with worldwide practices for customer privacy and data protection.

- We won’t sell or give away your name, mail address, phone number, email address or any other information to anyone.

- We‘ll use state of the art security measures to protect your information from unauthorized users.

Therefore, to provide you with our services we need (and sometimes are obliged by the law) to collect your personal data. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) informs Users (a "User", or "You") of our policies regarding the processing of Personal Information we receive from Users of site. 

In this Privacy Policy, we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.

We take your privacy seriously and take measures to provide all visitors and users of the website with a safe and secure environment.

The Personal Information on the site, is collected, controlled and processed by the data controller, The Banannie Diaries by Annie LLC, collected on behalf of;

THE BANANNIE DIARIES by Annie LLC

Connecticut, United States

thebananniediaries@yahoo.com

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND OBTAIN

We obtain personal information about you from a variety of sources. This includes personal information you provide to us directly, information we obtain from other sources, and information we gather through automated means.

Information you provide to us. When you visit to use the website or participate in certain services, seek access to certain content or features, or directly correspond with us, we may collect certain types of information from you:

    • Contact information (such as when you subscribe to our newsletter by furnishing us with your email address);

    • Reviews, comments, and/or surveys on our media blog; and

    • Other information you may provide to us when you fill a form, such as through our “Contact Us” feature.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Information obtained from other sources. We may obtain personal information about you in connection with the Services from publicly and commercially available sources and from our affiliates and/or business partners (such as advertising networks or social networking services), including:

    • Demographic data (such as gender, age range, educational level, household income range, number of children in household, ethnicity to the extent permitted);

Information Collected by Automated Means through Our Services. We may gather by automated means (such as cookies, web beacons, web server logs, JavaScript and other similar technologies) certain information through our Services:

    • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;

    • Device information, including unique identifiers and connection information, including mobile device advertising IDs (e.g., Apple’s IDFA or Google’s AAID) and the means of internet connection (e.g., WiFi connection, ISP) that can identify the physical location of such devices, in accordance with applicable law;

    • Your device type and settings, software used, browser type and operating system;

    • Websites or other services you visited before and after visiting the Services (referring URL);

    • Web pages and advertisements you view and links you click on within, and what search queries you may have run on, the Services (clickstream);

    • Viewing behavior, including the content you view, how long you view content, the quality of the service you receive, and advertisements you have been shown or interacted with;

    • Dates and times you access or use the Services;

    • Location information, including the city, state and zip code associated with your IP Address, information derived through WiFi triangulation, and precise location information from GPS-based functionality on your mobile apps, with your consent;

    • Your phone number and mobile carrier details in connection with our mobile app.

2. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies are small files that we or others send to and store on or with your computer so that your computer, browser, mobile app or other application can be recognized as unique the next time you access, visit, use or otherwise take advantage of the Services or other media. Cookies may also reflect demographic data pertaining to you or other data linked to information you submit. One use or consequence of cookies is to enable you to receive customized ads, alerts, content, services or information. You are always free to decline any cookies we use by adjusting the settings of your browser, as your browser may permit; however, some products, services or features might not be available or operate properly if cookies are not enabled. Some of our advertisers and third-party service providers may also utilize their own cookies.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

In addition, we, our service providers and others sometimes use data-gathering mechanisms on the Services, including without limitation “web beacons”, “clear GIFs”, “pixels” and/or “tags”. These perform statistical and administrative functions, such as measuring site and page traffic, verifying advertising paths, better understanding user interests and activity, gathering related information (such as information relating to a particular browser, device or IP address) and positioning images, and typically do so without detracting from your online experience. Such mechanisms are not necessarily designed to collect Personal Information. In addition, if you have provided your email address, we might use a non-human unreadable form (or “hash”) of your email address to deliver, or facilitate delivery of, relevant advertisements and information to you on or by way of the Services or on or by way of other websites or media, including, for example, popular social media sites and features.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

3. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE OBTAIN

We, or service providers acting on our behalf, may use the information collected from and about you to:

    • Provide our services, including authorizing a purchase, or completing a transaction that you requested;

    • Send promotional materials as well as running Facebook, Twitter & Instagram Ads, alerts regarding available offers and other communications, including text/SMS messages if you provided your mobile number and opted in to receive such messages (for information on our text messaging program, please see our Text/SMS Messaging Program Terms);

    • Communicate about, and administer participation in, special events, promotions, programs, offers, surveys, contests and market research;

    • Respond to inquiries from you and other third-parties, including inquiries from law enforcement agencies;

    • Anonymize or de-identify personal information to provide third parties with aggregated data reports showing anonymized information and other non-personal information;

    • Provide technical support;

    • Generate suggestions about the type of content you may enjoy;

    • Supplement your personal information collected directly from you and/or from automated means with additional information from publicly and commercially available sources, and/or information from our affiliates and our business partners;

    • Associate your browser and/or device with other browsers or devices you use for the purpose of providing relevant and easier access to content, advertising across browsers and devices, and other operational/business purposes;

    • Operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing, enhancing, analyzing and improving our Services; managing our communications; reviewing and processing employment applications, performing data and statistical analytics; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);

    • Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other unlawful activity, claims and other liabilities;

    • Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, contractual obligations and our terms of service and other policies; and

    • In other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.

4. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to selected third parties, including:

• Third party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as providers of IT and email distribution services, who may use your personal information for the purposes mentioned above;

• Advisors such as accountants, lawyers, and consultants;

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets (and their respective advisers), who may use the personal information in connection with the sale or purchase;

• If THE BANANNIE DIARIES or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, to the relevant third party (and its advisers) who may use the data in connection with the acquisition;

• Analytics providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our Websites;

• Law enforcement agencies or other third parties for the purposes described below.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use, our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of THE BANANNIE DIARIES, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud detection and protection and credit risk reduction.

5. HOW WE HOLD AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

How we keep your personal information secure

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be carried out by third parties over encrypted connections using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or API key which enables you to access certain parts of our site, or you have invited team members to access parts of our site or apps, you are responsible for keeping this password or API key confidential. We ask you not to share a password or API key with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.