Privacy and cookie policy

Dear parents, while I prohibit registration by children under the age of 13 without your prior consent, I am here to inform you that you should supervise your children‘s online activities and consider parental control tools available from online services and software manufactuers that help procide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from disclosing their name, address and other personal information online without parental permission. But you already knew that, of course.

In addition, I use technology on my website to collect information that helps me to enhance your online experience and measure my audience. No advertisement! I refer to this technology as „cookies“ throughout this policy but this is intended to cover all similar technologies including web beacons, log files, pixel tags, gifs (also described below). I use my own and third party cookies to collect the information I require. Please note that I have no control over third party cookies.

These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the website on social media such as Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within my control. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities. Please refer to the respective social media’s privacy policies for how their cookies work. Cookies within the above Categories may include those shown on the tableCookie Grid together with their respective website locations showing you how to opt-out of them.

Some of my webpages may contain electronic images known as web beacons, among other things, that allow me to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web page resides. I may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

On certain websites social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA) are used. When you visit one of my pages the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Thus, Facebook receives the information that you (your IP address) visited our website. If you click the Facebook “Like” button while logged in to your Facebook account you can link content from my pages to your Facebook profile. This enables Facebook to associate your visit to my pages with your user account. If you do not want Facebook to associate the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data, please log off Facebook before entering our website. For further information please see Facebook’s privacy policy.

On my websites social plugins provided by the microblogging network Twitter (Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA, 94103 USA) are used. When you visit one of my pages the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Twitter server. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Twitter to your browser and embedded in the Website. Thus, Twitter receives the information that you (your IP address) visited our website even when you do not have a Twitter account or you are not logged in. These Information (including your IP-address) will be forwarded and stored to the USA from your browser to one of the Twitter server.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool by Google Inc. (www.google.com). Google Analytics uses cookies to enable analysing the use of the website. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored on servers in the United States. If IP anonymisation is enabled on this website, some parts of your IP address within the area of member states of the European Union or other signatories to the Agreement on the European Economic Area will be masked by Google Analytics before sending. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and masked there. Google will not associate your anonymised IP address, transmitted from your browser through Google Analytics, with any other data held by Google. Upon instruction from the owner of this website, Google will use the information to analyse the use of the website, to compile reports about your website activities and ads and to provide to me other services related to the use of the website and the Internet. You may disable the saving of cookies by making appropriate settings in your browser; please note that in this case not all website features may be fully accessible to you. In addition, you may prevent the data generated by cookies and related to your usage of this website (incl. your IP address) from being recorded and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available through the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en Alternatively to the browser plugin, you may click this link to prevent Google Analytics from recording your data on this website in the future.

You can opt out of receiving any further messages from me or anyone with whom I share your data (as described above) at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in any message I sent you or by writing an email to mina@minamalistic.de. I will process your wish to delete your personal data as fast as possible. You have a right to access the personal data I hold about you without me charging you any fees. Furthermore, you have the right to correct wrong personal data as well as blocking/deleting wrong personal information. You can revoke your consent at ny time for the future. You can also object the use of your personal data at any time. Revoking and objection can be declared via email. To obtain a copy of the personal information I hold about you, please write to me at my registered address provided at the beginning of this privacy and cookie policy.