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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: [20.07.2025]

Welcome to icecreamin.com (the “Site”). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Site.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information about you in a variety of ways when you use our Site.

a. Information You Provide to Us

  • Comments: When you leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
  • Account Registration: For users that register on our Site, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

b. Information Collected Automatically

  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
    • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our Site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
    • Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
    • Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
  • Usage Data: We may collect information about how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

c. Information from Third Parties

  • Embedded Content: Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
  • Gravatar: An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our Site
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our Site
  • Understand and analyze how you use our Site
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Site, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud
  • Process comments and user registrations

3. Advertising and Analytics

This Site uses Ezoic to provide advertising services. Ezoic and its partners may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your visit to this and other websites in order to provide personalized advertisements based on your interests. This information may include your IP address, browser type, device information, and browsing behavior.

For more information about how Ezoic collects and uses data, please see Ezoic’s Privacy Policy.

4. Who We Share Your Data With

We may share your information with third parties in the following situations:

  • Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Site, provide the Site on our behalf, perform Site-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Site is used.
  • Advertising Partners: As described above, we use Ezoic for advertising, which may collect and process your data as described in their privacy policy.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

5. How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • User Accounts: For users that register on our Site, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
  • Rectification: You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • Erasure: You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
  • Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Object to Processing: You can object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Data Portability: You can request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

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.

7. California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have the right to:

  • Know what personal data is being collected about them.
  • Know whether their personal data is sold or disclosed and to whom.
  • Opt-out of the sale of their personal information.
  • Access their personal information.
  • Request deletion of their personal information.
  • Not be discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights.

To exercise your rights under CCPA, please use the opt-out tools provided above or contact us directly.

8. Children’s Information

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.