Privacy Policy

Last Updated June 1st, 2024

Welcome to the website (the “Web Site”) of Coffee and Smokes. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices.

Before reading, please review this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions. By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Web Site.

1. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect information that alone or in combination with other information in our possession could be used to identify you when it is voluntarily provided (for instance, sending us a message through email, that’s about all we use), or as follows:

Personal Data You Provide:

  • Identification Information: We may collect personal data, such as name, email address, phone number or information surrounding engagement with us, and any additional information you choose to provide.
  • Financial Information: Well, we don’t collect any of that.
  • Communication Information: We may collect information when you contact us with questions or concerns and when you voluntarily respond to articles seeking your opinion and feedback, however, we’re pretty much an outward thing. Providing communication information is thoroughly optional to you.
  • We may retain a history of the articles you browse so we know what people are actually reading.
  • Social Media Information: We don’t currently have pages on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn (“Social Media Pages”). If we change our mind about feeding that beast and you interact with our Social Media Pages, we frankly won’t care at all about your contact details. Again, we write things, you read them and the world continues to rotate.

Personal Data We Receive Automatically From Your Use of the Web Sites:

When you visit, use and interact with the Web Sites, we may receive certain information about your visit, use or interactions. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Web Site, which pages are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access the Service (e.g., Safari, Google Chrome, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:

  • Log data: Information that your browser automatically sends to Google whenever you visit the Web Sites (“log data”). Log data likely includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Web Sites.
  • Cookies: There might be some but not on our part – that’s your browser doing that.
  • Device information: Includes name of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings, it’s typical Google realted info so we know the website is working properly.
  • Usage Information: We might see information about how you use our Web Site, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. None of it really matters, we aren’t selling you anything.

Cookies

In case you’re new and aren’t aware what these are, here’s a standard definition that we’ll simplify. Your browser may store snippets of information for a little while to make your browser load faster.  They call them cookies – frankly, we have little to no use for them. A “cookie” is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time, or upon logging out (session cookies), others survive after your browser is closed until a defined expiration date set in the cookie (as determined by the third party placing it), and help recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again (persistent cookies). So, read the next section and see how it might apply to us and your interaction with our Web Site.

Analytics

We might use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Web Sites and enhance your experience when you use the Web Sites. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Your Choices

On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off.

2. How We Use Personal Data

We don’t really. We just write things you can read. if we see more articles of a particular topic getting more reads, we might attribute that to the majority of readers liking that topic and we’ll write more on it. That’s really all we use tracking stuff for. We’re basic.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Data

We don’t share. Most we might do is tell someone we know that an article got more reads than another one and ask their opinion about the article.

4. Update Your Information

Please contact us if you want to invent an issue that doesn’t exist and we’ll tell you whatever you need to hear to shut you up.

5. Children

We don’t cater to minors and if they read something, great. We don’t write content that harms anyone of any age, maybe they’ll learn something new.

6. Links to Other Websites

We might have an ad that points people to another website. if that’s an issue, don’t click it. If you have issues with how they use your information, contact them.

8. Your Choices

Fortunately, we live in a free society, you’re free to click away from our website and simply not read it. The fact that we even need this Privacy Policy is utterly ridiculous.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Not likely anything about it will ever change. Check back whenever you’re bored.

10.  Contact Us

Hit us up on the contact page.