1.Information we collect about you and your device

Each time you visit our Site or use one of our Apps we may automatically collect the following information:

• Technical information, including the type of mobile device you use, a unique device identifier mobile network information, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser you use or time zone setting;
• Log file information such as details of your use of any of our Apps or your visits to our Site, including, but not limited to, traffic data, internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information.

IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

2.Google Analytics

Jaffna Zone use Google Analytics to see how people are interacting with our Site and Apps. For example, we can see that a certain recipe is really popular, or that another is rarely viewed. This allows us to improve the kind of content we provide. None of your personally identifiable information provided to Jaffna Zone is transferred to Google to provide this service and the collection and use of your data by Google is subject to their privacy policy which you can view on their website.

3.Cloud Storage

Jaffna Zone use third parties such as the Apple Cloud Services and Google Firebase to help administer the apps (e.g. storage and hosting providers), and such parties may have access to data from our applications. For example, Parse is used to send push notifications to our users when we launch a new app that we believe will be of interest.

The data that Jaffna Zone collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or a third party we collaborate with. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Jaffna Zone will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Jaffna Zone will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site or Apps 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.

4.Advertising

We will never share any personally identifiable information to any companies we advertise with. Currently, we don't offer outside advertising. If we did add this in future, then we would only share limited information such as our overall usage data with advertisers, so they can see for example, how many active users the Apps have or how much time users are spending within the Apps or Site.

5.Facebook

We use Facebook advertising to encourage installs of our Apps whereby if you have visited our Site, or any other site we partner with, we are then able to serve such visitor with an advertisement on their Facebook newsfeed that encourages you to download one of our Apps. Such Facebook advertising will be subject to Facebook's privacy policy and terms of use you agree to by using Facebook.

6.Newsletter

From within the Apps you can subscribe to the Jaffna Zone newsletter Newsletters are hosted using "Third Party Email Service Providers", each has their own privacy policy, which can be found on their respective websites and which by subscribing you agree to. Third Party Email Service Providers allow us to send emails to thousands of subscribers and have access to certain statistics such as how many people are opening our emails and what people are mostly clicking on.

Third Party Email Service Providers allow us to improve the kind of content we are emailing and help us keep in touch with our users about updates to the Apps or new releases.

Users can safely unsubscribe at any time, using the unsubscribe links included inside the email. You will immediately stop receiving emails from us and your details are deleted from our database within 30 days.

We hate spam as much as you do and will never sell on your email address to an advertiser or third party.

7.Google Remarketing

This site uses Google remarketing. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to our Site. Information about how your visitors can opt out of Google's use of cookies can be found by visiting Google's Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can point your visitors to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

8.Outside Links

We have included links on the Site and in the Apps for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the terms of use or privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

9.Privacy Policy Changes

Jaffna Zone reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our Apps and Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, or would like to learn more about us, please contact us at privacy@jaffnazone