Privacy Policy
This Privacy Notice for Alpine Lakes Pastila Company ("we," "us," or "our"), a Washington State corporation, describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.alpastila.com
- Submit a contact form on our website
- Engage with us in other related ways
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. Contact us via our: Contact Form
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
What personal information do we process? We collect limited technical information through Google Analytics (IP address, cookie identifiers, browser/device data, approximate location) and information you voluntarily submit via our contact form (name, email address, message).
- Do we process sensitive personal information? No.
- Do we collect information from third parties? No.
- How do we process your information? To respond to your inquiries and to analyze website usage via Google Analytics.
- Do we share your information? Only with Google Analytics as a service provider. We do not sell your personal information.
- How do we keep your information safe? We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures.
- What are your rights? Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or opt out of the processing of your personal information.
- How do you exercise your rights? By submitting a data subject access request via our Contact Form.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
A. Personal Information You Disclose to Us (Contact Form)
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us via our contact form.
When you submit our contact form, we collect:
- Name (optional)
- Email address (required)
- Message content
Legal basis for processing: We process this information on the basis of our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry and, where required by applicable law, with your consent.
All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate.
B. Information Automatically Collected (Google Analytics)
Certain technical and usage data is collected automatically when you visit our website via Google Analytics.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics places first-party cookies on your browser and transmits collected data to Google's servers. The data collected does not reveal your specific identity (name, email) but includes:
- Identifiers: IP address and cookie identifiers (_ga, _gid) assigned by Google Analytics.
- Log and Usage Data: Pages viewed, time on page, session duration, date/time stamps, referring URLs, clicks.
- Device Data: Browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen resolution, language settings.
- Approximate Location Data: Country and city-level location estimated from your IP address. We do not collect precise GPS coordinates.
Note on first-party vs. third-party data: Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _gid) are set as first-party cookies on our domain; however, the data is transmitted to and processed by Google LLC, a third-party service provider. Under CCPA, this data sharing may constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. You have the right to opt out — see Section 9.
C. Google API
Our use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
We process your personal information for the following purposes:
- To respond to your inquiries. We use the name, email address, and message submitted via the contact form solely to reply to your message. Legal basis: legitimate interest / consent.
- To analyze website usage. We use Google Analytics data to understand how visitors interact with our website and improve the user experience. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
- To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with applicable laws, respond to legal requests, and exercise or defend our legal rights. Legal basis: legal obligation.
3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We share data only with Google Analytics as a service provider. We do not sell or share personal information for commercial purposes.
- Google Analytics (Google LLC). We share website usage data with Google LLC for analytics purposes pursuant to Google's Terms of Service and Data Processing Amendment. For more information, visit policies.google.com/privacy.
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer information in connection with a merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- Legal Requirements. We may disclose information where required by law or in response to valid legal process.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. We will not sell personal information belonging to website visitors or consumers.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
We use Google Analytics, which sets the following first-party cookies on your browser to collect and store information about your website visits:
- _ga: Distinguishes users. Expires after 2 years.
- _gid: Distinguishes users. Expires after 24 hours.
- _gat: Throttles request rate. Expires after 1 minute.
Although these cookies are set as first-party cookies on our domain, data is transmitted to and processed by Google LLC. To the extent this constitutes a "sale" or "sharing" under applicable US state laws (including CCPA), you may opt out as described in Section 9.
Google Analytics Opt-Out
- To opt out of Google Analytics tracking: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com
- Network Advertising Initiative opt-out: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
- For Google's privacy practices: https://policies.google.com/privacy
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We keep your information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Notice.
- Contact form data (name, email, message): retained for up to 2 years from the date of receipt, then deleted.
- Google Analytics data: retained for 26 months in accordance with Google Analytics default settings, after which it is automatically deleted.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it. If deletion is not immediately possible (e.g., data stored in backup archives), we will securely store it and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
We protect your information through organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect the security of your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access our Services within a secure environment.
7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
You may review, correct, or request deletion of your personal information at any time.
Withdrawing your consent: Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us via our contact form. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing conducted before withdrawal.
Cookies: Most browsers accept cookies by default. You may set your browser to remove or reject cookies; this may affect certain features of our website.
Privacy rights questions? Contact us via our: Contact Form
8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature you can activate to signal your preference not to have your browsing activities monitored. No uniform technology standard for recognizing DNT signals has been finalized. We do not currently respond to DNT signals. If a standard is adopted that we must follow, we will update this Notice accordingly.
California law requires us to disclose our DNT practices. Because no industry or legal standard for honoring DNT signals currently exists, we do not respond to them at this time.
9. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have specific privacy rights.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
The following table reflects personal information collected in the past twelve (12) months. The table includes illustrative examples and does not reflect all personal information we may collect. For a comprehensive overview, see Section 1.
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Email address submitted via contact form; IP address and cookie identifiers (_ga, _gid) collected via Google Analytics | YES |
| Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute | Name submitted via contact form (optional); email address | YES (name optional) |
| Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law | Gender, age, race, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, etc. | NO |
| Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details | NO |
| Biometric information | Fingerprints, voiceprints | NO |
| Internet or other similar network activity | Pages viewed, session duration, browser and device info, referring URLs — collected via Google Analytics | YES |
| Geolocation data | Approximate city/country location derived from IP address via Google Analytics. No precise GPS data collected. | YES |
| Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information | Images, audio, video or call recordings | NO |
| Professional or employment-related information | Job title, work history, professional qualifications | NO |
| Education information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| Inferences drawn from collected personal information | Profiles or summaries about individual preferences and characteristics | NO |
| Sensitive personal information | Social security numbers, financial account data, precise geolocation, health data, etc. | NO |
We may also collect personal information when you interact with us via customer support channels or other service-related communications.
Google Analytics and CCPA
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), sharing personal information with Google Analytics may constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, even without monetary exchange. We do not currently use Google Analytics data for targeted advertising. However, you have the right to opt out of this data sharing. To exercise this right:
- Use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Adjust your browser cookie settings to block Google Analytics cookies
- Submit a request at: Contact Form
How We Use and Share Personal Information
We use your personal information to respond to inquiries and to analyze website usage. We do not use personal information for profiling that produces significant legal effects, and we do not engage in targeted advertising. We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information for business or commercial purposes in the preceding twelve (12) months and do not intend to do so in the future.
Your Rights
Under applicable US state data protection laws, you have the following rights (subject to certain limitations):
- Right to know whether we are processing your personal data
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of personal data you previously shared with us
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
- Right to opt out of the sharing of your personal data with third-party analytics services (see Google Analytics and CCPA above)
Depending on the state where you reside, you may also have:
- Right to access categories of personal data being processed (Minnesota)
- Right to obtain a list of categories of third parties to which personal data was disclosed (California, Delaware, Maryland)
- Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which personal data was disclosed (Minnesota, Oregon)
- Right to obtain a list of third parties to which personal data was sold (Connecticut)
- Right to review and correct how personal data has been profiled (Connecticut, Minnesota)
- Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (California)
How to Exercise Your Rights
Submit a data subject access request via our Contact Form.
Under certain US state laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an agent that does not provide proof of valid authorization.
Request Verification
Upon receiving a request, we will verify your identity using the personal information already maintained by us. If we cannot verify your identity, we may request additional information for security purposes.
Appeals
If we decline to take action on your request, you may appeal by contacting us via our Contact Form. We will respond in writing with an explanation. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
California "Shine the Light" Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request, once per year and free of charge, information about personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, contact us via our Contact Form.
11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this Notice, please contact us:
Alpine Lakes Pastila Company
A Washington State Corporation
522 W. Riverside Ave., 10159
Spokane, WA 99201
United States
Contact Channel: Contact Form
12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on applicable laws in your country or state of residence, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing. These rights may be limited by applicable law. To submit a request, please visit our Contact Form.