Noir

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This policy is effective from January 24 2025.

This Privacy Policy describes how and when Noir collects, uses and shares your personal information when you use our Services. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact our data protection officer at XXX@noir.com.

Noir is an international online platform facilitator (hereinafter “Noir”, “we”, “or”, “us”), providing a platform that enables registered users (hereinafter “User”) to buy, rate and review chocolate ratings and chocolate information (hereinafter the “Services”) via the website. It also enables Users to follow other Users to see their ongoing reviews.

Noir can be contacted at xxx@noir.com.

The privacy policy may be amended from time to time by us with a fair notice to you before the new privacy policy comes into force.

Purpose and Legal Basis

We process your personal data in order for us to manage our user relation with you, including managing your account and provide you with access to use our Platform, we collect and use information about you. The processing of your personal data is performed on the legal basis of:

We process your ratings of chocolate to provide you with the opportunity to allow other users to follow your ratings, we process your personal data the legal basis of:

We also process your personal data to deliver and improve the Platform, and manage our business, to improve our offerings, develop new features and updates, develop personalization services and other types of service, including but not limited to develop and implement algorithms and machine learning. This processing is on the basis of:

We also use your personal data to display to you personalized marketing message on our Platform, to inform you about new features and updates on the Platform, and let you know about our policies and Terms and Conditions.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Categories of Personal Data

We mainly collect the personal data that you submit to us, including your contact information, reviews and purchase history.

Please note that your username will be public at all times, unless you have changed the visibility to “No one” under your profile settings.

Cookies

Suggested text: 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.

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.

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.

Sharing of Data

Personal data about our users is an essential part of our business. We only share your personal data as described below apart from when we share it with a third-party vendor.

We share your reviews with other Users if you have consented to us sharing your reviews with other users.

We may share personal data regarding you if we are obligated to do so by law.

Data Retention and Account Deletion

We store your personal data for as long as your account is active.

We may also store some of your personal data to comply with our legal obligations.

You may add or update certain information to your account. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in systems back-ups for a period of time until our backup is updated with the latest version.

You may request deactivation of your account by following the instructions at the Platform. If you deactivate your account, we do not delete your information but holds it for you until such time as you either activates your account again or delete it.

When you delete your account, we delete the data attached to your account including your username. The username will be deleted from all reviews, and the reviews will be anonymized for future viewing.

Changes to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. You will be notified before we make changes to this policy.