Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Garnir Bakwan collects, uses, and protects personal data when you use our online platform offering a catalog of Indonesian street food recipes, a map of Indonesian street food locations, video recipes and street market content, information on ingredients and spices, and a glossary of street food terms. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in a responsible manner, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.

1. Data Controller

Garnir Bakwan is the data controller responsible for processing your personal data collected through our service.

Our address is:

Garnir Bakwan
18 Rákóczi Street, Ground Floor, Unit 3
Budapest, Budapest, 1088
Hungary

2. Data We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our service. This may include:

**Information You Provide Directly:** When you interact with certain features of our site, such as submitting a recipe through our "Join Our Recipe Archive" block, you may voluntarily provide personal data. This could include details you provide about yourself or included in your submission, such as a name or any contact information you choose to include in the submitted content.

**Data Collected Automatically:** When you access our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. We collect this data using cookies and similar tracking technologies to help us understand how users interact with our service, improve site functionality, and for security purposes. The interactive food map and video sections may also involve tracking usage to enhance these features.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use the information we collect for various purposes:

**To Provide and Maintain Our Service:** To operate our online platform, display content, and enable features like the recipe catalog, interactive map, and video playback.

**To Improve and Personalize Our Service:** To understand how users use our site, analyze trends, and improve the design, content, and functionality of our platform, including customizing your experience.

**To Process Your Submissions:** If you submit a recipe or other content, we use the information provided to review, process, and potentially publish your submission on our site.

**For Analytics:** To monitor and analyze usage and activity patterns to measure the performance and effectiveness of our service.

**For Security and Fraud Prevention:** To protect the security and integrity of our site and to detect and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity.

**To Comply with Legal Obligations:** To fulfill legal requirements or respond to lawful requests from public authorities.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

**Consent:** We may process data based on your explicit consent, for example, if you agree to terms related to submitting content that includes personal data. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

**Legitimate Interests:** We process data where necessary for our legitimate interests, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes improving our service, conducting analytics, maintaining security, and processing user submissions.

**Compliance with a Legal Obligation:** We may process data when required by law.

5. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

**With Service Providers:** We may share data with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, analytics, and technical support. These providers are obligated to protect your data and use it only for the purposes we specify.

**For Legal Reasons:** 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 order or government request).

**In Case of Business Transfer:** If Garnir Bakwan is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you before your data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your data, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Under GDPR, depending on your location and certain conditions, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

**Right of Access:** You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

**Right to Rectification:** You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

**Right to Erasure:** You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

**Right to Restrict Processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

**Right to Object to Processing:** You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

**Right to Data Portability:** You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

**Right to Withdraw Consent:** If we are processing your data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

**Right to Lodge a Complaint:** You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe our processing of your personal data violates GDPR.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the physical address provided in section 1.

8. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss, unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use data, including to analyze how the service is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools.

10. Links to Other Websites

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

11. 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. 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.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us by mail at:

Garnir Bakwan
18 Rákóczi Street, Ground Floor, Unit 3
Budapest, Budapest, 1088
Hungary