Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 29, 2026

ChunkofChi respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit https://chunkofchi.com/, how it may be used, and the choices available to you.

By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

When you contact ChunkofChi through the website, email, or another communication channel, you may provide information such as:

Your name
Your email address
Your company or business name
Information about your project or enquiry
Any other details you voluntarily include in your message

Please do not submit confidential, financial, medical, or other sensitive information through the website’s contact form.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit this website, certain technical information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, or similar technologies. This may include:

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
Browser and device type
Operating system
Referring website or source
Pages viewed
Approximate location
Date, time, and duration of your visit
General website interaction data

This information is generally used to understand how visitors use the website, monitor performance, maintain security, and improve the overall visitor experience.

2. How Your Information Is Used

Information collected through ChunkofChi.com may be used to:

Respond to your questions, enquiries, or project requests
Communicate with you about potential or ongoing professional services
Understand your business requirements
Maintain, secure, and improve the website
Analyse website traffic and visitor behaviour
Detect spam, fraud, misuse, or technical problems
Maintain appropriate business and communication records
Comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations

Your personal information will not be sold or rented to third parties.

3. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable data-protection laws require a legal basis, your information may be processed based on:

Consent, when you voluntarily submit information or agree to optional cookies
Legitimate interests, such as responding to business enquiries, maintaining website security, and improving website performance
Contractual necessity, when processing is required to discuss, provide, or manage requested services
Legal obligations, when information must be retained or disclosed to comply with applicable law

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

4. Contact Forms and Communications

When you submit an enquiry through the website, the information you provide will be used to review and respond to your message.

Your enquiry may be retained for follow-up, record-keeping, security, or legitimate business purposes. Information will not be added to a promotional mailing list unless you have been clearly informed and have provided any consent required by applicable law.

Submitting an enquiry does not create a client, employment, partnership, or contractual relationship.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

ChunkofChi.com may use cookies or similar technologies to:

Enable essential website functions
Remember visitor preferences
Improve website security
Measure website traffic and performance
Understand how visitors interact with pages and content

Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate. Other cookies, including analytics or advertising cookies, may be optional and subject to consent where required.

You may restrict or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.

6. Analytics

This website may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to understand website traffic and general visitor behaviour.

Analytics providers may collect information through cookies or similar technologies, including device details, approximate location, referring sources, pages visited, and interactions with the website. This information helps evaluate and improve website content and performance.

Where required, non-essential analytics technologies will be activated only after the visitor has provided consent.

7. Embedded Content and External Services

Pages on this website may include embedded content or features provided by third parties, such as videos, images, social-media content, maps, fonts, scheduling tools, or portfolio materials.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. The provider may collect information, use cookies, or monitor your interaction with its content, particularly if you are signed in to an account with that provider.

Third-party services operate under their own privacy policies and practices. ChunkofChi does not control how these providers collect or process information.

8. Third-Party Links

ChunkofChi.com may contain links to client websites, portfolio examples, professional platforms, social-media accounts, or other external websites.

Once you leave ChunkofChi.com, the privacy practices of the destination website will apply. ChunkofChi is not responsible for the content, security, availability, or privacy practices of third-party websites.

You are encouraged to review the privacy policy of every external website you visit.

9. How Information May Be Shared

Personal information may be shared only when reasonably necessary with:

Website hosting and maintenance providers
Email, communication, and contact-form providers
Analytics and website-security providers
Professional advisers or service providers assisting with legitimate business operations
Government agencies, regulators, courts, or law-enforcement authorities when legally required

Service providers are given access only to the information reasonably necessary to perform their functions and are expected to handle it appropriately.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to protect the website, its owner, its visitors, or others against fraud, misuse, security threats, or unlawful activity.

10. International Processing

Some website hosting, analytics, email, cloud-storage, or other service providers may process information in countries outside the Philippines or outside your country of residence.

When international processing occurs, reasonable steps will be taken to use reputable providers and appropriate safeguards where required by applicable law. However, privacy and data-protection laws may differ between countries.

11. Data Retention

Personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to:

Respond to and follow up on your enquiry
Provide or discuss requested services
Maintain legitimate business records
Resolve disputes
Protect website security
Meet legal, accounting, or regulatory requirements

Information that is no longer reasonably required will be deleted, anonymised, or securely disposed of when practical and legally permitted.

12. Data Security

Reasonable administrative, technical, and organisational measures are used to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, alteration, disclosure, or misuse.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information electronically at your own risk.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

Ask whether your personal information is being processed
Request access to the personal information held about you
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
Request deletion of your personal information
Object to or request restrictions on certain processing
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Request a portable copy of certain information
Lodge a complaint with an appropriate privacy or data-protection authority

These rights may be subject to legal exceptions, identity verification, and record-retention requirements.

To make a privacy-related request, please use the contact details provided below. You may be asked to provide sufficient information to verify your identity and locate the relevant records.

14. Children’s Privacy

ChunkofChi.com is a professional portfolio and services website and is not directed towards children.

The website does not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate authorisation. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through this website, please get in touch so that the information can be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.

15. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is no universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, this website may not respond to every Do Not Track request.

You can manage cookies and tracking preferences through the available cookie controls and your browser settings.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised occasionally to reflect changes to the website, its services, third-party tools, or applicable legal requirements.

Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated effective date. You are encouraged to review this page periodically.

17. Contact

ChunkofChi.com is owned and managed by Menchie Santamaria.

For questions about this Privacy Policy, requests concerning your personal information, or other privacy-related concerns, please contact me through:

Website: https://chunkofchi.com/
Contact page: https://chunkofchi.com/contact/