Privacy Policy for Food.Plus
Your privacy is critically important to us.
The Food.Plus Website is owned and operated by Food.Plus.Knowledge LLC, California, USA, and is hosted in the United States. Food.Plus is not intended for use by people in the United Kingdom, European Union, or jurisdictions with regulations that prohibit storing user data in US-based datacenters.
It is Food.Plus's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.food.plus (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "www.food.plus"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Food.Plus collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Food.Plus's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Food.Plus's visitors use its website. From time to time, Food.Plus may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Food.Plus also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users saving preferences on www.food.plus. Food.Plus does not disclose personally-identifying information to other registered users of the site except as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Food.Plus's websites choose to interact with Food.Plus in ways that require Food.Plus to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Food.Plus gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at www.food.plus to provide a username and email address.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our webste
- Improve, personalize, and expand our webste
- Understand and analyze how you use our webste
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you via email, such as to send notices if this privacy policy changes, or informational or promotional emails which you may opt-out of
- Find and prevent fraud
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Advertisements
Currently, Food.Plus does not accept advertising nor use any advertising tracking technology. However, this may change in the future at our discretion.
As is typical for modern websites, ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Food.Plus and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links To External Sites
Food.Plus contains links to external sites 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 and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
Although we strive to only link to reputable sites with useful information, we have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Food.Plus discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Food.Plus's behalf or to provide services available at Food.Plus's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Food.Plus's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Food.Plus will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Food.Plus discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Food.Plus believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Food.Plus, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of www.food.plus and have supplied your email address, Food.Plus may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Food.Plus and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Food.Plus takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
Food.Plus collects statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website, and analyzes that behavior with our own internal tools and with Google Analytics. Food.Plus may display aggregated information publicly or provide it to others. However, Food.Plus does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Affiliate Disclosure
Food.Plus uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Food.Plus uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Food.Plus uses cookies to help Food.Plus identify and track visitors, their usage of www.food.plus, and their website access preferences. Food.Plus visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Food.Plus's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Food.Plus's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Food.Plus's use of cookies.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
- Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
- Registered users may view their personal information collected and stored by Food.Plus on the User Profile page.
- Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
- Food.Plus administrators can delete your personal information upon request.
- Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
- Food.Plus does not rent or sell personally-identifying information to anyone.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Registered users may view their personal information collected and stored by Food.Plus on the User Profile page.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The 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.
- Registered users may view and copy their personal information collected and stored by Food.Plus on the User Profile page.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children's Information
We support protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Food.Plus does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.
Business Transfers
If Food.Plus, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Food.Plus goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Food.Plus may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Food.Plus may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Food.Plus's sole discretion. Food.Plus encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email.