Privacy Policy
Startup Food Business, Inc. (“Startup Food Biz” “We”, “Us”) is sensitive to your concerns about how we use the personal information we collect from you through Startup Food Biz's products, services, software, platform and website (collectively, "Services").
Startup Food Biz takes your privacy seriously, and has implemented this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") and internal policies and practices to keep your personal and financial information secure. The Privacy Policy covers Startup Food Biz's treatment of the Personally Identifiable Information we collect when you use the Services. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use and therefore governs your use of the Services. By using Startup Food Biz Services, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns about the Privacy Policy, please contact our Customer Service Center at [email protected].
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Traffic Data. Startup Food Biz may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, physical address or telephone number. Startup Food Biz may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your Postal Code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by Startup Food Biz. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Startup Food Biz for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Services.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose Personally Identifiable Information through the Services, this information may be collected and used by others. Startup Food Biz encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Startup Food Biz is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the websites we operate.
Startup Food Biz and its partners may use the standard cookie feature of major browser applications and third-party providers, including Google Analytics features (Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting), or employ internally developed cookies and tracking codes, that allow Startup Food Biz to store a small piece of data on a visitor's computer, or any other device a visitor uses to access Services, about his or her visit to the website or use of Services. Startup Food Biz does not capture Personally Identifiable Information in cookies or use cookies to mine Personally Identifiable Information.
Personal Information. Startup Food Biz requires each customer to provide us with personal information (collectively "Personally Identifiable Information") to access and use Startup Food Biz products and services. Personally Identifiable Information is captured when a visitor accesses Services, or speaks on the phone with a Startup Food Biz employee and willingly discloses that information. This disclosure may occur when a visitor registers with a Service, engages in transactions, contacts customer service, or participates in contests, promotions, surveys, forums, content submissions, requests for suggestions, or other aspects of services offered by Startup Food Biz.
Personally Identifiable Information includes but is not limited to: (i) "Contact Data" (such as your name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and email address); (ii) "Financial Data" (such as your credit card number, expiration date, and verification code or bank account information); (iii) "Demographic Data" (such as your zip code and sex); and (iv) other "Business Data" (such as the name your business entity, a brief description of the purpose of your business, the name and address of the business entity's registered agent, the name and address of the directors and officers of your corporation, or members or managers for your LLC, ownership interests in your business entity, trade secrets, inventions, and idea submissions and other sensitive information necessary to generate legal documents).
We may collect the information of 3rd party individuals as necessary, such as to ask our customers to indicate record shareholders of a company or register authorized contacts to access their Startup Food Biz account. Startup Food Biz uses this information for the sole purpose of administering its services for our customers, and does not use such information for any other reason.
If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at [email protected].
Certain personal information becomes public record when documents are filed with the federal or state government, or with a court. For example, a corporation's name, business address and registered agent name become public information when its articles of incorporation are filed. A Secretary of State may publish this information to its website or provide this information to third parties for a fee. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes the names and addresses of trademark registrants. In some states, fictitious business names, including the name and address of the business owner, must be published in a newspaper. The Startup Food Biz Privacy Policy does not cover these or similar third-party actions.
Testimonials and Reviews. We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers received through email surveys. We ask for your specific consent as part of the survey. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at [email protected]. We also display customer reviews. If you provide a review that we display and wish to update or delete it, you can also contact us at [email protected].
Calls/Electronic Communications. In the regular course of our business, Startup Food Biz may monitor and record phone conversations or email communications between you and Startup Food Biz employees for training and quality assurance purposes. We may receive a confirmation when you open or click on content in an email from us, which helps us make our communications to you more useful and interesting. If you do not wish to receive email from Startup Food Biz, you may unsubscribe from our mailing list by using the "Unsubscribe" link on any of the emails we send.
USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use information we collect from the Services to communicate with you, fulfill your orders, facilitate your transactions with our third-party marketing partners, inform you of offers and discounts, and respond to customer service or support questions. For example, you may receive a welcome email that confirms your username and password, and later receive communications responding to your inquiries, providing services you request and managing your account. We occasionally send service-related announcements, for example, to alert you if we need to temporarily suspend the website for maintenance.
Opting Out. Sometimes we send promotional emails and newsletters from time to time to users who have registered on the site and to those who have opted in to receive such emails. If you do not wish to receive further communications, you can opt-out of promotional communications by using the "Unsubscribe" link and following the unsubscribe instructions in any electronic communication or by emailing us at [email protected].
You may choose not to provide Startup Food Biz with Personally Identifiable Information or you may turn off cookies in your browser by changing its settings. If you make these decisions, you may continue to use the Services and browse its pages. However, Startup Food Biz cannot process orders without Personally Identifiable Information.
Startup Food Biz does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Startup Food Biz may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique Personally Identifiable Information is not transferred to the third party without your express consent. In addition, Startup Food Biz may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. Startup Food Biz may share your information with third parties who perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these Services, and they are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Additionally, if you order our Services through a third party, Startup Food Biz may share information about your use of our Services with the third party to enable them to provide you with their products and/or services. In such cases, the third party's use of information furnished by Startup Food Biz is governed by their privacy policy.
Startup Food Biz uses tracking to create remarketing audiences of users based on user behavior/their visits to our website. Startup Food Biz may also target these users with custom ads based on affinities/interests, geographic and demographic signals. Startup Food Biz only shares browser-level data through third party vendor tracking such as Google Analytics. Users can opt out of these advertising features by visiting Google or resources like the NAI consumer opt-out page. Startup Food Biz may use email addresses to target users with custom ads through 3rd party advertising platforms. Startup Food Biz shares customer information with third parties to perform services (advertising) on our behalf.
Startup Food Biz may disclose personal information when we are required to or we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy or our other policies or agreements; to initiate, render, bill and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our or our users' rights, property or safety; to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of the Services; or if we believe that an emergency involving the danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires or justifies disclosure of personal information.
Information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information could be transferred to third parties as one of Startup Food Biz's business assets. In such an event, we will attempt to notify you before your personal information is transferred, but you may not have the right to opt out of any such transfer.
LINKS
Third-Party Websites. Startup Food Biz may maintain links to other websites and other websites may maintain links to the Online Services. This Privacy Policy applies only to StartupFoodBiz.com and not to other websites accessible from Startup Food Biz or that you use to access Startup Food Biz, each of which may have privacy policies materially different from this Privacy Policy. If you visit other websites, Startup Food Biz is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. It is your responsibility to review the privacy policies of non-Startup Food Biz websites to confirm that you
understand and agree with them.
Social Media Widgets. Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook “like” button and widgets or LinkedIn “like” button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are responsible for safeguarding and preventing unauthorized access to the user information and password that you use to access our Services. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party and you are responsible for any activity using your account, whether or not you authorized that activity. Please immediately notify Startup Food Biz of any unauthorized use of your account.
Startup Food Biz secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. In addition, Startup Food Biz secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Documents are delivered to you via UPS or similar overnight delivery services, the United States Postal Service, or email. Unfortunately, no data transmission is guaranteed to be 100% secure and we therefore cannot guarantee the security of information you transmit to or from the website, or through the use of our Services, and you provide this information at your own risk. ACCORDINGLY, WE DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR THE THEFT, LOSS, OR INTERCEPTION OF, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR DAMAGE TO, YOUR DATA OR COMMUNICATIONS BY USING THE WEBSITE AND OUR SERVICES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND ASSUME THESE RISKS.
IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR PRIVACY HAS BEEN BREACHED THROUGH USE OF OUR WEBSITE OR OTHER SERVICES PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY AT [email protected].
CHILDREN UNDER THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE
Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and such use is prohibited by our Terms of Use. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Identifiable Information, please contact us as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Startup Food Biz may change the provisions of this Privacy Policy at any time. We will always post the most current Privacy Policy on our website. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at [email protected].
Last updated on June 12, 2017
