THE SPARE FOOD CO. PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: June 2023

This Privacy Policy describes how The Spare Food Co. (“Spare Food”, “we”, or “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you interact with our website (https://www.sparefood.com/), social media accounts, and email communications (our “Services”).

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to non-Spare Food websites that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy. Please review the privacy policies on those websites directly to understand their privacy practices.

For questions about our privacy practices, contact us at: hello@sparefood.com or write to us at:

The Spare Food Co.
145 Palisade Street
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 

1. Personal Information We Collect

Depending on the nature of your interaction with Spare Food, we may collect the following personal information:  

·  Contact information and any other information you choose to include when you sign up to receive communications from us or otherwise communicate with us via e-mail, mail, phone, or other channels.  

· Survey information in response to questions we may send you through the Services, including for feedback and research purposes.

· Device information and online user activity when you utilize or interact with our Services, as described in the next section.

2. Online User Activity, Cookies and Information Collected by Other Automated Means

When you interact with the Services, certain information about your use of our Services is automatically collected. This includes:

· Usage details about your interaction with our Services (such as the date, time, and length of visits, and specific pages or content accessed during the visits, referring website addresses);

· Device information including the IP address and other details of a device that you use to connect with our Services (such as device type and unique device identifier, operating system, and browser type); and

· Location information where you choose to provide the website with access to information about your device’s location.

Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”), which may be operated by our partners who assist us in collecting information about usage of the Services, security, or providing other services to you. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect usage details. You can learn more about privacy and Google Analytics by visiting https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245, and opt out of collection of your data by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We may use other third party cookies for the above purposes. You may modify your browser settings to disable or reject cookies across the internet; but if you do so, some features of our Services may not function properly or be available. If you are visiting the Services from a mobile device, the operating system of the device may offer you options regarding how the device collects and uses your information for interest-based advertising. Please visit https://thenai.org/opt-out/mobile-opt-out/ for more information. You may also be able to prevent third parties from using your information for interest-based advertisements across the internet by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.aboutads.info. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs.

While your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality, please note that we do not respond to such signals.

3.     How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you to:

· Provide our Services to you, including sending you information regarding our products and other important notices.

· Send you information and resources we feel may be of interest to you, such as our newsletter.

· Respond to your requests, questions and comments.

· Manage, operate, and improve the Services, diagnose and fix technology problems, and monitor the performance of our Services.

· Comply with legal requirements and industry standards, detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, and protect the rights of Spare Food, you, or others.

We may use and share information in an aggregated or de-identified manner data at our discretion, including for research, analysis, modeling, marketing, and improvement of our Services.

4.     How We Share Your Personal Information

· Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers that we believe need the information to perform a technology, business, or other professional function for us such as IT services, maintenance and hosting of our Services, email providers, accounting, auditing, and tax services, and other professional services.

· Analytics Partners. We partner with analytics providers, who collect information via tracking technologies on our website to assist us with measuring visits and traffic so we can measure and improve the performance of the site.

· Advertising Partners. We partner with third parties who assist us in serving advertising regarding the Services to others who may be interested in the Services. These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect or receive information from the Services and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Third parties may allow other companies to access information about you so that they may market other products you may be interested in.

· Social Media Platforms. If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.

· Corporate Event. We reserve the right to transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.

· Legal. We share information where necessary to comply with applicable law, to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government authorities or third-parties, as permitted by law and without your consent when it is necessary to protect you, Spare Food, or our property, in emergency situations, or to enforce our rights.

5.     How We Protect and Store Your Personal Information

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

6.     Retention of Your Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to complete the purposes for which it was collected, or as may be required by law. 

7.     Your Privacy Options

If at any time you no longer wish to receive email communications from us, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.

8.     Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information described in this Policy.