Foodie California Consumer Privacy Statement

 

Effective: Aug. 19th, 2022

Last [Updated/Reviewed]: Oct. 16th, 2021

This California Consumer Privacy Statement supplements the Foodie Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).  This Statement does not apply to workforce-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.
This California Consumer Privacy Statement uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations (the “CCPA”).

1. Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:

• Identifiers:identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, and other similar identifiers

• Protected Classifications:characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as age and gender. While users are not asked to provide this information to use the Application, facial recognition metadata generated from your user content (estimated age, gender, etc.) is maintained on your device to provide you with more suitable filters and better photo effects when the Application processes your photos.

• Commercial Information: commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. 

• Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements

• Geolocation Data: physical location or movements

• Sensory Information: audio, electronic, visual, and similar information

• Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

 • Sensitive Personal Information: personal information that reveals a consumer’s:

We may use the categories of personal information listed above for the purposes described in the Foodie Privacy Policy.  In addition, we may use these categories of personal information for certain business purposes specified in the CCPA, as described in this table:

Purposes

Categories of Personal Information

Performing services, including creating, maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing targeted advertising or marketing services (with your consent, where required by law), providing analytics services, or providing similar services

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Auditing related to a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, using facial recognition technology to provide filters and photo effects and the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction

• Identifiers
• Protected Classifications
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Sensory Information

Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Undertaking internal research for product development and demonstration

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Informatio

2. Our Prior Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may have collected and used your personal information, as described in Section 1 of this Statement, during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of the Statement.  For the personal information collected during that timeframe, we describe below: (a) the categories of sources from which we may have obtained the personal information, (b) the categories of third parties with whom we may have shared the information, (c) the categories of personal information we may have sold, and (d) the categories of personal information we may have disclosed for a business purpose.

Sources of Personal Information

We may have obtained personal information about you from various sources, as described below.

Categories of Sources of Data Collection

Categories of Personal Information

Directly from you

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

From your devices

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Our affiliates

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Sensory Information

Social Networking Service

• Inferences

Vendors who provide services on our behalf

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Sensory Information
• Inferences

Sharing of Personal Information

We may have shared your personal information with certain categories of third parties, as described below.

Categories of Third Parties

Categories of Personal Information

Our affiliates

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Vendors who provide services on our behalf

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Sensory Information

Professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Sensory Information

Our SNOW Partners

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Advertising networks

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Inferences

Data analytics providers

• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Geolocation Data
• Sensory Information

Sale of Personal Information

Foodie uses Advertising networks to show Interest-Based Advertising in their apps and may sell personal information using Advertising networks.  During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement, the following categories of personal information may have been sold using our Services:
• Identifiers such as a real name, alias, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, and other similar identifiers.
• Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements.
• Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences and characteristics predispositions, behavior, and attitudes.

We do not sell the personal information of minors we actually know to be under 16 years of age.

Disclosure of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

We may have disclosed to third parties for a business purpose the following categories of personal information:
• Identifiers
• Online Activity
• Inferences

3. California Consumer Privacy Rights

You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.

Right to Know: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you during the past 12 months.  Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:

Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.  Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies.  We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

  3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

  5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).

  6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.

  7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

  8. Comply with a legal obligation.

  9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.

Right to Opt Out of Sale: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.  Consumers who opt in to personal information sales may opt out of future sales at any time.  We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years old.

To opt out of the sale of your personal information, please email us at sn_service_privacy@snowcorp.com or follow the steps below depending on your device type:

iOS:

In iOS version 13 and earlier only, enable the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting in your iOS settings (precise directions may be different on different iOS versions).

Click here for more information on how to opt out on an Apple device.

Android:

In the Google Ads settings within your Android settings, toggle the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” switch on (precise directions and name of the switch may be different on different Android versions and OEM Android variants).

Click here for more information on how to opt out on an Android device.

When you have opted out using your device settings, advertisers will not use in-app information collected from that device to infer your interests or serve ads to that device that are targeted based on your inferred interests.  Please note, however, that opting out will not block general advertisements that are sent at random and not tied to the perceived interest of the User of a particular device.

Once you make an opt out request, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time.

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights.  We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.

You may learn more about personalized and behavioral advertising and how to opt out of this type of advertising from the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info and Networking Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/choices/


How to Submit a Request to Know or Delete.  To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, email us at sn_service_privacy@snowcorp.com.  Your request to know or delete must:

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete.  We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf (an “authorized agent”), may make a request to know, delete, or correct related to your personal information.  To designate an authorized agent, please provide us with your contact information, the contact information of your authorized agent, and a description of how and when your authorized agent will be reaching out to us (to the extent known).

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days.  If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please email us at sn_service_privacy@snowcorp.com.

We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt.  If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

Additional Information.  If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.  This Statement is available in alternative formats upon request.  Please contact sn_service_privacy@snowcorp.com to request this Statement in an alternative format.