Privacy Policy
This website privacy policy is provided by Upcycled Food Association (“Upcycled Food Association”, or “we” or “us”) regarding information about our practices for collecting, using, and safeguarding the information you provide to us through this website or any associated mobile application.
Personal Information
You are welcome to browse the Upcycled Food Association website without registering. However, to access certain options, offers, or services on our site, you will be asked to provide some additional information to view specific types of content. We may collect information from you, including, but not limited to your first and last name, e-mail, login credentials, phone number, and address, when you create an account to log in to our network or at other times. If you provide us feedback or contact us via e-mail, we will collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, and any information that you submit to us, such as a resume. You may also provide other optional information.
We collect the information you post through the website, including your public postings and messages and any private postings and messages. Occasionally, you may receive an invitation to participate in a survey or poll about our site content, services, or products. Your responses are anonymous unless you choose to provide your contact details.
We may also collect or receive information about you from our third-party service providers, advertising partners, marketing companies, or other third parties. We may receive information about you in connection with any purchases you make through links on our website, including without limitation any affiliate links.
Cookies and Web Tracking
Like other web companies, Upcycled Food Association uses cookies and other technologies on our website. If you aren’t familiar, cookies are bits of computer information that are temporarily stored on the browser when you visit this website. They do not identify the person using the computer but tell us how many users visited our site, the pages they accessed, and if there were any technical problems. By collecting this information, we can tailor our website’s content and ensure functionality.
We also use certain web analytics and performance cookies to monitor web traffic. Performance cookies are tools such as Google Analytics. It tells our team how many visitors came to the site, how they found us, and the types of content that readers are interested in. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous traffic data to help us analyze how users use the website. The information generated by a cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the site, compiling reports on site activity for us and providing other services relating to site activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. By using the website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes described in this policy. If you have concerns relating to the usage of Google Analytics, it is possible to block Google Analytics by installing a plug-in to your browser. A plug-in for the most common browsers can be found here:
By using the website, you are authorizing us to gather, parse, and retain data related to the provision of the website and service.
Because Upcycled Food Association requires registration to view some content, we use analytics to view the categories of content that interest you. We may contact you via email when we acquire new content that may be of interest. Of course, you may opt-out of this feature at any time.
And, you are welcome to decline any browser or flash cookie by changing your web browser preferences to block any of these technologies. If you do so, you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your information to: provide you with the service; facilitate and improve our services; and communicate with you. We use your information for research and marketing purposes; to facilitate the creation of and secure your account on our network; identify you as a user in our system; provide improved administration of our website and services; improve the quality of experience when you interact with our website and services; send you administrative e-mail notifications; respond to your inquiries; send promotional communications; send upgrades and special offers related to our services and for other marketing purposes of ours or our third party companies; make telephone calls to you, from time to time, as a part of secondary fraud protection; and to solicit your feedback. If you provide feedback on any of our services to us, we may use such feedback for any purpose, provided we will not associate such feedback with your information.
We may use or share aggregate or anonymized information for any purpose, including for marketing purposes.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your information: with our third-party service providers and vendors (for example, credit card processors); to comply with legal obligations or requests from law enforcement; to protect and defend our rights and property; and with your permission. We may share information about you in connection with any purchases you make through links on our website, including without limitation any affiliate links.
We may share your information with any future or current parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”). We may share some or all of your information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this privacy policy. If another company acquires our company or our assets, that company will possess the information collected by it and us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information collected by us as described in this privacy policy.
We do not rent, sell, or share your personally identifiable information with non-affiliated companies for their direct marketing purposes unless we have your permission. We may allow access to other data collected by the service to enable the delivery of online advertising on this website, or otherwise facilitate transmittal of information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you.
Linked Websites
Upcycled Food Association contains links to third-party (“external”) websites. Our company does not endorse or make any representations or endorsements for the accuracy of content located on linked external websites. And, we are not responsible for any linked external website’s privacy policies, content, products, data collection procedures, materials and activities, etc.
Your Safety Online
To be consistent with applicable laws, Upcycled Food Association has adopted reasonable and appropriate measures designed to safeguard the confidentiality of your information and protect it from loss, misuse, alteration, destruction, or unauthorized access. Despite our efforts, there is always some risk that your data will be improperly accessed, including, for example, during your transmission of the information to us.
Please safeguard any passwords and user IDs that you may obtain for restricted sections of our sites, and please contact us immediately if you believe they have been compromised. If you need to update or correct your personal information profile you may do so directly on our website.
Policies for Children
This website is not intended to collect or maintain any information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we collected any information from anyone under the age of 13, we will purge it immediately, except for responding to a question or inquiry on a one-time basis from the individual.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
By using the website or service, you will transfer data to the United States.
By choosing to visit the service or otherwise provide information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this privacy policy will be governed by the law of the State of Colorado and the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with Upcycled Food Association or the Service will be in accordance with the terms of use on the website.
If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and processing globally. By providing your information you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this privacy policy.
Rights of Access, Correction of Objection
At Upcycled Food Association, we take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information on file is accurate and current. If it changes, please contact us to update your information. You may also access or request correction of the information that we have retained about you, or request that we delete your information. There are certain exceptions that apply. As noted above, you always have the right to withdraw consent to our use of your data for any marketing purpose.
Policy Changes
Please review this policy periodically as we may update it to reflect changes to our practices, new requirements, and new security risks and safeguards. The changes become effective upon posting the new version of this policy, and those changes that relate to the use of personal information apply to information that is collected after posting.
Contact
If you have any concerns about these policies, please contact us immediately.
info@upcycledfood.org or mail a letter to:
Upcycled Food Association
5445 DTC Pkwy, P4
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Last revised on February 2, 2021.