PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated 2/14/19
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes how the American Frozen Food Institute and its Food Safety Working Group (“AFFI” “we,” “our”, or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses personal information about you that we receive in connection to your use of the Foundation’s website (affi.org), any mobile app we offer, or any other website or online service under our control that links to this Policy (collectively the “Sites”). Please read our Privacy Policy carefully because, by using our Sites, you are accepting the practices described below.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We, or our service providers, may collect the following categories of information, either directly from you, automatically, or from other sources:- Contact information, such as name, username and password, address, phone number, email address;
- Affiliations and professional information, such as employer, job title, committee memberships, professional associations;
- Transaction-related information
- Publicly-available information, such as your likeness and comments on social media pages;
- Other information you provide through interactions with us or our affiliates, such as registering for and attending our events, applying for employment, donating, or asking questions to our experts;
- Information automatically collectedrelating to your activity on our Sites, such as your IP address, pages visited, device identifier, operating system, browser type, referring pages, and information from “cookies” as explained below.
ABOUT COOKIES
We or our service providers may use “cookies,” as well as similar or related technologies such as web pixels, on our Sites. These technologies help you access and navigate the Sites more efficiently and help us monitor traffic and how visitors use our Sites. A cookie is a small file or tool stored on visitors’ hard drives containing a small amount of information that allows us recognize return visitors and customize our Sites accordingly. You may decline cookies by setting your browsers to reject cookies. Please note, however, certain features of the Site may not function properly or be available if your browser is configured to reject cookies.
Web pixels, also known as web beacons, “clear gifs,” “one-pixel gifs,” “web bugs,” “Internet tags,” or “pixel tags,” are small graphic images on a website or in an email that allow us and third parties to monitor the activity on the Sites or to make cookies more effective. Web beacons allow us, our service providers, and other third parties to gauge and enhance the effectiveness of our marketing on our Sites or on third-party websites or other channels by transmitting information about whether you follow links in our emails or Sites, or links in third-party websites, and by gathering information about the websites you visit before and after visiting our Sites. We may use log files to store the data that is collected through Web pixels. We may use Google Analytics or a similar service to gather, store, and track certain information related to your visit to and activity on our Sites. To collect this information, Google Analytics may set cookies on your browser or mobile device or read cookies previously placed. Google Analytics may also receive information about you from apps you have downloaded. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Sites with other websites which partner with Google is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. Please review those for information about how Google uses the information collected through Google Analytics and how you can control the information collected. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with other information we hold about you. Online advertising networks and similar companies that collect information through cookies, web beacons, and similar tools over time and across different websites, including upon or following your visit to our Sites, may operate on our Sites and collect or receive information from our Sites and from third-party websites. These providers may use the information they collect to provide ad measurement services and to tailor ads to users’ interests either on our Sites or third-party websites. In other words, these providers may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer or mobile device over time and across different websites when you use our Sites. See the following link for more information about what choices you have relating to this information: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. We do not respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms.HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
We, and those on our behalf, may use the information we collect for any purpose consistent with this Policy, including for:- delivering marketing communications, promotional materials, or advertisements that may be of interest to you;
- providing you with products, services, events, or information you request;
- allowing us to improve our Sites and the services we provide, such as by better tailoring our content to our users’ needs and preferences;
- generating and analyzing statistics about your use of our Sites;
- soliciting, processing, and acknowledging donations and other contributions;
- human resources purposes;
- conducting advertising and public relation campaigns;
- detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, intellectual property infringement, violations of our Terms of Use, violations of law, or other misuse of the Foundation Sites or other programming; and
- complying with legal obligations.
WITH WHOM DO WE DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
We may disclose or distribute your information:- to comply with any legal requirement or governmental request, including law enforcement;
- to other users of our Sites through our directory on Member-only portals;
- to facilitate the organization of our events and initiatives;
- to another party or its agents in relation to its considering, negotiating, or entering into a corporate transaction with us, such as a merger, acquisition, partnership, sponsorship, consolidation, bankruptcy, or asset purchase;
- to any party if we believe, in good faith, such disclosure is necessary to protect our interests, life, health, or property or those of any other person or entity;
- to our service providers, partners, and affiliates;
- consistent with this Policy, to third-party online ad networks;
- as otherwise noted at the time of collection.
