GrubMarket Privacy Policy

At GrubMarket and our subsidiary companies, we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn how we treat your personal information. By using or accessing the Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways. Remember that your use of GrubMarket’s Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules, or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from:

You:

• When you provide such information directly to us, and when Personal Data about you is automatically collected in connection with your use of our Services.

Third parties, when they provide us with Personal Data about you ("Third Parties"). Third Parties that share your Personal Data with us include:

• Service providers. For example, we may use analytics service providers to analyze how you interact and engage with the Services, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
• Social networks connected to the services. If you provide your social network account credentials to us or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third‑party site or service, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts may be transmitted into your Account with us.

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

The following chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past twelve (12) months. Throughout this Privacy Policy, we will refer back to the categories of Personal Data listed in this chart (for example, "Category A. Personal identifiers").

The following section provides additional information about how we collect your Personal Data.

Information Collected Automatically

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, to analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use that device to visit our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support "Do Not Track" requests sent from a browser at this time.

In addition to cookies, we and our service providers may use analytics tools, advertising technologies, application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs), pixels, tags, session monitoring technologies, and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our Services, improve performance, troubleshoot issues, provide customer support, personalize experiences, and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

We use the following types of Cookies:

• Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Services. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
• Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our Services, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Services. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Services such as by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Services, what pages visitors view on our Services and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Services. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising. For example, Google, Inc. ("Google") uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Services is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt‑out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt‑out page at www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or the Google Analytics Opt‑out Browser Add‑on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. We also may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies provided by Facebook, Inc. to collect or receive information from the Services and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can opt‑out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting at http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your computer. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some of the Services and functionalities may not work. To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, look in the "preferences" or "options" section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about Cookies, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Where required by applicable law, certain non‑essential cookies, analytics technologies, advertising technologies, and similar tracking tools may be deployed only after a visitor has provided consent through our cookie preference tools or consent management platform. Visitors may modify their preferences at any time through available privacy controls.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We process Personal Data to operate, improve, understand and personalize our Services. We use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To meet or fulfill the reason you provided the information to us.
• To communicate with you about the Services, including Service announcements, updates or offers.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us
• To personalize website content and communications based on your preferences.
• To process orders or other transactions or refunds.
• To process and fulfill your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud
• To provide you with support and to respond to inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses
• To improve and develop the Services, including testing, research, analysis and product development.
• To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Services.
• To comply with our legal or contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• For any other business purpose stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (the "CCPA").

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. As noted in the list above, we may communicate with you if you’ve provided us the means to do so. For example, if you’ve given us your email address, we may send you promotional email offers or email you about your use of the Services. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us, which helps us improve our Services. If you do not want to receive communications from us, please indicate your preference by emailing us at legal@grubmarket.com.

How We Share Your Personal Data

Disclosures of Personal Data for a Business Purpose

We disclose your Personal Data to service providers and other parties for the following business purposes:

• Auditing related to a current interaction and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.
• Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
• Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Short‑term, transient use of Personal Data that is not used by another party to build a consumer profile or otherwise alter your consumer experience outside the current interaction.
• Performing services on our behalf, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytic services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider.
• Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
• Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that we own, manufacture, was manufactured for us, or control.

We disclose your Personal Data to the following categories of service providers and other parties:

• Service Providers, including: Payment processors. Security and fraud prevention consultants. Hosting and other technology and communications providers. Analytics providers. Staff augmentation and contract personnel, such as delivery service providers.
• Parties who acquire your Personal Data through an acquisition or other change of control. Personal Data may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part).
• Other parties at your direction. Other users (where you post information publicly or as otherwise necessary to effect a transaction initiated or authorized by you through the Services). Social media services (if you intentionally interact with them through your use of the Services). Third‑party business partners who you access through the Services. Other parties authorized by you.

Over the past twelve months, we have disclosed the following categories of your Personal Data to service providers or other parties for the business purposes listed above:

• Personal identifiers.
• Customer records identified by state law.
• Commercial information.
• Internet or other similar network activity information.

Sales of Personal Data

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ as it is defined in the CCPA. As described in the "Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt‑Out" section above, we have incorporated Cookies from certain third parties into our Services. These Cookies allow those third parties to receive information about your activity on our Services that is associated with your browser or device. Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our Services or on other websites you visit. Under the CCPA, sharing your data through third party Cookies for online advertising may be considered a "sale" of information. You can opt out of these sales by following the instructions in this section.

Website Analytics, Advertising, and Session Technologies

We and our service providers may use technologies that collect information regarding interactions with our Services, including pages visited, links clicked, search activity, device information, browser information, referral information, and interactions with website features. These technologies may be used to improve functionality, diagnose technical issues, understand customer behavior, provide customer support, measure marketing effectiveness, and improve user experience.

Certain service providers may receive information regarding your interactions with our Services in connection with providing services on our behalf.

Data Security and Retention

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign‑on mechanism; limiting access to your computer or device and browser; and signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the complete security of any data you share with us, and except as expressly required by law, we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, loss or inadvertent disclosure of your information or content. We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Personal Data of Children

As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 13; if you are a child under 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 may have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at legal@grubmarket.com.

California Resident Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the rights outlined in this section. Please see the "Exercising Your Rights" section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at legal@grubmarket.com.

Access

You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Data over the past 12 months. We will provide you with the following information:

• The categories of Personal Data that we have collected about you.
• The categories of sources from which that Personal Data was collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Data.
• The categories of third parties with whom we have shared your Personal Data.
• The specific pieces of Personal Data that we have collected about you.

If we have disclosed your Personal Data for a business purpose over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data shared with each category of third party recipient. If we have sold your Personal Data over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data purchased by each category of third party recipient.

Direct Marketing Opt‑Out

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83‑1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at legal@grubmarket.com.

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected from you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the rights described above, you must send us a request that (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Data, and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond to it. Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a "Valid Request." We may not respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify you and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request. We will work to respond to your Valid Request within 45 days of receipt. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request. You may submit a written Valid Request to legal@grubmarket.com.

Personal Data Sales Opt‑Out and Opt‑In

California law also classifies our use of non‑essential cookies and other web tracking as a "sale" of personal information from which California residents have the right to opt‑out. You have the right to opt‑out of the sale of your Personal Data. Once you have submitted an opt‑out request, we will not ask you to reauthorize the sale of your Personal Data for at least 12 months. However, you may change your mind and opt back in to Personal Data sales at any time. To either opt‑out of the sale of Personal Data or opt‑in to Personal Data sales, please submit a written request to legal@grubmarket.com.

If you are between 13 and 16 years of age, you must authorize us to sell your Personal Data, which you may do by submitting a written confirmation to legal@grubmarket.com. If you are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must authorize us to sell your Personal Data, which your parent or guardian may do by submitting a written confirmation to legal@grubmarket.com.

Text / SMS Consents

If you choose to opt‑in to SMS communications from GrubMarket, you will receive text messages at the mobile number you provide. These messages will be conversational messages regarding your queries related to your GrubMarket service(s).

Frequency of Messages

Message frequency may vary based on your orders, account activity, and ongoing promotions. You will receive messages relevant to your orders or any inquiries.

Opt‑Out and Support Options

You may opt out of receiving text messages at any time by texting "STOP". Upon receipt of your opt‑out request, you will be unsubscribed and will no longer receive text messages from us. A confirmation message will be sent to confirm that you have unsubscribed. Should you wish to re‑subscribe, you may text "START" to receive SMS messages again.

Wireless Carrier Rates and Services

Wireless message and data rates may apply. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Confidentiality

We will maintain the confidentiality of your mobile number. Your mobile number will not be shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes. However, for operational purposes, your name and mobile number may be shared with our service providers who assist in the delivery of our SMS communications. These providers use your personal information solely to carry out the services they provide to GrubMarket.

SMS Terms and Conditions

By providing your mobile phone number to GrubMarket, you consent to receive SMS messages from GrubMarket related to your GrubMarket service(s).

Phone/mobile number and opt‑in information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt‑in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CCPA) with varying prices, rates, or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

Other State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83‑1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at legal@grubmarket.com.

Nevada Resident Rights
If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt‑out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at legal@grubmarket.com with the subject line "Nevada Do Not Sell Request" and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time as well, but we will alert you to changes by placing a notice on the grubmarket.com website, GrubMarket subsidiary company websites, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data, your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us at: