Privacy Policy

SPATULA Foods Inc. (“Spatula”, “we”/”us”) has created this Privacy Policy to set out how we collect, use, and disclose Personal Information (defined in Section 1 below) collected through  www.spatulafoods.com, and any subpages and/or subdomains or affiliated sites (“Website”) made available by us through Shopify or similar third party marketplace online platforms, and other related services, features sources we offer on the Website (the “Services”) as further described in our Terms of Service.  This Privacy Policy also applies to the Personal Information we collect when you engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully.

Privacy is of great importance to us. By visiting, accessing, or using the Service in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

1. WHAT DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVER?

• What is Personal Information? Personal Information means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. We will not actively collect Personal Information for sale or marketing in a way that specifically identifies the individual. In other words, we don’t sell customer lists. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may result in your inability to continue using the Website and/or the Services.
• A Note About Minor Dependents. You must be at least the age of majority in your province of residence to use the Services.  We do not intentionally gather Personal Information from visitors who are minor dependents. If a minor dependent submits Personal Information to us and we learn that the Personal Information is the information of a minor dependent, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Information from a minor dependent, please contact us at hello@spatulafoods.com.
• Third-Party Disclaimer. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third-party websites, services, and applications, that you elect to access in connection with the Services or third parties that may resell our products. You are responsible for ensuring that you have obtained the necessary authorizations and consents for any Personal Information you make available to us for use in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The above excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
• Lawful processing: We process your Personal Information only to the extent necessary for the performance of our obligations to you, which is in providing our products and the Service. We set out below the type of Personal Information that we collect and how we use it. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may result in your inability to continue using the Services.

2. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND OTHER DATA

• Information you provide. You may provide us with Personal Information when you: (i) contact us through our online or email forms (including sending us queries, joining our subscriber list to be updated on releases of our products, or responding through the Services to listed job postings), as well as through any third party social media accounts connected to our Services from time to time (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or otherwise); (ii) make a purchase or proceed with a payment transaction through the Service for our products; (iii) use your computer or mobile device to access the Service; and (iii) to simply visit or browse the Service.
• Information we collect. The Service may collect Personal Information in connection with your actions on our Service including, your name, contact details, such as your full name, email, billing and shipping address, resume for employment, your phone number, password should you create an account and information on your ordered products. Information necessary for our subscription plan will only be collected upon explicit consent by You. We also use Shopify and other service providers for our third-party service (which may be subject to change from time to time) to process payment transactions for purchases you may make for the products or services we offer through Shopify. You are responsible for reviewing any such third-party payment providers’ privacy policies and/or statements, as well as their terms of service and/use, and complying with them. It is always your choice whether or not to provide Personal Information but if you choose not to provide certain requested Personal Information, in some instances you may not be able to register to use the Service or be able to access and use the Service at all. In other instances, your choice not to provide certain other Personal Information may mean that you will not be able to use certain features of the Service. We may collect Personal Information in respect of the Website through registration processes; communications with you; information downloads; service purchases; user support; and surveys.
• Cookies and Automatic Tracking (How we Collect your Information). We automatically collect certain statistical, system log data, and other data about traffic to our Service. This information includes IP addresses, your login data (registration ID and login password for future logins to our Service, i.e. “persistent cookies”), page views, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, type of device and platform and other technology you use to access and use the Services, how you use the Services (for instance, the buttons, controls, products, and ads you click on), pages of our Website that you visit, the time spend or have spent on those pages, your search queries, the dates and times of your visits, the webpage you were visiting before you accessed our Service, the webpages you use after accessing and using our Service, and demographics such as gender and age of visitors and interest-based information (i.e. “session cookies”). A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is placed on your device, which may include a unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from the Services and stored on your device. We use cookies to recognize devices and to collect information about Service users as described above to improve our Website and Services. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. We notify to you when you are sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing these types of tracking technologies. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Services. The SPATULA Foods website uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart including when you have abandoned your cart and this information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS and email.
• Google Analytics and Cookies. Some of the information we receive is obtained through the use of first-party and third-party beacons, scripts, and tags. The cookies we use on our Service are served by Google Analytics. When you visit our Service for the first time, you will have the option to enable or disable certain cookies. Information on how to opt-out of the Google Analytics browser add-on can be accessed at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
• Use of Personal Information. We use all of this information collected to, better understand the reach of our Service, and provide and deliver the Services, process, and complete transactions, and send you related information, including confirmations and invoices, respond to comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service, support, troubleshooting, and better user experience. We also use the information to communicate with you about services, features, surveys, newsletters, offers, promotions, contests, and events, and provide other news or information about us and our select partners; investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access to the Services, and other illegal activities; monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Services and for marketing or advertising purposes; link or combine with other information we receive from third parties to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; to improve and tailor our products and services to our customer base and for other business purposes. We do not link any of the information we use in cookies to any personally identifiable information submitted by you when you are on the Services. We do not sell any Personal Information of our Service visitors or users to third parties.

3. STORAGE LOCATION AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We have put in place contractual and other organizational safeguards with our agents to ensure a proper level of protection of your Personal Information. We store our data, including Personal Information, on servers located in the United States and Canada. By submitting information, you agree to this transfer, storing, or processing of your Personal Information in the United States and Canada. You acknowledge and agree that your Personal Information may be accessible to law enforcement and governmental agencies in Canada under lawful access regimes or court orders.

4. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

• Disclosure of Statistical Data. We may disclose aggregate statistical data to our partners and clients, such as advertisers and other third parties, who may use the data for business purposes. This information does not include any Personal
• Service Providers and Business Partners. We may from time to time employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share Personal Information with them to provide information and services to you. Unless we tell you differently, such third parties do not have any right to use the Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. This includes third-party companies and individuals employed by us to facilitate our business, including database management, web analytics, and general improvement of our products and services. The list below shows our current business partners, describes where they are located, lists what services they provide to us, and identifies the type of personal information processed. This will periodically be updated to provide notice of additions and removals to our list of business partners.

• Business Transfers. If we (or substantially all of our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Information may be made available or otherwise transferred to the new controlling entity, where permitted under applicable
• With Your Consent. If we need to use or disclose any Personal Information in a way not identified in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you and/or obtain your express consent as required under applicable privacy laws.
• As Required by Law. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other users, or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be harmed by such activities. Further, we may disclose Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by applicable law. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to, satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; enforce our contracts or user agreement, including investigation of potential violations hereof; and detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues. This disclosure of information may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention. Notwithstanding the general terms of our Privacy Policy, the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information may be made outside of the terms herein to the extent provided for in any applicable privacy or other legislation in effect from time to time, or pursuant to court orders.

5. SECURITY

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment. We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps designed to protect the Personal Information that you provide to us. We have implemented procedures designed to limit access, input, transmission, security of availability, separation, and dissemination of your Personal Information to only such designated staff as are reasonably necessary to carry out the stated purposes we have communicated to you.

6. RETENTION

We will keep your Personal Information for as long as it remains necessary for the identified purpose or as required by law, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. We may retain certain data as necessary for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained Personal Information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

7. ACCESS, CORRECTION, AND ACCURACY

You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you to verify the Personal Information we have collected with respect to you and to have a general account of our uses of that information.  Upon receipt of your written request, we will provide you with a copy of your Personal Information, although in certain limited circumstances, and as permitted under law, we may not be able to make all relevant information available to you, such as where that information also pertains to another user. In such circumstances, we will provide reasons for the denial to you upon request. We will endeavor to deal with all requests for access and modifications in a timely manner.

We will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Information accurate and up to date, and, if applicable, we will provide you with mechanisms to update, correct, delete or add to your Personal Information. As appropriate, this amended Personal Information will be transmitted to those parties to which we are permitted to disclose your information. Having accurate Personal Information about you enables us to give you the best possible service.

8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of Personal Information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected, used, or disclosed. If we make material changes or changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you  by posting an announcement on our Service or sending you an email prior to the change becoming effective. You are bound by any changes to this Privacy Policy when you use the Services after such changes have been first posted.

9.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, REQUESTS, AND QUESTIONS:

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices should be directed to hello@spatulafoods.com.

Last Updated: February 11, 2022