Privacy policy

eat2explore, Inc.

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eat2explore operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products and services, in order to provide you, the customer, with a curated shopping experience (the "Services"). eat2explore is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase or other transaction using the Services or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy controls with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously or that has been de-identified, so that it cannot identify or be reasonably linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal information, depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law:

Contact details including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
Financial information including credit card, debit card, and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, form of payment, payment confirmation and other payment details.
Account information including your username, password, security questions, preferences and settings.
Transaction information including the items you view, put in your cart, add to your wishlist, or purchase, return, exchange or cancel and your past transactions.
Communications with us including the information you include in communications with us, for example, when sending a customer support inquiry.
Device information including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
Usage information including information regarding your interaction with the Services, including how and when you interact with or navigate the Services.

Personal Information Sources

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

Directly from you including when you create an account, visit or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information;
Automatically through the Services including from your device when you use our products or services or visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies;
From our service providers including when we engage them to enable certain technology and when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf;
From our partners or other third parties.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with us or which of the Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

Provide, Tailor, and Improve the Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services, including to perform our contract with you, to process your payments, to fulfill your orders, to remember your preferences and items you are interested in, to send notifications to you related to your account, to process purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, to facilitate any returns and exchanges, to enable you to post reviews, and to create a customized shopping experience for you, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and improve the Services.
Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements for products or services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously have purchased or added to your cart and other activity on the Services.
Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, to provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and to secure our services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password or other access details with anyone else.
Communicating with You. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support, to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you and to maintain our business relationship with you.
Legal Reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

With Shopify, vendors and other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g. IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
With business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising with third-party services based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices. Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to direct us not to share information about you to show you targeted advertisements and marketing based on your online activity with different merchants and websites. You can exercise your rights to opt-out of those uses here .
When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations.
With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service or policies, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Tracking Technologies and Cookie Preferences

We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, tags, SDKs, APIs, session storage, local storage, and similar technologies (“Tracking Technologies”) to operate, maintain, improve, analyze, personalize, market, attribute, and secure the Services.

The Tracking Technologies currently in use include, without limitation, the following categories and providers:

· Analytics and performance: Shopify analytics, Google Analytics / GA4, and related analytics tools used to understand visitor activity, measure site performance, improve user experience, analyze customer behavior, and optimize content and functionality.

· Advertising and attribution: Shopify Audiences and related Shopify advertising features, Meta (Facebook) Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Pinterest Tag, Instacart attribution links and tracking technologies, and other advertising, conversion-measurement, audience-building, remarketing, and attribution tools used to measure campaign performance, attribute orders, support personalized advertising, and improve customer acquisition efforts.

· Customer communications, email engagement, and CRM tracking: Klaviyo and related email, SMS, customer communication, customer engagement, and customer relationship management technologies used to understand engagement with communications and improve customer support, marketing, retention, and customer experience.

· Subscription and account functionality: Recharge and related subscription-management technologies used to manage subscriptions, recurring billing, customer accounts, subscription communications, subscription analytics, and subscription-related functionality.

· Essential functionality and security: Shopify, payment processors, fraud-prevention tools, account-authentication technologies, shopping cart functionality, checkout functionality, and similar technologies necessary to operate, provide, maintain, and secure the Services.

These Tracking Technologies may collect information including pages visited and navigation paths; interactions with content, products, checkout, account, and shopping features; browser and device information; IP address; approximate geographic location derived from IP address; referral sources; order and transaction information; identifiers associated with cookies or similar technologies; subscription activity; and information regarding interactions with our marketing, advertising, and customer communications.

Information collected through Tracking Technologies may be shared with, transmitted to, stored by, or processed by our service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, business partners, and technology providers and may be processed in jurisdictions outside your country or state of residence.

Where required by applicable law, eat2explore will obtain consent before enabling optional Tracking Technologies.

Where consent is not required, continued use of the Services following presentation of applicable notices constitutes acknowledgment of the Tracking Technologies practices described in this Privacy Policy.

You may control or limit certain optional Tracking Technologies through:

a) browser settings and controls;

b) available cookie preference tools or consent interfaces;

c) applicable device privacy settings; and

d) third-party opt-out mechanisms made available by providers whose technologies we use.

Your election to limit optional Tracking Technologies may affect personalization or certain features but generally will not prevent access to core Services.

Additional information regarding available privacy rights and jurisdiction-specific choices is provided elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Your Choices

Additional choices regarding Tracking Technologies are described above under Tracking Technologies and Cookie Preferences.

Where required by applicable law, we will obtain consent before placing or using non-essential cookies, Tracking Technologies, or similar technologies.

You may control certain Tracking Technologies through:

a) browser settings and cookie controls;

b) our cookie preference tools where available on the Services;

c) industry and provider opt-out mechanisms;

d) applicable privacy rights requests described below; and

e) provider-level controls made available by Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Shopify, Klaviyo, Recharge, Instacart, and other applicable providers.

Please note that limiting or disabling certain technologies may affect personalization, functionality, features, performance, or availability of portions of the Services.

Additional privacy rights and jurisdiction-specific choices are described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Disputes Related to Privacy and Data Handling

Any dispute, claim, or controversy relating to the collection, use, disclosure, sharing, storage, transfer, retention, advertising use, tracking technologies, analytics technologies, attribution technologies, cookies, personalization, or processing of personal information under this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the dispute-resolution provisions, fee provisions, governing law provisions, class action waiver provisions, and limitations of liability contained in the Terms of Service.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits any rights that cannot legally be waived under applicable law.

Investigation and Substantiation of Privacy Concerns

If you believe your personal information has been collected, used, disclosed, shared, or processed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy or applicable law, you may submit a written privacy inquiry using the procedures described in this Privacy Policy.

To facilitate investigation and resolution, you may be asked to provide information reasonably available to you, including:

a) a description of the alleged issue;

b) relevant dates and account activity, if known;

c) supporting documentation reasonably available;

d) relevant webpages, Services, orders, subscriptions, or interactions involved;

e) a description of the alleged impact or concern; and

f) the requested resolution.

eat2explore may request supplemental information reasonably necessary to investigate the concern.

This process is intended to facilitate meaningful investigation and resolution and shall not be construed to limit any privacy rights, consumer rights, data subject rights, or other rights that cannot legally be waived under applicable law.

Privacy Inquiry and Investigation Process

If you believe your personal information has been processed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy or applicable law, we encourage you to provide sufficient information to allow us to investigate your concern, including:

a) description of the issue and relevant dates;

b) information about the pages, services, transactions, or communications involved;

c) information about the device, browser, and IP address used, if known;

d) any supporting materials reasonably available to you; and

e) a description of the impact or concern.

Providing this information helps us investigate and respond efficiently and does not limit any rights available under applicable law.

Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights

Residents of certain jurisdictions may have additional rights relating to their personal information, including rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to certain processing activities, receive a portable copy of their information, or opt out of certain uses of personal information. These rights, where applicable, are described in the jurisdiction-specific sections of this Privacy Policy and are subject to the procedures described therein.

Where applicable law provides stronger protections than this Privacy Policy, applicable law will control.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services in order to provide and improve the Services for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify as well as third parties that may be located in countries other than where you reside, in order to provide and improve the Services for you. In addition, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain Shopify enhanced features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our Store, along with other merchants and with Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may make use of personal information collected about your interactions with our store, along with other merchants, and with Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for the processing of your personal information, including for responding to your requests to exercise your rights over use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, you can visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy . Depending on where you live, you may exercise certain rights with respect to your personal information here Shopify Privacy Portal Link.

Third Party Websites and Links

The Services may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children's Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted. As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide you with Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you.
Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
Right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to opt out of the "sale" or "share" of your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be "targeted advertising", as defined in applicable privacy laws. You can exercise your rights to opt-out of those uses here. Please note that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out for the device and browser that you use to visit the website. If we are able to associate the device sending the signal to a Shopify account, we will apply the opt out request to the account as well. To learn more about Global Privacy Control, you can visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Other than the Global Privacy Control, we do not recognize other "Do Not Track" signals that may be sent from your web browser or device.
Managing Communication Preferences. We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the contact details provided below. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, including rights related to data processed by Shopify, you can visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to verify your identity before we can process your requests, as permitted or required under applicable law. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

International Transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in.

If we transfer your personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on this website, update the "Last updated" date and provide notice as required by applicable law.

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please call or email us at contact@eat2explore.com or contact us at 1033 Route 17M , suite 101, Monroe, NY, 10950, US.

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