Recipe From Chef Privacy Notice

Effective Date: November 30, 2023

At Recipe From Chef, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and respecting the privacy concerns of our valued users. This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) outlines how Sugesta LLC-FZ, trading under the name Recipe From Chef, and any affiliated digital properties linking to this Privacy Policy (collectively referred to as the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collect, utilize, disclose, and process personal information within the context of our websites (the “Sites”), mobile applications (the “Apps”), and the associated content, services, products, and features provided through those Sites and Apps (collectively, the “Services”).

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What Personal Information Do We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

The personal information we collect from and about you may vary based on your interaction with our Services and the voluntary information you provide. This may include, but is not limited to:

Contact Information: Your name, contact details (such as postal address and email address), event or conference registration details (including dietary restrictions or photos and videos taken at events), and communication preferences.
Inquiry Information: Information provided in messages through forms, surveys, email addresses, or phone calls, including details submitted when signing up for newsletters.
Account Information: Name, username, account ID, date of birth, contact information, profile details, saved, “liked,” or bookmarked items (e.g., articles or recipes), payment and purchase history, subscription information, enrolled courses, and completed courses, as well as Stock Simulator results.
Financial Information: Credit and debit card details, bank account and routing number, and billing and shipping address.
Demographic Information: Age, gender, race, income, occupation, marital status, and details about your household/family, including household size and residence duration.
Health- or Fitness-Related Information: Exercise and activity levels, weight-loss objectives, dietary preferences, and other health and wellness details.
User-Generated Content: Personal information you choose to share in forums, discussions, comments, reviews, or other interactive features on the Services. Please note that such information may be publicly accessible, and caution is advised when sharing sensitive personal details.
Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information: Details provided when entering contests or sweepstakes, responding to surveys or questionnaires, or submitting testimonials.
Inferences About Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data: Hobbies, interests, characteristics, favorite foods, purchases, recipes, consuming tendencies, and health and fitness information.

Information Automatically Collected

As is common with digital platforms, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information related to your device and your use of the Service when you visit or interact with our Services. This includes:

Device Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, browser ID, entered URL, referring page, date/time of visit, other user agent string data, time spent on our Services, and any errors occurring during the visit.
Analytics/Usage Data: Path taken to, through, and when exiting our Services, usage and activity on or in connection with our Services (e.g., pages visited, links clicked, videos watched), metrics on email engagement, and third-party tools recording information about your interaction with our Services.
Location Data: Geographic location collected through permissions within the app operating system or browser functionality.
Advertising/Advertising Measurement Data: Data associated with your view or clicks on advertisements served on our Services, cookie IDs or other digital identifiers assigned to your device, and metadata, analytics/usage data, and location data for advertising purposes.

It’s important to note that we and our third-party partners may combine automatically collected information with other data, including information voluntarily provided by you.

Third-Party Sources

In addition to information collected directly from individuals, we also acquire personal information from third-party sources. This information is often combined with data collected either automatically or provided directly by individuals. The following are examples of third-party sources from which we may obtain the same categories of personal information as described above:

Other Users who Interact with our Services: Information may be received from other users who engage with our Services.
Business Partners: Information may be obtained from business partners, including companies offering products or services on our Services, marketing/advertising and analytics partners, and third-party brands/agencies facilitating advertising inventory on our Services.
Social Media Networks: Interaction with our Services through social media networks may result in the receipt of information, such as profile details, from these networks.
Information Received From Authentication Services: Parts of our Service may allow individuals to log in through third-party social networks or authentication services, such as Facebook or Google, providing certain personal information as per the individual’s privacy settings on those platforms.
Service Providers: Personal information collected by service providers on our behalf, such as payment processors or survey and marketing/advertising and analytics entities, may be shared with us.
Information Providers: Information from third-party information providers may be obtained to correct or supplement personal information collected, including updated contact details or demographic information.
Other Sources: Personal information about individuals not otherwise available may be collected from publicly available sources, third-party data providers, brand partnerships, or through transactions like mergers and acquisitions.

How Do We Use Personal Data

We employ personal information for various purposes, including but not limited to:

Fulfilling Requests and Providing Services: Making our Services and products available, coordinating account access, responding to queries, and providing user support.
Personalizing User Experience: Tailoring content and other offerings to align with user interests and preferences.
Marketing: Sending communications about new features, updates, products, and special offers, as well as serving targeted ads.
Communication: Engaging with users and communicating about events, conferences, programs, contests, surveys, and other promotions.
Monitoring, Improvement, and Development: Analyzing user statistics and trends to enhance and optimize our Services, develop new features, and improve overall user experience.
Security and Compliance: Protecting the security and integrity of our business, complying with legal requirements, assisting in investigations, and enforcing our Terms of Use and agreements.
Consent-Based Uses: Any other purposes with the individual’s consent, direction, or when notice is provided.

General

At Recipe From Chef, and in collaboration with our third-party partners, we utilize information received about you—whether provided by you, collected during your use of our Services, or obtained from third parties—to enhance your online experience. This includes serving advertisements tailored to your interests, optimizing marketing campaigns, generating analytics, and providing marketing/advertising-related services such as reporting, market research, and measurement/attribution. Our third-party partners encompass online advertising networks, measurement/attribution companies, ad fraud verification entities, social media companies, and other advertising technology services.

How We Collect This Information

The information instrumental for these advertising practices is primarily gathered through tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons/pixels, SDKs, APIs, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, and similar tools. These technologies recognize the device in use, collecting information such as clickstream data, browser type, visit timestamp, mobile ad ID, or other digital identifiers. Additionally, they may capture information you provide or details about how you use our Services, including mouse movements, scrolling, clicks, keystrokes, and other browsing, search, or purchasing behavior. A common account identifier or other information may be shared with third-party advertising partners to identify you across devices.

We may share this information using mechanisms such as API, direct file upload, server-to-server transfer, or integration of tracking technologies from those partners (e.g., pixel).

More on Social Media Platforms and Advertising

Our Services may feature social media elements like the Facebook “Like” button, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, or other widgets. Social media companies may recognize and collect information about your visit, using tools such as cookies. Interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.

Targeted advertising on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, involves interest-based programs. Unique identifiers, like user IDs or hashed/encrypted email addresses or phone numbers, may be shared with platform providers. They may also collect information via pixels or other mechanisms for directing targeted ads to you or custom audiences on the platform. Advertisements follow the privacy policies of the respective social media companies. Users can adjust advertising preferences through network settings if they prefer not to receive targeted ads.

How you can control colected data about you

You maintain control over your information in the following ways:

Access, Modification, or Deletion: You have the right to request access, amendment, or deletion of your personal information. To protect your data’s security, we’ll confirm your identity before processing any request. There may be circumstances where we cannot fulfill your request, such as legal/regulatory obligations, internal audit, record-keeping, or other requirements. We will respond promptly to your request. To make such a request, contact us through one of the following methods:
- Sending your request to our mailing address: Sugesta LLC-FZ, Business Center 1, Al Meydan Road DUBAI 9305 UAE
- Emailing us at: contact@chefrcps.com

How Do We Protect Personal Info

We uphold reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure the security of the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. While we strive to maintain the security of our systems, it’s important to note that no security system is entirely impenetrable. Therefore, there is an inherent risk associated with the security of the information you provide through any digital property, including our Services.

Links to Third-Party Websites or Services

Our Services may include links to other digital properties controlled by third parties. These linked digital properties may have their own privacy notices or policies, and we recommend reviewing them. We assume no responsibility for the content, usage, terms, or privacy policies of digital properties not owned or controlled by Recipe From Chef.

What’s Our Policy With Respect to Children’s Personal Information?

Our Services are not designed for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 16 (or the equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction). If we become aware of inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 16 (or the equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction), we will make efforts to promptly delete such information. If you believe that we may have collected information from a child under 16 (or the equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction), please contact us using the information below.

What’s Our Policy for Users Outside the United States

Your personal information may be stored, transferred, and processed in the United States and in any other country where Recipe From Chef or other Recipe From Chef affiliates, or service providers maintain facilities. The data protection laws in these countries may provide a different standard of protection for your personal information than the country in which you are located or your country of residence. If you have questions or wish to obtain more information about the international transfer of your personal information or the implemented safeguards, please contact us using the information below.

How Will We Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently updated, and you shall be bound to such changes when accessing the Services that are linked to the updated Privacy Policy. We may also provide notice of such material changes in other manners at our discretion. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing contact@chefrcps.com.

If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or Virginia resident inquiring about your privacy rights under your respective State Privacy Law, please include “U.S. Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line of your email.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area inquiring about your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), please include “GDPR Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line of your email.

You may also write to:

Sugesta LLC-FZ, Business Center 1, Al Meydan Road

DUBAI 9305

UAE

U.S. State Privacy Notice

For residents covered under the State Privacy Laws (and Nevada, in the case of the “Notice to Nevada Residents” section only), this U.S. State Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy by providing additional details under such laws. The term “State Privacy Laws” means, as applicable, the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may exercise the following rights under the State Privacy Laws in relation to the personal information collected about you (subject to certain limitations under such laws, such as exceptions in the State Privacy Laws or the inability to verify your identity):

The Right to Access

Under the State Privacy Laws, you have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal information and to access that personal information. You also have the right to access that personal information in a portable, readily usable format, unless not technically feasible to provide in such a format.

Specifically with respect to the CCPA’s right to access, you can request: (a) the specific pieces of personal information collected about you and (b) the categories of personal information collected, sources of collection, business purposes for collecting or “selling/sharing” personal information, and categories of third parties to whom the information is disclosed.

The Right to Deletion

You can request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions under the State Privacy Laws.

The Right to Correction

You have the right to request corrections to inaccuracies in your personal information, considering the nature of the information and the processing purposes.

Opt-Out Rights

Under State Privacy Laws, you can opt-out of “sales” and “shares” of personal information, “targeted advertising,” and certain use/disclosure of “sensitive” personal information.

As further detailed in this Privacy Policy, we disclose the following to our advertising/marketing and analytics partners (e.g., advertisers/agencies, social media networks, adtech partners, customer intelligence firms) for advertising and marketing purposes, including direct marketing: Identifiers, commercial information, geolocation data, internet or other network information, and data that may be considered “sensitive” personal information under certain State Privacy Laws. Please refer to our “Your Privacy Choices” link (located in the website footer) to exercise your opt-out rights accordingly.

We do not have actual knowledge of “selling” or “sharing” personal information of consumers under sixteen (16) years of age.

European Privacy Notice

This European Privacy Notice supplements the information outlined in our Privacy Policy and is applicable solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland (“you”), and to the Services available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland that link to this European Privacy Notice:

Controller of your Personal Data

The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is Recipe From Chef, with an address of Sugesta LLC-FZ, Business Center 1, Al Meydan Road, Dubai 9305 UAE. Our local representative concerning the GDPR can be contacted at contact@chefrcps.com.

Legal Basis for Using Personal Data

We process your personal data only if we have a legal basis to do so, including:

to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
for our legitimate interests or those of a third party;
where you have given consent to our specific use.

The purpose for which we use and process your information and the legal basis for each type of processing are further explained below.

Purposes for which we will process the information & legal basis for such processing

To provide products and services you request: It is necessary for us to process your personal data to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us (or take necessary steps relating thereto).
To respond to requests, questions, and comments, and provide other types of user support: It is necessary for us to respond to requests, questions, and comments, and provide other types of user support to take steps at your request or according to the applicable contract between us.
To offer you products and services in marketing communications, or direct you to portions of this Site or other websites, that we believe may interest you: We may send electronic marketing communications to you if you have consented to these communications. It is in our legitimate interest to market our products and services to you by other means and to direct you to portions of this Site or other websites that we believe may interest you. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
To communicate about, and administer your participation in, events, programs, contests, and other offers or promotions: We will send electronic communications to you if you have consented to these communications, where such consent is required by applicable law. With respect to other communications, it is in our legitimate interest to communicate to you and administer your participation in our events, programs, contests, and other offers or promotions. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
To carry out, evaluate, and improve our business: It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to carry out these activities. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
To perform data analytics regarding usage of the Services: It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to carry out these activities. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you.
To serve advertising, content, and offers to you based on your interests and online activities: We will serve you advertising, content, and offers based on your interests and online activities if you have consented to this processing.
To enable our affiliates or service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf: It is necessary for us to process your personal data in this manner to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us. It is also in our legitimate interest to enable our service providers and affiliates to perform certain activities on our behalf. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
To notify you of any changes to the Services that may affect you: It is necessary for us to process your personal data to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us.
If we are required to do so by law, regulation, or legal process: We conduct this processing to comply with our legal obligations and to protect the public interest.
Guard against, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activity: We conduct this processing to comply with our legal obligations and to protect the public interest.

International Transfers

Some of our processing of your data will involve transferring your data outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland. Some of our external third-party service providers are also based outside Europe, and their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside of Europe, including the United States. Where personal data is transferred to, stored in, or processed in a country not determined by the European Commission as providing adequate levels of protection for personal data, we take steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, including, when appropriate, entering into standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.

Retention of Personal Data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes it was retained, such as enabling you to use the Services. In some instances, we may retain data for longer periods to comply with applicable laws (including those regarding document retention), resolve disputes with any parties, and otherwise as necessary to allow us to conduct our business.

Data Subject Rights

If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, you have the following rights concerning your personal data that we hold:

Right of access: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal data and access to the personal data and related information.
Right to correction: You have the right to have your personal data corrected, as permitted by law.
Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data, as permitted by law.
Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the member state of your habitual residence.
Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where technically feasible.
Right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, as permitted by law, under limited circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please:

Submit a request through the European Rights Request Form. Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.