Last updated: May 1, 2024
We care deeply about your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how and when Tasting Grounds, LLC (“Tasting Grounds”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and shares personal information when you use this website, https://tastinggrounds.com, or our mobile application(s), collectively referred to as the “Service”.
By interacting with the Service, you agree that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you cannot, and we do not authorize you to, access, browse, or use the Service.
In order to provide the Service to you, we require you to provide us with certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, email address, and username.
Additionally, we will collect information that you provide to us, including through support, feedback, reviews, ratings, comments, profile information, and photos you upload. Our Service is designed for sharing - by default, certain types of information you choose to submit will be made public to users of the Service. This includes your account username, profile picture, and any comments or posts you make.
You may grant the Service access to your device location. Geolocation will not be disclosed, but you have the possibility to add a geotag when creating a public post.
When you access the Service, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, your computer operating system, mobile device and mobile operating system, name of your internet service provider or your mobile carrier, and one or more cookies (small text files containing a string of characters) that may uniquely identify your browser. Our servers may also automatically record what you click on while visiting the Service. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer for record keeping and other purposes. We and our service providers use cookies and other technologies to, among other things, better serve you with more tailored information and facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the Service, as well as for online tracking purposes. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies.
Web beacons (also known as Pixel tags and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Service, deliver services, and analyze the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, for example. We may also include web beacons in our marketing email messages or newsletters to determine whether an email is opened or if links are clicked.
We may aggregate personal information and other information collected from the Service. This information may include, for example and without limitation, the number of people who used the Service and other user demographics. Aggregated information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Service.
Information that we collect through the Service may be used for the following purposes:
We may share your personal information collected through the Service as described in this section.
Tasting Grounds is designed for sharing. When you create an account, create a post, or interact with other users, the information submitted will be shared publicly with other users of the Service. You should be aware that any content you share publicly may be further shared by other users of the Service and that we are not responsible for any such sharing of information you have shared.
We engage third parties that provide services on our behalf. These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, auditing, and other services. We may share personal information and non-personal information with these third parties for the purpose of enabling them to provide these services.
We may share information collected through the Service as required to comply with applicable law and regulations and to cooperate with public and governmental authorities, including law enforcement. We also may share information for other legal reasons such as when it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of you, our other users, Tasting Grounds or the public.
We may share information In other circumstances when you consent to the sharing.
In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
We may share aggregate or de-identified information without restriction. This information may include, without limitation, the number of users who have registered for the Service. Such aggregate information does not identify you individually.
We use reasonable measures to protect personal information under our control. We also require our third-party service providers to use reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the personal information they maintain for us. Unfortunately, no data transmission or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the "Contact Us" section below.
You can choose whether or not to share information on the Service; however, if you choose not to share certain information with us, you may not be able to register as a user and access functionality of the Service.
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by emailing us at [email protected] with your preference. Note that we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
Children are not eligible to use the Service, and we ask that minors (children under the age of 16) not submit any personal information to us. If we receive notice or reasonably believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete the account and the associated personal information that has been provided to us.
We may update the Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy here or when we email you about the changes. Your use of the Service following any such updates will constitute your acceptance of such updates.
Please send us an email at [email protected] if you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy.
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