This policy describes how we, SOOP, use information (we refer to it as “Personal Data”) that you provide. Safeguarding your privacy and Personal Data is very important to us, and we use the latest industry standard tools to protect your privacy and Personal Data (more on this later). We will not sell your Personal Data to anyone, nor will we transfer any of it to anyone except as provided in this policy. You are also free to access, change or even erase this Personal Data if you so choose. Later on in this Privacy Policy is contact information in case you wish to change, erase or make a complaint regarding our collection, storage, safeguarding or use of your Personal Data.
For almost any modern website or service such as ours to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies. These are small files that are stored on its users’ computers and other devices. These cookies are designed to allow our website to recognize its users on subsequent visits, or to authorize other designated websites to recognize these users for a particular purpose.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping baskets, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Some data collected is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
Some websites may also contain images called "web beacons" (also known as "clear gifs"). Web beacons only collect limited information, including a cookie number, a timestamp, and a record of the page on which they are placed. Websites may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular advertising campaign (for example by counting the number of visitors).
Information collected by cookies is now classed as Personal Data.
We collect a number of cookies from our users for various reasons. We use them for own purposes, such as to track our own performance. We also use them to serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience of our service. Amongst other things, the cookies we use allow users to register to make comments, allow us to calculate how many visitors we have and how long they stay on our site.
We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We use cookies to monitor and improve our services. We may include links on our site to goods and services offered by third parties and we may be paid some commission if you subsequently decide to make a purchase. Cookies may be used to track your visits to third party sites to help ensure that we are paid the correct amounts. Please note that these commercial arrangements do not influence our editorial content in any way, but they also allow us to remember your preferences so that you don’t have to keep resubmitting the same information over and over. We may include links on our website to goods and services offered by third parties and we may be paid some commission if you subsequently decide to make a purchase. Cookies may be used to track your visits to third party sites to help ensure that we are paid the correct amounts.
We believe that your experience of the site would be adversely affected if you opted out of the cookies we use. However, you are free to do this via your account profile or through your web browser’s privacy settings.
There are two types of Cookies:
Cookies also have, broadly speaking, four different functions and can be categorized as follow: ‘strictly necessary’ cookies, ‘performance’ cookies, ‘functionality’ cookies and ‘targeting’ or ‘advertising’ cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services like registration or shopping baskets. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Examples of how we use 'strictly necessary' cookies include:
Performance cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website, they don’t contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to improve your user experience of a website.
The following are some examples of how we use performance cookies:
Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. We generally use independent analytics companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third-party company (third party cookies).
If you have registered with the website we can combine the data from the web analytics services and their cookies with the information you have supplied to us, so that we can make your experience more personal by recommending certain articles to you based on your reading behavior or tailoring your emails with content you might find more interesting. We would only do this if you have given us permission to communicate with you. Sometimes the data used from the web analytics companies has been collected before you registered or signed in. In these cases, if we use this data to identify you, we use it only in accordance with our privacy notice.
Functionality cookies allow users to customize how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services like local weather reports and traffic news.
Here are some examples of how we use functionality cookies:
Advertising and targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users’ clicks. They can also provide security in transactions. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with a website operator’s permission but can be placed by the operator themselves. They can remember that you have visited a website, and this information can be shared with other organizations, including other advertisers. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile.
The two main ways we use advertising and targeting cookies are set out below:
Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests.
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies and many websites will not work properly or you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally you have the option to see what cookies you’ve got and delete them individually, block third party cookies or cookies from particular sites, accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.
nstead of changing your browser settings to prevent Cookies from being stored on your computer or device, we suggest using the Do Not Track (DNT) feature built into your web browser. We honor DNT requests and will not track anyone who has this setting toggled to an on state. You can learn more about the DNT feature in your browser by visiting: https://allaboutdnt.com/
It is possible to opt out of having your anonymized browsing activity within websites recorded by performance cookies.
We use the following companies and you can opt out of their cookies by clicking on the relevant links. Please note that this will take you to the relevant third party’s website and generate a ‘no thanks’ cookie, which will stop any further cookies being set by those third parties.
Don’t forget that by not allowing performance cookies, this stops us from being able to learn what people like or don’t like about our website so that we can make it better.
Google Analytics : http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout%20
Quantcast : https://www.quantcast.com/en-uk/opt-out/
Please note that if you want to opt out from receiving targeted advertising, this does not mean that you will receive less advertising when you use our website. This just means that the advertising you see will not be as customized to you.
You can visit the Internet Advertising Bureau’s consumer advice site, http://youronlinechoices.com/. This will give you a list of all cookies that are currently set on your device and how to opt out of each of them. Please note that this list will contain more networks than just found on our website and/or service.
We have also set out links below to some of the specific partners we work with who set cookies on our websites, and therefore on your computer, each of which have instructions on how to opt out of their cookies.
Google - http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html
You can change your consents to the use of cookies at any time by going to the “Cookie Settings” on your Profile page or by clicking [here]. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be.
We may disclose your Personal Data within our company structure, including our subsidiaries, member/parent companies and their subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
We may disclose your Personal Data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
We will never sell your Personal Information to third-parties for any reason. However, there are limited situations where we would share your Personal Information to restaurants or other providers of goods and/or services that you wish to buy from in order to facilitate your orders (for example, to communicate with you to coordinate deliveries). You will always have complete control over whether to share your Personal Information in this manner. In your account profile page located [here], there is a section on sharing your personal information with third-party suppliers of goods and/or services for various purposes. We will only disclose your Personal Data to one or more of those third-party suppliers of goods and services that you specifically select for the listed purposes, such as (i) enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you their products and/or services, including promotional offerings; or (ii) enabling them to contact you directly in the course of fulfilling your orders for relevant goods and/or services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the inquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party should supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third-party's use of your personal data. If they do not provide you with this information, please contact us [here] so that we may request this information on your behalf. This consent can be given or rescinded at any time by checking or unchecking these options in your account profile, located [here]. Please understand that sharing your personal information with third-parties, such as restaurants may be necessary for you to get the full benefits of our service.
Financial transactions relating to our website and services may be handled by our payment services providers, ProPay Inc., a Tsys Company.We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices [here].
In addition to the specific disclosures of Personal Data set out in this Section V, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
Our offices and facilities as well as our hosting facilities for our website and services are located in the United States. However, we recognize the possibility that some of our users may be located in the European Union, and thereby potentially protected by its General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR).It is our opinion that our Privacy Policy and procedures designed to protect your privacy are compliant with the European Union’s GPDR as well as relevant United States legal requirements. However, because the very nature of our services utilize third-parties such as restaurants of your choosing, please understand that we cannot guaranty that others won’t misuse your Personal Data.
This Section VII sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of Personal Data.
We will retain your Personal Data for so long as you maintain an account with us. In the event that you cancel your account with us, you can instruct us to delete your Personal Data, which we will do as soon as we reasonably can after such a request. In the event you do not request us to delete your Personal Data, we may (but are not required to) retain it for up to seven years.We retain your Personal Data in case you decide to reinstate your account with us so as to make it easier for you to resume our services. We may also retain your Personal Data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
Although we are based in the United States, we strongly believe that providing our users with more control over their Personal Data is beneficial to our users and to society in general. That is why we welcome compliance with the European Union’s GPDR. Below, we have summarized your rights under the GPDR. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, if you have any questions about them, feel free to contact us. If you wish, we can direct you to the relevant laws and regulations as well as governmental authorities that can provide you with further guidance for a more detailed explanation of your rights.