Winland Foods Inc., Website Privacy Policy Last Updated: June 1, 2023
Introduction
Winland Foods, Inc., (“Company” or “We”) respects the privacy of your Personal Information and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.
This Policy describes the types of Personal Information we collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our websites: www.winlandfoods.com; americanbeauty.com; anthonyspasta.com; creamette.com; www.edsmith.com;
edsmithfoodservice.com; goldengrainpasta.com; noxgelatine.com; lightnfluffy.com; luxurypasta.com; mrsweiss.com; muellerspasta.com; noyolks.com; pastalensi.com; pastalensi.it; pennsylvaniadutchnoodles.com; princepasta.com; sangiorgio.com; skinnerpasta.com; and wackymac.com and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing Personal Information.
This Policy applies to Personal Information we collect:
• When you visit our Websites including through digital advertisements.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and Winland.
It does not apply to Personal Information collected by:
• Us offline or through any other means; or
• Any third party including through any application or content that may link to or be
accessible from or on our Websites including social media sites.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding Personal Information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of our Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 16
Our Websites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any Personal Information on our Websites. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under age 16. If you are under 16 years old, do not use our Websites or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name,
address, telephone number, email address. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at WFI Contact Us Page
California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection, sale and sharing of Personal Information relating to them. Please see U.S. Privacy Notice for State Residents.
Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We collect several types of Personal Information from and about visitors and users of our Website, including information:
• From which you may be personally identified, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information“);
• The products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or
tendencies; and inferences drawn from other Personal Information. For example, information about your purchase
preferences.
• About your visits to our Websites, specifically traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Websites; and information about your computer/device and internet connection, specifically your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• That is about you but does not identify you individually, such as total number of visitors to our Websites, the popularity of various areas of our Websites, and the length of the visits in an aggregate form (as one of a group, your individual Personal Information is not singled out).
We collect this information:
• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through our Websites including social media sites. Information collected automatically includes your usage details, your IP address and or device ID, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners and/or service providers.
Personal Information You Provide to Us
The Personal Information we collect on or through our Websites includes:
• Personal Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information you provide when subscribe to our marketing communications, submit feedback, or request help or other customer services.
We also ask you for Personal Information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us or our business partners, and when you report a problem about our Websites.
• Records and copies of your communications with us such as your email address or phone number, when you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we or our business partners or service providers ask you to complete for our
research purposes.
• Your search queries on our Websites.
• Information our business partners may request in order to provide you with special offers.
Personal Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Personal Information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
• Usage Details of your visits to, and use of, our Websites, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the content that you access and use on the Websites.
• Device Information about your computer, mobile device, and internet connection, including your device’s unique device identifier (IP address/device ID), operating system, browser type, mobile network information and your mobile device’s telephone number.
• Location Information Our Websites collect real-time information about the location of your device during the time that you are accessing and/or using our Websites.
If you do not want us to collect this information do not use our Websites. For more information, see Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information below. Note, however, that opting out of our Websites’ collection of location information will disable its location-based features.
We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites, apps, or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to our Websites. At this time there is no industry standard about our Services should do when those signals
are received. As a result, our Websites do not currently respond to “do-not-track” signals.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include Personal Information, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties including our business partners and service providers. It helps us to improve our Websites and to deliver better and
more personalized services, including by allowing us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Websites to your individual interests
and preferences.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Websites.
• Use location information we collect to provide you with content specific to your location and to personalize your experience for you.
Data we collect automatically which may not be Personal Information, is treated as Personal Information when it is attached to other Personal Information.
Personal Information Collection and Tracking Technologies
The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies/mobile cookies). A cookie is a small data file placed on the hard drive of your computer or your mobile device for example to recognize you when you return to our Websites. Cookies may contain information used to track users' progress through our Websites. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or mobile device. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites. Unless you have adjusted your device settings so that it will refuse cookies, our systems will issue cookies when you visit, access or use our Websites. For more information see our
Cookie Use Policy.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Websites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information and our Cookie Use Policy.
• Web Beacons. Parts of our Websites, and our e-mails contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain of our Websites content and verifying the integrity of our systems and servers).
Third-Party Collection of Personal Information and Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or functions on our Websites, including advertisements are provided by third-parties including content providers, application providers, our service providers and/or our business partners. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about
you when you use our Websites. The information they collect may be associated with Personal Information about you or they may collect information, including PersonalInformation, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps and other online services. They also use this information to provide you with interest-
based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
These third parties include:
• Our business partners
• Our service Providers
• Advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers including social media sites
• Analytics companies (including Google Analytics)
• Your mobile device manufacturer
• Your mobile service provider
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or targeted content, you should contact the responsible party directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising/content from many providers, see Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information and our Cookie Use Policy.
How We Use Personal Information
We use Personal Information that we collect about you or that you provide to us to:
• Present to you, improve, and maintain our Websites and their content, and any other information, products, or services that you request from us.
• Maintain the security of our Websites.
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To personalize your experience such as sending you offers from our business partners or service providers.
• Respond to your inquiries and requests for information.
• Provide you with notices about your subscriptions, including expiration and renewal notices.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• Notify you about changes to our Websites including when updates to our Websites are available.
• In any other way we describe when you provide the information.
• For other purposes with your consent.
We may also use Personal Information to contact you about our own and our business partners’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use Personal Information relating to you in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form where we collect information from you. For more information, see
Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information.
Our business partners may also use Personal Information we collect to display advertisements to our business partner’s target audiences. Even though we do not disclose Personal Information about you for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or that you provide us as described in this Privacy Policy:
• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To enhance your experience when using our Websites.
• To contractors, service providers, vendors, consultants, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Winland’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or
similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Winland about users of our Websites is part of the
assets transferred.
• To our business partners to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require our business partners to keep Personal Information confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “Share This” feature of our Websites, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipient.
Note, we may block your use of our “Share This” feature if we determine that your attempted use of that feature may violate any applicable laws including anti-SPAM laws. For more information, see our Terms of Use.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information to us.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any subpoena, court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Winland, our business partners, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes
of fraud prevention.
Your Choices About How We Use and Disclose Personal Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms for you to control certain uses and sharing of Personal Information:
• Tracking Technologies You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You can choose whether or not to allow our Websites to collect information through other tracking
technologies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Websites may not be accessible or not function properly.
• Location Information. You can choose whether or not to allow our Websites to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through your device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of our Websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Promotional Offers from Us and Our Business Partners. If you do not wish to have your email address or other contact information used by us to promote our own or our business partners’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form where we collect Personal Information, or by contacting us at WFI Contact Us Page. You may also Opt-out by replying STOP to an SMS message, or selecting “unsubscribe” from the footer of any email. This opt out does not apply to Personal Information you provided us related to a customer service request or other transaction.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Third-Party Advertising and Promotions. If you do not want us to share Personal Information about you with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for advertising or promotional purposes, you can opt out by contacting us at WFI Contact Us Page
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of Personal Information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you ways to choose not to have Personal Information about you collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from third parties who are members of the
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website.
Residents of certain states such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah and persons in the EU/EEA/UK may have additional Personal Information/Data rights and choices. Please see our U.S. Privacy Notices for State Residents, Privacy Notice for California Residents, and Privacy Notice for Personas in the EU/EEA/UK.
Accessing and Correcting Personal Information in General
Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia and Utah, may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see U.S. Privacy Notices for State Residents.
Security of Personal Information
We have implemented measures designed to secure Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All Personal Information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information transmitted through our Websites. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not
responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated via email. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is at the top of the page. You are responsible for making sure we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address and phone number for you, and for
periodically reviewing this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Our Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact
us at: WFI Contact Us Page
U.S. Privacy Notices for State Residents
U.S. State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights
regarding our use of Personal Information. To learn more about the privacy rights of
California residents, please see Privacy Notice for California Residents.
Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:
• Confirm whether we process Personal Information about them.
• Access and delete certain Personal Information.
• Data portability.• Opt-out of Personal Information processing for targeted advertising and sales.
Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:
• Correct inaccuracies in Personal Information about them, taking into account the information’s nature, processing, and purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise any of these rights or to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights
request please contact us at WFI Contact Us Page
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain Personal Information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address contact
us at WFI Contact Us Page
Privacy Notice for California Residents
Effective Date: February 1, 2023
Last Reviewed: February 1, 2023
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in Winland’ General Privacy Policy/Notice above and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
CCPA Personal Information We Collect
We collect Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“Personal Information“). Personal Information does not include:
• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
o health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), clinical trial data or other qualifying
research data;
o Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the
Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
In particular, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months: