Privacy Policy

Myfoodservice.com LLC. ("Myfoodservice.com") recognizes that it’s customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.Myfoodservice.com value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Myfoodservice.com Site.

Myfoodservice.com provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the Myfoodservice.com Site.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Myfoodservice.com Terms of Use. Your use of the Myfoodservice.com Site and any personal information you provide on the Myfoodservice.com Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the Myfoodservice.com Site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

The Information Myfoodservice.com Collects

User Provided Information: You provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to Myfoodservice.com when choosing to participate in various activities on the Myfoodservice.com Site such as uploading recipes, posting messages in our forums or in the recipe/bar comments section, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.

Cookies Information: When you visit the Myfoodservice.com Site, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Myfoodservice.com uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Myfoodservice.com Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Log File Information: When you use the Myfoodservice.com Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

Clear GIFs Information: When you use the Myfoodservice.com Site, we may employ "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

The Myfoodservice.com User Information

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Myfoodservice.com Site, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Myfoodservice.com Site.

Any personal information that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload messages through the Myfoodservice.com Site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments.

We do use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send a weekly email update and other specific marketing program messages. We may, however, also use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major site changes or for customer service purposes).

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Myfoodservice.com Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Myfoodservice.com Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

When Myfoodservice.com Discloses Information

We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our participating foodservice manufacturers, participating companies and advertisers for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use.

We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Myfoodservice.com Site.

We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.

Myfoodservice.com also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Myfoodservice.com believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Myfoodservice.com, our Users or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Myfoodservice.com Site, in which case Myfoodservice.com will not be able to provide services to you. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the Myfoodservice.com Site cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Third-Party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Myfoodservice.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. Our advertisers may also use information regarding your use of the Myfoodservice.com Site, such as the number of times you viewed an ad, a section or a page (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

Our Commitment To Data Security

Myfoodservice.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Myfoodservice.com and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Myfoodservice.com makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If Myfoodservice.com learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Myfoodservice.com may post a notice on the Myfoodservice.com Site if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

In the event that Myfoodservice.com is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the Myfoodservice.com Site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

Date Last Modified:

This Privacy Notice was last modified January 1, 2009.

Contact Information

Please contact Myfoodservice.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice at privacy@myfoodservice.com.