Privacy Policy

TerreLocal Privacy Policy

TerreLocal on behalf of Global Food Scholar, Inc. TerreLocal we or us is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how TerreLocal collects, uses, and shares the personal information in connection with our website, mobile applications, and online services that post or link to this policy services. We provide our services to and on behalf of our customers, which may include those seeking to sell their products and services Sellers and those seeking to buy the product offerings and services Buyers(collectively,Customers. By accessing or using our services, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy does not cover or address privacy practices relating to job applicants, employees and other personnel.

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1. How We Collect and Use Information
2. How We Share Personal Information
3. How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technology to Collect Information
4. Third-Party Tracking and Online Advertising
5. Control Over Your Information
6. Data Retention
7. Links to Third-Party Websites and Services
8. Children’s Privacy
9. California Privacy Rights
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
11. Contact Us

1. How We Collect and Use Information

We collect personal information from our Customers and website visitors for a variety of purposes, including to provide a personalized, useful and efficient experience. The categories of information we collect may include:

• Information that you provide to us.

  We collect information that you provide to us when you set up an account with us, subscribe to our newsletter, use our services, or communicate with us or other Customers.; For example, we may request your personal information (e.g., name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username and password, and profile photograph) or your applicable business information (e.g., name and job title of representative, company, product offerings, email address, username and password, profile photograph) when you register for an account, make a purchase, or otherwise use our services.

We may also collect any communications that you exchange with us, as well as any information you provide if you take part in any interactive features of the services (e.g., in-app messaging, feedback, promotions, surveys, etc.).; We collect information you may provide when providing content or commentary to our services in the form of blog posts, comments, and the like (;User Content. Please note that User Content will be published on our services and will be viewable by the public.

If you are a Buyer, we collect your PayPal merchant address or other third-party payment processor login credentials to process your payment. We do not collect any payment information, as all payment processing for our services is handled directly by our third-party payment processor (and any information you provide to them is governed by their privacy policy).;

If you are a Seller and we need to remit funds to you in connection with a Buyer Purchase, we may collect your PayPal merchant address to remit funds to your PayPal account; if we provide a check, we collect the name and mailing address; if we send you an Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment, we will collect your name, routing and account number, as well as the name of the financial institution holding the account.

• Social Media. When you interact with our site through various social media, such as when you ;Like; us on Facebook or post a comment to our Facebook page, we may receive information from the social network such as your profile information, profile picture, gender, user name, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, friends list, and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network.

• Information from other sources.; We may obtain information from other sources, including through third-party information providers, Customers, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. We may combine this information with other information we collect from or about you. In these cases, our Privacy Policy governs the handling of the combined personal information.

We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of our services, such as product delivery, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you email messages about products and services that may be of interest to you.; We may also send you service-related emails or messages (e.g., account verification, purchase confirmation, changes or updates to features of the services, technical and security notices).; Similarly, if you request information from us through an online contact form or if you email us, we collect the information you provide (e.g., name, telephone number, email address) so that we can respond to you. For more information about your communication preferences, see Control Over Your Information below.

2. How We Share Personal Information

We may share your personal information in the instances described below. For further information on your choices regarding your information, see Control Over Your Information.;

• We may share your personal information with our other Customers, which may include your public profile information, product offerings, or in-app messages.
• We may share your personal information with third-party service providers or business partners who help us deliver or improve our services or who perform services on our behalf, which are subject to reasonable confidentiality terms, and may include identifying and serving targeted advertisements, processing payments, providing web hosting services, or providing analytics.
• We may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
• We may share your personal information with third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or to protect the security or integrity of the TerreLocal services, including to prevent harm or financial loss, or in connection with preventing fraud or illegal activity; and/or (c) exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TerreLocal, our Customers, visitors, or others.;
• We may share your personal information with other companies and brands owned or controlled by TerreLocal, and other companies owned by or under common ownership as TerreLocal. These companies may use your personal information in the same way as we can under this Privacy Policy.
• We may transfer any information we collect in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including any shares in the company) or any portion or combination of our products, services, businesses and/or assets. Should such a transaction occur (whether a divestiture, merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, liquidation, or similar transaction or proceeding), we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that any transferred information is treated in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• We may disclose your information publicly or with another third party with your prior authorization.;;
• We may share your information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual.;

3. How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technology to Collect Information

We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit our services, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. ;We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information, and similar technology (collectively, ;tracking technologies. ;

We, and our third-party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:

• Information about your device and its software, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device type/model/manufacturer, operating system, date and time stamp, and a unique ID that allows us to uniquely identify your browser or your account (including, for example, a persistent device identifier or an Ad ID), and other such information. We may also work with third-party partners to employ technologies, including the application of statistical modeling tools, which permit us to recognize and contact you across multiple devices.
• When you access our sites from a mobile device, we may collect unique identification numbers associated with your device or our mobile application (including, for example, a UDID, Unique ID for Advertisers (;IDFA, Google AdID, or Windows Advertising ID), mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, phone number, and depending on your mobile device settings, your geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (e.g., latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device, or we may be able to approximate a device’s location by analyzing other information, like an IP address.;;
• Information about the way you access and use our services, for example, the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our services, the pages you visit, the links you click, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access the services from multiple devices, and other actions you take on the services.
• We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the services and to understand more about the demographics of our users. You can learn more about Google’s practices at;https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and view its opt-out options at;https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.;

We use the data collected through tracking technologies to:;(a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising and local Sellers and Buyers in your geographic region; (c) identify you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our services; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance our services.

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact your experience using the services, as some features and services on our services may not work properly. Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.;

We and our third-party partners may also use cookies and tracking technologies for advertising purposes. ;For more information about tracking technologies, including your choices regarding this technology, please see Third-Party Tracking and Online Advertising below.

4. Third-Party Tracking and Online Advertising

We may share, or we may permit third-party online advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party services to collect information about your use of our services over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests on our services as well as on other websites or apps, or on other devices you may use.; Typically, though not always, the information we share is provided through cookies or similar tracking technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the site, and other information.; This information is used to display targeted ads on or through our services or on other websites, apps, or online services. We or the online advertising networks use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests. We may also display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and others. These companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services or our third-party partners’ services while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them.

To learn about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, and/or the DAA’s resources at www.aboutads.info/choices. You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings on your mobile device by selecting ;limit ad tracking; (iOS) or ;opt-out of interest-based ads; (Android).;;

You may also be able to limit interest-based advertising through the settings menu on your mobile device by selecting ;limit ad tracking; (iOS) or ;opt-out of interest-based ads; (Android).; You may also be able to opt-out of some — but not all — interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.

Please note that if you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online services.; It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests.; We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online services, including for analytics and fraud prevention purposes, as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.

Google Analytics and Advertising.;We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to our services. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, or by vising NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

5. Control Over Your Information

Email Communications.; From time to time, we may send you emails regarding updates to our products and services, notices about our organization, or information about products/services we offer (or promotional offers from third parties) that we think may be of interest to you.; If you wish to unsubscribe from such emails, simply click the ;unsubscribe link; provided at the bottom of the email communication or by sending us an email at info@terrelocal.org. Note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain services-related email communications (e.g., account verification, confirmations of transactions, technical or legal notices).

SMS Text Messages Preferences. You may opt-out of receiving promotional SMS text messages at any time. Please note that unsubscribing from promotional SMS text messages will not prevent you from receiving SMS texts from TerreLocal directly relating to your use of the services, such as account information, or order and delivery information that are necessary to provide the requested services to you. To unsubscribe from promotional SMS texts, email info@terrelocal.org and provide your phone number and opt-out preference, or call us at +1(707) 205-7084 For more information, see our Terms of Use.;

Modifying Account Information.; If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to modify certain information in your account (e.g., your contact information) through ;Edit Profile;.; If you have any questions about modifying or updating any information in your account, please contact us at the email or postal address provided below. Please note that TerreLocal does not own or control the data uploaded to our services by our Customers and cannot modify or delete Customer data except at the request of our Customer, or as permitted by our Terms of Use.

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Any Customer data that we have access to shall be retained, stored, and deleted according to our agreement with our Customer. We store data on servers in the U.S. and any other country in which TerreLocal or its affiliates, subsidiaries, agents or contractors maintain facilities.

7. Links to Third-Party Websites and Services

For your convenience, our services may provide links to third-party websites or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the practices employed by any third-party websites or services linked to or from our services, including the information or content contained within them. Your browsing and interaction on any other third-party website or service are subject to the applicable third party’s rules and policies, not ours. If you are using a third-party website or service, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site or service before providing any personal information.

8. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 13.; If we learn that any personal information has been collected inadvertently from a child under 13, we will delete the information as soon as possible.; If you believe that we might have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at info@terrelocal.org.

9. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year. To opt out of having your information shared in this manner, please email us at info@terrelocal.org.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. We may notify you about material changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your TerreLocal account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating this Privacy Policy and the ;last modified; date below. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically as your continued use of our services after any modifications to this Privacy Policy constitute your acknowledgment and agreement to abide by and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. When we do change the Privacy Policy, we will also revise the ;last modified; date below.;

11. Contact Us

For additional inquiries about this Privacy Policy, please send us an email at info@terrelocal.org, or contact us at:

Global Food Scholar, Inc.

404 Clipper Cove Way

San Francisco, California 94130

Telephone Number: +1 (707) 205-7084

Rajnish Khanna, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Global Food Scholar, Inc.

Phone: 707.205.7084

Email: raj@terrelocal.org

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