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Privacy
Policy

Welcome to the website (“Site”) of GLK Foods, LLC. (“GLK Foods “, “we,” “us,” or “our”). PLEASE REVIEW THE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SITE. The privacy concerns of our customers and visitors are important to us. We are dedicated in attempting to handle your privacy concerns with the amount of care and respect that you would expect. If you have a need to contact us in regard to our privacy policy or your privacy concerns, please use the following contact information:

GLK Foods, LLC
158 E. Northland Avenue
Appleton, WI 54911

Questions or Concerns.
If you have any questions or concerns, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments using the form provided on our website – Contact us.

Our Information Practices.
Due to the variety of opportunities located at glkfoods.com, varying types of information are collected based upon the activity in which a particular user may choose to participate.

What type of Personal information we collect?
We only collect personal information that you submit to us. Personal Information is defined as any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to a Social Security Number and/or Identification Number (hereinafter “SSN/IN”) or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

Personal Information shall include but is not limited to: name, home address, home zip code, home telephone number, mobile phone number, email address, Social Security Number and/or Identification Number, financial information and employment related information such as may be found on resumes, applications, background verification information, or in employment references.

Log Data and Cookies.
Generally, all information containing personally identifiable information is provided to GLK Foods on a voluntary basis from you. However, our servers may automatically detect information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, page views, or other statistical data (Log Data) related to our Site. This information generally does not contain personally identifiable information, and this information generally is not linked to any personally identifiable information that you may provide GLK Foods during your visit to our Site. While we may disclose, sell, or distribute this statistical information about our Site to other parties, the information will not contain any information traceable to a single person or entity. If for some reason this type of information becomes linked to you in a personally identifiable way, it will be treated as personal information under this policy.

Cookies may also be used by our website. Cookies will not damage your computer or read information from your hard drive. Cookies allow certain actions by a user to be remembered by a website. We do not store any personal information in our cookies, and our cookies are not linked to any personal information stored in our database. However, you can disable the use of cookies on your computer by changing the preferences of your web browser.

Electronic Newsletter Subscription.
GLK Foods may from time to time offer a variety of newsletters in which our customers or visitors may participate. If you register for a club or newsletter and provide us with your personal information, we may use your personal information to contact you and inform you of special offers or promotions. If you would rather not receive information about special offers, other promotions, or be a member of our club, you may unsubscribe any time.

Contests, Sweepstakes, and Surveys.
GLK Foods may from time to time offer a variety of contests, sweepstakes, or surveys for you. We may collect your personal information in order to efficiently and effectively administer the contest, sweepstakes, or survey. Your personal information may be used to contact you in a variety of situations including but not limited to updates on potential changes in the contest, sweepstakes or survey; obtain more information from you; or to notify the contestant winner(s) of their status. Additionally, your personal information may be used to contact you to notify you of future special offers, promotions, contests, sweepstakes, or surveys with a concurrent enrollment in one of our newsletters. Your personal information may be provided to third parties to the extent that the third party is acting as the agent of GLK Foods in administering or handling data regarding special offers, promotions, contests, sweepstakes, or surveys for GLK Foods. These third parties may not use the information for any of their own purposes.

How information is shared?
GLK Foods does not sell Personal Information to third parties. We may share Personal Information with our service providers, consultants and affiliates for our internal business purposes. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, GLK Foods will not share Personal Information with a third party, unless a customer requests, consents to such disclosure, or disclosure is required or authorized by law.

We may share your Personal Information with agents, affiliates or service providers who act for or on behalf of GLK Foods in connection with the business of GLK Foods, or for further processing the data in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data was originally collected (e.g., third party maintenance of secure listing databases or prize fulfillment in connection with a contest or sweepstakes). We require our agents, affiliates and service providers to agree in writing to maintain the confidentiality and security of Personal Information they maintain on behalf of GLK Foods and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which we retained them. We also require any third parties we retain to protect Personal Information disclosed by us in accordance with all applicable privacy requirements and the general privacy principles described in this Privacy Policy.

The Personal Information you provide GLK Foods is considered a company asset and may be disclosed and/or transferred to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, or financing of all or any portion of GLK Foods or of any of the business assets or shares of GLK Foods or a division thereof, in order for a customer to continue to receive the same products and services from the third party.

Although we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we reserve the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information to a third party in certain limited circumstances, specifically: to comply with a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, judicial proceeding, a court order, or as otherwise may be required by law, to enforce our policies or contracts, to collect amounts owed to us, to protect users of our sites from fraudulent or abusive use, during emergencies when safety is at risk, as determined by GLK Foods, or otherwise where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. In addition, from time to time, server logs may be reviewed for security purposes; for example, to detect unauthorized activity on the web site. In such cases, server log data, containing IP addresses, would be shared with law enforcement bodies in order that they may identify users in connection with their investigation of the unauthorized activities. Personal Information may be provided to a courier or freight forwarder to fulfill an order, which may have been requested from us.

Storage.
GLK Foods insures that Personal Information is safeguarded against loss, access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse. All reasonable steps are taken to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information. GLK Foods will retain your Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws and your consent to such purpose remains valid after termination of our relationship with you. We take all reasonable steps to insure that your Personal Information is accurate, up-to-date, complete, relevant and not misleading.

Security of Data.
GLK Foods would like to assure its customers and visitors that it has taken appropriate measures to ensure that any collected personally identifiable information has been stored securely and will continue to be secure in the future. We have taken steps such as limiting the people with physical access to our servers as well as including electronic security systems and passwords to protect against unauthorized access.

Options to Opt-Out.
You may have the opportunity to elect to receive email and mobile communications from GLK Foods. GLK Foods will only email you or send you mobile alerts if you elect to receive them. If you elect to receive email and mobile communications, GLK Foods will send you occasional updates about new additions to the Website as well as special offers and promotions of which you can take advantage. If at any time you decide you would rather not receive these types of communications from GLK Foods, you can opt-out by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any GLK Foods email, update the contact preferences for your account, for mobile marketing, you may opt-out by following the instructions provided in the text messages you receive, or contact the Privacy Officer at [email protected].

Third-Party Websites.
Please note that glkfoods.com websites may contain links to other websites for your convenience and information. GLK Foods does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from glkfoods.com. GLK Foods’s privacy policy cannot and does not apply to external websites. We do not endorse or make any representations about third party websites. The personal data you choose to give to unrelated third parties is not covered by the GLK Foods privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company or website before submitting your Personal Information. Some third parties may choose to share their personal data with GLK Foods; that sharing is governed by that third party company’s privacy policy.

Amendments to Our Policy.
Please be aware that this privacy policy may be changed at anytime. You should frequently check this policy and be aware of any changes.

Miscellaneous.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that the disclosure is necessary to protect you, our rights, and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process served on us.

Your California Privacy Rights.
As of January 1, 2005, California Civil Code 1798.83 allows visitors to our Site who are California residents to request certain information and choices pertaining to the disclosure of their personal information to other parties for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email using the form provided on our website – Contact us.

Children’s Privacy Policy.
GLK Foods takes great pride in the relationships we have established with our customers. GLK Foods recognizes the need for additional protection when children provide personally identifiable information online. Thus, GLK Foods prefers not to collect and usually does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. However, from time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes, surveys, clubs, or newsletters in which children under the age of 13 will be required to register in order to participate. The information we collect from kids during our registration process generally consists of a first name, initial of the last name, e-mail address, date of birth, zip code, username, and a password. The birth date is used for age validation for contest or sweepstakes purposes and potentially future internal marketing purposes if enrolled in our clubs or newsletters. We do not collect any other personally identifiable information from kids during our registration process or require the disclosure of more personal information than is needed to participate in any activity. Children under 13 years of age are required to obtain the express permission of a parent or guardian before submitting any Personal Information about themselves (such as their names, e-mail address, and phone number) over the Internet. If a child has provided us with personally-identifiable information without the consent of a parent or guardian, the parent or guardian of that child should contact the Privacy Officer immediately at [email protected]. We will use reasonable efforts to promptly delete the child’s information from our servers.

Note to Parents/Legal Guardians
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that we inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under 13 years of age; and that we obtain the consent of parents and guardians in order for children under 13 years of age to use certain features of our website. Also, when we use the term “parent”, we mean to include legal guardians.

Children can participate in many of our features without providing personally identifiable information. However, to enable their participation in certain of our interactive features, we may ask children to provide us with personally identifiable information. The types of information we may request include first name as well as the child’s and parent’s email addresses. We use a child’s email address to respond to a specific request to participate in an activity (e.g., participate in a contest or sweepstakes, respond to their question, enable them to subscribe to a newsletter). We use parents’ e-mail addresses to obtain their consent or notify them of their child’s online activities and enable the parent to unsubscribe the child from a newsletter or other similar activity.

We do not share children’s personally identifiable information with outside third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we use agents or contractors to help us conduct a contest or sweepstakes, send prizes to winners, or provide customer service related to activities on the site. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the specific services they are performing.

At any time parents can refuse to permit us to collect further personal information from their child and can request that any personal information we have collected be deleted from our records.

We will provide parents notice by e-mail of any material changes in the way we intend to collect, use, and/or share their child’s personal information. Please note that, at all times, parents should update their personal information to provide us a current email address.

If you would like to review any personally identifiable information that we have collected online from your child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of your child’s information, or if you have questions about these information practices, you may contact our Privacy Officer at the contact information below.

Contact Information
You may contact the Privacy Officer at:
Privacy Officer
GLK Foods, LLC
158 E. Northland Avenue
Appleton, WI 54911
Fax: 920-560-6467
Email: [email protected]

Effective: March 1, 2013

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