The Food Detective SA, rue de la Terrassière 23, c/o Mario Tassistro, 1207 Genève (the Company) respects your privacy.
To run our business, we collect and use information about users of our mobile application, available on smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices, on iOS and Android, and to the website accessible at foodetective.co and any other products and/or services available at the same URL address (referred to as personal data).
The protection of this personal data is important to the Company. We therefore process any personal data entrusted to us in compliance with the law.
As part of our commitment to protect your personal data, we want to inform you:
This policy applies to any and all forms of use of personal data (a processing). Unless defined in this policy, terms beginning with a capital letter shall have the meaning set forth in the terms of use of the Company.
Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?
The Company is responsible for the processing, as controller, of your personal data and has appointed as representative in the EU.
We collect and process identification information about all individuals with whom we interact, such as the name, email address, date of birth and residence address.
This information may either be directly provided by you or provided by the legal entity for whom you work (e.g. if you are the contact person designated by your employer to manage the Company account).
In principle, we do not collect and process identification information regarding Users other than Registered Users.
We also collect and process the following information in relation to Registered Users:
For the Business Users, we also collect and process the following information:
For the Foodie Users, we also collect and process the following information:
Whenever personal data is collected (e.g. in application forms), we will indicate whether the provision of such data is mandatory (e.g. with an asterisk) and the consequences of a refusal to provide the requested data.
We only process your personal data provided:
We process your personal data for specific purposes and only to the extent relevant to achieve these purposes. In particular, we process your personal data for the following purposes, in order to perform our contractual obligations:
The following purposes are based on the legitimate interest of the Company for processing of your personal data:
Finally, your consent is necessary for processing your personal data pursuant to the following purposes:
We may transfer personal data to third parties outside the Company, acting as processors, to achieve the purposes listed in Section 4.2 above, to the extent they need it to carry out the instructions we have given to them. Such third parties include our (IT) systems, cloud service and database providers, our payroll provider and (public) transport companies.
As processors, the above third parties enter into an agreement with Company to process your personal data.
Where required, we may also transfer your personal data to:
The personal data transferred within or outside the Company as set out in Section 5.2, may also be processed in a country outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland. In particular, your personal data may be transferred to AWS. These countries may not offer the same level of personal data protection as EEA countries and Switzerland.
If your personal data is transferred to a country that has not been recognized as offering an adequate level of protection for personal data, we will put in place the legally required safeguards or rely on the relevant legal derogations to ensure such transfer is carried out in compliance with the applicable law.
You may request additional information in this respect and obtain a copy of the relevant safeguard by exercising your rights as set out below.
Our websites (including mobile apps) may contain links to other websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify or Medium & Pinterest. This policy does not apply to the practices of any company or individual that the Company does not control, nor to any websites that may be linked from our websites. You should carefully review the privacy policies of any websites that you visit from our websites to learn more about their information and privacy practices. The collection and use of your personal information shall be governed by such other party or website’s privacy policy and the Company shall not be held responsible for their privacy practices.
The Company also uses “cookies” or other analytics tools to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that the Company transfers to your electronic device and is stored on your electronic device. e.g. the Company uses cookies or other analytics tools to measure the traffic to and usage of our websites and their different features, and other miscellaneous uses.
If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your electronic device, you should set your browser or electronic device to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of the websites may not function properly without the help of cookies.
We will only retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements.
Personal data we hold in our database about you will be stored for maximum 24 months after your last interaction with the Company.
Within the limits and under the conditions set forth in the law, you have the following rights:
To exercise the above rights, you may send a request by post (23 Rue de la Terrassière, 1207 Genève) or by email to info@foodetective.co. We will respond in compliance with applicable law.
If you are not satisfied with how Company processes your personal data, please let us know and we will investigate your concern.
In addition, you have the right to make a complaint to the competent data protection authority.
This policy may be subject to amendments. Any future changes or additions to the processing of personal data as described in this policy affecting you will be communicated to you through an appropriate channel, depending on how we normally communicate with you.