FAREDROP, LLC PRIVACY POLICY

Updated: 2024-04-02

This Privacy Policy describes how your Personal Information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from faredrop.com (the “Site”). As used herein “we” “us” or “our” refers to FareDrop, LLC, a Tennessee entity doing business as Daily Drop and FareDrop. Our data protection officer may be reached at the below address:

Austin Eldridge

FareDrop, Inc.  

2348 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy, Box 214
Morristown, TN 37814, United States.

Phone: +1-205-430-4198

Email: dpo@faredrop.com

Our GDPR designated representative in the UK and EEA countries may be reached at the below address:  

Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft m.b.H.  

Colmantstraße 15, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)228 74 898 0

Fax: +49 (0)228 74 898 66

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.    

“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

   

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, phone number and other information you provide to us.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

In addition we collect the following types of Personal Information (“Identifiable Information”)

Categories of Personal Information

Specific Types of Personal Information Collected by Us

Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)

Your real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name.

Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

Your name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

 

Your age, your citizenship, and your gender.

Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies)

Your purchase history with us.

Biometric information

Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement)

Your browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement.

Geolocation data

Your physical location and movements, and GPS coordinates.  

Professional or employment-related information

Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is not collected by us.

 

Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

Your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information, Order Information, and Identifiable Information.  

HOW AND WHY DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

The Personal Information is required to provide products and/or services to you. If you do not provide Personal Information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products and/or services to you.

Under data protection law, we can only use your Personal Information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.,:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or

Where you have given consent.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your Personal Information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.

The table below explains what we use (process) your Personal Information for and our reasons for doing so:

What we use your Personal Information for:

Our reasons:

To provide products AND/OR services to you

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

To prevent and detect fraud against you or FareDrop, Inc.

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you

Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity


Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes

Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. under health and safety regulation or rules issued by our professional regulators

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations by gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies and ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g. policies covering security and internet use

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you

Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training and quality control

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price

Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g. in relation to our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures

Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations by updating and enhancing customer records

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products

Statutory returns

Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you

Marketing our services and those of selected third parties to: existing and former customers; third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services; third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings.

 

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former customers

External audits and quality checks, e.g. for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts

For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, i.e. to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

We may use your Personal Information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our products and/or services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and/or services.

We have a legitimate interest in processing your Personal Information for promotional purposes. This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.

We will always treat your Personal Information with the utmost respect and never sell it to other organizations outside the FareDrop, Inc. group and its affiliates for marketing purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing to the contrary, certain third-parties which we utilize in the course of operating our business and who have a legitimate interest in your Order Information or Personal Information may use your Order Information or Personal Information for their commercial purposes beyond simply supporting our business.

You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:

Contacting us at unsubscribe@faredrop.com;

Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” number in texts; or

Updating your marketing preferences on our site.

We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products and/or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads  

GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous  

BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads  

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  

We use Webflow to host our website - you can read more about how Webflow uses your Personal Information here: https://webflow.com/legal/privacy

We use Amazon Web Services to power our online store - you can read more about how Amazon uses your Personal Information here: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.

We use Beehiiv as our email sending platform -you can read more about how Beehiiv uses your Personal Information here: https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy

We use FirstPromoter to track affiliate campaigns - you can read more about how FirstPromoter uses your Personal Information here: https://new.firstpromoter.com/privacy

We use Stripe for e-commerce products including, without limitation, payment processing and subscription management - you can read more about how Stripe uses your Personal Information here: https://stripe.com/privacy.  

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site - you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We use Retention.com Data Services and their online data partners or vendors to associate these website activity with  personal information they or others have about you, including by association with your email or home address.  We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email or home addresses.  You may view their privacy policy at https://retention.com/privacy-policy/. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout

We use Gorgias for customer support - you can read more about how Gorgias uses your Personal Information here: https://www.gorgias.com/privacy

We use the Apple App Store to distribute our mobile application - you can read more about how Apple uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/.

We use Google Play to distribute our mobile application -  you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

We use Google Firebase Crashlytics in connection with native applications - you can read more about how Google Firebase uses your Personal Information here:     https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

We may also share your Personal Information with:

Our affiliates

Service providers we use to help deliver our products and/or services to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses and delivery companies;

Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies or website hosts;

Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers;

Our insurers and brokers;

Our banks;

We only allow our service providers to handle your Personal Information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your Personal Information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your Personal Information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share Personal Information with external auditors, e.g. in relation to ISO accreditation and the audit of our accounts.

We may also need to share some Personal Information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

By using our Site you (i) consent to our use of your Personal Information and Order Information as described herein and (ii) consent to the use of your Personal Information and Order Information by the third parties referenced herein.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE DISCLOSED FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE.

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers);

Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information;

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law;

Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies);

Biometric information;

Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement);

Geolocation data;

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information;

Professional or employment-related information;

Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); and

Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

WHERE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS HELD.  

Personal Information may be held at our offices and those of our affiliates, third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above.

Some of these third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area. For more information, including on how we safeguard your Personal Information when this occurs, see below: “Transferring Your Personal Information Out of the EEA”.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUT OF THE EEA.  

To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your Personal Information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g.:

With our offices outside the EEA;

With your and our service providers located outside the EEA;

If you are based outside the EEA; or

Where there is an international dimension to the services we are providing to you.

These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law. These non-EEA countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfer complies with data protection law and all Personal Information will be secure. If you would like further information, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer (see “Contact Us” below).

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access Personal Information we hold about you and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Your Rights under the GDPR

Right to Access

The right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Information (the right of access)

Right to Rectification

The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your Personal Information

Right to be Forgotten

The right to require us to delete your Personal Information—in certain situations

Right to Restriction of Processing

The right to require us to restrict processing of your Personal Information—in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data

Right to Data Portability

The right to receive the Personal Information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations

Right to Object

The right to object: at any time to your Personal Information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling); in certain other situations to our continued processing of your Personal Information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.

Right Not to be Subject to Automated  

Individual Decision-Making

The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

Your Rights Under the CCPA.  

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know:
The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you; The categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected; Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling Personal Information; The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information, if any; and The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. Please note that we are not required to: Retain any Personal Information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained; Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered Personal Information; or Provide the Personal Information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose

In connection with any Personal Information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: The categories of Personal Information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold; and the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your Personal Information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your Personal Information, we will refrain from selling your Personal Information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale of your Personal Information. To opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your Personal Information please email legal@faredrop.com.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: Delete your Personal Information from our records; and direct any service providers to delete your Personal Information from their records. Please note that we may not delete your Personal Information if it is necessary to: Complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; Comply with an existing legal obligation; or Otherwise use your Personal Information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Protection Against Discrimination

You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things: Deny goods or services to you; Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services. Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods and/or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your Personal Information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of Personal Information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

In addition, under certain data protection laws, you have rights which may also include:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your Personal Information.  

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify Personal Information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.  

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your Personal Information in certain circumstances.  

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.  

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the Personal Information you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. Please contact us through the contact information below.  

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS.  

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please:

Complete a data subject request form available on our website;

Call us at +1-205-430-4198; or

Email/write to us at legal@faredrop.com / FareDrop, Inc., 2348 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy, Box 214, Morristown, TN 37814, United States.

Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact directly by website/email/phone/in writing, you will need to provide us with:

Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number));

Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and

A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any Personal Information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

HOW TO FILE A GDPR COMPLAINT

We hope that we or our Data Protection Officer can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.  

DATA RETENTION

We will keep your Personal Information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products and/or services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your Personal Information for as long as is necessary:

To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;

To show that we treated you fairly; or

To keep records required by law.

We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of Personal Information. When it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information, we will delete or anonymize it.

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We will inform you of these changes via. Our website or other means of contact such as email.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@faredrop.com or by mail using the details provided below:

FareDrop, Inc.

2348 W. Andrew Johnson Hwy

Box 214  

Morristown, TN 37814

United States  

DO YOU NEED EXTRA HELP?  

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