Social Grocery Privacy Policy

The Social Grocery network is made available by MyWebGrocer, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Social Grocery respects your privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of your personal information, such as your name, email address and mailing address. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how your personal information is collected and used by us. Contact us with any questions you may have by emailing privacy@socialgrocery.com. We’re always happy to hear from you.

How Social Grocery Works

The Social Grocery website and mobile apps enable you to “Grab” grocery products and get grocery product recommendations based on your likes, what your friends like and what’s popular. You rate your favorite products to create a personal profile. The Social Grocery software saves the items that you grab and the things you like, and recommends to you other products that you may be interested in. You can share your opinion and leave a comment, posting information to be displayed publicly under your user name. You can get magnets and, from time to time, additional offers and rewards as a result of the interaction you have on the site.

By using Social Grocery you build a library of your grocery product shopping preferences. That library is part of Social Grocery’s service. To provide you this service, Social Grocery needs to keep track of what you grab, what you add to your pantry and what items you like. By its nature, the Social Grocery service needs to make use of information about you. Any use we make of your information is subject to the terms of this privacy policy. If you use Social Grocery, you agree to allow us to use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

You are in control of what information about yourself and your network activities you share with us and with other Social Grocery users. Visit your account setting page to configure your account settings to reflect your privacy preferences.

What Information Does Social Grocery Collect And How?

Personal information collected by Social Grocery is information voluntarily provided to us by you when you create your account or change your account information. Currently, information that we save about you includes your display name, your email address, and your user id. In addition, if you take part in Social Grocery promotions we may ask you for your mailing address. This mailing address is only used to mail you the rewards and is not used for any other purpose. Once the particular rewards are sent to you, we no longer save your mailing address. Social Grocery stores your product grabs, likes, dislikes and comments that you provide us with. When you unsubscribe from the Social Grocery service, all data that we have saved about you is deleted.

The Social Grocery website uses cookies. A cookie is a small string of text that a website can send to your browser, for the purpose of enhancing your visit to the website. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address. We use cookies to personalize your site visit, securely store your ID and password, and identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of other information that you voluntarily provide. You can set your computer settings to alert you when a cookie is being placed. You may also clear all cookies saved to your computer by using the relevant selection in your internet browser.

How Social Grocery Uses Your Personal Information

Information collected about your Internet usage, your “likes” and “dislikes”, and information you post, is displayed to the public, together with your chosen user name, according to the user account settings selected by you when you join Social Grocery or update your account. Your profile by default is visible on the Social Grocery.com website and mobile apps. You can change this by visiting your account settings page.

Social Grocery does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. We will not disclose your personal information to others without your express permission, or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. Social Grocery does not supplement the personal information provided by you with information collected from other sources.

The only way for third party applications or services to access your information is by you giving them explicit permission to do so. When you give permission to share your information with other websites (For example, when you agree to a pop up requesting you to allow another application to access your account information), Social Grocery uses standard OAuth (open authorization) technology to allow us to share information about you that is stored by us (For example, your grabs and likes) without sharing your security credentials. You only authenticate on our site. The only way a third party is permitted to access your info is by using standard OAuth protocol.

We will also use your personal information to contact you from time to time by email: regarding updates to our policies and to Social Grocery software; to send you our monthly update or other information that we feel may be of interest to you; or to provide you with rewards or information about how to obtain them. The Social Grocery service includes a monthly update of new activity. You may elect to turn off the update by visiting your account settings. You may choose to unsubscribe from our emails by using the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the email.

We also use your mailing address to mail you rewards if you explicitly request that. Your mailing address is not stored longer than necessary to mail you the item in connection with which the mailing address was provided. Your information will be accessed by Social Grocery employees as necessary to provide customer support and troubleshoot problems.

We may also release personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements, or to protect the rights of MyWebGrocer or others. Your personal information is, of course, subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders.

How Does Social Grocery Protect Your Personal Information?

Information collected about you is protected in several ways.

When you provide us with your email, mailing address or other personal information, these are stored in our secure database in encrypted format. When your personal information is sent between the web browser and the server, it is also encrypted using modern encryption standards in order to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information while it is being transferred. Your credentials are never shared with any Social Grocery partners; you only authenticate on the Social Grocery site or apps.

Access by you to your personal information is available through a password and unique user ID selected by you. Your password is encrypted. We strongly recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.

You can customize your privacy and other settings by visiting your account settings.

Reviewing, Changing, And Deleting Your Personal Information

At any time, you may request to view or update the personal information that is associated with your account and stored by Social Grocery. You may also request that we correct, delete some or all-personal and/or non-personal information that we have collected about you. We will promptly fulfill your request and provide you confirmation when the information has been deleted. To request any change or deletion of your personal information, or your entire Social Grocery account, visit your account settings.

Third-Party Websites

Social Grocery may suggest links to various web pages that the software determines may be of interest to you. We do not have control over third-party websites and applications, or their information collection practices. The practices of third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you consult the privacy policies of the third-party websites and applications or contact their providers directly for information about their privacy practices. Social Grocery assumes no liability for the practices of third-party websites and applications.

Changes In This Privacy Policy

Because the Internet is constantly evolving, so are our policies. By creating a User Account, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as it may be amended from time to time. Any updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted here. It is your responsibility and you agree to check back to view the policy at this site from time to time. We may also notify you of material changes by sending you an email.

Do You Have Questions Or Concerns?

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our information practices, or any concerns about the security of your personal information, please contact Social Grocery at support@socialgrocery.com. We will respond to you promptly.