Privacy & Cookies Policy for Exitous, Inc.

Last Updated: February 14, 2024

Exitous Inc. ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy & Cookies Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information in connection with the website datachef.io (the "Website"). By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will not use or share your personal information with anyone except as described in this Privacy & Cookies Policy.

This Privacy & Cookies Policy is intended to meet our duties of transparency under relevant law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the United Kingdom, European Union, and applicable U.S. state privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Protection Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 and the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations issued thereto (collectively “CCPA”)), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, and the Utah Consumer Privacy Act.

We will post any modifications or changes to this Privacy & Cookies Policy on this page.

I. Your Rights Relating To Your Personal Data

You have the right under this Privacy and Cookies Policy, and by law in certain jurisdictions, to:

  • Request access to your Personal Data. If you are in certain jurisdictions, you have the right to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format, and to check that we are lawfully processing it. As applicable, you may have the right to request that we disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:

    • the categories of Personal Data we have collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such Personal Data;

    • the business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Data about you; and

    • the categories of Personal Data about you that we otherwise disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such Personal Data (if applicable).

  • Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Request erasure of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right if you are within the EU to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).

  • Object to processing of your Personal Data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation,which makes you want to object to the processing of your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

  • Request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of Personal Data about you in certain scenarios (for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it).

  • Request the transfer of your Personal Data. If you are in certain jurisdictions, we will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

  • Request to limit use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Data. If you are in certain jurisdictions, you have the right to ask that we limit our use and disclosure of your “Sensitive Personal Data” (defined below) to certain purposes permitted by law. For purposes of this Privacy & Cookies Policy, Sensitive Personal Data may include information such as social security number, driver license number, state identification card, passport number, financial data, etc.

  • Request to stop selling your Personal Data or sharing your Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising. Exitous Inc. does not sell your Personal Data and we have not engaged in such activities in the 12 months preceding the date this Privacy & Cookies Policy was last updated. If you are in certain jurisdictions, you have the right to ask that we limit the sharing of your Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising.

  • Opt out of targeted advertising. If you are in certain jurisdictions, you have the right to opt out of targeted advertising based on your Personal Data obtained from your activities over time and across websites or applications.

  • Opt out of profiling. Exitous Inc. does not process Personal Data for the purpose of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning consumers. To the extent that we were to engage in these activities and depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to request that we stop doing so.

  • Withdraw consent. This right only exists where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data ("Consent Withdrawal"). If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of our Site. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

How to exercise your rights. If you want to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us using the contact details in Section II (Who We Are and How to Contact Us) herein.

Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, except in relation to Consent Withdrawal, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Exitous Inc. will not discriminate against an individual because the individual exercised any of the rights described above.

II. Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly to us when you use the Website, as well as information that is automatically collected as you interact with the Website.

  • Information You Provide

(i) We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you create an account or communicate with us. This information may include your name, email address, username, password, and any other information you choose to provide.

  • Automatically Collected Information

(i) When you access or use the Website, we may automatically collect information about your device and usage, including:

(ii) Device Information: We may collect information about the device you use to access the Website, including the hardware model, operating system, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.

(iii) Log Information: We may collect log information about your use of the Website, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to the Website.

(iv) Contact Data: Your home address, work address, billing address, email address and telephone numbers.

(v) Usage Data: We may collect information about your interactions with the Website.

(vi) Financial Data: Your bank account and payment card details, statements about your wealth and financial situation.

(vii) Transaction Data: Any details about payments to and from you and other details of subscriptions and services you have purchased from us. Data in respect of your transactions with third parties (including your credit history).

(viii) Behavioral Data: Inferred or assumed information relating to your behavior and interests, based on your online activity. This is most often collated and grouped into "segments."

(ix) Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, geolocation data (e.g., general location derived from an IP address), your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Site or use our Services.

  • Personal Data From Third Party Sources

(i) Credit Reporting Agencies: identity data, contact data, financial data, transaction data.

(ii) Analytics Providers: behavioral data, technical data

(iii) Advertisers: behavioral data, technical data

(iv) Data Brokers: contact data, behavioral data, technical data, usage data

III. Use of Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve the Website and its features;

  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service;

  • Communicate with you about the Website, including sending technical notices, updates, and support messages;

  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with the Website;

  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, and protect our rights and property;

  • Personalize and improve the Website and provide content or features that match user interests and preferences;

  • Link or combine with information we receive from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service; and

  • Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected.

IV. How We Use Cookies and Related Technologies

Exitous Inc. may collect non-personally identifiable information regarding your usage of the Services, including the pages and articles and presentations you viewed, time spent using certain features of the website, demographic data such as server locations, connection speed, and other information that does not identify you. Like most online services, we also use cookies, log files, clear GIFs, tracking pixels, web beacons, and other technologies that may collect Personal Data.

Cookies:

What are cookies? When you visit the Services, we may send one or more "cookies" – small data files – to your computer to uniquely identify your browser and let Exitous Inc. help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Site. A cookie may convey anonymous information about how you browse the Services to us so we can provide you with a more personalized experience, but does not collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after you close your browser so that it can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser's directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser.

What cookies do we use? Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request to load quickly. Without these cookies, the Services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our Site which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.

  • Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Site and how Users use our Site. The information gathered via these cookies does not "directly" identify any individual visitor. However, it may render such visitors "indirectly identifiable". This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access our Site. The information collected is aggregated and anonymous. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use a number of different tools including Google Analytics, Segment, Posthog, and Fullstory for this purpose.

  • Targeted and Advertising Cookies: These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show advertisements which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites. Third party advertisers may also use other technologies in addition to cookies placed on the Site (such as JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content.

How can I disable cookies? You can typically reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "settings", "help" "tools" or "edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Services and some features of the Service may not function properly. For example, we may not be able to recognise your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Services.

V. Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security measure is foolproof, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

VI. Children’s Privacy

The Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information from our records.

VII. International Users

The Website is operated and managed in the United States, and your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States or other countries outside of your jurisdiction. By using the Website, you consent to the transfer of your information to countries outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than those in your country.

IX. Changes To Our Privacy & Cookies Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you either by posting a notice on the Website or by sending you an email or other notification, and we will indicate when such changes will become effective. By continuing to use the Website after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

X. Links To Other Websites

This Privacy & Cookies Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Exitous Inc. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Services to another website, our Privacy & Cookies Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our Site, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Such third parties may use their own cookies or other methods to collect information about you.

XI. Third-Party Applications

If you choose to use third-party apps, websites, or other services that use, or are integrated with, our Services, those third parties can receive information about your activity within those apps, as well as information on your public profile on our Site. If you decide to enable, access, or use third-party apps linked through the Services, including the integration of such third-party apps into your instance of the Services, your enablement, access, and use of these third-party apps is governed solely by the terms and conditions of privacy and cookies policies of these third-party apps. We encourage you to read the privacy and cookies policies of all third-party apps you decide to use. In certain cases, you may be required to register for or log into such third-party apps on their respective websites. By enabling the use and integration of your selected third-party apps, you are expressly permitting Exitous Inc. to disclose your login as well as your data to such third-party apps as necessary to facilitate your enablement and use of such third-party apps in your instance of the Services.

XII. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy & Cookies Policy, please contact us at support@exitous.co.