Freshpet (hereinafter, “Freshpet,” “our,” and/or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it to the extent we have a reasonable ability to do so. We hope this Privacy Policy will provide you with clarity and transparency concerning how we collect, use, and disclose your information – and all other visitors’ information – that we obtain through data submissions or general engagement with our website(s) – https://freshpet.com/sitemap.xml (“Site,” or “Sites”).
By using this Site, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We collect information from you in various ways when you use our Sites. We may collect personal information you directly provide on our Sites, including but not limited to: contact information, such as your name, email address, phone number, and company; your resume or other job application materials; and/or your comments on our posts and pages (“Personal Information”).
In addition, some information may be automatically collected when you visit our Sites. For example, it is standard for your Web Browsers (i.e., Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and/or Service Providers (i.e., Comcast Xfinity, Verizon, Sky, Telenor, etc.) to automatically send information to every website you visit, including ours (“Log Data”). That information includes your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language, and referring website addresses. We may also collect information about your computer’s operating system and information about your usage and activity on our Sites. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user-base as a whole to allow us to provide you a more meaningful, engaging, and valuable experience with us, and our Site.
We may automatically collect certain information through the use of “Cookies.” Cookies are small data files, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your Web Browser from a website and transferred (and stored) on your device.
We use Cookies to see which areas and features are most popular, to count the number of computers accessing our Sites, to personalize your experience, and to remember your preferences. We may link the information we store in Cookies to any Personal Information you submit while on our Site. If you prefer not to receive Cookies on our Site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting Cookies and refuse the Cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can set your browser not to accept Cookies, but if you do so or if you reject a Cookie, you may not be able to access some of the features or services of our Sites.
We may use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Site. We, and our third party vendors, use Cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site.
Google: Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/aFreshpet
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy; Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Facebook: Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/aFreshpet/#568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutaFreshpet.info/choices, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
We may use a pixel tag (also known as a web beacon), a piece of code embedded on the Site, that collects information about users’ engagement on that web page. Pixel tags allow us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement
We use Local Storage (LS) such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LS such as HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LS.
We store data in perpetuity through systematic back-ups of our databases, unless removal or deletion is requested. We have no control over data retention of Third Parties.
We support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
We collect this information to effectively communicate with you and route your online inquiry to the appropriate Freshpet representative. We also collect this information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.
In instances where you provide and/or submit information to Freshpet through email, our contact form(s), or via direct messages on social media networks (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) we may collect such information and post it on our Sites or within other material we produce.
We may also share your Personal Information or other information we collect about you with partners, affiliates, and/or third parties interested in serving you or informing you about their companies or organizations. Further use and/or disclosure of your information by such partners, affiliates, and/or third parties is not the responsibility of Freshpet. Rather, such use and/or disclosure is governed by the privacy policies of those partners, affiliates, and/or third parties’ privacy policies.
You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by: (1) following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send, or (2) by contacting us via email at [email protected] with the subject line [Removal of Personal Information Request] or snail-mail addressed:
Freshpet
Attn: Personal Information Records
P.O. Box 2157
Secaucus, NJ 07096-2157
and asking for the removal of your Personal Information from our database and/or servers.
If your personal information changes, we invite you to correct or update your information as soon as possible. You can request changes or access to your information by emailing [email protected], including within the subject [Update of Personal Information].
We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Site, company and/or personnel.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.
Please also note, Freshpet has limited access and/or control over your Personal Information, typically restricted only to that which you’ve explicitly provided to us with intention. In most instances the Personal Information we are able to access is obtained through Third Party Controllers or Sub-Processors, such as:
Additionally, you should be aware that Freshpet may utilize Third Party Tools that analyze our Sites, or similarly situated company websites, such as SEMRush, Social Bakers, etc.. These Third Party Tools may provide us with data or information about you (or a similar user) acquired from other entities. We, believe you should be aware of such possibility, and should you have concerns, would encourage you to revisit your Web Browser privacy settings and/or feel free to reach out to us with potential questions (we may not be able to answer, but we’ll try).
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Our Sites may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a Third Party Link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Our Site may offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at [email protected]. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our Site. Our Site does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a children under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 25, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our Site.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 entitles California customers to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed Personal Information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We will not sell or share your Personal Information for marketing purposes without your consent.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]