Privacy Policy

What is Foodditive?

Foodditive is a community site and iPhone application providing comprehensive information on E-numbered food additives. There are hundreds of food additives which may be used to improve the colourAdded to change or intensify colour in food., flavourA natural or artificial compound used to give food a particular taste or smell., texture, or storage life of food.

Some popular topics include:

Foodditive values the privacy of our users. Feel free to contact us with any questions about our policies regarding personal information and privacy.

Information Collection & Use

Foodditive collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our web site and related products/services.

Registration

In order to access some Foodditive site content and community features, you may be prompted to first complete our registration process. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We will use this information to email you your initial login details for the Foodditive web site, and to contact you about the Foodditive services in which you have expressed interest.

As part of registration, you will also be asked to provide some optional information such as location and dietary preferences. This information will be used by Foodditive to help personalise and prioritise content and features.

Grox Pty Ltd, the developer of Foodditive, is the sole owner of the information collected on Foodditive.com and any related Foodditive products and services.

Invite a Friend

If you choose to use our invite service to tell a friend about Foodditive, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Foodditive site. Foodditive stores invite information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us to request that we remove their information from our database.

Communications from Foodditive

Service-related Announcements and Notifications

We may need to send you occasional service-related announcements and notifications.

Generally you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Customer Service

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcome email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.

Profile

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and explicit interactions with the Foodditive service to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information to information in the profile in order to improve the content of the service for you.

We do not share your profile with third parties.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners. This information does not identify individual users.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information

We DO NOT Share personally identifiable information with third Parties.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

Continued use of the Foodditive site as a logged-in member requires acceptance of our current Terms and Conditions. Should these terms be updated at any point after you have accepted them, you will be prompted to re-confirm your acceptance before proceeding.

Log Files

As is true of most web services, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyse trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We use third-party tracking services including Google Analytics to track visitors to our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site as a guest with limited access for some content and features. Full access to site functionality as a logged-in member requires cookies.

Links to Other Sites

This web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Foodditive. Please be aware that we, Foodditive, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy policy applies only to information collected by the Foodditive web site.

User Forums

If you use the user forum on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete, or deactivate personal details by making the change on your or by contacting us. Some historical information may be need to be retained by our backup or reporting systems for the purposes of data integrity.

Business Transitions

In the event Foodditive goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change the Foodditive privacy policy we will post those changes on this privacy policy page, on the Foodditive home page, and on other places we deem appropriate.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on the Foodditive home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us.