Last updated: May 8, 2023

SimplyScrapps LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) built the SimplyScrapps app as a free app. This service is provided by us at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This Privacy Policy for the Company describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:

§ Visit our website at simplyscrapps.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice

§ Download and use our mobile application (SimplyScrapps), or any other application of ours that links to this privacy notice

§ Engage with use in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at jon.cristinziano@simplyscrapps.com.

Information We Collect From You, From Your Device, Or From Others

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways:

§ You may directly provide information to us

§ You may choose to allow social media platforms to share information with us

§ We may gather other information from your device when you visit our website or other services

§ We may obtain additional information about you from other sources where permitted by law

Information Provided by You

When you participate in our offers, programs, or site features, you may directly provide us with information, which may include and is not limited to the following:

§ Names

§ Username or password

§ Contact or authentication data

§ Email addresses

§ Geolocation information

§ Payment data (we may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number, and the security code associated with your payment instrument.)

§ Compost Output, Carbon Savings, and Related Metrics (for example by using the SimplyScrapps App to report the food you composted)

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.

Information Automatically Collected

In Short: Some information – such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

When you visit or use our Sites, we may use cookies or similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. 

The following are examples of the types of information we may collect in this way:

§ Device type (such as desktop, tablet, or mobile device)

§ Browser type (such as Google Chrome)

§ Operating system (such as Windows)

§ IP address, device ID, or similar information

§ Geolocation information

§ Websites or online services you visit before or after our Site

§ Your interaction with our Site (such as the links you click and the pages and items you view)

§ Whether you open or forward our emails or click on elements within these emails

How We Process Your Information

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

Some specific ways that we may use this information are as follows:

§ To determine your SimplyScrapps rewards and earnings and to track and display those earnings to you

§ To display your earnings and carbon savings to your SimplyScrapps rewards partner 

§ To register you to receive emails or other information or materials you request

§ To register you for a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion

§ To register you to receive rebates, coupons, premiums, product samples, or other materials

§ To provide you with services or offers you have requested

§ To respond if you contact one of our Consumer Services Representatives

§ To process your payment for purchases or other services

§ To better understand the audience for our Sites and services

§ To conduct analytics services regarding how our products, services, and Sites are accessed and used

§ To help us develop new products, services, and sites

§ To provide advertising and marketing services, including by developing and delivering advertising and other communications more tailored to your interests

§ To help us improve our advertising

§ To detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and to prosecute those responsible for that activity

§ To enforce our Terms of Use, Community Rules, or other legal rights

Even if the primary reason for collecting your information may be for a specific purpose, such as creating your account or registering you for a promotion, we may use the information for any of the other ways described in this section as well, including by sharing the information as permitted by law for the use of our family of brands, businesses, and affiliated companies.

When and With Whom Do We Share Your Information

In Short: We may share information we collect with the following types of entities for business purposes and specific situations described in this section and/or with the following categories of third parties.

§ Affiliates. As permitted by law, we may share information freely among various brands and business within our affiliated companies.

§ Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions. 

§ Offer wall. Our application(s) may display a third-party hosted “offer wall.” Such an offer wall allows third-party advertisers to offer virtual currency, gifts, or other items to users in return for the acceptance and completion of an advertisement offer. Such an offer wall may appear in our application(s) and be displayed to you based on certain data, such as your geographic area or demographic information. 

§ Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents (“third parties)” who perform services for us on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

· Retail Stores

· Hospitality (restaurants and hotels)

· Universities

· Government Entities 

· Service providers. We may share information – including information that personally identifies you – with companies that provide services on our behalf. Some service providers may be involved in administering or supplementing our databases and will need to have access to your information in order to do so. For example, we may retain a third party to verify the accuracy of information within our databases or to gather additional information about individuals within our databases from commercially available sources. As another example, we may provide information from our databases to third parties who help us direct specific advertising communications to you when you visit other sites.

§ Other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our users and services. We also may disclose information – including information that personally identifies you – to third parties in order to:

· Protect our legal rights, as well as the rights of the users of our Site or others

· Protect the safety and security of the Site, its users, or others

· Prevent fraud

· Comply with the law or respond to legal process or a request for cooperation by a government entity, whether or not legally required.

· Other parties in connection with a corporate transaction. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.

· Otherwise with your consent. In addition to the sharing described or permitted by this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties whenever you affirmatively consent to such sharing.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

How We Keep Your Information Safe

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through…

How We Collect Information from Minors

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from our market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent you are at least 18 years old or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor’s dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age have been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measure to promptly delete such data from our records. 

United States Only

This Site is intended for use by residents of the United States of America only. All matters relating to this Site are governed by the laws of the United States. If you are located outside of the United States and you contact us, please be advised that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States and that by submitting information you explicitly authorize this transfer and the processing of this information within the United States.

Your Privacy Rights

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

Withdrawing your consent. If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us using the contact details provided.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Opting out of marketing and promotional communications

You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the contact details provided. However, we may still communicate with you for non-marketing purposes – for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account.

Rights of Virginia Residents 

In Short: The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) creates additional protections for Virginia residents.

Your rights with respect to your personal data.

§ To access your personal data

§ To correct inaccuracies in your personal data

§ To request deletion of your personal data

§ To obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us

§ To opt out of the processing of your personal data if it used for targeted advertising, the sale or personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise these rights, Virginia residents may submit a request by contacting the provided contact information. We will respond to requests in accordance with applicable law.

Updates To This Notice 

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and updated version will be effective as soon as accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.