Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy Updated on 3/27/2023
Who we are
We are Packaged Food Reviews. Our website address is: https://packagedfoodreviews.com What we want to achieve here is to broaden the horizons for anyone who comes our way. Our site is designed to enhance day to day shopping experiences that most people are likely to have. Our site is focused around shopping for groceries. Anything that could be labeled as food that comes in a package is our focus. The idea is that we share our experiences with everyone else about foods that we feel passionate about. Every member of this website can be the first to review a product and write reviews on products others have already written about. We want to tell the world about our packaged food experiences and we would like our members to do the same. Together by sharing our experiences that are good, bad, and everywhere in between, we can help each other to discover what’s out there and make educated decisions when buying foods. This will help when deciding to try something new. Although 1 person or maybe several don’t appreciate a product, doesn’t mean everyone won’t. We aren’t here to discriminate against any products, brands, companies, or people. Our goal is to help each other out the best we can and that’s all. By sharing reviews on this website from actual experiences from real people, others can make educated decisions. The information here isn’t a guide line in telling people what to buy or how to shop, they’re just opinions from actual people. We are not responsible for defamation of character or defamation of brands and our members are not either. Ultimately our goal is to help people have an enjoyable experience that they will find useful for years to come. For any suggestions for improvement or questions in general, we can be contacted through our contact us link here or by clicking the contact us link from our main menu. You can also share your feedback or suggestions by clicking on how do you like our site which can also be found under the site information part of our menu. Then simply send whatever message you would like us to receive and if it there is a response requested, you should receive one within 48 hours.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
In order to help enhance your experience, we collect some of your information, but not in a scary way. In order to participate as a member of our site, at the minimum we collect your member name and email address which is required to sign up for free membership. We also collect your actual name if you want to share it with us, however, it isn’t currently required to participate, only optional. When you access your member profile if you haven’t given your name, it may show that it’s required, but your account will still function without it. Other information we collect also includes account preferences or settings you make that are stored in our systems to better serve you. Your member password is not visible to us, it is private to you and only you. Any reviews, comments, and uploads you submit are also stored in our systems which are to better serve you. We do not sell your information to anyone. In other words, we only have the information you give us and it may only be used to enhance your experience and help further your interaction with everyone else.
Comments and Posts/Reviews
Comments are what really brings the personal interaction experience to life. They allow everyone to say what they feel strongly about and get to see what others think about it. Comments can bring us together as if we were talking to each other at the dinner table. All comments through our main review section will be reviewed for approval before being posted live for public view. Comments through the members activity link may go live without review, but we ask you be considerate when commenting. Any comments or other content that may appear offensive can be reported to us via the link near the comment or post and may be taken down. We will not approve inappropriate content or vulgar language. In general, we want you to be honest, just be respectful at the same time. If you don’t like a product or disagree with someone else, please say so and it will be posted as long as it isn’t vulgar or inappropriate. If there is something like that in your comment or review that is inappropriate but otherwise sounds good, we may contact you and ask that you remove it or change it so that we can share your experience with the world. We will not edit or change your comments at all. Any images submitted to us may be resized for the best compatibility with our website, but not edited visually. As long as they meet our guidelines for being appropriate, they will get posted and should be live within 48 hours of your submission. Comments and posts through our members area are part of our social interaction experience. Those comments are different than the review comments section from our main stream page. Those comments may be posted immediately, so please be appropriate and do not violate our privacy policy or member/user agreement. Any comments in violation of our agreements may be taken down and could lead to termination of your account. We don’t want that to happen, so we would prefer to work issues out so it doesn’t get to that point. If you notice any comments in that section that violate our agreements, please use the menu that looks like three dots like this (…) in the upper right portion of the post, then click the triangle to ‘report’ it for the violation. That will give you the option to choose why the content is inappropriate and we can deal with it. If anyone accidentally clicks on report and reports a post or comment, we will notice it doesn’t violate our policies and it will not be taken down.
When visitors leave comments or reviews on our site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address.
Media
Media, in the case of our website photos are what help make the internet more appealing. Photos and pictures help bring more of a full experience to us when we’re browsing, reading, researching, reviewing, or whatever. For our website, photos are how we can show the world what a product looks like. It can be the original packaging, it could be what’s inside the package, or it could even be a creation brought together using what’s in the package such as what’s for dinner or breakfast. Photos help bring products into focus on our site. We encourage you to upload your own photos to show your experiences to the world. It is not required that you upload a photo when posting a review comment on an existing review on our site, but it is optional. We do require at least one photo to be uploaded on a review of a product that has not yet been reviewed on our site. If you were looking up a product, wouldn’t you want to see what it looks like? That’s why the first review of every product must have at least 1 photo of it uploaded. After the first photo, it is optional. It really depends on what’s currently on our site at any given time. We do want you to upload photos, but if there’s already a photo of the product you’re reviewing, you don’t have to it’s optional, but you can share your experience with it.
After you upload a photo to our site, it is still yours. Even though it is live on our site, you still own the rights to your photo. We will not make changes to your photos except for resizing them for website compatibility and adjusting meta data to aid in search results to help people find your reviews. That doesn’t change the appearance of your photos at all. We also won’t sell your photos to anyone either. However, just like when you upload a photo anywhere on the internet including social media, those photos may be downloaded by anyone at anytime even if all they can do is a screenshot. We are not responsible for what other people on the internet might do with your photo, which may include altering it, sharing it, saying it’s their own, or anything else imaginable. If you ever see someone taking credit for your photo on any website you can contact them letting them know it’s your photo and usually they will remove it or resolve the issue for you. Basically any time you upload a photo, video, audio file, or whatever else on the internet, if it’s displayed for the whole public to see, it may be downloaded by anyone. In other words please upload photos of your product experiences, just know that those images still belong to you and we won’t use them for any purpose other than helping to enhance the user experience by posting your review so people are more informed. Any media you upload through the members area is only displayed to other members, or your friends, or groups, depending on the privacy settings you choose when uploading them. Please check your member profile to see your preferences and account settings. Also, when you write a new post under the activity area, there’s a privacy setting you can choose for each posts. They will default to your main account settings, but individually you can choose from; public, site members, friends only, and only me. The only me option means it is only for your eyes. All reviews of products that go through our main review forms are public however as they are what help make this site useful for everyone.
Contact forms
If you would like to contact us you can click on the contact us link on the home page https://packagedfoodreviews.com or just go straight to https://packagedfoodreviews.com/contact-us/
When a contact form is filled out the information you put in it is only used for communication between us and you. https://packagedfoodreviews.com/ is us and the member or user is you. We do not use your contact form information for marketing purposes and do not sell or share your information with anyone. It is strictly for communication so that we may help you, or you help us. Maybe you contact us with a question about our services or maybe you have a suggestion how we can improve our website. Whatever the case may be, just know that your information is safe and we will only store information you submit through contact forms and it will not be shared with anyone else. However, if there is a question that you ask that may be relevant to other members, we may post your question and our answer to help benefit everyone, but your contact info will not be listed with it, unless you wish to have your user name mentioned to take credit for the question. Currently we do not have a Frequently asked questions page, but we will at some point. Please note that anyone using the contact forms for the purpose of soliciting, threatening, spamming, or anything vulgar or inappropriate may be blocked from being able to contact us again and in some cases blocked from accessing our website at all. Generally speaking, the average person that contacts us is likely to have a good experience and not have bad intent. Upon being contacted, our goal is to get back to you in 48 hours or less.
Cookies
Cookies when browsing the internet are now a part of everyday life. A lot of websites now have a pop-up window that has you accept that they use cookies. Cookies are just small bits of data that help web browsers work best with websites.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies may last up to a year however some cookies are cleared from our servers from time to time for the benefit of website performance for you.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and may be discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies can last for a couple days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you are logged in to our website and any other websites, if you clear your browser history which contains cookies, you will be logged out of every website you were logged into. That can be very useful when you are troubleshooting why a website isn’t working out in your favor and it can sometimes resolve the issue.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. Whatever browser or browser you are using to view our site has its own settings. You can set the cookie settings accordingly for whatever best suits your needs. Those settings are up to you to figure out if you choose to customize them. Your browser may or may not store cookies on your computer or internet device for a certain amount of time.
Embedded content from other websites and links to other websites
You can share posts from our website by sharing links to other sites. When you do that, you are leaving our site and must agree to the other website’s privacy policy and user agreement. Which you probably already did if you are sharing. Once you leave our site your browsing no longer falls under our agreements and privacy policy. It only applies while you are on our site. We are not responsible for what happens on other websites. As we build and grow our website it may include advertisements that may be relevant to your shopping desires. We do not intend for them to be a nuisance or interfere with enjoying our site. The purpose of the ads will be to aid in our ability to provide you our services. We will not sell your information to advertisers ever. The ads may be links to purchase products from other sites. These ads and links are there to help enhance the user experience. We also intend to have ‘buy it now’ links on our site as we grow to enhance your experience. If you click on a link to buy a product, we may get commission from the sale. It takes money and time to run a website, that’s why there’s almost always ads on most websites that do not sell products. Any ‘buy it now’ links we set up will be only to legitimate websites that we trust and approve of. There’s a lot of scam websites out there and we will Not promote any of them here. Any links you click on, once you leave our website, we are not responsible for what the other website does. We encourage you to read all privacy policies from every website you go to. Every website has their own privacy policy and it may vary from site to site. Ours is only valid while you’re on our site https://packagedfoodreviews.com/
Other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Basically, be cautious online and if you really want to know what’s being shared, stored, sold, or anything else with your information, read the privacy policy from every website you go on. One more tip when browsing the web is to look in the address bar of your browser if you are not sure if a website is as it appears. Ours will always contain packagedfoodreivews.com/. If you are ever on a website and the appearance of it doesn’t match the URL in the address bar, it may be a scam site. We suggest doing further research if that happens before sharing any data with them.
Analytics
Here at https://packagedfoodreviews.com/ we like to know how well our site working so we use analytics. We use Cloudflare, Google, Amazon AWS, and Bing for Analytics. Analytics are the way which websites monitor how much traffic is going through on a daily basis. We monitor all forms of traffic going through our site. Analytics help to see how well posts are showing up in search results, key words people are searching that show our site in results and so on. Analytics also help when it comes to site maintenance so we can know what times are the least busy so we can perform updates without disrupting your service. We like to know how many new member sign ups there are. We monitor the number of new posts. We monitor the number of comments. We monitor the number of views on our site in general. We also monitor the digest emails our website sends out, but only to see if they were sent correctly and if members were able to open them. That helps us determine if our outgoing emails are configured and working properly. What we monitor helps determine that our goals are being met. They show us a day to day comparison about how daily use of our site may change. They help us determine what’s working to grow our site and help to let us know what we may want to try different to improve site usage. Any information that we receive from visitors of our site is used for analytical purposes to help improve for us and all visitors of our website. We do not sell this information to anyone ever.
Who we share your data with
We currently do not share your data with anyone. We will never sell your data with anyone either.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless you delete your comments from within your account.
For users that register on our website , we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time through their member profile settings. We can see your personal information that you give us too except your password. We cannot see your password. We will not edit or change any of your personal information, that is up to you. Your member information will remain in our systems unless you choose to delete your account. If you are not using our site on a daily basis please consider keeping your account before choosing to delete it. If you decide you no longer want an account with us, you can delete your profile with the account settings under your member profile. If you choose to delete your account, any food review posts you have made under the public section of our site may remain, but additional data from our activity section may be deleted with it. If you are thinking about deleting your profile, we advise you think it over for a while before making that decision in case you change your mind. Once deleted, they are gone forever. There’s no requirement to how often we want you to use our services, it’s all up to you. We offer a free member experience that we hope you enjoy for years to come.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. To request your data, head to the member profile page, click on ‘preferences’ then click on ‘account settings’, and then scroll down and click on ‘export my community data‘. That will allow you to download a copy of your data that has been submitted with us. If the need arises, you can click the ‘delete’ under the profile deletion option under your account settings to remove your profile entirely. Hopefully everyone will enjoy their stay and at least hold on to their profile for a while if they are not using our services anymore. You can always delete individual posts, comments, photos, and other data without deleting your entire account. It’s easier to come back to an established profile than to start over with a new one. We will not give out any of your information for legal reasons without the proper documentation from the party involved such as attorneys, judges, other legal parties and so on. That is a highly unlikely situation and if it ever happened we would make sure the legal parties involved were legitimate and had the legal authority to request that information as we don’t just hand over data. If you are getting rid of your data, it does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. If it does happen though, not giving out any of our members information is our priority unless we are proven legally obligated. This is not a regular type of situation and will likely Never happen with most people.
Where we send your data
We do not send your data anywhere. Your data is for you and whoever you choose to share it with.
Our contact information
We can be contacted any time through our contact us form located at https://packagedfoodreviews.com/contact-us/ or by clicking on the ‘contact us’ link on our menu. You should receive a response from us within 48 hours if you are contacting us with questions or something that calls for a response. If you are contacting us to try to sell a product or service, you may not hear back from us at all. Generally speaking if what you are contacting us about calls for a response, we try to respond within 48 hours. You can also submit feedback about our site and tell us what you think by visiting how do you like our site? Any feedback, opinions, or suggestions you may have is much appreciated.
How we protect your data
Data protection is of the utmost importance to us. We take data protection very seriously. We have measures in place to assure your info and ours is safe from hackers, spammers, data bots, and any other forms of prying eyes or destructive forms out there. To start with, the only ones who can access any of your data besides you are our trusted site administrators which does Not include your password. Not just anyone gets to be an administrator for us. Only fully qualified individuals with the proper credentials may become our site administrators. Your data and all of our website is stored on secure servers powered by Amazon AWS. We use multiple security monitoring options available through AWS. We have daily backups of this website, all of it’s data including member data, and media files associated through AWS. AWS servers are in top secret locations where only certain employees are allowed to access them at all and are under 24 hour surveillance. We have multiple layers of encryption in place between our website and its data as well. We have our services optimized for security through AWS services. We also have our services going through CloudFlare to protect your data and our services. Their services help keep bots and hackers from compromising your data and our services. We monitor all site traffic through Cloudflare 7 days a week. We have multiple layers of protection set up through Cloudflare to protect our website before potentially threatening visitors even reach our website. There is a growing list of rules that filter out unwanted traffic from our site that we update daily. Legitimate traffic should have no problem getting through and should be able to simply access our services we offer to you. We also have our website set to require your email address to sign in to your account. Your email address by default is Not publicly displayed in your profile. Without your email address, someone else could Not sign in to your account. Our administrators keep a close eye on our site from the back end to make sure everything stays safe and secure. The back end is the behind the scenes part of a website that administrators use to create it all with. The back end is the part that you don’t see by browsing. The front end is what you see when you access a website with your web browser or app. Our administrators monitor the security of our website around the clock. We also use Google recaptcha service to filter out spam bots and bots in general on select pages such as logging into your account through any login page or our members activity stream. You will find a symbol at the bottom corner of submission forms on our site that is in a circular shape of arrows. Hover down near it and there are links to the privacy terms and acceptance terms from the Google reCaptcha service. We only use this service to filter out spam bots as well, but generally speaking they first have to get through our CloudFlare setup to be able to get to a login screen. However, by submitting a form such as member review, contact us, or registration, you also accept the Google reCaptcha terms. Google recaptcha is just a part of every day life on the internet for most of us now. Any time you have to choose signs, crosswalks, buses, or anything else to verify you are human, you are most likely using their service. There are other similar services out there, but we determined Google reCaptcha to be a best fit for us. Sometimes it’s just checking a box to prove you’re human and sometimes it’s an invisible method which will still show their icon. It may be one more step we would all rather not have to do, but it is actually a big protection from bots crawling the web posing as humans that have bad intentions. It protects our website and your accounts. If there’s even the slightest clue of a data breach, we do what it takes to stop it in its tracks before it has a chance. The bottom line is we do everything we can to assure your data is safe.
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