PRIVACY POLICY
Honeycomb (the “Company”) recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.
Your Privacy Rights
From January 1, 2004, organizations engaged in commercial activities must comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (the “Act”).
The Company is responsible for the personal information we collect, use, maintain and disclose. To ensure this accountability, we have developed this policy, and trained our staff about our policies and practices.
What is “personal information?”
Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. It does not include your name, business address, business title, professional designation(s) or business telephone number.
Why do we collect personal information from you?
We collect personal information from you to:
• Provide a more personalized and secure experience.
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect information only by lawful and fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Wherever possible we collect personal information directly from you, but we may also obtain information about you from other sources: for example:
• IP address location data
Consent
In most cases, we shall ask you to provide explicit consent, if we collect, use, or disclose your personal information. Normally, we ask for your consent in writing, but in some circumstances, we may accept your verbal consent. Sometimes, your consent may be implied through your conduct with us.
Use of Your Information
We use your personal information to determine your dietary preferences and provide you with personalized restaurant menu item recommendations.
If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about our services, we will not send any further material.
The Company does not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services.
Disclosure of your Personal Information
Under certain circumstances, the Company will disclose your personal information:
• when we are required our authorized by law to do so, for example if a court issues a subpoena;
• when you have consented to the disclosure;
• when the services we are providing to you require us to give your information to a third party your consent will be implied, unless you tell us otherwise;
• where it is necessary to establish or collect amounts owed to us;
• if we engage a third party to provide administrative services to us (such as computer back-up services or archival file storage) and the third party is bound by our privacy policy;
• if the information is already publicly known.
Updating Your Information
Since we use your personal information to provide services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date.
If any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Is My Personal Information Secure?
The Company takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your information are:
• premises security;
• restricted file access to personal information;
• deploying technological safeguards such as security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access;
• internal password and security policies.
Access to Your Personal Information
You may ask for access to any personal information we hold about you.
Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees.
Correcting Errors
If the Company holds information about you and if you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, the Company will take reasonable steps to correct it.
Can I be Denied Access to My Personal Information?
Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute.
We may deny access when:
• denial of access is required or authorized by law;
• when granting you access would have an unreasonable impact on other people’s privacy;
• to protect our firm’s rights and property;
• where the request is frivolous or vexatious.
If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information, we shall explain why.
The Company does not use your Social Insurance Number as a way of identifying or organizing the information we hold about you.
Credit Bureaus
To help us make credit decisions about our customers, prevent fraud, check the identity of new customers and prevent money-laundering, we may on occasion, request information about you from the files of consumer reporting agencies.
How Long do you Keep my Personal Information?
We keep your personal information as long as you maintain an active user account for our services. You may request to have your account deleted at any time.
Communicating with Us
You should be aware that email is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Since the Company regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.
Request for Access
If you have any questions, or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Privacy Officer at:
chef@honeycomb.ai
Employment Inquiries
Although the Act does not apply to our employee information, we have elected to follow privacy “best practices” in this area. If you apply to the Company for a job, we need to consider your personal information, as part of our review process. We normally retain information from candidates after a decision has been made, unless you ask us not to retain the information. If we offer you a job, which you accept, the information will be retained with our privacy procedures for employee records.
Web Site
Our website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by the privacy policy.
On our website, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimise our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.
