Privacy policy.

Privacy Policy

www.applestonesolutions.com

Last Updated: December 9, 2022

This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) in intended to inform you about how Applestone Solutions LLC, a New York limited liability company with an address at 3604 Main Street, Stone Ridge, New York, 12484 (“Applestone,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), collects and uses your personally identifiable information (“PII”) and other information through our website located at www.applestonemeat.com (the “Website”).

How does the Website work?

The Website enables anonymous visitors to the Website (“Visitors”) to browse the Website and to submit requests via the Website. The terms “you”, “your” and “yours” when used herein refer to Visitors unless the context of this Privacy Policy indicates otherwise.

By using the Website, you consent to the collection and use of your PII and other information by Applestone as described in this Privacy Policy.

How can the terms of the Privacy Policy be modified?

We reserve the right to change, modify, alter or otherwise update how we handle the information we collect and process through the Website, including PII, and to modify this Privacy Policy, at any time. You agree to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be aware of any such modifications. We will indicate that changes to the Privacy Policy have been made by updating the date indicated after “Last Updated” at the beginning of the Privacy Policy. We will be happy to provide you with prior versions of this Privacy Policy upon your written request to us. If you do not agree to abide by the initial version or any modified version of this Privacy Policy, then you are not authorized to use the Website. The current version of the Privacy Policy is accessible via the footer of the Website’s homepage.

What type of Personal Identifiable Information does Applestone collect from you and how do we use it?

Visitors need to provide us with certain PII in order to contact us through the Website including, without limitation, their name, email address and phone number. Visitors may also need to provide us with certain PII in order to use certain other Website functionality. Furthermore, we may also ask you for general statistical, non-PII about you and your interests.

Applestone will not share your PIIl, including your e-mail address or other contact information, with any third party marketing agencies. Applestone may need to provide your PII to our technology partners or other providers, platforms or entities that provide services and functions that are essential to the operation of the Web site, the delivery and other services which can be requested through the Website, and other related operations. These partners, entities or platform providers may use your PII to help fulfill your requests. For example, we may transfer certain of your PII or other information to service providers and other third parties who assist us in processing transactions through our Web site, vending machines and other points of sale, sending e-mail updates that you have opted to receive, or delivering products to you. We additionally may share your PII with e-commerce providers and partners in order to fulfill purchases of Applestone products or third-party products executed by you through the Website.

We may also analyze statistics to help us enhance or improve your experience on the Website and for other purposes. For example, we may share certain data with third parties to help us understand general demographic and preference information among Website and vending machine users. In these circumstances, the shared information will neither contain nor be linked to any of your PII.

Under what other circumstances may we release Personally Identifiable Information?

We may also release your PII to third parties if we believe that such release is necessary to comply with the law (e.g., a legal process or a statutory authorization or requirement) or a court order, to apply or enforce the Terms of Use, to protect you or other Visitors or Registrants or if we reasonably believe that a danger to any person or property requires disclosure of such PII, to protect against the fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Website, or otherwise to protect our interests.

Our rights under this Privacy Policy may be automatically assigned by Applestone, in our sole discretion, to a third party or parties, and such an assignment will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns and/or licensees. Without limitation of the foregoing, we may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including without limitation your PII, with any parent company, subsidiary, joint venture, and a company under our common control, as well as with a potential acquirer, including without limitation in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy. In each such an event, the PII we have collected from you may be one of the assets transferred.

What other information does Applestone collect?

Applestone may also collect anonymous and aggregate information from you about your preferences in navigating the Website by using cookies, analytics tags, action tags and other methods. Cookies are small text files that identify your computer. We may use cookies to, among other things, monitor Website usage, customize Website features to your individual preferences, identify your computer operating system and browser, and complete transactions. An action tag is a small, graphic image on a webpage that is designed to allow the website owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a website by collecting the IP address of the computer to which the tag is sent, the URL of the webpage that the tag comes from and the time at which such webpage was viewed. Action tags may be associated with cookie information. We may also use such anonymous and aggregate information for promotional and other business purposes.

Do I have the ability not to be identified by Applestone?

Yes. If you do not wish to be identified by us, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse cookies when your browser alerts you to their presence. You can also adjust the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies. If you do not want us to have any of your PII, please do not submit any of your PII to us. Please keep in mind that if you refuse cookies you may not be able to use certain Website functionality including, without limitation, purchasing products through the Website.

How do we store and safeguard information?

Applestone takes steps consistent with commercially reasonable industry standards to secure PII collected from you from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and destruction while under our control. However, please note that despite our efforts to protect PII and other information provided to us, we cannot guarantee that such information will not be lost, disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others.

Does Applestone provide links to other websites?

Applestone may provide links to other websites or resources of possible interest to you. The collection and use of your PII and other information by such websites shall be subject to the policies and procedures of such websites and not those contained in this Privacy Policy. The information collected by our service providers in executing transactions you have requested through the Website (including without limitation credit card settlement companies) is subject to the privacy policies of such third parties.

What are our policies regarding children?

The Website is intended for general use of persons who have reached the age of consent in their jurisdiction of residence, and it is not targeted to anyone under thirteen (13) years of age. Applestone does not knowingly collect PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age. If we learn that we have unwittingly collected PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age, we will promptly delete such information.

Do we have a mechanism to address the removal of Personally Identifiable Information and complaints about the handling of information that we collect?

If you wish to remove PII that you have submitted to Applestone, please send us an email requesting such removal to privacy@applestonesolutions.com. If you have questions or concerns about any of our information collection or handling practices, please contact us at privacy@applestonesolutions.com or write to us at Applestone Solutions LLC, Attn: General Manager, 3607 Main Street, Stone Ridge, New York, 12484.

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