Welcome to mealappeal.com. Your trust is one of our most important assets. MealAppeal LLC ("MealAppeal", "we", "our", or "us") respect the Personal Information (as defined below) you supply us. This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") explains what information we collect, why we use it, who we share it with, and how we protect it. This Privacy Policy applies to the data collection and privacy practices of MealAppeal when we collect Personal Information through your use of mealappeal.com and any other MealAppeal-owned domain and MealAppeal mobile applications (collectively, the "Site"), as well as your interactions and communications with our customer service team, any social media pages that we control, and email or text messages that we may send to you. Please note, this Privacy Policy applies to any Personal Information collected when you directly purchase a subscription or any other product from us through the Site.
Our Privacy Policy covers the following topics:
Please review our privacy practices. As one of our customers or as a visitor to the Site, you understand and agree that we collect, use and disclose your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please submit a request to privacy@mealappeal.com.
By accessing or using the Site in any manner, you also agree to be bound by MealAppeal’s Terms of Service. Please read the Terms of Service carefully. If you do not accept the Terms of Service, please do not use the Site.
We collect information, including Personal Information, to provide better services to all our customers and Site visitors. As used in this Privacy Policy, the term "Personal Information" means information that relates to an identified or reasonably identifiable natural person. "Personal Identifiers" may include your name, email address, phone number, contact address, username, social media handle and Internet Protocol ("IP") address.
We collect Personal Information from you when you:
Social Networking: Certain social media features available on our Site may be hosted by third party sites. For example, some social networking services allow you to share products and services from our Site via your social networking profile. If you choose to make use of third-party social media services (such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or X, previously known as Twitter), we may receive Personal Information about you, such as your Personal Identifiers (e.g. your name and email address), that you have made available through those services. We encourage you to visit those third-party social networking services’ privacy policies and review your privacy settings directly on those services.
Information About Friends or Family: In certain limited circumstances, we may collect information about people you know.
Our Site may include a "Refer a Friend" feature that allows you to easily forward information about MealAppeal to friends or family. If you elect to refer a friend or family member to our Site, we will ask for that person’s email address. We also may send that friend or family member a message on your behalf. We may store this information for the purpose of sending this message and to manage and improve our "Refer a Friend" program. You are responsible for notifying and, where necessary, obtaining the consent of your family member or friend before providing us with their information.
If you provide us or our service providers with any Personal Information relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you believe that your Personal Information has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Information, please contact us by using the information set out in the "How to Contact Us" section below.
Other Sources: We may also collect information about you, including Personal Information, from third-party sources. For example, we collect certain Personal Information about you from marketing research firms and data brokers to improve our future marketing efforts and make them more efficient. This information may include Personal Identifiers (such as your name), interests, and inferences (such as publicly-observed data like shopping behavior). We may combine this information with the personal information we collect from you. We will treat any combined information as Personal Information pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or authorized by you, including for the following purposes:
Cookies. We collect information about your interaction with the Sites or our services, including the resources that you access, pages viewed, how much time you spent on a page, and how you reached our Site. We also log the details of your visits to our Site and information generated in the course of using our Site, such as mouse movements, clicks, page visits, text entered, how long you spent on a page, and other details of your actions on our website.
To do so and to help personalize your online experience, we use "Cookies." A "Cookie" is a text file placed on your hard disk by a web page server. A Cookie is uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued you the Cookie. This means Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
One of a Cookie’s primary purposes is to save you time, by telling the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, say you personalize our Site to allow Cookies and then enter in your address. On a later visit, a Cookie helps us retrieve and auto-populate that address.
Please find more details on our Cookies below:
We may use Cookies that are either session-based or persistent. Session Cookies exist only during one session. They disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent Cookies remain on your computer or device after you close your browser or turn off your computer.
We use different types of Cookies on our Site to make your interaction with our Site easy and meaningful – strictly necessary Cookies, functionality Cookies, analytics Cookies, and advertising Cookies.
How to Manage Cookies
: You may accept or decline Cookies. Although most web browsers automatically accept Cookies, you may be able to modify your browser setting to avoid this. For information on how to use the browser of your mobile device to amend Cookie settings, you may need to refer to your mobile device manual. The main web browsers allow you to change your Cookie settings directly through their sites. These settings will typically be found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. If you choose to decline Cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our service or fully experience the Site’s interactive features.
"Do Not Track" SIGNALS. Some web browsers may be configured to send Do Not Track signals to websites, or users may use similar mechanisms, to indicate a user’s preference that certain web technologies not be used to track the user’s online activity. The Site does not accept or process such Do Not Track signals or similar mechanisms, except as required by applicable law.
Web Beacons. Pages of our services or our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as "Web Beacons" (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail. It also lets us track other related website statistics: such as recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.
Clickstream Data. We also gather and analyze Clickstream Data. "Clickstream Data" consists of information collected by our computers when you request web pages from the Site. Clickstream Data may include the page served, time spent viewing the page, source of the request, type of browser making the request, the preceding page viewed and similar information. Clickstream Data permits us to analyze how visitors arrive at the Site, what type of content is popular, and what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in particular kinds of content on the Site.
Session Information. We log the details of your visits to our website and information generated in the course of using our Site, such as mouse movements, clicks, page visits, text entered, how long you spent on a page, and other details of your actions on our website.
Providing Personal Information is required to use certain elements of the Site. In some instances, if you fail to provide such Personal Information, you may not be able to access and use our Site or order our products.
MealAppeal may disclose your Personal Information to commercial providers for a business purpose, including verifying your identity when making a payment. When we disclose Personal Information for these reasons, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose not set forth in the contract.
We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
We attempt to notify you about legal demands for your Personal Information when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
MealAppeal complies with applicable privacy laws. This means that if you and your friend live in different places and use our Site, you and your friend may have different privacy rights under this policy based on the locations’ applicable privacy laws. We encourage you to review the privacy laws applicable to your location. Some examples of your (jurisdiction-specific) privacy rights may include your right to:
If you have any questions about the privacy rights you have or how to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us by emailing privacy@mealappeal.com. Please note that we do not share our customers’ Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, without customers’ approval.
To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. When you make a request, we may require that you provide information and follow procedures so that we can verify your identity (and the applicable jurisdiction). The verification steps we take may differ depending on your jurisdiction and the request. Where possible, we will attempt to match the information that you provide in your request to information we already have on file to verify your identity. If we are able to verify your request, we will process it. If we cannot verify your request, we may ask you for additional information to help us do so.
We will respond to your request within the time period required by applicable law. However, we may not always be able or required to comply with your request, in whole or in part, and we will notify you in that event.
You may have certain choices when it comes to how we use your data, and we want to provide you with information to make the choices that are right for you.
Interest-Based Ads and Other Online Advertising
. Visit HTTPS://THENAI.ORG/OPT-OUT/BROWSER-OPT-OUT/ or HTTPS://YOURADCHOICES.COM/ to learn more about your options for opting out of interest-based advertising. We do not guarantee that all of the third parties we work with will honor the elections you make using those options. Please also keep in mind that even if you opt-out of receiving ads tailored to your apparent interests, you will continue to see online ads, but the ads that you see therefore may be less relevant to your interests.The Site may contain links to webpages operated by parties other than MealAppeal. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy policies or other practices of such websites. MealAppeal strongly recommends that you review the third party’s terms and policies. Our inclusion of links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you, or other sites linked from our Sites or our services.
If you have any questions about the privacy practices of other websites, you should contact the parties controlling these websites for more information.
MealAppeal maintains administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect your Personal Information and other information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
Although we take reasonable steps designed to protect your Personal Information, please be advised that no security system or means of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure (including without limitation with respect to computer viruses, malicious software and hacker attacks). We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of your Personal Information or any information you disclose or transmit to us. We are not responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access, and we are not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such incidents to the fullest extent permitted by law. Where required under law, we will notify you of any such loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information that may affect you so that you can take the appropriate actions.
For your own privacy protection, we urge you to keep all passwords confidential. We also recommend that you do not include sensitive information such as passwords or payment information in any emails that you send to us. If you become aware of any breach of the terms of this Privacy Policy or of the security of our services, please notify us by email at privacy@mealappeal.com.
The Site and our services are not designed or intended to be used by anyone under the age of 18 without adult supervision. If you are under the age of 18 (or a minor in the jurisdiction in which you are accessing our Sites or our services), do not use the Site, make purchases via the Site, use any interactive features of the Site, or post any Personal Information to our Site without adult supervision.
If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child, please contact us at privacy@mealappeal.com.
If you use our Site or our services outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your Personal Information in the United States and other countries. Any information you provide may be stored, processed, or transfered anywhere in the world, including the United States and any other country. Any such storage or transfer will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. By using the Site or our services, you consent to the collection, international transfer, storage, and processing of your data, and you agree that all Personal Information will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to U.S. law.
As a general rule, we keep your data for only as long as it is needed to complete the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law. We may need to keep your data for longer than our specified retention periods to honor your requests, including to continue keeping you opted out of marketing emails, or to comply with legal or other obligations.
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will provide a more prominent notice (such as but not limited to adding a statement to our Site’s homepage for a reasonable period of time or sending you a notification). Nevertheless, you should review this Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure you are aware of the most recent version.
If you choose to exercise your rights, you can email us at privacy@mealappeal.com and include "privacy rights" in the subject line. Please note that if you do not include "privacy rights" in the subject line, your email may get buried.
Though we will always try to honor your request, we may be unable to do so.
If we receive a request regarding one of your rights under your applicable jurisdiction’s law and cannot reasonably verify that the request is coming from you or your authorized representative, we may not act on the request.
We may deny your deletion request if an exception applies: including because retaining the information is necessary for us to complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities, exercise free speech, exercise another right provided for by law, comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, comply with a legal obligation, or make other reasonable internal and lawful uses of that information within the context in which you provided it.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise the choices discussed above, please contact us via e-mail at privacy@mealappeal.com.