Effective Date / Date of Last Revision: August 28, 2023

1. WHO WE ARE
2. HOW TO CONTACT US
3. WHY WE COLLECT DATA AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
4. PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY GENERALLY
5. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
6. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
7. PRIVACY CONTROL SIGNALS
8. INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE WITH THIRD PARTIES
9. HOW TO ACCESS & CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA GENERALLY
10. SECURITY
11. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES
12. DATA RETENTION
13. ACCESSIBILITY
14. NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS
15. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
16. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

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1. WHO WE ARE

Sosland Companies, Inc., d/b/a Sosland Publishing Company (“Sosland,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is a business-to-business trade publishing company focused on delivering content to the food industry. Sosland provides of variety of marketing solutions to its business customers (“Services”). Sosland also operates publicly accessible websites, including www.sosland.com, www.bakemag.com, www.bakingbusiness.com, www.dairyprocessing.com, www.foodbusinessnews.net, www.meatpoultry.com, www.petfoodprocessing.net, www.supermarketperimeter.com, www.world-grain.com, www.purchasingseminar.com, www.foodentrepreneurexperience.com and www.soslandtrends.com (“Sites”).

Some of the data Sosland collects is considered “personally identifiable information,” “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable law (collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data”). Generally, Personal Data is information that can be reasonably connected to an identified or identifiable individual. It does not include deidentified or anonymized data.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose to you how we collect, use and share Personal Data and how we attempt to safeguard the Personal Data we collect and process. We are committed to securing the Personal data that we collect concerning you (“you”) and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an amended version of the Privacy Policy on this website. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.

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2. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, data protection or your rights, please contact us at:

Sosland Publishing Company
4801 Main St., Suite 650
Kansas City, MO 64112-2513
800.338.6201
DPO@sosland.com

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3. WHY WE COLLECT DATA AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect, process and use Personal Data to provide our Services and Sites. For example, we use the Personal Data we collect to:

• Communicate with you;
• Provide you with information, quotes and offers;
• Provide our Services;
• Connect you with our advertisers and service partners;
• Process your account registration (where applicable);
• Provide you with support;
• Personalize your experience on our Sites.
• Improve our Services;
• Measure the performance of our Sites and Services;
• Audit current interactions and transactions with consumers;
• Protect the security and integrity of the Sites and Services;
• Maintain, improve and customize our products, Sites and Services;
• Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or violations of our terms of use;
• Efficiently maintain our business;
• Comply with applicable law; and
• Defend our legal rights and the rights of others.

We obtain Personal Data directly from you, through cookies and other technologies, through your devices, and from third parties as described in this Policy and any other privacy notices we may provide to you when you interact with us.

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4. PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY GENERALLY.

We utilize industry-standard security measures to safeguard the information we collect, maintain and use. These measures include technical and procedural steps to protect your data from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction. However, we do not and cannot guarantee the performance or adequacy of such security measures.

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5. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY.

Our Sites and Services are not intended for children under the age of sixteen (16) years old. As such, we do not intentionally collect, process or sell any Personal Data from consumers under the age of sixteen (16) years of age.

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6. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT.

1. Information You Provide Directly To Us. We may collect the following categories of Personal Data if you provide it to us:
• Contact and company information and identifiers (such as name, company name, business type, business segment or specialty, job function, products produced at your company, title, address, telephone number(s) and electronic mail address);
• Information regarding your order and/or service request (service purchased, date of purchase, purchase price);
• Information you provide to us when inquiring about our services;
• Your social media account names / handles and any direct message information you have with us; and
• Any other information you provide to us.
2. Information our Customers Provide to Us. Our Customers may provide mailing lists and other information to us so that we can perform marketing services on their behalf. In that context, we act as a data processor and use the Personal Data contained therein only for the purposes of providing our Services to the Customer.
3. Information we Receive from Third Parties. We obtain personal data from third party providers, such as Dunn & Bradstreet.
4. Information We Collect Via Tracking Technology.
   

   We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, device type, pages you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on pages and other statistics.

   We use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels and web beacons) (collectively, “cookies”) to collect information as you navigate the Sites. Cookies are small files of information that are stored by your web browser software on your computer hard drive, mobile or other devices (e.g., smartphones or tablets). Some cookies are set by us, others are set by third party service providers, such as Google. For more information on our use of tracking technologies and to make changes to your settings, please visit our Cookie Management Center.

   You can also control the use of cookies at the browser level by setting your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our Sites and Services. In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information on this, please visit the websites: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com or http://globalprivacycontrol.org.

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7. PRIVACY CONTROL SIGNALS

Some browsers incorporate “Do Not Track” or other privacy control features that signal to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked or would like to exercise other preferences (such as cookie opt-outs). We use OneTrust as our cookie management provider and through their services, we can receive and respond to global privacy control signals.

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8. INFORMATION WE DISCLOSE TO THIRD PARTIES.

We may provide access to Personal Data to others in the following ways:

1. With Service Providers.  We may share information with service providers who:
• perform data services on our behalf, such as hosting and managed services; 
• prepare, deploy and analyze advertising content on our behalf;
• provide other services on our behalf, such as accounting services, call center services, client relationship management services, and other various business services; and
• process payment information on our behalf; and
• provide cookie and privacy management services on our behalf.
2. With Advertisers. We may share lead information with advertisers when they purchase certain products from us.
3. To Meet Our Legal Requirements or Exercise Our Rights. We may share information with third parties in the following instances:
• When we are required to do so by law.
• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention.
• When we reasonably believe it is appropriate to apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that Personal Data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that Personal data.
• We may share information with other persons or entities as part of our own corporate transactions, such as during financing or any asset sale.

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9. HOW TO ACCESS & CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA GENERALLY

We respect your privacy and provide ways for you to choose whether to share your information with us or any third parties.

1. You may decline to provide information. You have the right to decide not to share information with us.

   Please note, however, that if you choose not to provide us with certain information, we may not be able to provide you with SOME OF OUR SERVICES.

2. You may opt out of marketing communications. You can always choose whether you wish to receive communications we send via email, SMS messages, telephone calls and postal mail. To unsubscribe from our marketing emails, please click the unsubscribe link included in the footer of our emails.
3. You may control cookies used. You may opt out or change your Cookie Settings.

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10. SECURITY

When you register for an account with us, you may be required to choose a password which enables you to access our Sites. You are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for all activity that takes place through your account credentials. Do not share your password with anyone. If your password is compromised, change your password within your account. If you believe your account may have been compromised, please notify us immediately.

We take industry standard security measures to protect your information. We also have put into place appropriate agreements and/or procedures with our service providers to ensure that your Personal Data is treated consistent with applicable data privacy and security laws. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your data.

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11. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

Our Sites may contain links to other websites and companies that may be of interest to you. If you click on any of those links, you will leave our Sites. We are not responsible for third-party websites. Please consult the terms of service and privacy policies of those sites when you visit them.

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12. DATA RETENTION

We will store your Personal Data for as long as: (a) you maintain an account with us; (b) you continue using our Sites and Services; (c) your Personal Data is stored in our back up servers and/or services; (d) in accordance with our retention policies and schedules; and (e) as long as we are legally required to retain the Personal Data.

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13. ACCESSIBILITY

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternate format, or would like to report an issue you are experiencing on our Sites or Services, please email us at subscriptions@sosland.com. You expressly agree to attempt to resolve any and all issues with accessibility directly with us and in good faith prior to instituting any legal action against us.

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14. NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS

Nevada law allows Nevada residents to opt-out of the sale of certain types of personal information. Subject to a number of exceptions, Nevada law defines “sale” to mean the exchange of certain types of personal information for monetary consideration to a person for the person to license or sell the information to additional persons. We do not currently sell personal information as defined in the Nevada law. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you still may submit a verified request to opt-out of sales and we will record your instructions and incorporate them in the future if our policy changes. Opt-out requests may be sent to DPO@sosland.com.

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15. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This Privacy Notice to California Consumers (“CA Notice”) is for California residents and supplements the other sections of Sosland’s Privacy Policy. This CA Notice explains how we collect, use and disclose your “Personal Information” (as that term is defined by California law) and how you may exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). This Notice is intended solely for, and is applicable only as to, California residents. If you are not a California resident, this does not apply to you.

1. NOTICE AT COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. To provide you with our Sites and Services, we collect and process information about you, including in some cases, Personal Information.  To comply with the CCPA and to assist you in understanding our data collection and protection practices during the past 12 months:
1. Categories of Consumer Personal Information. We collect and, in the 12 months prior to the Date of Last Revision of this Privacy Policy, have collected the following categories of consumer Personal Information:
• Identifiers (name, alias, account name, email address, postal address, Internet Protocol address, online identifiers, other similar identifiers).
• Unique personal identifiers (cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology).
• Telephone numbers.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding an individual’s interaction with a website, application or advertisement).
• Commercial information (records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other commercial information),
• Inferences drawn from above information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumers’ preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes
• Geolocation data.
• Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual.
• Video information (if you select use of video features).
2. Sources of Personal Information. We collect the above categories of consumer Personal Information from you, from your devices and from our distributors and service providers as described in Section 6 above.
3. Purpose for Collection. In addition to the business purposes for which we collect consumer Personal Data described in Section 3 above, we collect consumer Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:
• Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards
• Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
• Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
• Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us, provided that your Personal Information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about you or otherwise alter your experience outside the current interaction with us
• Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services
• Providing advertising and marketing services for the purpose of advertising and marketing, our service providers and/or contractors shall not combine the Personal Information of opted-out consumers that the service provider or contractor receives from us, or on our behalf with Personal Information that the service provider or contractor receives from, or on behalf of, another person or persons or collects from its own interaction with you
• Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
• Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us
• Advancing our commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction
4. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information. Sosland does not “sell” Personal Information, as that term is commonly interpreted. However, we do engage in targeted advertising activities that may constitute a sale or a share of Personal Information under California law. The following table identifies the categories of Personal Information that we have shared in the 12 months preceding the Date of Last Revision of this Privacy Policy and, for each category, the categories of third parties to whom we sold or shared Personal Information:
   
   

   Category of Personal Information	Categories of Third Parties
   Identifiers (first name, last name, phone number, postal address, email address, company name, position title)	Advertisers
   Unique personal identifiers (such as browser information, IP address, date and time of visit, device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology)	Advertising networks




The following table identifies the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding the Last Updated date of this Privacy Policy and, for each category, the categories of recipients to whom we disclosed Personal Information.  Please note that not all categories of personal information were necessarily shared with all categories of recipients listed.

Category of Personal Information	Categories of Recipients
Identifiers (name, alias, account name, email address, postal address, Internet Protocol address, online identifiers, other similar identifiers)	Business partners; lead purchasers; data hosting and cloud storage providers; mailing providers; advertising service providers; accounting service providers; call center service providers; client relationship management service providers; payment processing vendors.
Unique personal identifiers (cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology)	Data hosting and cloud storage providers; cookie management service provider; advertising service providers.
Telephone number	Business partners; lead purchasers; data hosting and cloud storage providers; mailing providers; advertising service providers; accounting service providers; call center service providers; client relationship management service providers.
Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding consumer’s interaction with website, application or advertisement)	Data hosting and cloud storage providers; cookie management provider.
Commercial information (records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other commercial information)	Business partners; data hosting and cloud storage providers; mailing providers; advertising service providers; accounting service providers; call center service providers; client relationship management service providers; payment processing vendors.
Inferences drawn from above information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, behavior, and abilities	Security, anti-fraud, and verification providers; client relationship management service providers; data hosting and cloud storage providers.
Geolocation data	Data storage providers; security, anti-fraud, and verification providers; data hosting and cloud storage providers.
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual.	Data hosting and cloud storage providers; mailing providers; accounting service providers; call center service providers; client relationship management service providers.
Video information (if you select use of video features)	Data hosting and cloud storage providers; mailing providers; accounting service providers; call center service providers; client relationship management service providers.




5. Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use Sensitive Personal Information (as it is defined in the CCPA) for the purpose of inferring characteristics about individuals.
6. Retention of Personal Information. We retain Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, such as to provide you with the service you have requested, and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, contractual, or reporting requirements that apply to us.
7. Your Rights. Under the CCPA, you have the following rights:
   
   

   RIGHT TO KNOW	You have the right to request that we disclose to you the Personal Information we collected about you in the 12-month period preceding your request. This right includes the right to request: (1) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you; (2) categories of Personal Information we have collected about you; (3) categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collected; (4) categories of Personal Information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose about you (if applicable); (5) categories of third parties to whom your Personal Information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose (if applicable); and (6) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or, if applicable, selling your Personal Information.
   RIGHT TO DELETE	You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information that we have collected from you, with some exceptions.  Note that if you request that we delete your information, we may be unable to provide you with certain offers or services.
   RIGHT TO CORRECT	You have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information we maintain about you.
   RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF SALE	If we sell or share Personal information, you have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing.
   RIGHT TO LIMIT PROCESSING OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION	If we use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use and disclosure.  Sosland does not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than for the limited purposes permitted by the CCPA and its regulations.
   RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATON	You have the right to non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights.  This means we cannot deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide a different level of quality of goods or services just because you exercise your rights under the CCPA. Sosland will not and does not discriminate against you or other customers for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

    

8. How to Exercise Your Rights.

   Right to Submit a Request to Know, Delete and/or Correct: You may submit a request to know, delete and/or correct by calling us at 800.338.6201, emailing us at DPO@sosland.com or contacting us through our online form. If you are submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, please submit the request through one of the designated methods discussed above. After submitting the request, we will require additional information to verify your authority to act on behalf of the California resident.

   Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct. We will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the California resident on whose behalf you are making such request. We will verify your identity either to a “reasonable degree of certainty” or a “reasonably high degree of certainty” depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information and the risk of harm to you by unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or correction as applicable. For requests to access categories of Personal Information and for requests to delete or correct Personal Information that is not sensitive and does not pose a risk of harm by unauthorized deletion or correction, we will verify your identity to a “reasonable degree of certainty” by verifying at least two data points that you previously provided to us and which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying identities. For requests to access specific pieces of Personal Information or for requests to delete or correct Personal Information that is sensitive and poses a risk of harm by unauthorized deletion or correction, we will verify your identity to a “reasonably high degree of certainty” by verifying at least three pieces of Personal Information you previously provided to us and which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying identities. In addition, you must submit a signed declaration under penalty of perjury stating that you are the individual whose Personal Information is being requested.

   Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information.You have the right to opt-out of the sales of your Personal Information and the sharing of your Personal Information for cross context behavioral marketing. You may exercise your right to opt out by following the instructions on our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page. To opt out of “sharing” of your Personal Information via cross context behavioral advertising, please go to our Cookie Settings and turn off Performance and Targeting cookies.

9. Shine the Light Law. California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by us to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes (as those terms are defined in that statute). If you would like to request information, please contact us at DPO@sosland.com.



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16. NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA.

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies to individuals located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). The GDPR allows us to collect and use personal information from individuals within the EEA only for one or more of the following reasons:

1. To fulfill a contract we have with you;
2. When we have a legal duty;
3. When it is in our legitimate interest; or
4. When you provide consent.

We do not operate in the EEA or specifically direct our business to consumers in the EEA.  However, we recognize some of our website users, customers and prospective customers could be located within the EEA.  If you reside in the EEA, you have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to the way we process your Personal Data, which are set forth below.  You may contact us directly to exercise any of these rights, and we will verify your request and, if appropriate, respond to any request received from you within one month from the date of the request. In exceptional circumstances we may need to extend this timescale, but we will always tell you in advance if we do, and our reasons why.

Right 1	A right to access personal data held by us about you, as well as information about how we are using your data.
Right 2	A right to require us to rectify any inaccurate personal data held by us about you.
Right 3	A right to require us to erase personal data held by us about you, and where the personal data has been made public, for other controllers processing the personal data to also erase links to, or copy or replication of, such personal data.  This right will only apply where (for example): we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for; or where you withdraw your consent if we are using your personal data based on your consent; or where you object to the way we process your data (in line with Right 6 below).
Right 4	A right to restrict our processing of personal data held by us about you.  This right will only apply where (for example): you dispute the accuracy of the personal data held by us; or where you would have the right to require us to erase the personal data but would prefer that our processing is restricted instead; or where we no longer need to use the personal data to achieve the purpose we collected it for, but you require the data for the purposes of dealing with legal claims.
Right 5	A right to receive personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.  You also have the right to require us to transfer this personal data to another organization, at your request.
Right 6	A right to object to our processing of personal data held by us about you (including for the purposes of sending marketing materials to you).
Right 7	A right to withdraw your consent, where we are relying on your consent to use your personal data (for example, you may opt out of marketing emails even if you previously consented to receiving marketing information about our services or products).




If you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, or are not satisfied with our handling of any request by you in relation to your rights, please get in touch with our team through the contact information provided in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. You may also reach out to your applicable Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) for more information.  There is a DPA located in each EU Member State.

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