Select Chef’s Privacy Policy
Last modified: December 17, 2021
At Select Chef, Inc. (“Select Chef,” “we,” “us,” “our”) we respect our customers’ and users’ (collectively, “you” and “your”) privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). This Policy describes the types of information that Select Chef may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website www.selectchef.com (our “Website”). This Policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, disclosing, maintaining, and protecting your information.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy
This Policy does not apply to information collected by (a) us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Select Chef or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or (b) any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how Select Chef will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy or our practices, your choice is not to use our Website or services. As further detailed below, this Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so we encourage you to check this Policy periodically for updates.
1.Information We Collect
Through your use of our Website and services, we may collect the following categories of information from or about you:
- Information that personally identifies you, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, username, ISP address, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”);
- Information about your internet connection, network, operating system, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details;
- Information about your use of our services, including but not limited to your Select Chef subscription details, information about your referrals, gift card orders, and chef experiences, your responses to any marketing or promotions, and any interactions with technical or customer support;
- Payment information if you choose to sign up for a subscription or buy a gift card; and
- Content (text, reviews, comments, images, videos) that you choose to upload or post to public areas of the Website (collectively, “User Contributions”). Please note that User Contributions are accessible to the general public and are posted, uploaded, and disclosed at your own risk.
2.How We Collect Information
Select Chef collects many of the categories of information listed above directly from you when you expressly give them to us or use our services. You always have the choice not to provide us with certain information; however, you may not be able to access certain services or features of our Website.
We also collect information automatically as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, computer and internet connections, and what pages you visit on our Website. We may collect this type of information through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. Web Beacons are small digital files that are contained within certain pages of our Website or emails. We use web beacons to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics. We may also collect certain information through our third-party service providers, including but not limited to our current online payment provider, Authorize.net. You can view Authorize.net’s Terms and Privacy policies at:https://www.authorize.net/about-us/terms.html.
3.How We Use Information
We use the collected categories of information listed above to present our Website and contents to you, to provide you with our services, to communicate to you about your subscription or our services, to inform you of any changes to this Policy or the Terms of Service, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website, to provide technical or customer support, to improve our business or Website, for other legitimate business purposes, for security purpose, or as required by law.
4.Disclosure of Your Information
In general, we only disclose your Personal Information to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, for purposes disclosed by us when you provide the information, or to enforce our Terms of Service. This may include disclosing your Personal Information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers who help us provide our services to you (e.g., our online payment processing service provider). These service providers are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may also disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. Select Chef does not sell your Personal Information to third-parties.
5.Non-Texas Residents
We provide this Website for use only by persons located in the U.S. Currently, Select Chef only offers its services in the state of Texas and to residents of Texas. If you do not reside in Texas, please do not attempt to create an account, purchase a subscription, post User Contributions, or provide us with your Personal Information. We do allow non-Texas residents to sign up to receive emails from us if you provide us with your email address, and to buy gift cards (but only for services rendered in the state of Texas). At any time, you can opt-out or unsubscribe to our emails by following the link at the bottom of our emails. That is the only Personal Information that Select Chef knowingly collects from non-Texas residents. If we begin offering our services in other locations, this Policy and the Terms of Service will be updated accordingly. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from persons outside of the U.S.
6.Data Security
Select Chef is committed to protecting the Personal Information that you share with us, and we have implemented industry-standard measures designed to secure it from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All Personal Information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls and any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Notwithstanding our commitment, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Therefore, any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. The safety and security of your information also depend on you. We recommend that you create a strong password, use a secure browser, and do not disclose your login credentials to others.
7.Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
Select Chef strives to provide you with choices regarding the information you provide to us and your ability to change or remove your information. For example, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may not function properly or be accessible. Additionally, if you no longer want to receive marketing emails from us, you can follow the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email. Please note that even if you opt-out, we may still send you non-marketing emails about your account and subscription.
You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. We may have to delete your user account to delete your Personal Information. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. Please note that if you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Service.
8.Social Media Sharing
To learn more about the data collection processes in connection with social media sharing features, please review the privacy policies of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and similar websites that you use and that provide these features. Select Chef’s Policy does not apply to social media platforms.
9.Individuals Under the Age of 21
Our Website is not intended for individuals under 21 years of age. Select Chef does not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 21. If you are under 21 years of age, please do not use or provide any Personal Information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, or use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website. If you believe we might have any information from or about an individual under 21, please contact us at hello@selectchef.com
10.Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at
Phone: (469) 447 9985
Email: dmca-agent@selectchef.com
11.Changes to the Privacy Policy
As previously mentioned, this Policy is subject to occasional revision. It is our policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat your Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Website home page.
The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Website and this Policy to check for any changes as well as ensuring that we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you.