Daddy’s Franchising, LLC (“Daddy’s Franchising” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or shared on the sites, applications, social media pages, or other platforms that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, the “Site”) or that is otherwise provided to, or collected by, us in connection with the products we offer (our “Services”). It also describes your choices about the collection, sharing, and use of your Personal Information.

We may modify this Privacy Notice at any time. All changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the Site. Material changes will be conspicuously posted on the Site or otherwise communicated to you.

1. Personal Information We Collect

We may collect a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. 

The types of Personal Information we collect may include:

Contact Information – If you submit an inquiry, or provide information on our Site, we may collect your contact information. This may include your name, email address, demographic information, and phone number.

Financial Information – If you apply to enter into a franchise relationship with us, we will collect your financial information, including your name and payment information.  We may also, with your consent and in accordance with applicable laws, obtain background information about you in connection with your application.

Location Data – While navigating our Site your mobile device or browser may share your location data, both through WiFi and GPS. We will collect this information based on the settings of your phone and browser.

Usage Information – When you use our Site, our servers may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the site you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, information on your interaction with the Site, and other such information.

Employment Information – If you apply to enter into a franchise relationship with us, or apply for a job with us, we may collect your employment and work history, as well as other Personal Information related such as your education and employment history, address and contact information, demographic information, and any other information included in your resume or application.

Communication Information – We may collect audio, electronic, or visual information, which includes screen sharing views; any data in any files uploaded, emailed or otherwise provided by customers; the contents of your communications with us, whether via e-mail, social media, telephone or otherwise, and inferences we may make from other Personal Information we collect.

Through Analytics – We may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to assist us with analyzing our website traffic through cookies and similar technologies.  To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this does not prevent the use of other analytics tools. To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.

3. How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use Personal Information to:

• operate the Site and provide support to our business functions;

  • fulfill requests, such as to send you information about our franchise opportunities;

  • protect against criminal activity, claims and other liabilities;

  • send you information about our company, products, and Services;

  • respond to reviews, comments, or other feedback provided to us;
    
    

  • support and personalize the Site and our advertising efforts;

  • protect the security and integrity of the Site;

  • provide customer support;

  • the extent required for benchmarking, data analysis, audits, developing new products, enhancing the Site, facilitating product, software and applications development, improving the Site or our Services, conducting research, analysis, studies or surveys, identifying usage trends, as well as for other analytics purposes;

  • meet our contractual requirements;

  • comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies;

  • respond to inquiries related to employment opportunities;

  • market, advertise, and provide the Site and our products;

  • manage our franchise relationships; and

  • the extent necessary for any other lawful purpose for which the Personal Information is collected.

4. Sharing of Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

For Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – When we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Daddy’s, its users, or the public against harm.

In the Case of a Merger or Sale – If and when we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale of some or all of its business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. Personal Information may be transferred along with the business. Where legally required we will give you prior notice and if you have a legal right to do so, an opportunity to object to this transfer.

To Service providers – When we hire a service provider to help operate the Site or our business, we may give access to Personal Information as necessary to perform the service for Daddy’s.  This may include service providers that operate our Site, send our communications, or run our promotions.

To Business Partners – We may share Personal Information with our trusted business partners.  For example, we may share your Personal Information with a company if we co-sponsor a promotion or service.  These partners and affiliates may use your Personal Information to, among other things, send you information or contact you about their services and products.

5. How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it has been collected, as outlined in this Privacy Notice, or any longer retention period required by law. 

6. How We Protect Your Personal Information

We use our commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information we process. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to ensure the integrity and security of Personal Information, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third parties such as hackers from illegally obtaining access to Personal Information.

7. Your Choices and Controls

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. To opt-out of marketing communications please email us at privacy@daddysfranchising.com or by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence.  

Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain correspondence, we may still need to contact you with important transactional or administrative information, as permitted by law.  Additionally, if you withdraw your consent or object to processing, or if you choose not to provide certain Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our Services to you.

To exercise other rights with respect to your Personal Information, please see Section 12. If you are a resident of California, please see the information below in Section 11 (California Residents) for more information regarding your rights.

8. International Use of the Site

This Site is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting this Site from outside of the United States, please note that your Personal Information is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United States, where our data center and servers are located and operated.

9. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 16.  In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us at privacy@daddysfranchising.com or contact us using the information listed in Section 12.

10. Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from the Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be subject to the applicable third party’s Privacy Notice.

11. California Residents

This Section applies to our collection and use of “Personal Information” if you are a resident of California, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”). This Section describes (1) the categories of Personal Information, collected and disclosed by us, subject to CPRA, (2) your privacy rights under CPRA, and (3) how to exercise your rights.

When we use the term “Personal Information” in the context of the CPRA, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California consumer or household.  

If you would like to receive a copy of this Section in an alternate format (e.g., printable) or language, please contact us using the information provided in Section 12.

A. California Residents

We have collected the following categories of Personal Information from our consumers within the last 12 months. The sources from which we obtain this information and the ways in which we use this information are set forth in Section 3 above. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.