Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 25th, 2024

Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc., along with our subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to safeguarding your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how the Company collects, uses, and discloses Personal Information (as defined below) about you when you communicate with us or visit our websites, including www.baldorfood.com, use our mobile applications, apply for a job with us, or work for us as an employee, contractor, or otherwise (collectively, the “Service”). It also describes how we protect and disclose your Personal Information and the choices you may have with respect to your Personal Information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Service or otherwise interacting with us, you agree to our Terms of Use [link][AA1] , and the collection, use, disclosure, and other processing of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the Service if you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy.

I.               Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It

“Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you. Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated.

We collect different types of Personal Information about you depending on the nature of your relationship with us, and how you interact with us and the Service. Some information you may provide directly. Other information may be collected automatically or through other parties.

Personal Information we collect generally includes:

• Your contact details, such as your full name, postal address, email address, and telephone number;
• Other personal records, such as your signature, username, password and account profile details for our Service, credit card, debit card or other payment information;
• Your employer or other corporate affiliation, such as your title, business contact information, employer’s name, educational details;
• Your approximate location based on your device IP address, and more precise location data about Baldor drivers who use our Driver App;
• Information about products you purchase, consider, or inquire about;
• Any Personal Information that you provide in the contents of your communications with us;
• Audiovisual information, including phone call recordings, security camera footage, and videoconferencing information;
• Applicant information, such as your skills; qualifications; work experience; references; recommendations; and other information included in application materials; and information relating to professional licenses, training, disciplinary actions, professional certifications, and membership in professional organizations; and
• Employee information, such as your citizenship and immigration status, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information, Taxpayer Identification Number, Social Security number, state ID card number, medical information, biometric information, or health insurance information.

Certain information, such as your IP address, device identifier, browser type, operating system and information about your use of the Service may be collected automatically using tracking technologies when you navigate our website.

We may also obtain Personal Information about you from others—for example, if you interact with us as a customer or supplier, we may obtain your contact information from your employer.

II.            How We Use the Information We Collect

In general, we use your Personal Information:

• To communicate with you, including to answer your questions, request additional information, and respond to your feedback;
• To process transactions and provide the products or services you request from us;
• To support our advertising and marketing;
• To prevent and address fraud, breaches of our policies or terms, and other threats or harm;
• To analyze use of the Service, evaluate and enhance website security and stability, and otherwise improve the Service;
• For job applicants, to process your application and assess your eligibility for employment; and
• For employees, to manage your employment relationship, including to provide you compensation and benefits, and to operate our business.

We may also collect, use, and disclose Personal Information as required by law, regulation, or court order; to respond to governmental and/or law enforcement requests; to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our (or others’) rights or property; to support any actual or threatened claim, defense or declaration in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; or for other purposes described in any other privacy notice or with your consent. Additionally, we may use and disclose Personal Information to third parties in connection with a sale, assignment, merger, reorganization, or other corporate transaction relating to all or part of our business.

III.          How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information:

• To our affiliates, subsidiaries, business partners, or vendors when it is reasonably necessary or helpful, such as to assist in communicating with you, or to analyze and improve our Service or products;
• To our employees, agents, vendors, and consultants who perform functions on our behalf – for example, we may use service providers to help us provide customer support, send various communications, provide compensation and benefits, or otherwise assist with the operation of our business;
• To third-party companies, including data analytics providers, marketing and information networks, and omnichannel communications platforms, that assist us in advertising or marketing our products and services, providing analytics, or supporting other similar functions;
• To comply with applicable law or protect our and your rights and interests – for example, we may disclose your Personal Information if we determine that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, protect our or others’ rights, property, or interests, or prevent fraud or abuse;
• In the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business assets, including during the negotiation of such transactions; or
• For any other purpose with your consent or as otherwise allowed by applicable law.

IV.          Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our vendors may use a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, beacons, pixels, and APIs that collect certain information when you interact with our website. Depending on your device and browser settings, these tracking technologies may collect your IP address, device identifiers, user preferences, approximate geolocation, the content you engage with, and the websites you visit before and after ours. Additionally, these technologies may collect details about how you interact with the Service, including scrolling and cursor movements, gestures, clicks, taps, and keyboard entries.

We may use these technologies for various purposes, including to provide functionality for our website, to help us route traffic between servers, to understand how the website is performing and how visitors use the website, to improve features and content on the website, and for advertising purposes. We may combine certain information collected through tracking technologies with other information we obtain about you, which may include information we obtain from our vendors. Technologies we use for these purposes include, but are not limited to:

• Google Analytics. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data, visit: google.com/policies/privacy/partners. To opt out of Google Analytics cookies, visit: google.com/settings/ads and tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Meta. Meta may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies, including the Meta Pixel, to collect or receive information from the Service and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide ad measurement services, target and deliver ads.
• Facebook Custom Audiences. You may opt out of Facebook Custom Audience by logging into your Facebook account and changing your privacy or advertising settings per Facebook’s opt out instructions.
• Session Monitoring. Some of the technologies used on our website allow us and our service providers to monitor and analyze how visitors use our website in order to better understand user behavior and improve our Service. When you interact with us online, information related to your browsing behavior may be collected by us and our service providers.

Certain advertising technology vendors may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) AdChoices Program and may display an Advertising Option Icon for Interest-based Ads that links to an opt-out tool which allows you to exercise certain choices regarding targeting. You can learn more about the DAA AdChoices Program at http://www.youradchoices.com/. In addition, certain advertising networks and exchanges may participate in the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). NAI has developed a tool that allows consumers to opt out of certain interest-based ads delivered by NAI members’ ad networks. To learn more about opting out of such targeted advertising or to use the NAI tool, see http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Please be aware that, even if you are able to opt out of certain kinds of interest-based ads, you will continue to receive non-targeted ads.

We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, external-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs.

If you do not want to have cookies placed on your device, you should set your browser to refuse cookies before accessing our website. Please review your browser’s Help menu or mobile device’s settings for instructions regarding tracking technology management.

V.             “Do Not Track” Signals

Your browser may have a “do-not-track” setting that sends signals to websites with the technology to receive them to express your preferences regarding online tracking. We do not currently respond to such signals. 

VI.          Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to websites maintained by third parties with which we have no affiliation. This Privacy Policy does not reflect the privacy practices of those sites. You should consult the privacy policies of those sites to learn about their practices. A link to a third-party site does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it.

VII.        Children’s Privacy

The Service is not intended for children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect the Personal Information of children through the Service.

VIII.      Security of Your Personal Information

At no charge to you, we take commercially reasonable and appropriate steps to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please keep in mind, however, that there is no such thing as perfect security, and no internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. Moreover, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any username and password you use for our Service.

IX.          Your Rights and Choices

We make every effort to keep your Personal Information current and accurate. You can update your account information at any time by signing in and navigating to the My Profile page. If you are unable to change your information in this way or if you believe that additional Personal Information we maintain about you is inaccurate or in need of updating, please contact us via the email address or mailing address shown below.

You may at any time request to be removed from a promotional email list by clicking the unsubscribe link contained within the message, clicking on the Manage Subscription Preferences button in the footer of our website, or adjusting your settings under My Profile after logging into our website.

If you have questions about our data processing practices, or if you would like to take any other action with respect to your Personal Information, please feel free to contact us by email or mail as provided below.

X.             International Users

The Service is intended for users in the United States. If you are using the Service outside the United States, please be aware that Personal Information we obtain about you may be transferred to and processed in the United States, or other jurisdictions outside your own. Your Personal Information may be accessible by public authorities where it is processed. By using the Service and providing your Personal Information, you acknowledge that your Personal Information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions other than your own. Please be aware that the data protection laws and regulations that may apply to your Personal Information transferred to the United States, or other countries may be different from the laws in your country of residence.

XI.          Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Should we do so, we will post the changes to this page. We suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy to review any changes. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.

XII.        How to Contact Us

This website and its contents are owned and operated by the Company. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: