We are Meatable and respect your private life and privacy. We value your trust when sharing your personal data with us and recognize that you may be concerned about the information provided to us and about how we handle that information.

 

If you are reading this Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) it is because you’re visiting our Website or any other place within any Social Media (all of them referred to hereinafter as “Sites”) operated Meatable B.V. (“Meatable” or “us” or “we”) or, because you may have contacted us directly by phone or in writing.

 

This Privacy Notice sets out (in full transparency and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, especially the General Data Protection Regulation -Regulation (EU) 2016/679- “GDPR”), the basis on which we process your Personal Data (“Personal Data”) when you access our Sites or contact us.

 

We have updated this Privacy Notice in December 2024

 

 

Meatable collects and uses Personal Data which you provide or which we collect about you when you navigate through our Sites for the purposes of advertising, supplying you with information about our products, making contact with you for marketing or other commercial purposes, answering your enquiries regarding our products, analyzing and improving the quality of our products.

 

Your access to and use of our Sites is subject to the terms and conditions of our Privacy Notice and all applicable laws. Your Personal Data processing will be limited to what it is necessary in relation to the purposes abovementioned. We will be collecting your expressed consent only where necessary by opt-ins so that you exert full control on the information we process and hold about you. Otherwise, we will only process your Personal Data if necessary for the performance of a contract with you, for compliance with a legal obligation of Meatable  and /or for the purposes of legitimate interests of Meatable .

 

We usually process your Personal Data in the European Union but, it may also be stored in systems based around the world, and may be processed by third party service providers acting on our behalf. These systems and providers may be based on territories, such as the USA, that do not provide an equivalent level of protection over privacy as that enjoyed in the EU. In that case Meatable  will provide for adequate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data and ensure a level of safeguards that is equivalent to the one of the country of origin. 

 

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, objection, and data portability in respect of your Personal Data, by contacting us via privacy@meatable.com (also more contact details below).

 

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time by posting the updated version of the Privacy Notice on our Sites. We will inform of any material change so that you can fully understand the changes that are actually implemented. Please visit frequently this Privacy Notice to stay informed about how we use your personal data.

 

 

The type of information and Personal Data that we collect about you when you visit our Sites or interact with us may include the following:

 

We collect and use your Personal Data for the purposes below and on lawful basis. 

For legitimate commercial interests: we may use your Personal Data (both on an aggregated and on an individual basis), such as your contact details, and electronic identification data, for the purpose of advertising and for analyzing and improving the quality of our products, as well as, to understand you as a customer.

 

We may ask you to participate in market research. In that case we shall use your data for that market research. We use that statistical data anonymously for Meatable You can close the question list at any moment. We do not share your answers with others or make them publicly available. In addition, your answers are not connected to your e-mail address.

 

Meatable offers newsletters. That way, you are fully informed of (discount)offers and other news.

 

This also means that we analyze the information that you provide to us together with your use of our Sites or of our products and we use all this information to improve the same and to give you a better user experience (for example, we analyze what web pages you visit, which products you use and like, how you use these products).

 

We may also use your Personal Data, for legitimate commercial interests such as, to generate aggregated statistics about the users of our products; to facilitate our business operations, to operate company policies and procedures; and for other legitimate business purposes permitted by applicable law, on which we would provide relevant information at the time.

 

To comply with our legal obligations, such as maintaining appropriate business records, handling complaints made to our customer service, complying with lawful requests by public authorities and with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law.

 

 

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as it is necessary to satisfy the purpose for which it was provided by you or collected by us (for example, for the time necessary for us to answer queries or resolve problems).

 

We may therefore retain your Personal Data for a reasonable period after your last interaction with us. When the Personal Data that we collect is no longer required in this way, we destroy or delete it in a secure manner. We may, instead of destroying or erasing your Personal Data, make it anonymous so that it cannot be associated with or tracked back to you. In certain cases, we may have legal or regulatory obligations that require us to retain specific records for a set period of time.

 

 

We may share your personal data with others. In a data processing agreement, we shall agree with those parties that they shall use your data carefully and they shall only receive the data that is relevant for their services. These parties use your data in accordance with our instructions and not for their own purposes. We can share your data for example with marketing analytics, advertising platforms, payments platform, cloud based data warehousing. They will store and visualize data, process transactions, personalized advertisements. These parties are “processors” within the meaning of the Relevant Legislation 

 

 

We will normally process your Personal Data within the European Union. Notwithstanding this, the global nature of our business involves that your Personal Data may occasionally be disclosed to non-European entities of the Meatable  Group for which they have entered into a data transfer agreement regulating these cross-border transfers.

 

We also use some third party suppliers to help us provide business services. These third parties may have access to or merely host your Personal Data, but will always do so under our instructions and subject to a contractual relationship. When these third parties are located in territories (such as the USA) which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to privacy as that applicable within the EU, we will take all the necessary steps to verify that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of protection. This, either by entering into data transfer agreements or by ensuring that third parties are certified under appropriate data protection schemes.

 

 

Sometimes we share your data with third parties who are not processors, as per contractual obligation. For example Meatable’s presence in any of the various social media forums like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc., you should be familiar with and understand the tools provided by those sites that allow you to make choices about how you share the Personal Data in your social media profile(s).

 

For these forums the privacy practices or policies of these third parties apply, so we encourage you to read the applicable privacy notices, terms of use and related information about how your Personal Data is used in these social media environments.

 

Subsequently our Sites may contain links to third-party websites; if you follow these links, you will exit our websites and mobile applications. While these third-party websites are selected with care, Meatable  cannot accept liability for the use of your Personal Data by these organizations. For more information and details, please consult the Section Data Privacy Notices of third parties and the privacy statement of the website you are visiting (if such a statement is provided).

 

 

The data we collect are personal. Therefore, you have the following rights:

 

 

Should you have further questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us via the information below.

 

 

Meatable B.V.

Emmy Noetherweg 2

2333 BK Leiden

VAT no. NL858896928B01

KVK: 71904255

Email: privacy@meatable.com