Introduction and Overview

Thank you for using InstaKin! We are committed to providing you with the best online experience possible. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how that information is used, under what circumstances we share information and the choices you can make about that information. This Privacy Policy applies whether you access the InstaKin Services (as defined in the Terms of Service) through a browser, a mobile application, or any other method. This Privacy Policy also describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personally identifiable information (“PII”), including personally identifiable health or medical information (“Personal Health Information” or “PHI”). PII is information about you that may be used to identify you (such as your name, phone number, or address).

Information we collect

1. Information you provide to us or allow others to provide to us

At various points in the InstaKin experience, you may provide us with information about yourself. For example, when you create an account through the Services, you provide us with personal information like your name, email address, or phone number. And if you place an order through the Services, we collect information including delivery address and phone number. Your account information may be updated or corrected by accessing your account settings.

If you wish to invite your friends and contacts to use the Services, we will give you the option of either entering in their contact information manually or importing it from your address books on other third-party services. In both cases, we will store this information for the sole purpose of allowing you to send your friends referral offers, for determining whether your friends use the Services after a referral is sent, and to remind your friends of the referral sent on your behalf.

2. Technical information about usage of the Services

When you use the Services, or browse our sites, either through a browser or mobile app, we automatically receive some technical information about the hardware and software that is being used.

Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies:

We and our partners use various technologies to collect information, including but not limited to cookies, pixels, scripts, and device identifiers. Cookies are small text files that are sent by your computer when you access our services through a browser. We, our partners, our advertisers, and third-party advertising networks may use session cookies (which expire when you close your browser), persistent cookies (which only expire when you choose to clear them from your browser), pixels, scripts, and other identifiers to collect information from your browser or device that helps us do things such as understand how you use our services and other services; personalize your experience; measure, manage, and display advertising on the Services or on other services; understand your usage of the Services and other services in order to serve customized ads, and remember that you are logged into the Services.

Log information:

When you use the Services, or browse our sites, our servers will record information about your usage of the Services and information that is sent by your browser or device. Log information can include things like the IP address of your device, information about the browser, operating system and/or app you are using, unique device identifiers, pages that you navigate to and links that you click, searches that you run on the Services, and other ways you interact with the Services. If you are logged into the Services, this information is stored with your account information.

3. Children

Our Services are not intended for children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or “COPPA”) in a manner not permitted by COPPA. If we obtain actual knowledge that any information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information to the extent required by applicable laws.

We do not knowingly “sell,” as that term is defined under the California Consumer Protect Act (“CCPA”), the personal information of minors under 16 years old who are California residents.

How we use your information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide the Services to you, improve the quality of the service, and develop new products and services
  • Allow your Personal Shopper (which means those that shop for and/or deliver the order for you, including our retail partner and their employees/agents where applicable or our third-party providers) to choose your items at a retailer site, deliver your items to you, and/or call or text you with any updates or issues
  • Charge you for the purchase and delivery costs through one or more payment processing partners
  • Offer you customized content (including advertising, coupons, and promotions)
  • Understand how users interact with the Services (including advertising both on and off the Services) as a whole and to test new features or changes in our features
  • Provide customer service, respond to your communications and requests, and contact you about your use of the Services
  • Send you messages related to our community affairs efforts
  • Fulfill any other business or commercial purposes at your direction or with prior notice to you and your consent

You can opt-out of receiving promotional communications from InstaKin by using the settings on the Account Info page or by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the message, where applicable.

What we share

We also share information under the following principles:

  • With your consent or at your direction — We will share your information with entities outside of the Services when we have your consent to do so or it is done at your direction. For example:
    • If you enter loyalty card information from a particular retailer, we share that information with the retailer you chose along with your order so that information can be added to your loyalty card account.
    • If you share a recipe publicly on the Services, it is viewable by anyone along with your first name and last initial.
    • If you invite friends to use the Services through our referral program or to share a shopping cart, we will share some information with the friends you invite like your name and picture. Likewise, if you choose to join someone else’s cart, they will see some of your information.
  • With our retail partners — We may share your information with our retail partners in order to provide and maintain the Services.
  • For external processing or service provision — We sometimes share information with third parties to process information on our behalf or to otherwise provide certain services (such as delivery services, advertising services, or information to better tailor our services to you). For the purposes of this processing or provision of services, we may share your information with such third parties under appropriate confidentiality provisions.
  • For legal purposes — We may share your information when we believe that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process, or requests from law enforcement or regulatory authorities, (b) prevent, detect, or otherwise handle fraud, security, or technical issues, and (c) protect the safety, rights, or property of any person, the public, or InstaKin.
  • On a non-personal or aggregate basis — We share information on both a non-personally identifying basis (including, but not limited to, order and delivery details but not including credit card information) or an aggregate basis.

For business purposes — We may share your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. We may also share your information between and among InstaKin, and its current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.

Security

We employ and maintain reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to safeguard and protect information under our control from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. In addition, when we collect, maintain, access, use, or disclose your PHI, we will do so using systems and processes consistent with information privacy and security requirements under applicable federal and state laws, including, without limitation, HIPAA. All electronic PHI will be encrypted at rest and in transit. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information about you.

We will make any legally required notifications of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your PHI or PII, including, without limitation, breaches of your stored PHI or PII (as breaches are defined under applicable state or federal statutes on security breach notification). To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we will make such notifications to you without unreasonable delay, as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

Changes to this Policy

This policy may change from time to time and any revised Privacy Policy will be posted at this page, so we encourage you to review it regularly. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Privacy Policy and, in the case of materials changes to the Privacy Policy, we may provide you with additional notice (such as a notice in our user interface or sending you a notification by email).

Contact Information

Questions or comments about our Privacy Policy? Contact InstaKin’s Global Privacy Team at:

info@instakin.com