

When it comes to your favorite ice cream flavors, we know you’re ready to tell everyone who’ll listen about those euphoric chunks and swirls. But your personal information? That’s a different story. We love that you trust us with your desserts, and we really love that you trust us with the personal stuff. Read on for the doughy details on what we do — and don’t do — with your personal info.
BEN & JERRY’S THREE SWEET PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
We take your privacy as seriously as we take dough chunks and caramel swirls! These 3 principles guide our treatment of your personal information
1. We appreciate that you like us enough to trust us with your personal info.
2. We want to be totally honest with you about what info we collect, what we do with it, and who we share it with.
3. We promise to do our best to keep your details safe and secure.
Last Updated: March 23, 2024
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This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) describes how the Ben & Jerry’s in the United States (“Ben & Jerry’s,” “we,” “us“, or “our”) collect, use, share and otherwise process personal information in connection with our websites which link to or display this Policy, by phone or anywhere else where we display this Notice (collectively, the “Site”).
When we use the term “personal information” in this Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. It does not include aggregated, deidentified, or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you or a particular household, publicly available information from government records, information about job applicants, employees and other personnel or information about the employees and other representatives of third-party entities who we may interact with in a commercial context.
If you’re browsing our website, this info is for you! No matter what you’re up to, this is how we collect and use your personal information while you’re here.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND HOW WE COLLECTED IT
We or our service providers at our direction may collect the following types of information.
We collect this personal information either: Directly From You; Automatically (when you use our Site); From Third Parties (such as business partners, social media sites, third party sites, family, and friends); and Combining Personal Information with information collected offline, from different devices, or from third parties. We may also collect personal information about you over time and across different websites, apps, and devices when you use our Site, using tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels, Flash objects, APIs and mobile software development kits (SDKs) and we may use third party services to collect this personal information when you use our Site. For more information about our use of automatic tracking technologies, please refer to the section called “Tracking Technologies, Interest-Based Advertising and Third Party Tracking” below.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
HOW WE SHARE AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Want to keep in touch? Here’s how we’ll collect and use your information if you sign up for our email newsletter, text updates, or become a Flavor Fanatic.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND HOW WE COLLECTED IT
We collect the types of data listed in the Type of Information We Collected and How We Collected It subsection of the “For Everybody” section.
We may also obtain collect information in the following ways:
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information:
HOW WE SHARE AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We love to see our fans take action for justice! If you sign a petition, fill out an activism form, or use a form to send an email, this is how we’ll collect and use your information.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND HOW WE COLLECTED IT
We collect the types of data listed in the Type of Information We Collected and How We Collected It subsection of the “For Everybody ” section. If you sign a petition or take an activism action, we may also collect information about the petition you participated in or the activism action you took.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information:
HOW WE SHARE AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Lucky you, you’re ordering an ice cream cake or booking a catering event! Here’s how we’ll collect and use your personal information when you fill out a cake order form or request a catering quote.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND HOW WE COLLECTED IT
We collect the types of data listed in the Type of Information We Collected and How We Collected It subsection of the “For Everybody” section. We or our service providers may also collect:
We may also obtain collect information in the following ways:
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information:
HOW WE SHARE AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
For all the purposes listed in the How We Share and Use Your Personal Information subsection of the “For Everybody” section.
Looking for Half Baked or other euphoric chunks and swirls we're known for in a freezer near you or at an online retailer? Here’s how we’ll collect and use your information while you search for the good stuff.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND HOW WE COLLECTED IT
We or our service providers may collect:
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information:
HOW WE SHARE AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
For all the purposes listed in the How We Share and Use Your Personal Information subsection of the “For Everybody” section
The table below describes our data practices in the last 12 months. In addition to information contained in this Notice, we may disclose personal information for other purposes described to you in a separate notice presented at the point of collection. In the first column, we list the categories of personal information we have collected. In the second column we describe how each category of personal information may be used by us or our service provider or contractors on our behalf. In the third column, for each of the categories of personal information, we identify the categories of recipients to whom we have disclosed for a business purpose. In the fourth column, for each of the categories of personal information, we identify the categories of “third parties” to whom we have “sold” or “shared” for targeted or behavioral advertising. For purposes of this Notice, when we use the term “third party” we mean entities that are not service providers or contractors providing services on behalf of Unilever and that are not entities with whom you interact with directly. For purposes of this Notice, “targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising” means when we display advertisements to you based on information we obtain about you through nonaffiliated websites or online applications to predict your interests.
Category of Personal Information |
Use Cases |
Categories of Recipients to Whom Personal Information Is Disclosed for Business Purposes |
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information Is Sold or Shared for Targeted or Behavioral Advertising |
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Identifiers, such as name, email address and other information |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
California Customer Records (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), such as birthdate, credit card number and billing address |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Commercial Information, such as shopping history and other information relating to your hobbies, interests and shopping behavior |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Internet / Network Information, such as IP address, device identifier, mobile operating system, the site you came from, what site you visit when you leave our Platform, how often you use our Platform |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Geolocation Data, such as estimated based on your IP address |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Protected Classification Characteristics under California or US Law |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests, to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Sensory Information, such as audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, call recordings, or similar information |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
N/A |
Other Personal Information, such as information you post on our Platform or on social media pages, and information you submit to us |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Inferences and Consumer Profiles, such as predictions about your interests and preferences |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for interest-based advertising; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
Marketing / Advertising / Media Partners and Platforms; Data Analytics Providers; Social Networks |
Types of Sensitive Personal Information We will only process your Sensitive Personal Information in accordance with applicable law, such as obtaining your consent prior to processing. If you are a resident of a state with a law governing “consumer health data”, we provide details about our consumer health data practices in our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy. |
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Categories of Sensitive Personal Information |
Use Cases |
Categories of Recipients to Whom Sensitive Personal Information Is Disclosed for a Business Purpose |
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Sensitive Personal Information Is Sold or Shared for Targeted or Behavioral Advertising |
Account Credentials Allowing Access to An Account |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
N/A |
Health-Related Information, such as if you are part of one of our consumer programs, then we may ask you general health and symptom information or in connection with a survey or information collected when you contact us to report a complaint or an adverse event occurring in connection with one of our products |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to provide product or service recommendations; to respond to your requests or questions; to communicate with you; for short-term, transient use, including nonpersonalized advertising; to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a product, service or device sold by us; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you If you participate in a consumer research study where we have collected your informed consent, then for use as outlined in the particular informed consent form. |
Service Providers or Contractors, including Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
N/A |
Personal information revealing race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status, citizenship status |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to understand your interests; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Platform Users; Research Organizations or Agencies; Marketing / Advertising / Media Agencies; Analytics Vendors; Retail Merchandising Vendors; Fulfillment Partners; Marketing Mix Measurement Providers; Payment Processing Vendors; Data Management Platforms; Social Networks; Affiliates; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
N/A |
Precise Geolocation from Your Device |
To provide our products and services; to improve our products and services; to respond to your requests or questions; to determine your eligibility; for marketing purposes; for security purposes; to comply with law or to protect ourselves or third parties; for internal business purposes; as otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you |
Service Providers or Contractors; Research Organizations or Agencies; Data Management Platforms; Law Enforcement; Regulatory Bodies; Government Authorities; Government Agencies |
N/A |
Sources of Information
We collect the types of personal information listed in the tables above in the following ways:
Cookies & Tracking Tech -
We automatically collect certain types of usage and device information when you visit our Site, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this information using cookies (a small text file sent from a website and stored on your device), web beacons or pixels, and similar tracking technologies, and we may utilize third-party services to collect this information. These tracking technologies may collect information about your device and its software, such as your IP address, browser type, device type, date and time stamp, unique device ID, and about the way you engage with our Site, for example, the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our website, the pages you visit, how frequently you access our Site, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access our Site from multiple devices, the products you view and click on, and similar actions you take. You can learn more about how to control cookies in our “Your Privacy Choices” section below.
We use this information collected through tracking technologies allow you to browse our Site and use its features, to provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, to recognize you across multiple devices, to remember your preferences, to monitor aggregate usage metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns of our visitors, to identify errors and resolve them, to analyze Site performance, to improve our Site, and otherwise enhance our Site and your user experience.
Interest-based Advertising - We engage in interest-based advertising to deliver online advertising that may be more relevant to your interests. This means that we permit third-party online advertising networks, social media companies, and other third-party services to collect information about your use of our websites and Site over time so that they may play or display ads on our Site, on other websites, apps, or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through cookies or similar tracking technologies. To learn more about your choices regarding interest-based advertising, visit the “Your Privacy Choices” section below.
We learn from groups of consumers sharing similar interests. We may place you in a group of consumers who show the same interests (sometimes these are called “look alike audiences”). We may infer these things about you based on your activity on certain webpages, links you click on our Site and other websites you visit, mobile applications you use, or our brand emails you view and links you click in the emails, and based on other information we have collected, such as from retail partners and other third parties. We group together information to help us learn about general trends, habits or characteristics about a group of consumers who act similarly online or offline and use this information to send this group information we believe will be relevant product offers or information.
We link information to your cookie ID or device ID. This information may be supplemented with information such as products you buy offline or information you provide directly to us on our Site. We generally do this in ways that will not directly personally identify you (they are “masked” by a number identifier instead of associated with information like your name), but if we personally identify you we will do so in accordance with applicable laws.
We may know you across your devices, such as computers, phones, tablets because we associate cookie and device IDs. We assume that the same person owns certain devices based on certain activities, such as connecting the devices to the same WiFi network.
We may share a common account identifier (such as an email address or user ID) or hashed data with our third party advertising partners to help identify you across devices or serve you ads on social media sites you may use. We and our third party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.
Google Analytics & Advertising - We use Google Analytics to better understand how our users interact with our Site. Our ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). To understand how Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may opt out of Google Analytics at any time by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Analytics, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the Doubleclick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Site. You may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, or by visiting NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
Pixels - Pixels are small objects embedded into a web page but are not visible. They are also known as “tags,” “web bugs,” or “pixel gifs.” We use pixels to deliver cookies to your computer, monitor our website activity, make logging into our sites easier, and for online marketing activities. We also include pixels in our email messages or newsletters to determine whether you open them and click on their links. This helps us understand whether you are an active user. It also helps us measure the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, and derive insights and analysis, that we will use to personalize the content of our communication and to guide our marketing decisions and strategy.
Do Not Track Policy - Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. Where available, you may choose to enable an online tool that automatically communicates your universal opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). You may need to use a specific browser or an extension that supports these tools and universal signals. When detected, we will process such a signal as a request to opt out of tracking PI and as a request to opt out of “sale” or “sharing” of your data as explained in the “Your Privacy Choices” section below. You can also opt-out of such tracking directly on our Platform by following the steps noted in the Interest-Based Advertising section above. If you have questions, please contact us via one of the methods listed in the “How to Contact Us” section at the end of this Notice.
Advertising Industry Opt-Outs – To exercise choice with respect to interest-based advertising, you can use the opt-out mechanism provided by the Digital Advertising Alliance by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN (for browsers) or https://youradchoices.com/appchoices (for apps). You can also use the Network Advertising Initiative’s tool that allows consumers to opt out of certain interest-based advertising delivered by NAI members’ ad networks: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. To opt-out of Unified ID 2.0 globally visit: https://www.transparentadvertising.com/.
Even if you opt-out of certain kinds of interest-based ads, you may continue to receive other ads. And opting out of one or more NAI or DAA members only means that those selected members should no longer under the DAA / NAI rules deliver certain targeted ads to you. This will affect services provided by the applicable DAA / NAI members but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads from non-participating parties. Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit the opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different Device or web browser(s), or use a non-browser-based method of access, your DAA / NAI browser-based opt-out may not, or may no longer, be effective. Mobile device opt-outs will not affect browser-based Interest-based ads even on the same device, and you must opt-out separately for each device. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third party opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs.
You can also prevent or reduce getting interest-based ads on websites by declining cookies in your browser(s), or on mobile devices by declining the “access to data” requests that apps usually present when you install them or by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your device.
Right to Know |
The right to request the following information relating to the personal information we have collected about you and disclosed about you:
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Right to Access (Right to Know Specific Pieces of Information) / Portability |
The right to access and obtain a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in a structured, machine-readable format that may be transmitted to another entity without hindrance, to the extent technically feasible. |
Right to Correct |
The right to request that we correct your inaccurate personal information maintained by us. |
Right to Request Deletion |
The right to request the deletion or erasure of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. |
Right to Opt Out of Data Sales or Sharing, Profiling (Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising or Profiling) |
The right to direct us not to sell or share personal information we have collected about you to third parties, including for ad targeting/cross-contextual behavioral advertising. |
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information | The right to direct us to limit our use of sensitive personal information to certain purposes and/or revoke a previously given consent to our use of sensitive personal information about you. LIMIT USE OF MY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION |
California’s “Shine the Light” Law |
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code § 1798.83) also permits California residents that have an established business relationship with us to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year or to have the right to opt-out of such disclosures. |
To Exercise Your Rights to Know, Access, Correct, Delete and/or “Shine the Light”
Please submit a request by filling out our Privacy Rights Request Form or by calling 1-800-625-9932.
We may need to verify your identity before processing most requests, which may require us to obtain additional personal information from you. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require either the successful authentication of your account, or the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Please provide your name, email address and mailing address in the original request, as well as an explanation of the rights you wish to exercise. We will only use the personal information provided in connection with a Privacy Rights Request to review and comply with the request. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to verify or complete your request in all circumstances.
If you wish to submit a verifiable consumer request on behalf of another individual we will also need sufficient information to verify that the individual is the person about whom we collected personal information and that you are authorized to submit the request on their behalf. Please see the “Authorized Agents” section below for more information.
In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, in accordance with applicable law.
To Exercise Your Right to Limit Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information
To exercise your Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information, please submit a request by clicking the link below:
LIMIT USE OF MY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may ask you to provide additional personal information (including your name, email address and mailing address) so that we can properly identify you in our dataset to facilitate the opt-out request. If you choose not to provide this information, we may only be able to process your request to the extent we are able to identify you in our data systems.
Once you make limit request, you may change your mind and permit other uses of your sensitive personal information at any time by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
To Exercise Your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales or Sharing (Profiling or Targeted Advertising)
As is common practice among companies that operate online, we permit third party advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party businesses to collect personal information directly from your browser or device through cookies or similar online tracking technologies when you visit or interact with our websites, use our apps or otherwise engage with us. For example, they may collect Internet/Network information, such as a cookie or device ID, browsing history and website usage, geolocation data, commercial information, and inferences or consumer profiles generated from your browsing history and interactions with our service as well as other sites and services. These third parties use this information for the purposes of serving ads that are more relevant, for ad campaign measurement and analytics, and for fraud detection and reporting and may sell or share that information to other businesses for advertising and other purposes.
We have two separate sets of instructions for exercising your Right to Opt Out: for Tracking Technology personal information (such as cookie ID, IP address, online IDs or electronic activity information) (“tracking PI”) and for information that we have previously collected directly from you or otherwise about you (such as your email address) (“non-tracking PI”). In either case, you do not need to create an account with us to exercise your Right to Opt Out.
How to Opt Out of non-tracking PI: To exercise your Right to Opt Out of non-tracking PI, please submit a request by clicking the link below:
DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may ask you to provide additional personal information (including your name, email address and mailing address) so that we can properly identify you in our dataset to facilitate the opt-out request. If you choose not to provide this information, we may only be able to process your request to the extent we are able to identify you in our data systems.
Once you make an opt-out request, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
How to Opt Out of tracking PI: To exercise your Right to Opt Out of tracking PI, visit the bottom of a Unilever brand homepage that links to this Notice and click on “AdChoices – Do Not Sell or Share” at the bottom of the page. You will be taken to our cookie management tool with instructions for using the toggle to enable certain cookie preferences on your device. Some advertising opt-outs may not be effective unless your browser is set to accept cookies. Furthermore, the options you select relating to interest-based advertising are browser and device specific. If you use a different device, change browsers, or visit a different Unilever website or delete the opt-out cookies, you may need to perform the opt-out task again. Where available, you may choose to enable an online tool that automatically communicates your universal opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). You may need to use a specific browser or an extension that supports these tools and universal signals. When detected, we will process such a signal as Right to Opt Out of tracking PI request.
Personal Information of Children Under Age 16
We do not “sell” or “share” for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising personal information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age unless we receive affirmative authorization from the child who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a child less than 13 years of age. The parent or the child who has opted into personal information sales or sharing may opt out of future sales at any time. If a parent, guardian or child has provided affirmative authorization, they may opt out of future processing at any time by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
Authorized Agents
In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit privacy rights requests on your behalf. We may verify the authorized agent’s authority to act on your behalf as follows:
For requests to opt-out of personal information “sales” or “sharing,” we may ask you to provide a signed permission demonstrating your authorized agent has been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
For all other requests, we may ask you to provide sufficient evidence to show that you have provided the authorized agent signed permission to act on your behalf, verified your own identity directly with us pursuant to the instructions set forth in this Notice, and directly confirmed with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request on your behalf.
Right to Know Specific Third Parties
In certain circumstances, you may have a right to request information about specific third parties with whom we share personal information. You may make this request by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
Right to Revoke Consent
Where we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to revoke such consent. You may make this request by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
Right to Appeal
In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above. If your request is denied, we will provide an explanation for the denial and instructions on how you may appeal a denied request. You may appeal a denied request by contacting us at USstate.privacy@unilever.com.
Nondiscrimination
We do not discriminate against you for requesting any of the rights noted above. We are permitted to deny or limit your request in accordance with applicable laws.
Privacy Rights Metrics
From time to time, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by law (such as coupons, samples, and loyalty programs) in exchange for the collection, retention, or use of certain personal information about you. Each financial incentive related to the collection and use of personal information is based upon our reasonable, good-faith determination of the estimated value of such information to our business. When necessary, we will provide information about the specific terms of the financial incentive, such as the type of personal information required to be disclosed, retained or sold in exchange for the benefit you may receive, and instructions on how to opt in or opt out, on the webpage or form where the financial incentive is made available.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns with respect to our privacy practices or this Notice, or wish to update your information, please feel free to contact us at privacy.policy@unilever.com or by telephone at 1-800-298-5018 (Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM – 9:00 PM Eastern). You may also write to us at the following address:
Unilever
Attn: Consumer Engagement Center
700 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
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