Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 10, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes how BevNET.com, Inc. (“we” or “BevNET”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you interact with us, including with our websites (including www.bevnet.com, www.nosh.com, www.brewbound.com, www.tasteradio.com or any BevNET website that links to this Privacy Policy) or events we host, emails we send, our social media accounts, services, publications, and products (collectively, “Products” as that term is further defined in our General Terms and Conditions). This Privacy Policy explains the following:

The personal information we collect
How we use your personal information
How we share your personal information
How we protect and store your personal information
Retention of your personal information
Your privacy options
Children’s information
Updates to this Privacy Policy
Special Information for California Residents

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to non-BevNET websites or Products that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

For questions about our privacy practices, contact us at: support@bevnet.com or write to us at:

BevNET.com, Inc.
65 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02458

1. The Personal Information We Collect

Depending on the nature of your interaction with BevNET, we may collect personal information as follows:

Directly from you, when you provide information to us or interact with us or our affiliates:
- Contact information such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number when you sign up to receive our newsletters, submit a form on our website, place an order on our website, register for one of our events, purchase Products or Services from us (as the terms Products and Services are defined in our General Terms and Conditions) or communicate with us via email, mail, phone or other channels.
- Profile and subscription information, such as name, email address and usage and subscription preferences, when you or your company purchase one of our Subscriptions, as defined in our General Terms and Conditions.
- Transactional information including payment information and payment history if you engage in transactions through the Products or Services (as those terms are defined in our General Terms and Conditions .
- Any additional information you choose to provide us, include questions and feedback.
Automatically from you, when you utilize or interact with our Products or Services;
- Device information and online user activity when you utilize our technology platforms, as described in the next section.
From third parties:
- Information about the marketing and advertisements you have seen or clicked on, from our websites, other online advertising companies or email service providers.

Some of this information may be collected by external parties on our behalf. For example, we use a payment processor when you engage in a transaction on our website; BevNET does not itself collect or store payment card information.

2. Online User Activity, Cookies and Information Collected by Other Automated Means

When you interact with the Products, certain information about your use of our Products is automatically collected. This includes:

Usage Details about your interaction with our Products (such as the date, time, and length of visits, and specific pages or content accessed during the visits, search terms, frequency of the visits, referring website addresses);
Device Information including the IP address and other details of a device that you use to connect with our Products (such as device type and unique device identifier, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number);
Location information where you choose to provide the website with access to information about your device’s location;
Site usage and session information. We collect information about your interaction with the Products, including the resources that you access, pages viewed, how much time you spent on a page, and how you reached our website.

Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, which may be operated by our partners who assist us in collecting information about usage of the Products, serving ads, or providing other Products to you. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect usage details. You can learn more about privacy and Google Analytics by visiting https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245, and opt out of collection of your data by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We may also use cookies set by other third-party services.

You may be able to opt out tracking by cookies or control how information collected by cookies is used via a number of means, as described below.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality; please note that we do not respond to such signals.

3. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you for the following purposes:

Provide our Products to you, including maintaining your account, managing any registrations or subscriptions, and providing information related to the Products you have purchased.
Interact and communicate with you, including responding to your requests, providing customer support, providing information about additional products, services, and promotions that may be of interest to you, and informing you about important changes to this Privacy Policy, our Terms or other policies.
Tailor the content we display to you in our Products and communications.
Manage, operate, and improve the Products and grow our business, including monitoring the performance of our Products, understanding our customer base and the effectiveness of our marketing, events, promotional campaigns, and publications, developing new products and services, and diagnosing or fixing technology problems.
Comply with legal requirements and industry standards, detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, and protect the rights of BevNET, you, or others.

We may use and share information in an aggregated or de-identified manner of data, at our discretion, including for research, analysis, modeling, marketing, and improvement of our Products.

4. How We Share Your Personal Information

Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers that we believe need the information to perform a technology, business, or other professional function for us such as billing and collection, IT services, maintenance and hosting of our Products, payment processors, marketing partners, accounting, auditing, and tax services, and other professional services.
Analytics Partners. We partner with analytics providers, who collect information via tracking technologies on our websites to assist us with measuring visits and traffic on our websites so we can measure and improve the performance of the sites.
Advertising and Lead Generation Partners. We may partner with third parties who provide advertising and lead generation services via our Products or assist us in serving advertising regarding the Products to others who may be interested in the Products. These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect or receive information from the Products and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Third parties may allow other companies to access information about you so that they may market other products you may be interested in. We may also share certain contact information with these partners when you fill out a form on one of our sites.
Event Sponsors. When you register to attend one of our live events, we reserve the right to share certain personal information such as your name and job title with the sponsors of our events.
Job Listing Advertisers. If you apply for a third-party job using the job listing boards on one of our sites by filling out a form or uploading a resume, we may share that information with the company who placed the job listing.
Social Media Platforms. If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Products (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
Corporate Event. We reserve the right to transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.
Legal. We share information where necessary to comply with applicable law, to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government authorities or third-parties, as permitted by law and without your consent when it is necessary to protect our customers, employees, or property; in emergency situations; or to enforce our rights under our terms of service and policies.

5. How We Protect and Store Your Personal Information

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Products. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

If you use our Products outside of the United States, you understand that we may collect, process, and store your personal information in the United States and other countries.

6. Retention of Your Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to complete the purposes for which it was collected, or as may be required by law.

California law requires us to provide information regarding the criteria we use to determine the length of time for which we retain personal information. We utilize the following criteria to determine the length of time for which we retain information:

The business purposes for which the information is used, and the length of time for which the information is required to achieve those purposes;
Whether we are required to retain the information type in order to comply with legal obligations or contractual commitments, to defend against potential legal claims, or as otherwise necessary to investigate theft or other activities potentially in violation of our policies and procedures applicable to you or against the law, to ensure a secure online environment, or to protect health and safety;
The privacy impact of ongoing retention on the consumer; and
The manner in which information is maintained and flows through our systems, and how best to manage the lifecycle of information in light of the volume and complexity of the systems in our infrastructure.

Individual pieces of personal information may exist in different systems that are used for different business or legal purposes. A different maximum retention period may apply to each use case of the information. Certain individual pieces of information may also be stored in combination with other individual pieces of information, and the maximum retention period may be determined by the purpose for which that information set is used.

7. Your Privacy Options

You may have certain choices when it comes to how we collect and use your personal information:

Email Marketing. If at any time you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.
Online Activity Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising. You have several options to either prevent our collection of information regarding your online activity, or prevent third parties from using such information from being used for interest-based advertisements:
- If you are located in California or in the EU, you may manage your cookie preferences using the pop-up menu that is displayed when you visit any of our websites.
- If your browser offers you the ability to use the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to communicate your privacy preferences to us, we honor such signals.
- You also modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies across the internet; but if you do so, some features of our website or Products may not function properly or be available. If you are using the Products from a mobile device, the operating system of the device may offer you options regarding how the device collects and uses your information for interest-based advertising. Please visit https://thenai.org/opt-out/mobile-opt-out/ for more information.
- You may be able to prevent third parties from using your information for interest-based advertisements across the internet by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.aboutads.info. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest- based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs

8. Children’s Information

We do not knowingly or intentionally gather personal information about children. If we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 16, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us at (888) 907-5499 or support@bevnet.com to request that we delete the information from our records or otherwise cease the use of that information.

9. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information described in this Policy.

10. Special Information for California Residents

If you are a resident of California, this section summarizes your rights under the laws of your state.

California Notice at Collection

Collection, Use, and Retention

You have the right to receive notice of the categories of personal information we collect, and the purposes for which those categories of personal information will be used.

The following chart describes our practices with regard to the collection, use, and retention of your personal information if you are a customer, website visitor, or business contact. If you are a candidate for employment, please see our supplemental California Notice of Collection for Job Candidates below.

The categories we use to describe the information are those listed in the CCPA. Certain Personal information may fall into multiple categories, and in some circumstances, how we use and how long we keep the information within each category will vary.

The examples of personal information listed below are illustrative and do not represent a complete description of the information we process.

Category: Personal Identifiers
- Examples of what we collect: Name, email address, phone number, and contact address, username, social media handle and basic account information, unique identifiers (such as those assigned in cookies).
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Certain personal details are maintained throughout the customer relationship in order to provide the Products. When you are no longer a customer, we may still need this information for a period of time for business and legal requirements, such as to calculate taxes and protect against fraud.
Category: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Examples of what we collect: Physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Certain personal details are maintained throughout the customer relationship in order to provide the Products. When you are no longer a customer, we may still need this information for a period of time for business and legal requirements, such as to calculate taxes and protect against fraud.
Category: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
- Not collected.
Category: Commercial information
- Examples of what we collect: Transaction information, billing records, payment records, order history.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: The law may require us to maintain purchase records for a period of time, which vary by state.
Category: Biometric information
- Not collected.
Category: Internet or other similar network activity
- Examples of what we collect: Unique numerical identifier, cookie or tracking pixel information, device ID, browsing history, search history, IP address, interaction with a website, or interaction with advertisements.
- Sources: Automatically from you; Third Parties.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Internet or other similar network activity is typically deleted at regular intervals when the information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Category: Geolocation data
- Examples of what we collect: Coarse information (e.g., ZIP code, IP address), device location.
- Sources: Automatically from you when you utilize or interact with our websites.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Geolocation data is deleted at regular intervals when the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it is collected.
Category: Professional or employment related information
- Examples of what we collect: Company name, job title, company address, email and phone number.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Certain personal details are maintained throughout the customer relationship in order to provide the Products. When you are no longer a customer, we may still need this information for a period of time for business and legal requirements, such as to calculate taxes and protect against fraud.
Category: Education information
- Not collected.
Category: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
- Examples of what we collect: Video or audio recordings of you or your voice.
- Sources: Recordings of your voice or likeness from our in-person events, podcasts, webinars, or other recorded media described in the Products.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Recordings are maintained for as long as we deem necessary to provide the Products.
Category: Inferences drawn from other personal information
- Not collected.
Category: Sensitive information
- Examples of what we collect: Usernames allowing access to an account.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: All purposes listed in How We Use Your Information.
- Retention Considerations: Certain personal details about you are maintained throughout the life of the customer relationship in order to provide the Products.

Right to Know and Request Access to, Correction of, and Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you in a portable format and to receive information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it. You also have the right to request we correct inaccurate and to request, in certain circumstances, that we delete any personal information that we have collected directly from you.

You may submit a request to exercise your rights to know/access or delete your personal information by calling us at (888) 907-5499 or emailing us at support@bevnet.com. You may authorize another individual or a business, called an authorized agent, to make requests on your behalf through these means.

In order to process your request, we must verify your request. We do this by asking you to provide personal identifiers we can match against information we may have collected from you previously and confirm your request using the email account stated in the request.

We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

Sale, Sharing, and Other Disclosure of Personal Information

Any category of personal information listed in the chart above may be disclosed for a business purpose to service providers and contractors, which are companies or individuals that we engage to conduct activities on our behalf. Service providers and contractors are restricted from using personal information for any purpose not related to our engagement.

California law also requires us to provide you with information regarding the parties to whom we “sell” or “share” your information, and the parties to whom we disclose your information for a business purpose. Under the CCPA, a business “sells” personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for monetary or other benefit. A company may be considered a third party either because the purpose for its sharing of personal information is not for an enumerated business purpose under California law, or because its contract does not restrict it from using personal information for other purposes.

We may sell or share your information as follows:

Identifiers: Similar Companies; Analytics Partners; Advertising and Marketing Partners.
Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information: Analytics Partners; Advertising and Marketing Partners.
Geolocation data (Coarse information only): Analytics Partners; Advertising and Marketing Partners.

We may disclose your information in other ways that are not considered sales under the law. Please see “How We Share Personal Information” above for more information about how we share your information.

Right to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising and Sale to Third Parties

You have the right to opt out of the use and disclosure of your personal information for the purposes of selecting or delivering advertising based on your activity over time and across different online platforms. U.S. residents also have the right to opt out of certain disclosures that are considered “sales” under applicable state laws. Please note that your right to opt out does not apply to our sharing of personal information with Service Providers, as described above.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to request that we limit use of your sensitive personal information to certain purposes allowed by law. However, we do not process your sensitive personal information in circumstances that would be subject to the right to limit.

California Job Applicants

Collection, Use, and Retention

When you apply for a job with BevNET, information may be collected about you in multiple ways: you may provide it to us in connection with your application; we may make observations in the application process or collect information from public information sources; or you may authorize us to collect information from other sources, such as a former employer or reference.

The following table describes our practices with regard to information submitted in the job application process. If you use our website in the job application process, additional information may be automatically collected, as described above.

Category: Personal Identifiers
- Examples of what we collect: Name, email address, phone number, and contact address, social media handle.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Examples of what we collect: Physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
- Examples of what we collect: Race, gender, ethnic origin, religion.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Professional or employment related information
- Examples of what we collect: Previous work experience, skills, and other qualifications; professional and other work-related licenses, permits, and certifications; work authorization status; information relating to references, background check results (and if applicable, drug tests); information regarding your desired compensation; union status (if applicable).
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Education information
- Examples of what we collect: Education history, transcripts.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
- Examples of what we collect: Video taken by security cameras if you visit our offices.
- Sources: Automatically when you visit our offices.
- Purpose of collection and use: Security and fraud prevention.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Inferences drawn from other personal information
- Examples of what we collect: Interests, preferences.
- Sources: Created about you based on information you provide.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.
Category: Sensitive information
- Examples of what we collect: Racial or ethnic origin, religion, union membership.
- Sources: Directly from you.
- Purpose of collection and use: To conduct our hiring process, evaluate the effectiveness of our hiring practices, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
- Retention Considerations: We retain this Personal Information subject to the criteria set forth in Retention of Your Personal Information above.

We also collect any other information you elect to provide to us, including information from social media sites if you choose to link your application to a social media page.

In certain circumstances, you may submit your application for employment through a third-party service that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials.

Sale, Sharing, and Other Disclosure of Personal Information

California law also requires us to provide you with information regarding the parties to whom we “sell” or “share” your information, and the parties to who we disclose your information for a business purpose. Under the CCPA, a business “sells” personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for monetary or other benefit. A company may be considered a third party either because the purpose for its sharing of personal information is not for an enumerated business purpose under California law, or because its contract does not restrict it from using personal information for other purposes. We do not sell personal information relating to our job applicants.

We may disclose your information in other ways that are not considered sales under the law. Please see “Our Disclosure of Personal Information” above for more information about how we share your information.

Right to Know and Request Access to and Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you in a portable format, and to receive information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it. You also have the right to request we correct inaccurate personal information and to request, in certain circumstances, that we delete any personal information that we have collected directly from you.

You may submit a request to exercise your rights to know/access or delete your personal information by calling us at (888) 907-5499 or emailing us at support@bevnet.com. You may authorize another individual or a business registered with the California Secretary of State, called an authorized agent, to make requests on your behalf through these means.

Right to Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information to Third Parties

You have the right to opt out of our sale of your personal information to third parties. However, we do not sell personal information relating to our job applicants.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information