Last updated: 7/31/24
Thank you for using FB Solutions Group. We are committed to protecting your privacy and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for the FB Solutions Group services (including the https://www.fbsg.com/ website, and mobile and web-based applications, and any other tools, products, or services provided by the Lab that link to or reference this Privacy Policy) (collectively, the “Services”). The Services are owned and operated by FB Solutions Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“FBSG,” “we”, “us” or “our”). Affiliates of FBSG include iTi Tropicals, LLC, J. B. Thome & Co., Inc., BevSource, LLC The BevSource Lab, LLC, AlcSource a DBA of Associated Brewing Company, LLC, and MyDrink Beverage (collectively, the “Affiliates”).
If you reside in the State of California, please click here to learn more about your privacy rights. To the extent that there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Notice for California Residents, the Privacy Notice for California Residents will prevail with respect to California Residents (as defined below) only.
This Privacy Policy applies to information FBSG collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, independent consultants, contractors, or vendors. It also does not apply to information that you ask us to share with third parties or that is collected by certain other third parties whose software or services are featured or included in the Services (as further described below).
This Privacy Policy describes, among other things:
1. Consent
By accessing or using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services. Information gathered through the Services may be transferred, used, and stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers or we are located. If you use the Services, you agree to the transfer, use, and storage of your Personal Information (as defined below) in those countries. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. You agree that all transactions relating to the Services or FBSG are deemed to occur in the United States, where our servers are located.
1. Collection of Your Personal and Other Information
When you register for or use our Services, we collect Personal Information. By “Personal Information” we mean information that can identify or reasonably be linked to an individual, such as:
We also use technology from our third-party service provider, WebFX Marketing CloudFX, to collect user experience recordings, which include a graphical representation of your interactions with the Services, including mouse movements, page scrolling, and information you type (including Personal Information). Reproduced data may include technical and usage data, as well as visual representations of actions you take while using the Services. We use these recordings to help us understand how users interact with our Services and to design a better user experience for you.
We may partner with certain Service Providers to advertise to you based on physical locations you have visited. These Service Providers create a virtual geographic boundary around a real-world geographic area, a process known as “geofencing.” They then use geolocation data collected by your mobile device to determine when you have entered one of those “geofences.” Your mobile device may use global positioning coordinates, cell tower connectivity, cellular data, radio frequency identification, Wi-Fi data, and/or other forms of spatial or location detection to determine your location. When you enter one of the “geofences,” our Service Providers collect your mobile device’s “Device Identifier,” a unique, anonymized string of numbers and letters that identifies every individual smartphone or tablet in the world. Our Service Providers then use this Device Identifier to send you information from us, which may include advertisements. FBSG does not collect any information from you using geofences and does not have access to your Device Identifier or any other information collected from you using geofences. Our Service Providers may collect additional Personal Information from you using geofences. To learn more about the privacy practices of these Service Providers, and to opt-out of their collection of your Personal Information using geofences, please visit their webpages and privacy policies:
You may choose not to provide Personal Information, (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
We also collect non-Personal Information relating to the Services, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual. The non-Personal Information we collect includes how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services.
Examples of the non-Personal Information we collect are:
We will not use non-Personal Information to try to identify you, and if we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather Personal Information and non-Personal Information.
Information collected by the Services may be collected by us or one of the third parties we utilize in providing the Services (as further described below).
3. Use of Your Information
We may use the information we collect to:
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.
We may disclose Personal Information to provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example, when you use the Services to submit content or profile information. We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Service Providers. By “Service Providers” we mean companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits).
When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the Personal Information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Online Tool Providers. By “Online Tool Provider” we mean a licensor of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provides a specialized function or service to us and that requires the transmission of Personal Information and/or non-Personal Information to the Online Tool Provider. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use Personal Information and non-Personal Information about you for their own business purposes. Use and disclosure of Personal Information and non-Personal Information by an Online Tool Provider is described in its privacy policy. See Section 5 below for some of the key Online Tool Providers we use.
We may also disclose your Personal Information and non-Personal Information to our Affiliates.
We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
Finally, we reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example, via email or by posting notice on our website.
Lastly, we may also disclose non-Personal Information, aggregated with information about our other users, to our clients, business partners, merchants, advertisers, investors, potential buyers and other third parties if we deem such disclosure, in our sole discretion, to have sound business reasons or justifications.
5. Cookies and Automatic Information Gathering Technologies
Every time you use the Services (e.g., access a Service webpage, or navigate to a specific location within the Service mobile app), we collect Personal Information and non-Personal Information (discussed above in Section 2) regarding that use. For example, to improve our Services, we collect how, when, and which parts of the Services or their features you use, which social media platforms you connect to the Services, and when, how, and what you post to the social media platforms through the Service app. Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier (UDID) or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.
To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “web beacons,” “pixels,” or “tags.” A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit the website. A web beacon, pixel or tag is a small, usually-transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may be forced to login to the Services again, and you may lose some preferences or settings. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without it. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services.
More information about managing Cookies is available here. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information automatically, in which case Personal Information and non-Personal Information it receives are subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collection and/or uses of your information. You can read more here:
6. Transparency and Choice; Do Not Track Signals
You may request access to your Personal Information by sending an email to [email protected]. We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and give you the opportunity to correct this data, if it is inaccurate, or to delete it, at your request. But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or for legitimate business purposes.
If you need further assistance with removing any content you posted through the Services, you can email us at [email protected]. Removal of your posted content may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from our computer systems.
We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. We may also require you to verify your identity to our satisfaction before providing you with access to Personal Information.
Please be aware that if you request us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the Services. Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit and/or dispute resolution requirements.
We may use third-party service providers that collect information for interest-based advertising purposes (advertisements that are tailored to your likely interests, based on categories in which you have shown an interest). To learn more about these third parties and the choices they offer users, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s choices page or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s choices page. If you are reading this Privacy Policy from a mobile device, you can learn more about the DAA’s mobile choices program here.
We support the development and implementation of a standard “do not track” browser feature that provides customers with control over the collection and use of information about their web-browsing activities. Once a standardized “do not track” feature is released, we intend to adhere to the browser settings accordingly.
FBSG and its Affiliates may send you marketing emails. You can opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from FBSG or its Affiliates by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed. Also, even if you opt out of marketing e-mails, FBSG and its Affiliates may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account and confirmations of transactions you have requested.
7. Certain State Residents
You may have heard of the certain state laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), and Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) which provide certain rights to California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut residents in connection with their Personal Information. Our Services are not currently subject to CDPA, CPA, UCPA, and CTDPA. However, we do provide notice and transparency about our collection and use of Personal Information as described in Privacy Policy.
8. Residents of Canada
If you have an objection to the use of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, you may file a complaint by sending an email to [email protected]. We will attempt to accommodate your objection or complaint, but you understand that, to the extent you object to our processing of Personal Information that is necessary for us to provide the Services to you, certain features and functionalities of the Services may no longer be available to you. Nothing in this Privacy Policy prejudices your rights to file a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and/or with any other applicable data protection authorities.
9. Residents of Nevada
We do not sell your Personal Information. However, you may contact us at [email protected] with questions.
10. Children
The Services are not intended for users under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from users under 18 years of age. We do not authorize users under 18 years of age to use the Services.
11. Information Security
We utilize reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction. For example, we utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), or similar encryption technology when sensitive data is transmitted over the Internet, and use firewalls to help prevent external access into our network. However, no data transmission over the Internet and no method of data storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.
We restrict access to Personal Information in our possession to our employees, Service Providers, and Online Tool Providers who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, improve or support our Services.
12. Third Party Websites
Please note that the Services may link or integrate with third-party sites, services or apps. We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices or the content of such third parties. Accordingly, we encourage you to review the privacy and security policies and terms of service of those third parties so that you understand how they collect, use, share and protect your information.
13. Changes to this Policy
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by reasonable means, which may be by e-mail or posting a notice of the changes on our website prior to the changes becoming effective. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST UPDATED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
14. Questions
This Privacy Notice for California Residents (the “Notice”) supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies only if you reside in the State of California (you are a “California Consumer”).
For purposes of this Notice “Sell,” “Selling,” “Sale,” or “Sold,” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, Personal Information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
“Share”, “Shared,” or “Sharing” means sharing, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, Personal Information to a third party for Cross-context Behavioral Advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.
“Cross-context Behavioral Advertising” means the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on that consumer’s Personal Information obtained from activity across businesses or distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business or distinctly-branded website, application, or service with which the consumer intentionally interacts. (In other words, if we send you an ad based solely on your interaction with us or our Services, this is not Cross-context Behavioral Advertising.)
“Sensitive Personal Information” means Personal Information that is not publicly available and reveals one or more of the following:
“Verifiable Request” means that the identifying information provided by a consumer in connection with a request matches the Personal Information of the consumer already maintained by us or a third party identity verification service. Identifying information you can submit in order to permit FBSG to verify your Verifiable Request may include your first and last name, the email address and phone number that is associated with your account, and a secure confirmation code that we provide to you via email.
1. Information We Collect
In the past twelve (12) months, FBSG has collected the following categories of Personal Information from California residents:
In the past twelve (12) months, FBSG has not collected Sensitive Personal Information from California residents.
2. Use of Personal Information
FBSG may use, Share, or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following “Business Purpose(s):”
3. Retention of Personal Information
We retain each category of your Personal Information for no longer than is reasonably necessary for one or more Business Purposes, subject to your right to request we delete your Personal Information. Due to the nature of the services, it is not possible to predict the length of time that we intend to retain your Personal Information. Instead, we use the following criteria to determine whether it remains reasonably necessary to retain your Personal Information for one or more disclosed Business Purpose(s):
When we determine that it is no longer reasonably necessary to retain your Personal Information for one or more disclosed Business Purpose(s) based on the above criteria, we will delete your Personal Information.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
Within the last 12 months FBSG has disclosed your Personal Information as described in this Notice.
FBSG may disclose Personal Information to our Affiliates and to our contracted “service providers”, “contractors”, and “third parties” (each as defined by the CCPA) for a Business Purpose. When we disclose Personal Information for a Business Purpose, we enter into an agreement with the receiving party that describes the purpose for sharing the Personal Information, and that requires the receiving party to keep that Personal Information confidential. In the case of disclosures to our “service providers,” our “service providers” are obligated not to use the Personal Information for any purpose other than performing the services according to their agreement with us. In the case of our “contractors”, our “contractors’ are obligated not to use the Personal Information for any purpose unrelated to the business purpose for which we’ve engaged them.
We may disclose your Personal Information with the following categories of entities: (i) “Service Providers;” (ii) “contractors;” (iii) “third party” advertisers, and (iv) our Affiliates.
In the past twelve (12) months, FBSG has not Sold any Personal Information about its California Consumers.
We Share Personal Information, subject to your right to opt-out of those Sharing. In the past twelve (12) months, FBSG has Shared the following categories of Personal Information about its California Consumers:
Category of personal information that is Shared | Business Purpose for which it is Shared | Types of entities to whom it is Shared |
Your identifiers (names, personal or business addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses). | To facilitate Cross-context Behavioral Advertising | Affiliates, third party advertisers, Service Providers and contractors. |
Other information which is not required to use our Services but that you choose to provide to us through an online form. | To facilitate Cross-context Behavioral Advertising | Affiliates, third party advertisers, Service Providers and contractors. |
5. Your Rights and Choices
If you are a California Consumer, you may request information about our collection, use, disclosure and Sale of your Personal Information over the past twelve (12) months, whether or not it was collected electronically. If you submit a Verifiable Request, we will provide you with information regarding:
You also have the right to request a copy of your Personal Information, and/or to request that we transmit your Personal Information to another entity. To the extent technically feasible, we will comply with your request and provide and/or transmit your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
You also have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collect or maintain by submitting a Verifiable Request. We may deny your deletion request if retaining your Personal Information is reasonably necessary for us or our “service providers” or “contractors” to:
You further have the right to request that we correct any of your Personal Information that is inaccurate by submitting a Verifiable Request. We will correct any inaccurate Personal Information pursuant to your request to the extent possible using commercially reasonable efforts. We may deny your correction request if the Personal Information is accurate. We may also delete your Personal Information instead of correcting it to the extent such deletion would not negatively impact you.
You may submit a Verifiable Request for the information listed above, or exercise any of your rights enumerated under this Notice, by calling us at 872-895-0044, or by completing a form on our website, available here. You may also submit a Verifiable Request on behalf of your minor child.
After we receive your Verifiable Request, we will provide to you, in writing and free of charge (unless your request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded), the requested information for the 12-month period preceding your request (unless you specifically request disclosure beyond such 12-month period, in which case, we will process your request with respect to Personal Information we have collected during the time period you specify, provided that (a) the earliest date that your request may apply to is January 1, 2022, and (b) processing your request does not require disproportionate effort). You can choose to have this information delivered to you by postal mail, or electronically. We will try to respond to your verified request within forty-five (45) days of receipt, but if we require more time (up to another forty-five (45) days) we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Please note that we are not required to comply with your request for information more than twice in any 12-month period. If applicable, our response will explain the reasons why we cannot comply with your request.
You have the right to direct us to stop Sharing your Personal Information to third parties at any time. You may opt-out here. However, if you change your mind, you may opt-in to Personal Information Sharing at any time by [INSERT OPT-IN INSTRUCTIONS OR LINK]. Consumers who opt-in to Personal Information Sharing may opt-out of future Sharing at any time.
FBSG does not and will not, without first obtaining your consent, Sell Personal Information.
Should you choose to exercise any of the rights enumerated under this Notice, we will not:
However, please be aware that it may be a functional necessity for our Services to have Personal Information about you in order to operate, and we may not be able to provide some or all of our Services to you if you direct us to delete your Personal Information.