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FuturoFood ("we", "us", "our") is a digital media publication covering food innovation in Latin America, operated from Alajuela, Costa Rica. Our website is futurofood.com. You can contact us at privacy@futurofood.com.
We do not use your data for advertising targeting, profiling, or selling to third parties.
FuturoFood operates from Costa Rica and complies with Law 8968 on the Protection of the Person against the Processing of their Personal Data. You have the right to access your personal data, to rectify it and to ask for it to be deleted: to exercise these rights, write to us at privacy@futurofood.com. The supervisory authority in Costa Rica is the Agency for the Protection of Inhabitants' Data (PRODHAB), with which you can also file a complaint.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data under the following legal bases:
We share your data only with the following service providers, who are contractually bound to protect it:
Our WhatsApp Channel is an external link: when you open it, WhatsApp (Meta) handles your data under its own privacy policy. The share buttons for WhatsApp, X and LinkedIn are plain links too: nothing is sent to those services until you click. Some articles may include YouTube (in its privacy-enhanced mode) or Vimeo videos, which load from those services and follow their own policies.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party.
We retain your email address for as long as you are subscribed to our newsletter. If you unsubscribe, your data is deleted from our active lists within 30 days. Backups may retain data for up to 90 days after deletion.
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
To exercise any of these rights, email us at privacy@futurofood.com. We will respond within 30 days.
Our website uses a small number of cookies. We do not use advertising cookies. We use:
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FuturoFood is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
FuturoFood is operated from Costa Rica. Our service providers (Cloudflare, Beehiiv and Google) may process data in the United States and other countries. Where data is transferred from the EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place (Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent).
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including HTTPS encryption, access controls, and regular security reviews. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and notify newsletter subscribers of material changes.
For any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us:
FuturoFood
Email: privacy@futurofood.com
Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica