Privacy Policy

As of July 30, 2022

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.spillthedish.com, and SpillTheDish, Inc. and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to SpillTheDish, Inc. include www.spillthedish.com and SpillTheDish. By using the SpillTheDish website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

The terms “SpillTheDish”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to SpillTheDish, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices in California.

Collection of your Personal Information

When you fill out registration forms or provide us with other personal information actively, we collect that information for processing and use in accordance with this Policy. Because we change our offerings and features from time to time, the options you have to provide us with personal information also may change, but here are some examples of situations in which you will have the opportunity to provide personal information to us:

  • Creating an account;
  • Completing a review of your workplace;
  • Completing your Profile or preferences;
  • Contacting us for technical support or customer service.

Depending on how you interact with SpillTheDish, the personal information we collect from you may vary. For example, to create an account we may only require an email address and password, but we request that you share information about yourself that can aid in our analyses for Diversity and Inclusion. When you submit a review of a business, we will also request information about your job title, pay, and other job-related data, which we may use for salary and compensation analyses. We may also collect and store certain information associated with actions you take, for example the companies you search for.

Categories of personal information collected by SpillTheDish may include Company Reviews (Job Title), Profile Information (Name, Email Address, Age, Race, Gender), Security & Login Information (Your login events, password changes, email changes), Site Activity (Pages you viewed), User Feedback (Feedback you have provided SpillTheDish via email, app/website and other channels), and/or Content You Contributed (Employer reviews, salary and benefit data). We may also collect Additional Personal and Demographic Information you may elect to give us, as set forth in further detail below.

Information We Collect by Automated Means

When you use SpillTheDish, your device is automatically providing information to us so we can respond and customize our response to you. The type of information we collect by automated means generally includes technical information about your computer, such as your IP address or other device identifier, the type of device you use, and operating system version. The information we collect also may include usage information and statistics about your interaction with SpillTheDish.

Automated means of data collection include the following:

Web Browser

When you visit a SpillTheDish website, your browser automatically sends us your Internet protocol ("IP") address so that the web pages you request can be sent to your computer or device. We may use your IP address to determine additional information, such as whether the computer or device has ever been used to visit SpillTheDish before. Information about your general location may be discernable from your device's IP address or the URLs we receive.

Device Information

We collect information about the device you use to access SpillTheDish, including type of device, operating system, settings, and unique device identifiers, and IP address. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or a PC, or an iPhone or Android phone. We collect the device type and any other information you choose to provide, such as username, geolocation, or email address. We may use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software records information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile application.

Cookies And Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, web beacons, locally shared objects (sometimes called “flash cookies”), mobile identifiers and similar technologies (“Cookies”) are used by SpillTheDish. We use Cookies to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. These technologies may be used in analyzing trends, administering the Platform, tracking users’ movements around the Platform and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not currently have any partners with whom we share Cookie data. You can control the use of Cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable Cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect:

  • to provide you with personalized content, services offered by SpillTheDish as well as promotional content and services;
  • to moderate and display the employer reviews, salary reports and other content you have submitted for the benefit of our other users;
  • to customize and improve the features, performance, and support of the site;
  • to provide relevant advertising, including interest-based advertising from us and third parties, which may mean that we share non-personally identifiable information, such as your general location, to third-party advertisers;
  • for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement;
  • to communicate with you regarding our services;
  • to analyze use of SpillTheDish and improve SpillTheDish;
  • to create aggregate and statistical data that does not identify you individually;
  • for other purposes that you separately authorize as you interact with SpillTheDish.

When you set up an individual user account on SpillTheDish, we create a member profile (a "Profile") for you that will include personal information you provide. Because your anonymity on SpillTheDish is important, your Profile does not include information about the reviews or salary information you submit to SpillTheDish.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

SpillTheDish does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

SpillTheDish may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to SpillTheDish, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

SpillTheDish may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SpillTheDish or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SpillTheDish; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SpillTheDish, or the public.

Diversity & Inclusion Information

At SpillTheDish, our mission is to help create equitable and safe workplaces for the most vulnerable employees. We believe in harnessing transparency as a force for good in the world. We use this transparency to empower employees with the information to make the right decisions about their careers, and also to alert consumers so they can make informed decisions about which businesses they want to support. In order for us to fully accomplish this goal, we ask you to provide us with personal diversity and inclusion (“D&I”) information. 

In particular, we may ask you to provide (and we may subsequently collect) certain categories of D&I information about you, including information relating but not limited to:

  • Age
  • Disability
  • Gender Identity
  • Language
  • Marital Status
  • Parental Status
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Religion 
  • Sexual Orientation
D&I Information Principles
  • You are never obligated to provide this information to access or use the SpillTheDish Service.
  • We will only collect and process D&I information based on your explicit consent.
  • You will always have the option at any time to remove previously supplied D&I information, or to update D&I information that may have changed.
  • We employ measures to safeguard the information we collect online. However, you should know that no company can fully eliminate security risks, so we cannot make guarantees about any part of our services.
  • We use D&I data only for the purposes described in this Policy unless we notify you at the time of collection that we may use it in some other manner.
  • We take precautions to ensure that your decision to provide your D&I information does not inadvertently negate your anonymity or reveal your identity on our Service. We will not reveal your D&I data with any reviews you submit or any other Service functions you may participate in. However, we are not perfect, and there may be instances where the mechanisms we have designed to protect your anonymity fail.
  • We will never sell or transfer your D&I information to a third-party in a way that would present a risk to your anonymity (i.e., we will never transfer your D&I information to a third-party in conjunction with other particular information about you sufficient for a third-party to identify you). We may anonymize and/or aggregate and make available data to third parties and the public as described in this Policy (e.g., to provide insights into diversity metrics in particular areas, industries, companies, or countries, or make available data reports outlining economic or labor trends).
How We Use D&I Information

Depending on your selections if and as you elect to disclose D&I information, we will use the data you provide to implement new Service features, track various diversity and inclusion trends across industries, countries, and globally, and push employers to begin sharing diversity data and make changes to their practices in response to the insights we provide.

As a registered user of our Service, SpillTheDish processes your D&I and some non-D&I information in accordance with our contractual obligations based on the Terms of Use, this Policy, and your consent for the following purposes: 

  • Providing insights into wage discrepancies (e.g., showing gender and racial/ethnic wage gap disparities)
  • Providing D&I-based analysis of jobs and companies (e.g., we may utilize D&I information to generate reports highlighting employers that best embrace diversity, minimize wage gaps, etc.)
  • Providing diversity and inclusion metrics and ratings (e.g., provide insights for job seekers who want to learn more about diversity and inclusion with respect to specific industries or companies)
  • Providing search optimization and filtering via diversity data (e.g., providing users the ability to filter SpillTheDish content or companies based on certain employer qualities or employee experiences and attributes.)

Third-Party Ad Partners

Although we are currently ad-free, in the future, SpillTheDish may rely on revenue from Third-Party Ad Partners. We will never share information with Third-Party Partners that they can use to identify you or associate with you as a specific individual. Similarly, if one of these Ad Partners has information about you saved in one of their own Cookies on your browser, they use that information to help us send you a relevant ad, but they do not share with us information that we can associate with you as an individual. While we do not use cookies, we may work with third parties to provide analytics services that use the Cookies they have set on your device to measure the performance of advertising and track traffic to SpillTheDish generally.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Security of your Personal Information

SpillTheDish secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, using SSL protocol and bcrypt encryption.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, nor can any data storage facility. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that:

  • There are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and
  • Security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

You are responsible for keeping your username and password secret. Once you have registered with us, we will never ask you for your password. Please create a unique password for your SpillTheDish account and do not use it for any other web services or applications. Do not share your password with anyone else.

Tips For Maintaining Your Anonymity:
  • Choose a username that people who know you will not automatically associate with you. Currently, your username is visible only to you, but in the future, we may provide a mechanism for communication between you and your employer, or you and your fellow employees.
  • Do not include any information in your Comments that anyone can use to identify you, or elect not to make your Comments visible to the public, or do not include any Comments in your reviews (note, this may affect the credibility score).

If you think you have been the victim of fraud, immediately report the fraud to your local police and contact SpillTheDish.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you via email to support @ spillthedish.com, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and
  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Sixteen

SpillTheDish does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of sixteen. If you are under the age of eighteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at info @ spillthedish.com. If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we remove such information and terminate the child’s account.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, SpillTheDish may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from SpillTheDish, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

We will send you service-related announcements when we believe it is necessary to do so. Generally, you cannot opt-out of these announcements. If you do not wish to receive these announcements, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Changes to this Statement

SpillTheDish reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Policy, or to submit a data rights request to access, correct, delete, export, rectify, update, or ask questions about your personal data, please email us at info @ spillthedish.com.