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PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the information Danone Manifesto Ventures, PBC (“Danone Ventures”, “us”, “we” or “our”) collects, how we use this information, with whom we share it, and the choices you have in connection with these practices.

WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY CONTAINS:

This Privacy Policy describes the following important topics relating to your personal information. Please read this Privacy Policy to understand how we will treat the personal information that you give to us. Your use of our website constitutes your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

  1. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW?

 

  1. Personal Information

You can visit and browse our website without providing personal information about yourself. However, your choice not to provide personal information may impact your ability to participate in or use certain features of our website. By choosing to voluntarily disclose personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Personal information is all information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, email address, and place of residence), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.

You may provide us with personal information in the following ways:

  • Emails.Through our website, you may be given an opportunity to request to receive emails (including informational emails or newsletters) from us. We may also ask if you want to receive such emails from us during any registration process or other features on our website. If you want to receive our emails, you may be asked to provide certain personal information and areas of interest so that we can fulfill your request. If you would like to stop receiving such emails, please refer to the opt-out provisions within the email.
  • Contacting Us.When you contact us, we collect your personal identifiers (name and email address) and any other information you choose to include in your correspondence.

Danone Ventures may also use your personal information collected for the above purposes to comply with the law and for other limited circumstances as described in INFORMATION SHARING.

  1. Information Collected Automatically

In addition to the personal information you provide directly, we may also collect information from you automatically as you use our websites via cookies and similar technologies. This includes the following internet or other electronic network activity information:

  • Usage information: We use essential, performance, analytics cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction with our website, such as the pages you visit, the frequency of access, how much time you spend on each page, what you click on, and referring website address. 
  • Device information: We use essential, performance, and analytics cookies and similar technologies to collect certain information about the device you use to access our website, such as browser type, browser language, hardware model, operating system, and your preferences. 
  • Location information: We use essential, performance, and analytics cookies  and similar technologies to collect information about your general location, which may be determined through your IP address. In some cases, and with your permission, we may also collect precise geolocation information.  

We use this usage, device, and location information to: (i) conduct analytics; (ii) enhance user experience; (iii) prevent fraudulent use of the Websites; and (iv) diagnose and repair errors.

In general, to disable cookies and limit the collection and use of information through them, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent; however, if you use these tools, our website may not function as intended. 

As our cookie banner explains, we will use cookies (including similar technologies) to collect and allow third parties to collect data from our website unless you select different preferences.  We record your preferences when you interact with our cookie banner or preference center. Your selections are stored through a preference cookie solely for the purpose of remembering your choices. Unless you clear your cookies or modify your preferences earlier, your consent choices will remain in effect for three hundred sixty-five (365) days from the date of your selection. After this period, or if the preference cookie is otherwise deleted, you will be asked to confirm your preferences again when you return to our website.

To modify your cookie preferences, you can clear cookies through your browser settings. After doing so, the cookie banner will automatically re-display upon your next visit, enabling you to update your choices.

  1. Analytics

We may work with third parties that collect data about your use of our website and other sites over time for non-advertising purposes.  We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of our website and for analytics and marketing purposes. The Google Analytics  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy  describe how Google may use and share the information collected by Google Analytics. To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

  1. INFORMATION SHARING

Danone Ventures may share the personal information identified in this Privacy Policy in the following instances:

  • With other Danone companies/entities: We may share your personal information within Danone and with our affiliates in order to carry out our business and to the extent permitted by law.
  • In the event of a corporate reorganization: In the event that we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that alters the structure of our organization, such as a reorganization, merger, acquisition, sale, joint venture, assignment, consolidation, transfer, change of control, or other disposition of all or any portion of our assets, we would share your personal information with third parties, including the buyer or target (and their agents and advisors) for the purpose of facilitating and completing the transaction. We would also share your personal information with third parties if we undergo bankruptcy or liquidation, in the course of such proceedings.
  • Third party service providers and subcontractors, including those which:
    • perform core information technology and other business-related services, such as website/app development providers, cloud hosting providers, management and evaluation service providers, data analysts, payment processors, utility providers, insurers; and
    • provide analytics and optimization services relating to our websites and apps.
  • For legal purposes: We will share your personal information where we are legally required to do so, such as in response to court orders, law enforcement or legal process, including for national security purposes; to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights, as required to enforce our terms of use or other contracts; to defend against legal claims or demands; to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action against illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the rights, property, or personal safety of any person; or to comply with the requirements of any applicable law.
  • For a business or commercial purpose: We may share your personal information for our commercial and business purposes.  In the preceding 12 months, we have shared:
    • The categories of personal information described in CATEGORIES AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION with service providers that perform services on our behalf in connection with the website. These service providers include our IT support, communications vendor, payment processor, legal and risk, data analytics providers, carrier services, and similar services.
    • Personal and online identifiers and internet and other electronic network activity information with IT support to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, identify and repair errors, and to maintain and improve the website.
    • Personal and online identifiers, commercial or transaction information, internet and other electronic network activity information, and other information linked to this information for research and development purposes to better understand how to improve our products and services.
  1. YOUR RIGHTS

Some states grant certain rights to their respective State residents. If our processing of your personal information is subject to an applicable state privacy law, the following rights may be available to you, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

  • Right to confirm: You may have the right to confirm whether we are processing personal information about you.
  • Right to know categories: You may have the right to request the categories of personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you; the categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you; our purposes for collecting or selling personal information about you; the categories of personal information about you that we have sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information. 
  • Right to obtain a third-party list: Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive a list of the categories of third parties or specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal information. 
  • Right to access: You may have the right to access the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you and/or request a copy of the personal information we have collected about you in a portable and readily useable format, to the extent feasible.
  • Right to correct: You may have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected about you.
  • Right to delete: You may have the right to request the deletion of personal information that we collect or maintain about you.
  • Right to opt out: You may have the right to opt-out of (1) the sale of personal information or (2) the processing of personal information for targeted advertising. Please note that if you opt out of certain practices, we may be unable to provide you with some services.  Additionally, we do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under 16.
  • Right to non-discrimination: You have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment when you exercise your privacy rights available under these laws.
  • Right to opt out of sensitive data processing:  Depending on your state, you may have the right to (1) request that we limit our use of your “sensitive” personal information, including health data; or (2) withdraw consent for such processing if you previously gave it. 

You can exercise your rights by contacting us here or in manner described in the “Contact Us” section below.  

We will consider all such requests and, in accordance with the applicable laws, will provide our response within a reasonable period, or within the period prescribed by law. Please note, however, that we may rely on certain exemptions to comply with your requests in certain circumstances, for example if we need to keep using the information to comply with our own legal obligations or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.  If an exemption applies, we will tell you this when responding to your request. 

We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to any request you make.

 

  1. DATA RETENTION

We will retain each category of personal information we collect in accordance with applicable laws and as reasonably necessary for our processing purposes set out under this Privacy Policy. When it is no longer necessary to process personal information for these purposes, we will deidentify, aggregate, or delete this data to the extent possible.

  1. INFORMATION SECURITY

We implement and maintain reasonable security measures to help protect the personal information we collect and maintain. However, no security measure or modality of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the information we have collected from you.

  1. OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES
  2. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites, plug-ins or applications that are not operated by us. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of such third-party websites or any association with their operators.

This Privacy Policy only applies to the personal information that we collect or which we receive from third party sources and over which we act as a data controller, and we cannot be held responsible for personal information about you that is collected and stored by third parties. Third party websites have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies, and you should read these carefully before you submit any personal information to these websites.

We do not endorse or otherwise accept any responsibility or liability for the content of such third-party websites or third-party terms and conditions or policies.

  1. Children’s Personal information

We do not knowingly collect personal information from visitors under the age of 13. Our website is designed and intended for use by adults. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian concerned that your child may have provided personal information to us, please contact us here or in manner described in the “Contact Us” section below.

  1. Additional Terms

For additional Terms of Use of our website, click here.

  1. Contact Us

In the event that you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by sending us an e-mail to [danone.ventures.privacy@danone.com].

  1. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, to comply with changes in laws or regulations, our practices, procedures and organizational structures, requirements imposed or recommended by supervisory authorities or otherwise). Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and will be applicable on the effective date of implementation.  We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. If we make changes that materially affect your privacy rights, we will notify you with a prominent post on our Websites and obtain your consent, if required.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on May [--], 2026.