Privacidade

Como a Foambyte LLC coleta, usa, compartilha, armazena e protege informações pessoais quando você usa o site e o software cervejeiro on-line da Foambyte, e os direitos de privacidade disponíveis para usuários nos Estados Unidos, no Canadá e na América Latina.

Este documento está disponível apenas em inglês.

Last Updated: October 28, 2026.

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Foambyte LLC (“Foambyte,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, processes, and discloses information, including personal information, in connection with your access to and use of our website, web application, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

Foambyte LLC is the controller (also called the “responsible party” or controlador under some laws) of the personal information processed through the Service.

The Service is offered to and directed at users in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

This Privacy Policy is a notice of our practices. Any dispute about it is subject to Sections 30 and 31 of our Terms and Conditions, without affecting your right to complain to a data protection authority.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us, including:

  • Name, email address, and other contact information
  • Account credentials and authentication details
  • Profile information you choose to add: a username, a profile picture, your brewery’s name and logo, your country, and your preferred language. Pictures are designed to be resized and re-encoded on your device before upload, which normally removes embedded information such as the location where a photo was taken; do not upload pictures that contain information you do not want stored.
  • Payment and billing information: payments are processed by Paddle (paddle.com) as our Merchant of Record. Foambyte never receives or stores full card numbers. We receive only limited payment details from Paddle (such as the last 4 digits, expiration date, and card type) so we can show you your payment method, plus your subscription status, plan, and billing country.
  • Communications with us, including support requests and feedback
  • Content you submit to the Service, such as recipes, production data, inventory, notes, or configuration settings
  • Your acceptance of our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy: when you accept them, we record which version you accepted, when, how (sign-up or in-app acceptance), and the IP address, device and browser information, platform, and language of that acceptance (see Section 9)
  • Any other information you choose to provide

2.2 Information We Collect Automatically

When you access or use the Service, we may automatically collect certain information, including:

  • Log data (such as IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and pages viewed)
  • Your approximate country, derived from your IP address when you sign up and each time you sign in. We use it to suggest your country (you can change it in your account) and to show where each of your active sessions was started.
  • Device and usage information
  • Cookies and similar technologies (described in Section 3, Cookie and Local Storage Policy)
  • Interaction data related to features, performance, and usage patterns

Do Not Track: we do not respond to browser Do Not Track signals; see Section 13.1 for Global Privacy Control.

The Foambyte marketing site does not use first-party analytics cookies, and it uses advertising cookies only if you allow the Marketing category (see Section 3.1, Google Ads). We store one necessary consent record in your browser, in local storage and in a first-party cookie shared by foambyte.com and app.foambyte.com, so that a choice made on one applies on the other. This record contains your category choices, the consent-policy version, and the time of your choice; it does not contain your name, email address, or other direct identifiers. The cookie expires after one year; the record otherwise remains until you change your choices, clear the site’s browser data, or a consent-policy version change requires a new choice. The web application does not ask on its own: it applies the choice you made on foambyte.com, and until you make one it treats the Marketing category as not allowed, so the Google tag is not loaded. Its Privacy choices link offers only the Marketing category, the only optional category it uses. The Foambyte mobile apps do not use Google Ads and do not ask.

The marketing site uses the following categories:

  • Necessary: stores your privacy choice and supports essential site functionality. This category is always enabled.
  • Preferences: permits storage of non-essential preferences. No service currently uses this category.
  • Analytics: permits anonymous or aggregate measurement if enabled later. No analytics service is currently active on the marketing site.
  • Marketing: permits Google Ads to measure how our ads perform and the conversions they lead to, such as sign-ups. See Section 3.1, Google Ads.
  • External media: permits YouTube videos and other externally hosted media to load. YouTube content is not requested until you allow this category and choose to load a video. See YouTube’s privacy information and how Google uses cookies.
  • External services: permits Calendly and similar embedded services to load. The Calendly scheduling script and widget are not requested until you allow this category. See Calendly’s privacy policy and cookie notice.

When you allow and load Calendly or YouTube, those providers may process technical information such as your IP address, browser details, and interactions according to their own policies. You can select Privacy choices on foambyte.com (in the site footer) or in the web application at any time to review, change, or withdraw your choices. Withdrawing a category stops the related service from loading again (for Google Ads, it also tells Google to stop using advertising cookies), but it cannot undo information already received by a provider while that service was enabled. You can also use your browser settings to control or clear cookies, local storage, and other site data. The Foambyte web application and related tools may separately use cookies that are strictly necessary for authentication, security, and core Service functionality, and, with your consent, the Google Ads measurement described in Section 3.1.

3.1 Google Ads

We use Google Ads, an advertising service of Google LLC, for advertising and conversion tracking on foambyte.com and app.foambyte.com. Google Ads uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as your clicks on our ads, device and browser information, and the pages you visit, so that we can measure how effective our ads are (for example, whether a visit from an ad led to a sign-up). Google processes this information under its own privacy policy; see also how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Google Ads runs only with your consent: until you allow the Marketing category, the Google tag is not loaded and no advertising cookies are set. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the Privacy choices link. We use Google Ads only to measure our ads: we do not use remarketing or audience lists, and we have configured Google Ads not to use information from our sites for remarketing or ad personalization. You can also manage ad personalization in Google’s Ad Settings.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Service
  • Create and manage user accounts
  • Process payments and transactions
  • Respond to inquiries, support requests, and feedback
  • Send you marketing about our features, products, or events (a secondary purpose: you may opt out at any time without affecting the Service)
  • Monitor usage, performance, and trends
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical or security issues
  • Keep records of your agreement to our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
  • Create de-identified and aggregated data (for example, for benchmarks and product improvement) that does not identify you or your business

We do not use identifiable customer recipes or production data to train third-party AI models.

Service and transactional messages, such as security alerts, billing notices, and legal notices, are part of providing the Service and cannot be opted out of while you have an account. You can opt out of marketing messages at any time. We send marketing emails only with your consent where the law requires it (including under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, CASL), and every marketing email identifies Foambyte and includes a working unsubscribe link.

Some privacy laws, such as Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), Canadian privacy laws, and other laws in the countries we serve, require us to have a legal basis or justification for processing personal information. Depending on the activity, we rely on:

  • Performance of a contract: to provide the Service you signed up for, manage your account, and process transactions.
  • Legitimate interests: to secure the Service, prevent fraud and abuse, improve our products, communicate with business contacts, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims (for example, by keeping records of your acceptance of our Terms and Conditions), where those interests are not overridden by your rights.
  • Consent: for optional cookie and local storage categories and embedded services (see Section 3), and for marketing communications where consent is required. You may withdraw consent at any time.
  • Compliance with legal obligations: to meet tax, accounting, and other legal requirements.

6. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

  • With third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf
  • To comply with legal obligations or lawful requests from authorities
  • In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets
  • With your consent or at your direction

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Foambyte’s staff may access your account and User Content to provide support you request, investigate abuse or security incidents, or comply with law.

6.1 Service Providers We Use

We use the following service providers to operate the Service:

  • Paddle: payments, billing, tax, and refunds as our Merchant of Record. See Paddle’s privacy policy.
  • Calendly: meeting scheduling, loaded only when you enable it through your privacy choices. See Calendly’s privacy policy.
  • Google Ads (Google LLC): advertising and conversion measurement on foambyte.com and app.foambyte.com, only with your consent. See Section 3.1 and Google’s privacy policy.
  • Google: sign-in with your Google account, if you choose it. If you do, we show your Google profile picture, loaded from Google, until you upload your own picture or remove it. See Google’s privacy policy.
  • YouTube / Google: embedded videos, loaded only when you enable them through your privacy choices. See Google’s privacy policy.

We also use providers in the following categories:

These providers may change; this list is current as of the Last Updated date, and you may ask us for the current list.

7. Public and Shared Content

If you choose to share or publish recipes, profile information, or other content through the Service, that content may be visible to other users or the public. When public sharing is available, your username, profile picture, and brewery name and logo may be shown with the content you make public. We cannot control how others use, copy, or redistribute content after you share it, so please consider this before making content public.

8. Business Use of the Service

The Service is currently designed for individual accounts. Each account belongs to one person, who may use the Service for personal brewing or on behalf of a brewery or other business. The Service does not currently offer team, multi-user, or organization accounts.

If you use the Service for a business, the business’s account information (such as the account holder’s name, email address, and billing details) is handled as described in this Privacy Policy. Please avoid including other people’s personal information (for example, the names or contact details of employees, customers, or suppliers) in recipes, notes, or other content unless you have the right to do so. You are responsible for any such information you choose to include.

If we introduce team or multi-user features in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle information about team members.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. In particular:

  • Account data is kept while your account is active.
  • When you delete your account in the app, your personal information (such as your name, email address, username, pictures, brewery name, country, and sign-in details) is deleted or anonymized promptly, normally the same day. Your User Content is removed from the Service and de-identified: the names you gave it, your notes, and other free text that could identify you are removed. It may be kept in that de-identified form, which no longer identifies you or your business, to improve the Service. Deletion requests sent by email are completed within 30 days.
  • Copies in our encrypted backups are not changed when an account is deleted; they expire on our backup schedule, normally within 90 days. Backups are used only to restore the Service after a failure, and if one is restored, the deletion is applied again.
  • Records of your acceptance of our Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy (the document version, date and time, acceptance method, IP address, device and browser information, platform, and language) are kept for 6 years after your account is deleted, so that we can establish which terms applied to your account and defend or enforce our agreements; this is the limitation period for contract claims where Foambyte is based. If you opt out of arbitration or reject a change to the dispute-resolution section of the Terms and Conditions, that is recorded for the same period.
  • Server logs and security records are kept for a limited period needed for security and troubleshooting. Support correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle your request and to keep a record of it.
  • Billing and tax records are kept for as long as required by law, and may be held by Paddle and/or Foambyte.
  • De-identified and aggregated data that does not identify you or your business may be kept.

10. Account Deletion

You can delete your account at any time in the app: open My account, go to the My Plan tab, and choose Delete account at the bottom. Deleting your account is permanent and cannot be undone; what happens to your information is described in Section 9. You can also email [email protected] from the email address associated with your account and ask us to delete it.

If you would like a copy of your data, email us before deleting your account and we will provide it.

11. Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information, including encryption of data in transit and encryption of our off-site backups. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security; you are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential.

If a security incident affects your personal information, we will notify you and the relevant authorities when and as applicable law requires.

12. Privacy Officer and Contact Channel

Foambyte has designated a Privacy Officer. The Privacy Officer is the person in charge of the protection of personal information (under Quebec’s Law 25) and the point of contact for individuals and data protection authorities (the encarregado and communication channel under Brazil’s LGPD).

You can contact the Privacy Officer by emailing [email protected] with “Privacy” in the subject line, or by mail at the postal address in Section 21 (Contact Us).

13. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

  • Access your personal information
  • Correct or update inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of your personal information
  • Object to or restrict certain processing activities
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Opt out of marketing communications
  • Control cookies and tracking technologies through your browser settings

13.1 How to Submit a Request

  • Submitting a request: email our Privacy Officer at [email protected] with “Privacy” in the subject line and describe your request.
  • Identity verification: to protect your information, we may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, for example by asking you to confirm that you control the email address associated with your account.
  • Authorized agents: you may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may require the agent to provide your written permission and may still ask you to verify your identity.
  • Response timing: we will respond within the period required by applicable law.
  • Limits: we may decline, or charge a reasonable fee for, requests that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive, where applicable law allows, and we may keep information we need to comply with law, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.
  • How to appeal: if we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our response with “Appeal” in the subject line. We will respond to your appeal within the period required by law. If your appeal is denied, you may contact your state Attorney General or the data protection authority listed for your country in Section 17.
  • Universal opt-out signals: we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) and similar universal opt-out signals where required by law. Because we do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising, these signals currently have no additional effect.

14. Children’s Privacy

The Service is intended only for users who are 18 or older (or the legal drinking age where they live, if that age is higher). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us.

15. International Data Transfers

Your personal information is stored and processed primarily in the United States, and our primary hosting region is the United States. Encrypted backup copies of our database are stored with Bunny.net and replicated to data centers in the United States, Germany, Singapore, and Brazil. If you live in Canada or Latin America, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate, which may have data protection laws different from those of your country.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we rely on our service providers’ contractual commitments and on the safeguards that law allows, such as standard contractual clauses.

16. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Several U.S. states have comprehensive privacy laws (for example, California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon, and Minnesota). They apply to businesses above certain size thresholds and, in most states, exempt small businesses; Foambyte is currently below those thresholds. If one of those laws applies to you and to us, you may have the right to confirm whether we process your personal data, to access, correct, or delete it, to obtain a copy of it, to opt out of its sale, of targeted advertising, or of profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects, and to appeal our decision on a request. We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for targeted advertising or for such profiling; the Google Ads tag described in Section 3.1 runs only with your consent and only to measure our own ads. To exercise any right, contact our Privacy Officer as described in Section 12 and follow the process in Section 13.1. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

California: regardless of the above, we comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act; this Privacy Policy is our notice under it, and Section 2.2 explains how we respond to Do Not Track signals.

17. Canada and Latin America Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the rights described below, subject to the conditions and exceptions in the applicable law. To exercise them, contact our Privacy Officer as described in Section 12 and follow the process in Section 13.1.

17.1 Canada (PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and Applicable Provincial Laws)

  • You may request access to and correction of your personal information, and you may withdraw your consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions.
  • If you live in Quebec, you may also request that your personal information be provided to you or to another organization in a structured, commonly used technological format (data portability), and you have the right to be informed about decisions based exclusively on automated processing. We do not currently make decisions based exclusively on automated processing.
  • You may file a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the applicable provincial regulator, such as the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.

17.2 Brazil (LGPD)

Under Article 18 of the LGPD, you have the right to:

  • Confirmation that we process your personal data
  • Access to your personal data
  • Correction of incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated data
  • Anonymization, blocking, or deletion of unnecessary or excessive data, or data processed in violation of the LGPD
  • Portability of your data to another service provider
  • Deletion of personal data processed with your consent
  • Information about the public and private entities with which we share your data
  • Information about the option to refuse consent and the consequences of refusing
  • Withdrawal of consent

You also have the right to petition the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).

17.3 Mexico

Under the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, you may exercise your ARCO rights (Access, Rectification, Cancellation, and Opposition) and revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data. We will answer an ARCO request within the period that law sets (20 business days, extendable as the law allows). Marketing communications are a secondary purpose; you may refuse them at any time as described in Section 4 without affecting the Service. You may also go to the competent Mexican data protection authority.

17.4 Other Latin American Countries

Users in Argentina (Law 25,326; Agency for Access to Public Information, AAIP), Colombia (Law 1581 of 2012; Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, SIC), Chile (Law 19,628, as amended by Law 21,719 from its effective date), Peru (Law 29733; National Authority for Personal Data Protection, ANPD), and other countries may have similar rights to access, correct, and delete their personal information and to object to its processing, as well as the right to file a complaint with their national data protection authority.

18. Users Outside Our Target Regions (Including the EU/EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

The Service is currently directed at users in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. It is not currently directed at users in the European Union, European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland. If you nonetheless access the Service from those regions, we will respond to requests to access, correct, or delete your personal information or to object to its processing, and you may have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Please send any such requests to our Privacy Officer as described in Section 12.

19. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make a material change to how we use or share personal information, we will notify you by email or in the app before it takes effect and ask you to acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy in the app; where the law requires your consent for a new use of your information, we will ask for it. Other changes take effect when posted with an updated “Last Updated” date.

20. Jurisdiction and Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America and the State of Minnesota, without regard to conflict of law principles, except where the laws of your place of residence grant you rights that cannot be waived by contract. Disputes are resolved as described in Section 1.

21. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or would like to reach our Privacy Officer, please contact us at:

Foambyte LLC, 202 N Cedar Ave Ste 1, Owatonna, MN 55060. Email: [email protected] (please include “Privacy” in the subject line for privacy requests)

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