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CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Grillo's Pickles

If you haven't been to the Grillo's Pickles website, you should. There, you'll find the fantastic story of how this company began. We've copied part of it here to save you a click.

Grillo's Pickles began with a pickle cart, just a small wooden stand in downtown Boston, where Travis Grillo and his friends would sell two spears for one dollar. Travis would make the pickles by night using his family's 100-year old recipe - one he'd memorized from making pickles every summer as a kid. In the morning, Travis would bike to the Boston Common and set up the cart with his buddies. They'd hang out all day, urging people to try the simple Grillo family pickle. It was a small business but Travis worked hard for it. He made more pickles, biked more miles, and slept less hours than he ever had before.
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CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Factory Five Racing

Factory Five Racing was founded in 1995. Over the years they have grown from a start-up business in a small garage to become the world's largest manufacturer of "build-it-yourself" component car kits. They employ a full-time crew of about 40 people, and are located in Wareham, Massachusetts (about an hour south of Boston). They make their products right here in the USA, in the heart of New England where American manufacturing was born.
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CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Luca + Danni

Fred and Danny Magnanimi grew up watching their father create beautiful, handcrafted jewelry in the family's Cranston, RI jewelry manufacturing business. When the boys grew up, Fred moved to New York and began working on Wall Street as an investment banker, while younger brother Danny, still enamored by the family business, stayed home. Increased competition from overseas businesses created significant challenges for the business, but Danny was confident he could find a way for the family business to evolve and thrive. This was his mission, this was his passion.
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        Bringing Your Business Online: Privacy Policy

        • John E. Ottaviani
        The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses online in order to survive. In many cases, businesses had no plans to be online. Others were forced to move online more quickly than planned. In order to assist these businesses, we are preparing a series of articles discussing some of the more important legal issues to address when moving your business online. In Article 1: Website Terms, we discussed online terms and conditions to protect your business.
        Article 2: Privacy Policy

        The next element to consider is a privacy policy. A privacy policy is a document that discloses:

        • What personal information the business collects from individuals online;
        • How the personal information is collected;
        • How the business uses the personal information;
        • How and to whom the business discloses the personal information;
        • How the business manages and stores the personal information that it collects; and
        • How the individuals can correct the personal information.
        The definitions of “personal information” vary, but generally the term covers anything that can be used to identify an individual or access his or her financial accounts. Examples include an individual’s name, address, date of birth, marital status, credit card information, bank account information, and health information. Businesses that do not collect any personal information, or that only collect information from other businesses and not from individuals, probably do not need a privacy policy.

        The most important thing about a privacy policy is that it reflects the business’s actual practices. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorney generals have brought enforcement actions and imposed fines and monitoring orders against businesses that have not followed established privacy policies. This also means that the policy needs to be updated whenever the business’s collection, usage and disclosure practices change over time.

        There is no one law that governs privacy policies or that prescribes what to include. Federal laws impose specific requirements for businesses in the health care and financial services industries and for businesses that collect personal information about children. A few states also have laws requiring privacy polices if a business collects personal information from residents in those states. If a business is targeting residents of the European Union (EU), then the requirements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also apply. Certain popular Internet tools, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Lead Ads, also require privacy policies.

        It is tempting to just copy a privacy policy from another website, especially when you are rushed for time. However, there is danger in doing this, as the other company’s privacy policy may not address laws that apply to your business. Even worse, the other company’s information collection, usage, security and sharing policies are probably different from those of your business. You expose your business to unnecessary liability because you will not be following “your” privacy policy. It is much safer to construct your own agreement tailored to your business.

        If your website does not have a privacy policy, we would be happy to discuss your requirements and assist you. Partridge Snow & Hahn Partner John Ottaviani has over 25 years of experience bringing businesses online and can provide the guidance needed to make the transition as painless as possible. He can be reached at jottaviani@psh.com or 401-861-8253.

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