Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 14th, 2025

Private Brands Consortium PBC Inc. and its affiliate entities, including GoGo Quinoa (“PBC”, “we”, “us”) believe that it is important that you understand the way in which we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.

To this end, we have adopted policies and procedures to protect your privacy and this privacy policy (the “Policy”) outlines how we manage your personal information, safeguard your privacy and the principles that we follow when collecting, using, disclosing and protecting your personal information in connection with your interactions with us and your visit on one of our websites, including privatebrandsconsortium.com and gogoquinoa.com (the “Sites”).

Please read this Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Sites, you acknowledge that you have read this Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Policy.

Personal Information We Collect or Process

When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information that is collected anonymously, so that it cannot identify or be reasonably linked to you. We may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from this personal information, depending on how you interact with us:

Contact details including your name, address, phone number, and email address, when you contact us.
Communications with us including the information you include in communications with us, for example, when sending a customer support inquiry.
Professional information, including your name, email address, and any other information you provide such as employment history and education, when you apply for a position with us.
Device information including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
Usage information including information regarding your interaction with the Sites, including how and when you interact with or navigate the Sites.

Personal Information Sources

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

Directly from you including when you visit or use the Sites, communicate with us, or otherwise provide us with your personal information;
Automatically through the Sites including from your device when you use our products or services or visit our websites, and through the use of cookies and similar technologies (Please see the Cookies, Online Tracking and Advertising section below for additional information on this); and
From our service providers including when we engage them to enable certain technology and when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Depending on how you interact with us, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

Provide, Tailor, and Improve Our Products, Services and the Sites. We use your personal information to provide you with our services, including to perform our contract with you. This may include using your personal information to better tailor and improve the Sites.
Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you online advertisements for products or services on the Sites or other websites.
Security and Fraud Prevention. We may use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and to secure our services.
Communicating with You. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support, to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you and to maintain our business relationship with you.
To Assess Your Application. If you apply for a position with us, we will use your personal information to assess your application.
Legal Reasons. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

With service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g. IT management, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage).
When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as through your use of social media widgets.
With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group.
In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service or policies, and to protect or defend our rights, and the rights of our customers or others.

Cookies, Online Tracking and Advertising

When you visit our Sites, we automatically collect certain technical information, including the date and time of your visit, browser type, name of your Internet service provider, the website that referred you to us, pages you request, your navigation history, and your IP address. We use this information for purposes such as security auditing, trend analysis, system administration, and to compile aggregate demographic data about our user base. This information may be shared with service providers or partners who assist us in analyzing, storing, or aggregating data.

Our Sites also use “cookies,” which are small data files stored on your device by your browser. Cookies help us understand how you interact with our Sites, improve functionality, and provide a more personalized experience. Some cookies are essential for site operation, while others may be used for analytics or advertising purposes, including targeted ads based on your browsing behavior. These advertising cookies may allow us and our partners to deliver content and ads tailored to your interests across our Sites and third-party platforms.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, certain features of our Sites may not function properly, and we may not be able to offer you customized services. Please note that disabling cookies does not necessarily stop all online tracking or targeted advertising.

Third Party Websites and Links

The Sites may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Sites and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Sites.

Children's Data

The Sites are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted. As of the effective date of this Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we "share" or "sell" (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and Retention of Your Information

We protect and safeguard your personal information using physical, electronic and procedural measures appropriate to the volume and sensitivity of the information, the purposes for which it is used, and the format in which it is stored, including safeguards to protect your information against loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected. However, we may retain your personal information for a longer period when required to comply with our legal, contractual, or regulatory obligations regarding information or record retention.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you.
Right to Withdraw Your Consent. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information to the extent permitted by law and our contractual obligations. However, you understand that in such a case, you may no longer be able to benefit from our services.
Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
Right to Opt out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. Depending on where you reside, you may have a right to opt out of the "sale" or "share" of your personal information or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered to be "targeted advertising", as defined in applicable privacy laws. You can exercise your rights to opt-out of those uses here. Please note that if you visit our website with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on where you are, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt-out for the device and browser that you use to visit the website. To learn more about Global Privacy Control, you can visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. Other than the Global Privacy Control, we do not recognize other "Do Not Track" signals that may be sent from your web browser or device.
Managing Communication Preferences. We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on the Sites or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to verify your identity before we can process your requests, as permitted or required under applicable law. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law. If we are unable to grant your request, we will provide you with a clear explanation of the reasons, including any legal or regulatory basis for the denial, and inform you of any available options to appeal or seek further review.

Cross-Border Transfers

In order for us to carry out our operations, your personal information may be processed by us (or our third-party service providers) in another jurisdiction than the one where you reside. Please note that the privacy laws in such jurisdictions may differ from privacy law(s) applicable in your jurisdiction. Reasonable contractual or other measures we may take to protect your personal information while processed or handled by these service providers are subject to applicable foreign legal requirements, including lawful requirements to disclose personal information to government authorities and law enforcement in certain circumstances.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The effective date of the latest update will always be indicated at the top of this Policy.

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, you can contact our Privacy Officer via email at info@privatebrandsconsortium.com or by mail at :

PBC Privacy Officer
Private Brands Consortium
3000 Boulevard René Lévesque
Montréal, QC, H3E 1T9, Canada