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| Privacy Policy |
Welcome to MenuCoach.com and its related sites owned and controlled by MenuCoach Partners. MenuCoach has created the following privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy, and to disclose our information-gathering and dissemination practices. This online privacy policy is here to tell you about, among other things, the information MenuCoach collects through our Web site, how we use that information, how you can opt out of certain uses of the information we collect, and how MenuCoach can make changes to this privacy policy. Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy by contacting us at info@MenuCoach.com .
Child Privacy
The MenuCoach.com website is a general audience adult website that is not targeted in any manner to children under the age of 13. As such, we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently obtained personal information on a child under the age of 13, that information will be deleted from our systems. MenuCoach encourages parents to accompany their children while online.
Below you will find a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:
• Teach kids never to give out personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. This includes their name, address, phone, school, etc.
• Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is being treated.
What information does MenuCoach collect?
While collecting your personal information, we hope to provide you with a more personalized experience. This information you provide allows us to deliver services and features that we believe to be more likely to meet your needs. MenuCoach collects two types of information when you visit our Web site: information that may be used to identify you individually, such as your name and email address ("personal information"), and non-personal information, such as IP addresses, the type of browser you are using, and aggregated information about user activities on our Web site ("non-personal information").
Personal Information: We specifically request personal information from you during registration while on our Web site. When you register for our newsletter or register with our Web site we collect personal information to complete the transaction. This information may include, without limitation, your name, addresses, telephone number, email address, and physical/metabolic information. From time to time, we may also request personal information about you and your interests in surveys, contest entry forms, or in other ways. You may always choose not to provide us with your personal information; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific product or service, or to offer you personalized content.
Non-Personal Information: When you visit our Web site, we also collect non-personal information, such as your IP address, which is a number that can be used to identify your location and Internet Service Provider. We may also collect the URL from which you came to our Web site and the URLs visited on our Web site. A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may contain some personal or identifying information about the person who is viewing it.
Use of Cookies: We also use a feature of your browser called a cookie to assign identification to your computer. The unique user ID contained within your cookie automatically identifies your computer—but not you—to our servers every time you visit our Web site. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user, but may be correlated with identity information in our log files. You can turn off the cookie feature by using your browser preference options, but you may not be able to utilize some services properly. Current versions of many Web browsers offer enhanced user controls for the placement and duration of cookies. Search for "cookies" under your Web browser's Help menu for more information on the cookie management features available to you.
Cookies (secondary use): We may use cookie and IP address information to count and track Web site visits in the aggregate, to personalize the Web site for each unique user, to control the frequency of individual advertisements to individual computers, and to target advertisements and promotions to broad demographic segments. We may also use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.
Use of Pixel Tags: We also collect information through the use of "pixel tags" included in email messages we may send to you. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files, not visible to the human eye, that are included in HTML-encoded email messages. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable email program, the recipient's computer will access our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store, along with the recipient's email address, the date and time the recipient viewed the email message, the fact that the recipient's email program is capable of receiving HTML-encoded email, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may see or read cookies. In short, this allows us to learn what emails were opened and hopefully helpful to our audience.
How does MenuCoach use or disclose the information it collects?
MenuCoach 's Use of Personal Information and Non-Personal Information: We use your personal information to process your requests, to improve the features of our Web site, and to communicate with you. We may also use your personal information to personalize our Web site, to target advertising or promotions that may be of interest to you, and to analyze aggregate user data in order to improve our services. On occasion, we may also contact you about MenuCoach or Product Partners' products or services that we think you will find useful. We might also contact you to see if you are interested in participating in market research regarding MenuCoach . For information about opting out of such communications, please see our Opt-Out Policy section below.
Co-Branded Offers: In arranging to have marketing and promotional information of certain companies or businesses with whom MenuCoach or Product Partners may have formed a strategic alliance ("Affiliated Companies"), we may disclose to the Affiliated Companies your personal information, including information such as your address and telephone number. If you do not want to us to disclose your personal information to the Affiliated Companies, please refer to the Opt-Out Policy below.
Third-Party Offers: In arranging to have marketing and promotional information of third-party companies that we think might be of interest to you, we may disclose your personal information, including information such as your address and telephone number to nonaffiliated third parties not controlled by MenuCoach or Product Partners. If you do not want to us to disclose your personal information to third-party companies, please refer to the Opt-Out Policy below.
Customer Service Issues and Contacts: We may use your email address to contact you in response to customer service complaints you have submitted, to address a problem affecting your use of the service, or to verify information concerning a transaction.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose personal information when we deem necessary or appropriate to law enforcement or other entities or third parties as required by law or to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud, identity theft, or otherwise to comply with the law or legal process, to respond to claims, to protect our systems and customers, to ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MenuCoach and its employees or others.
Business and Accounting Disclosures: We may also disclose non-identifying transaction information to third parties for the purpose of accounting and record keeping. We may also disclose aggregate user data or non-personal information in order to describe our services to prospective business partners, advertisers, and others, but will do so only in a form that does not identify individual users.
Other Disclosures: Occasionally we may disclose personal information in other circumstances, but we will only do this if we have explained at the time we collect the information the purpose for which it will be disclosed.
Opt-Out Policy
You may opt out of receiving communication from us, from Affiliated Companies, or from other third parties by emailing us at: info@MenuCoach.com to Attention: Privacy Policy Department. Please include “Opt-Out” in the subject window of your email. Within the body, please include the areas you wish to opt-out for; such as, special offers, free restaurant information and/or coupons for dine out savings. In addition, when we contact you via email, we may include instructions to unsubscribe from future emails if you so choose.
Security
This Web site has industry-standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, and we make good-faith efforts to store your personal information in a secure operating environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.
Other Web Sites; Links
We may include links to Web sites operated by our business partners, affiliates, advertisers, and others. These third parties have separate data collection and privacy practices that are independent from ours, rendering MenuCoach unable to be responsible for the third party policies or activities. Please contact those third parties directly if you have questions about their privacy policies.
How can I correct, update, or delete my information?
To delete your personal iformation on MenuCoach, you must send a request via email to info@MenuCoach.com and in the subject window enter the following: delete personal information and then within the body of the email you will need to include the email address associated with your account as well as first, last name and username of your profile. A confirmation email will be sent before this information is removed to prevent fraud. You may change or update the personal information we have collected within your personal profile. In addition, you may delete the cookie stored on your computer, which will cause our system to perceive you as a new user with no known user data. You may also set your browser to reject cookies, but doing so may prevent you from using some of our services.
Changes to This Policy
This policy may change from time to time. If we make any substantive changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your information, we will post those changes on our Web site in this location together with the date of the last update. Your continued use of the Web site after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes, both with regard to information we have previously collected from you and with regard to information we collect from you in the future. If you do not agree to the changes, please discontinue your use of our Web site.
Contacting MenuCoach
Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this Web site, please contact: MenuCoach Website via email at: info@MenuCoach.com
Last changed: 4/21/2008 |
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