Eat the Gains believes very strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. This privacy policy sets out how Eat the Gains uses and protects any information that you give while using www.eatthegains.com
What we collect and how is it used?
We may collect the following information:
- contact information including name and email address
- demographic information such as locations, zip code, preferences, and interests
- other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
You may voluntarily submit this information to this website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, submitting a contact form, or enter information on our site.
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, comment, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
- to operate and maintain the website
- to create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website for your account
- to ask for ratings and reviews of recipes, services, or products
- to follow up with you after correspondence (comments, live chat, email, or phone inquiries)
- to send send you promotional information, such as newsletters, or administrative communications. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings
- to provide you with user support
- to track and measure advertising on the website
- to process payment for purchases you make through the website
- to protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
Information we collect from others
We may receive information about you from other sources. You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. Your name will be visible in our records, but your password will not.
Automatically collected information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you use the website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked.
Cookies
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.
The website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize website content based on visitors’ browser type, or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Third Party Use of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
Additionally, the website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
- Google Analytics – this service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
- Convert Kit – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Publicly Visible Information
If you create a user profile on the website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description, and website information.
Advertising
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-
Affiliate Program Participation
The website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Eat the Gains is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Newsletters
On the website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
Rights to your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- opt-out – you may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at kelly@eatthegains.com to be removed from our mailing list.
- access – you may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to kelly@eatthegains.com.
- amend – you may contact us at kelly@eatthegains.com to amend or update your personal information.
- forget – in certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to kelly@eatthegains.com.
Link to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Children’s Information
The website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at kelly@eatthegains.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
CCPA
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain information from us about categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by emailing kelly@eatthegains.com.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at kelly@eatthegains.com.
Lasted updated on July 6, 2020.
