Privacy Statement
Fitness Connection is committed to protecting the privacy of its visitors and members. The below statement has been prepared to inform people how their personally identifying information is gathered, stored, protected and used by FitnessConnection.com. Fitness Connection encourages people to always be smart and aware of where their information goes while using the internet.
Policy Updates
The versioning of this policy can be found at its closure. The version is displayed with a complete date and time stamp. Any update to the policy will be recorded with a change in the date and time stamp. Fitness Connection will not send out email correspondence to any user that has submitted information in the past.
USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
A user’s personally identifiable information will be used be used by Fitness Connection and authorized third party agents only. Information will be shared with third party agents only when it best serves to further the purpose for which the user provided their personally identifiable information. A further example of such a need would be to process a sweepstake’s entry, a subscription request or product order. If personally identifiable information might be disclosed with agents for reasons not listed above, users will be advised of the reasoning at the time they submit their information. Fitness Connection does not currently sell any personally identifiable information to third party agents.
FitnessConnection.com may also utilize a user’s personally identifiable information to send them updates that might interest them. These may include but are not limited to Fitness Connection news and promotional offers.
Personally identifiable information may also be shared with third party advertisers. If this is done, it will be so that the third party agent can best serve the user ads that would be of interest to them while exploring FitnessConnection.com. For further information, please see the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer information page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Information practices of those such websites advertising on FitnessConnection.com are not represented by this privacy policy.
NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS
Nevada law allows consumers to direct certain businesses not to sell their personally identifiable information to third parties to license or sell that information to additional third parties. If you are a Nevada resident, you may submit such opt-out requests to [[email protected]]. To be effective, your request must include your full name, address, phone number, and email address [or other information reasonably necessary to verify the authenticity of the consumer request]. Fitness Connection will endeavor to respond to your verified request within 60 days of receiving the request. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Fitness Connection may need to extend this period by up to 30 days. If an extension is reasonably necessary, Fitness Connection will notify you of this during the initial 60-day period.
PROTECTION & SECURITY
There is no guarantee that information transmitted over the internet is 100% safe. At FitnessConnection.com, we strive to protect your information. FitnessConnection.com takes the following steps to ensure there is no unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. Once your personally identifiable information has been received, we utilize reasonable efforts to protect any and all information you have given FitnessConnection.com. Your information will not be readily accessible to any unauthorized third party agents. In addition, FitnessConnection.com has a limited number of people with access to our database and your personally identifiable information. Our database has electronic security in place including but not limited to password protection and user specific identification.
It is important to note that Fitness Connection and FitnessConnection.com may disclose your personally identifiable information to respond to court orders, subpoenas, or other legal practices. A user’s personally identifiable information might also be disclosed in the event of Fitness Connection and FitnessConnection.com being sold or involved in a business merger.
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PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Personally identifiable information is defined by any information a user submits voluntarily about themselves that Fitness Connection and FitnessConnection.com had no other way of obtaining, nor forced a user to share. FitnessConnection.com receives and stores a user’s personally identifiable information that you enter into any form on our website. This includes but is not limited to: Name, street address, telephone number and email address. Additionally, if a user reaches out to FitnessConnection.com via email, or posts in any forum we have open, we may store that correspondence. Whenever FitnessConnection.com receives personally identifiable information, we will provide a link to this privacy policy.
Cookies
A cookie is data sent to a user’s browser from a web server that is then stored in your computer. This is a way for a user to quickly store and remember passwords and logins. All pages on FitnessConnection.com that utilize cookies (i.e. a page with a login required) will prompt users to accept the cookies in order to proceed to the next stage of the site. Cookies can be set up and personalized by a user on their computer. By modifying browser preferences, a user has the choice to accept cookies, be notified when one is created and to reject all cookies.
Some common uses of cookies include:
- The most common use of a cookie on FitnessConnection.com is to remind us who each user is, and access their account information to deliver them a more personalized experience from the minute you open FitnessConnection.com. This cookie is created when/if they sign into any portion of FitnessConnection.com.
- They might be used to track a user’s entries into a promotion or sweepstakes. This will allow Fitness Connection to be certain entries are being created properly as well as reach out to winners in the event of a prize win.
- Cookies may also be used to track the audience size of FitnessConnection.com and compare said size to our member list size to track how many visitors have joined Fitness Connection. Each IP Address that accesses FitnessConnection.com is assigned a unique cookie that is attached to any user on the IP address.
- Cookies may also be used by third party advertisers such as for banner ads. This policy is the user’s agreement to allow FitnessConnection.com to use your personal information to deliver the best banner ads, administrative notes, products and communications relevant to a user’s experience on FitnessConnection.com. By accepting the Terms & Agreement and this privacy policy, the user agrees to receiving this information. If you do not wish for such communication to occur we encourage them to opt out.
Notice to Nevada Residents
Nevada law allows consumers to direct certain businesses not to sell their personally identifiable information to third parties to license or sell that information to additional third parties. If you are a Nevada resident, you may submit such opt-out requests to [[email protected]]. To be effective, your request must include your full name, address, phone number, and email address [or other information reasonably necessary to verify the authenticity of the consumer request]. Fitness Connection will endeavor to respond to your verified request within 60 days of receiving the request. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Fitness Connection may need to extend this period by up to 30 days. If an extension is reasonably necessary, Fitness Connection will notify you of this during the initial 60-day period.
This policy is subject to change and we invite you to review this policy from time-to-time.
Policy Effective Date: 01/01/2016 08:00am
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