Privacy Policy
Preamble
Chocolate Diet understands that you may have concerns about safeguarding your privacy on-line. The privacy statement that follows explains our views and practices concerning privacy and how they may pertain to you on our website: ChocolateDiet.com.
Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, at Chocolate Diet, we have developed this Privacy Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
- Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
- We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
- We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
- Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
- We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
- We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information and any future changes to our policies and practices.
- We will never sell, barter, rent, or share your email address with any unauthorized third party.
- We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
By using our website, ChocolateDiet.com, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post an updated policy on the Website. Therefore, we encourage you to check our Privacy Policy whenever you visit the Web site to see if it has been updated since your last visit.
What Information Do We Collect?
Chocolate Diet strives to offer its visitors an interactive and personalized experience. We may use personally identifiable information subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
We collect information from you when you subscribe to our email newsletter, when you place an order, comment on our blog, or fill out any digital form.
When registering or ordering on our website, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter the following: your full name, email address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit and browser our site anonymously excluding those portions of the site available only to members.
How Do We Gather Information From Our Visitors?
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you purchase a membership, product, or service. You may provide information when you register or participate in sweepstakes and contests, blogs, message boards, forums, and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site.
Like all Web sites, ChocolateDiet.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider, IP address, and use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional new technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the site’s features according to your preferences.
Do We Use Cookies?
At times, we many use cookies to help provide our online services and products. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information
We may use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
What Do We Do With The Information We Collect?
Chocolate Diet collects information to enhance your web experience and deliver more individualized content and advertising.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. This information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on ChocolateDiet.com to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Use and Privacy Police, other services and products offered by Chocolate Diet, and other topics we think you might find of interest.
Personally Identifiable Information collected by ChocolateDiet.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you.
Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site may have access to such information in the performance of their duties. We will use your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.
Do We Disclose Any Information to Outside Parties?
Chocolate Diet does not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may also disclose your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, assist law enforcement authorities, in response to a court order, enforce our site policies, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, or protect our or others rights, property, or safety. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such unique cases. However, aggregated information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
How Do We Store Your Information?
Your information is stored at the secure list server that delivers Chocolate Diet emails or other secure databases. Your information can only be accessed by those who help manage those lists in order to deliver email to those who would like to receive our newsletters.
Opt-Out Right
Chocolate Diet only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in the event that they have signed up to receive one of our free newsletters or have purchased one of our products or services.
We allow users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we voluntary request information about the visitor. This site also allows users to remove their information from our database at any later time. If a user removes his or her information from the Chocolate Diet database, it will no longer be used by Chocolate Diet for correspondence to the former visitor or customer.
All of the emails that are sent to subscribers also include an unsubscribe link within them. Subscribers can remove themselves at any time from our newsletters by clicking on the unsubscribe link.
Subscribers can also contact us to change their information or remove their information by filling out this form.
Third Party Links
Chocolate Diet expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our website you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through ChocolateDiet.com or Chocolate Diet newsletters and emails, you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. Chocolate Diet is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
While on our website, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising maybe be served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. Chocolate Diet does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on blog comments, forums, message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Chocolate Diet and this policy.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Chocolate Diet and our website ChocolateDiet.com are compliant with the requirements of COPPA. As we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe ChocolateDiet.com has any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the address listed below. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Chocolate Diet has taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Governing Law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin law. If a dispute arises under this Policy we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Madison, WI. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each party.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location: Madison, WI, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
The ChocolateDiet.com website is controlled, operated and administered from Madison, WI. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the mailing address below or by sending an email.
Chocolate Diet
c/o Privacy Policy
4230 E. Towne Blvd #329
Madison, WI 53704
Changes to This Policy
Chocolate Diet reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected. This policy was last modified on February 1, 2015.