Track Your Diet .com Privacy Policy
Welcome to Track Your Diet .com, owned and operated by Dennis Partridge. All
Products and Services available within TrackYourDiet.com are made available
subject to this Privacy Policy. By using our Products and Services, you agree,
without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you
become an inactive user, we will adhere to the policies and practices as
described in this Privacy Policy, which may be revised from time to time.
Please note that Track Your Diet .com contains links to other sites and
occasionally allows other sites to display Track Your Diet .com logo. Web sites
that are linked to TrackYourDiet.com or carry the TrackYourDiet.com logo for
co-branding or marketing purposes may have privacy policies which differ from
that of Track Your Diet .com.
Track Your Diet .com Network Privacy Policy discloses our privacy practices and
contains detailed information about the following:
What information of yours does Track Your Diet .com collect?
What are "cookies" and "Web beacons" and how does Track Your
Diet .com use them?
How does Track Your Diet .com use the information?
What is the opt-out policy for Track Your Diet .com?
What types of security procedures are in place to protect
against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
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What information of yours does Track Your Diet .com
collect?
Our goal is to create the most effective and user friendly site for keeping
track of your diet and realizing your goals. For this reason, we ask for
'optional' information at the time of sign up and within the members section to
better understand our users and the reasons why you are using Track Your Diet
.com. While you are not required to provide this information, we appreciate the
information that is entered since it gives us a better understand of what tools
would be most useful to develop in the future.
Information collected online is usually defined as being either anonymous
or personally identifiable.
Track Your Diet .com collects anonymous information, which
refers to data that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For example,
Track Your Diet .com collects some information each time a visitor comes to a
Track Your Diet .com so we can improve the overall quality of the visitor's
online experience. Track Your Diet .com collects the visitor's IP address
(e.g., whether the user is logged on from microsoft.com or cnn.com), referral
data (e.g., the Internet address of the last Web page visited by a user before
clicking over to a Track Your Diet .com), and browser and platform type (e.g.,
a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform). Track Your Diet .com collects this
user information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and
targeted advertising. In addition, Track Your Diet .com collects your responses
to online surveys displayed on Track Your Diet .com site; these anonymous and
optional surveys will seek your opinions about the Products and Services or the
advertisements displayed on Track Your Diet .com. You do not have to register
with Track Your Diet .com before we can collect this anonymous information.
Personally identifiable information refers to data that tells
us specifically who you are, such as your name and postal address, which may be
collected in addition to the anonymous data described above. Track Your Diet
.com collects personal information in the following ways:
Track Your Diet .com Member Registration: When you register to
use one or more sites on Track Your Diet .com Network, you provide Track Your
Diet .com with your name, postal address, ZIP Code, email address, birth date,
gender, telephone number, occupation, marital status and other information.
While not all of this data is required for our services to function, we are
better able to customize your experience if you volunteer complete and accurate
information.
Other Registration: In addition to registration for Track Your
Diet .com , we may ask you for personal information at other times, including
when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by Track Your Diet
.com.
Correspondence: If you contact Track Your Diet .com, we may
keep a record of that correspondence. We do not collect any email addresses of
those who communicate with Track Your Diet .com via email. We use the
information provided so that we may respond to the email.
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What are "cookies" and "Web beacons" and how does Track
Your Diet .com use them?
In addition to the personally identifiable information that Track Your Diet
.com actively collects when you register, we also collect anonymous information
passively using cookies and Web beacons. This technology plays an important
role in making the Internet work, but there is much confusion among Internet
users about what cookies and Web beacons are and how they are used.
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is
transferred from a Web site to the hard drive of your computer so that the site
administrator may identify your computer and passively track its activities on
the Web site. This unique number identifies your Web browser to our computer
system whenever you visit a page within the members area of Track Your Diet
.com. A cookie will not allow a Web site to learn any personally identifiable
information (such as your real name and address) that you have not otherwise
disclosed.
Cookies allow Track Your Diet .com to automatically remember your Web browser
when you visit. To help serve you better, Track Your Diet .com generally uses
cookies to:
Allow us to deliver products and services more efficiently. By storing certain
registration and preference information on cookies or associating cookies with
registration, preference or profile information stored on our computers, we can
deliver products and services that use such information more quickly and
efficiently for more users. This information is normally saved in an encrypted
form that only Track Your Diet .com can interpret.
Display advertisements. Cookies let us know whether a Web browser has seen a
particular advertisement (so we can show you a variety of material) and count
the number of advertisements displayed to a particular browser.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on most
major Web sites. It is possible to adjust your Web browser preferences to alert
you when a cookie is sent to your hard drive, or to refuse cookies altogether.
However, Track Your Diet .com does require you to use cookies to allow the site
to function properly.
Web beacons, also known as clear GIF's or single-pixel GIF's, are small image
files that Track Your Diet .com may place on Web pages and within Web-based
email newsletters that we send. Working in conjunction with cookies, Web
beacons allow Track Your Diet .com to accurately count the number of unique
users who have visited a specific page on Track Your Diet .com and the number
of times those pages are displayed. We can also use Web beacons to let us know
how many people opened a Web-based email newsletter. This information is only
collected in aggregate form and will not be linked to your personally
identifiable information.
Without cookies and Web beacons, it would be difficult for Track Your Diet .com
to know which services have a larger audience than others. Tracking audience
size helps us to better understand when to launch new services and enhance the
current offerings.
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How does Track Your Diet .com use the information it
collects?
Any personally identifiable information you share with Track Your Diet .com when
registering is maintained and accessible only by Track Your Diet .com unless
specifically stated otherwise. Track Your Diet .com requests information from
its users so that users can enjoy customized experiences , including
personalization services, interactive communications and much more.
The following are examples of how Track Your Diet .com Network may use the
information it collects:
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Track Your Diet .com uses the information collected (both anonymous and
personal) to personalize and enhance the content you see on Track Your Diet
.com, such as news, weather reports, sports scores, horoscopes, advertisements
and more. In some cases, our Products and Services cannot work unless you have
volunteered accurate information (for example, we need your valid ZIP Code to
display weather conditions in your local area).
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Track Your Diet .com collects anonymous data and shares it with third-party
advertisers in an aggregate form. We will disclose to those advertisers the
numbers of Track Your Diet .com users who have certain demographic
characteristics and the number of those people who have seen and "clicked" on a
particular display. We will also disclose to those advertisers the overall
demographics available regarding who saw and "clicked" on their advertisement.
In addition, we may disclose anonymous results from online surveys to
third-party advertisers or to Track Your Diet .com's product and service
providers. No personally identifiable information will be disclosed as part
of this process.
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Track Your Diet .com also uses the aggregate data to perform statistical
analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our registered users
and visitors, to measure user demographics and interests regarding specific
areas of Track Your Diet .com Network, and to analyze how and where best to use
our resources. Without such data, we would not know which parts of Track Your
Diet .com are the most popular, and we would not be able to change and update
the content and services appropriately. Please note that we may share this
aggregate information with third-party companies.
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Track Your Diet .com sometimes uses an individual registered user's data to
"pre-populate" online forms that are displayed for the purpose of collecting
additional individual data by Track Your Diet .com Network, selected
third-party sites, and/or sponsors and advertisers.
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Track Your Diet .com may, from time to time, use your information to contact
you about changes or enhancements to Products and Services on Track Your Diet
.com, issues regarding your account, or Track Your Diet .com Network Terms and
Conditions violations or suspensions.
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If you enter a sweepstakes or a contest on Track Your Diet .com Network, we
will use the information you provided to contact you in the event you win.
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If you told Track Your Diet .com that you were interested in receiving special
offers from select Track Your Diet .com clients, Track Your Diet .com or third
parties on Track Your Diet .com's behalf (i) will send you email and postal
mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you, and
(ii) may combine information we have about you with information we obtain about
you from third parties for the purpose of providing you with more appropriate
products, services, and offerings. If you do not wish to participate in this
program, please follow the opt-out instructions set forth in this policy.
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What is the opt-out policy for Track Your Diet .com?
You can opt out of sharing your personally identifiable information with any
third-party service or content providers in any areas of Track Your Diet .com
by choosing not to use such areas.
In addition, you may opt-out of sharing your personally identifiable information
with third-party service providers and sponsors by clearing the appropriate
checkboxes at the point of initial collection. You will see these checkboxes
near the bottom of the members registration page.
In addition, all Track Your Diet .com newsletters and direct email
communications have easy-to-follow unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of
each email.
If you have a question about Track Your Diet .com opt-out process that is not
answered here, please send an email to privacy@TrackYourDiet.com.
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What kinds of security procedures are in place to
protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?
Track Your Diet .com has security measures in place to attempt to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.
Any particularly sensitive information, such as a credit card number used to
purchase member service or products is encrypted prior to sending. In addition,
credit card processing is done using a 3rd party credit card processing company
so no sensitive data is ever stored on Track Your Diet .com's servers.
While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not
occur, we take many precautions to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
You are ultimately responsible for the security of your Track Your Diet .com
username and password. Please take care when using and storing them. Track Your
Diet .com recommends that you do not divulge your password to anyone. You
should log out of your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure
that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence,
especially if several people have access to your personal computer or you are
using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
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Contact Us
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to:
Track Your Diet .com
PO Box 941
Columbus, GA
31902-0941
Phone: (706) 561-8458
privacy@TrackYourDiet.com
Last updated January 22, 2006.
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