Thank you for visiting Healing Gourmet, Delicious Solutions and the associated websites owned and operated by Health-e Enterprises, LLC (collectively referred to here as the “Site”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.
By using or accessing the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Use.
The Site may provide links or references to websites operated by third parties. Once you enter another website, please be aware that Health-e Enterprises, LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each site that you visit through a link on our Site.
The Information We Collect
At our site, you can order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the Site's activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g.,Internet Explorer, Firefox), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows or Mac ) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, etc).
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We will also use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter to our editors"), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us.
The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.
Agents and contractors of Health-e Enterprises, LLC who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Health-e Enterprises, LLC.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.
Modifications to the Privacy Policy
We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time. A link to the most current Privacy Policy will be available at the footer of any Health-e Enterprises, LLC websites. In the event of significant changes to the Privacy Policy, we may also place a special notice on the Website or communicate the changes by email. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of such changes constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, or any revised versions thereof, you may not use the Website.
Age Requirement
In order to use the Website you must be at least 18 years of age or the legal age to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction if that age is greater than 18 years of age. Please see the Terms of Use for additional information regarding this and other requirements regarding eligibility.
Personal Information
We may collect your name, address, email address, telephone number and other contact information in connection with the Site (“Personal Information”). We may ask you to submit Personal Information at various places on our Website, including by providing Registration Data, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting feedback. We do not share your information with third parties except as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information to contact you or send you information you have requested or that we feel will be of interest to you. We may contact you via phone, email, or postal mail. We generally provide an option for you to choose not to receive these types of communications (see below). However, even if you request not to be contacted by us, we reserve the right to use your contact information if we consider it necessary to send you information about the operation of the site, including information regarding the services you have signed up for on the Website or information about changes to our Privacy Policy.
If you do not want to receive special offers, marketing communications, newsletters or other promotional communications (“Marketing Communications”) from Health-e Enterprises, LLC, you may “opt-out” or withdraw your consent in the following manner:
(a) You may “opt-out” of Marketing Communications that you are already receiving from us by following the steps described in each such Marketing Communication.
(b) You may also control the communications you receive from us by logging into your account and updating your Notification settings found in your Profile area.
Please note that once we receive your request, it make take an additional period of time for such request to become effective.
User Generated Content
You may elect to submit User Generated Content via the Website. If at any time you share User Generated Content on areas of the site that are generally accessible to other Website users, such content is considered “Public User Generated Content.” If you share User Generated Content solely on areas of the site that are accessible to other Health-e Enterprises, LLC users only if such users have a non-public access code (e.g., Private Special Groups), or if you share Personal Information with Health-e Enterprises, LLC that you do not share on public areas of the Website, such content is considered “Private User Generated Content.”
You have control over what information about yourself you choose to share on the Website. Please be aware that when you post Public User Generated Content on the Website, such content may be viewed by other users and by the general public, including any such content that contains Personal Information. All such sharing of information and content is done at your own risk.
We may use User Generated Content in accordance with the User Generated Content License set forth in the Terms of Use, provided that (i) we will not distribute or display your Private User Generated Content other than in the areas of the Website to which you have submitted such content (e.g., within Private Special Groups) and (ii) if we distribute Public User Generated Content to third parties for publication in print media, we will not associate your Personal Information with such Public User Generated Content without your permission.
You may modify your User Generated Content in accordance with the instructions on the Website. Please be aware that even if Health-e Enterprises, LLC deletes such User Generated Content from its ‘live’ databases, such information may still be stored on other databases (including those kept for archival purposes). We will not retrieve deleted content from our archives in order to publish it on the Website or elsewhere, but please be aware that any Public User Generated Content that you delete but that has been published or distributed in media other than the Website prior to deletion may remain publicly available on areas other than the Website in accordance with the User Generated Content License.
Website Usage Information
We may collect information automatically about the use of the Site, through, for example, “cookies” or “IP addresses” (as described below). Health-e Enterprises, LLC also archives log files and uses non-personally identifying information in aggregate form to detect errors with the Website, identify security issues, build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of Health-e Enterprises, LLC users, and measure demographics and interests in connection with specific areas of the Website. We may provide such statistical data to affiliates and other current and potential business partners. For example, we may inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their websites. We also use such data to create a more enjoyable experience for our users, for example, to assist in selecting content and promotions featured on specific channels, pages and site areas based on your general likes and dislikes.
“Cookies” are small files websites place on your hard drive that allow websites to identify you. For example, if you allow a website to remember your login name or password, the website places a cookie on your computer. Cookies are not capable of reading any other information on your hard drive. We may place cookies on your computer to allow us to identify you when you visit the Site. We may use cookies to measure Site traffic, to offer you certain services, or to customize your visit. However, if you do not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when they are placed, your browser may permit you to do so. An “IP address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP address probably varies from session to session.
Use of Third Party Providers
Health-e Enterprises, LLC uses third parties (including contractors and service providers) to help with certain aspects of its operations, which may require disclosure of your Personal Information to them. For example, Health-e Enterprises, LLC may use a third party to communicate with you (via telephone, email, or letter) about our services, to send information to you, to host the Site and related databases, and to perform other work that we may choose to outsource. Health-e Enterprises, LLC requires these third parties to use your Personal Information only as necessary to perform the services they are asked to perform.
Corporate Family
We may share some or all of your Personal Information with any current or future “affiliate” (which means a parent company, a subsidiary, joint venture, or other company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Health-e Enterprises, LLC), in which case we will require the affiliate to honor this privacy policy. If another company acquires Health-e Enterprises, LLC (or a business unit of Health-e Enterprises, LLC that uses your Personal Information), the Personal Information collected by Health-e Enterprises, LLC will be transferred to that company and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Questions
If you have a question or comment about the Health-e Enterprises, LLC family of sites, please contact us at info AT healinggourmet.com