Your privacy and the security of your personal information are very
important to us. We want you to be as comfortable as possible visiting
our Website and using our Online Products. We are dedicated to
protecting the privacy of those who visit our Website and use our
Online Products. This Privacy Policy governs our United States
perfectplate.com websites (collectively our "Website") and our Online
Products, and explains how we collect your personal information on our
Website or through the Online Products, how we protect such
information, and the choices you have concerning the use of such
information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Except as PerfectPlate.com. and Standout Productions, Inc.
(collectively, "we", "us", or "our") disclose in this Privacy Policy,
we will not sell, share, license, trade, or rent your personal
information to others.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any
changes to this Privacy Policy here so that you will always know what
information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether
we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this
Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using our Website or any of our
products, offerings, features, tools or resources that we provide on
our Website (collectively, our "Online Products"), including our
products or offerings for personal digital assistants or other handheld
or mobile devices (collectively, our “Handheld Products”), you agree to
the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Please
remember that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected
by our Website or through our Online Products. We are not responsible
for the privacy of any information you reveal or post in any public
forum (e.g., message board, blog, personal page, etc.) or through the
"Public Profile" feature available on our Website, or for the privacy
practices of websites that are operated or owned by third parties.
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Personally Identifiable Information.
Personally
identifiable information is information that identifies you or can be
used to identify or contact you ("Personally Identifiable
Information"). Such Personally Identifiable Information may include
your name, address, email address, telephone number, birth date
(primarily for eligibility purposes) and billing and credit card
information. We may request Personally Identifiable Information from
you when you register on our Website, subscribe to our Online Products,
or in connection with other Online Products we may make available on
our Website from time to time. In all of these cases, we will collect
Personally Identifiable Information from you only if you voluntarily
submit such information to us. Unless you give us permission to do so,
we will not sell, share, license, trade or rent your Personally
Identifiable Information other than as specified in this Privacy
Policy.
You do not have to provide us with any Personally
Identifiable Information to visit our Website. However, if you choose
to withhold requested information, you may not be able to visit all
sections of our Website or use all of our Online Products, such as
subscribing to our online weight-loss tools or posting content to any
Community Area on our Website. A "Community Area" means any blog,
personal page, group page, chat room, message board, bulletin board,
recipe swap, or similar activity. In addition, we may not be able to
provide you with some of the other Online Products dependent upon the
collection of such information, such as a personalized
perfectplate.com home page.
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Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
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When
you become a registered user of our Website, subscribe to one of our
current Online Products, or in connection with other Online Products we
may make available on our Website from time to time, we also may
collect information that by itself cannot be used to identify or
contact you, such as demographic information (like age, profession or
gender) and health information (like current weight) ("Non-Personally
Identifiable Information"). Non-Personally Identifiable Information may
also include user IP addresses, browser types, domain names, and other
anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information is used to help us understand
who uses our Website and to improve and market our Website in general
and our Online Products in particular.
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Information from Other Sources.
We
may also supplement the information we collect with information from
other sources to assist us in evaluating and improving our Website and
Online Products, to determine your preferences so that we can tailor
our Website and Online Products to your needs, and/or to study
nutritional, weight-loss, behavioral and fitness questions in general.
WHERE
AND WHEN IS INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR WEBSITE OR THROUGH OUR ONLINE
PRODUCTS (INCLUDING THROUGH THE USE OF COOKIES AND ACTION TAGS)?
We may collect information (including information that is Personally
Identifiable Information) from you in different manners and at
different places and times on our Website, such as when you register
for our Website or subscribe to one of our Online Products. We also may
collect information from you in connection with, or through, other
Online Products we may make available on our Website from time to time.
The following is a description of the areas and/or manners in which we
primarily collect information about you.
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Becoming a Registered User and Subscription.
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In
order to access certain Online Products on our Website, such as our
Community Areas, weight-loss tools and food database, you must first
complete certain steps to become either a registered user or a
subscriber. During these steps, you may be required to provide us with
information (including Personally Identifiable Information) such as
name, zip code and email address, and, if you subscribe to one of our
Online Products, credit card and billing information. This information
is used to help us understand who uses our Website, to improve our
Website and our Online Products, to contact users about requested
Online Products and/or for subscription billing purposes. It is
optional for you to provide demographic information (such as profession
and number of children), but providing this information is encouraged
so we can provide a more personalized experience on our Website.
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Cookies and Action Tags.
We also collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information passively using "cookies" and "action tags."
"Cookies" are small text files that are placed on your computer or
mobile device in order to identify (i) your Web browser, (ii) the
activities of your computer on our Website and (iii) your activity in
connection with our advertisements and other marketing and promotional
efforts. Cookies may be used to: - personalize your experience on our Website (e.g., to dynamically generate content on webpages specifically designed for you),
- assist
you in using our Online Products (e.g., to save you time by not having
to reenter your name upon each visit to our Website), and
- allow us to statistically monitor how you are using our Website for purposes of improving our online offerings.
We also may use cookies to conduct marketing and promotional efforts,
tailor certain advertisements to your browser that we think may be of
interest to you, or to determine the popularity of certain content. We
may link the information stored in cookies to Personally Identifiable
Information you provide us, and to personalize your Website experience
we may store Personally Identifiable Information you provide us in an
encrypted form in temporary or “session” cookies, which are erased when
you close your browser.
In addition to cookies that we place on your computer, cookies may also
be placed on your computer by third parties that we use to display or
serve advertisements or to collect Non-Personally Identifiable
Information in order to provide advertising-related services. For
example, in the course of serving advertisements, our third-party ad
servers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
You do not have to accept cookies to use our Website, however, you may
not be able to use certain products, offerings, features, or resources
of our Website (including our Online Products) if you do not accept
cookies. Although most browsers are initially set to accept cookies,
you may reset your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or
to reject cookies generally. Most browsers offer instructions on how to
do so in the "Help" section of the toolbar.
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"Action tags," also known as web beacons or GIF tags, are a web
technology used to help track anonymous website usage information, such
as how many times a specific page has been viewed. Action tags are
invisible to you, and any portion of our Website, including
advertisements, or e-mail sent on our behalf, may contain action tags.
Unlike cookies, action tags are not placed on your computer.
Similarly, we track and analyze usage of
our Website, using cookies and action tags. All data collected is owned by us and used to better understand our
users and improve our Website. By using cookies and action tags together, we are able to gain valuable
information to improve our Website and our Online Products and measure
the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns. We do not
disclose any of your Personally Identifiable Information to our
advertising partners through the use of cookies or action tags.
Finally, please note that advertisers and other third
parties may also use their own cookies or action tags when you click on
their advertisement or link to their website or service, on or from our
Website. This Privacy Policy does not govern the use by such
third-party websites or providers of third-party advertising.
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Referral Programs.
Through
third party referral program operators and others, we offer referral
programs whereby referral websites can earn commissions through the
referral of subscribers or other purchasers to our Website. To track
the earning of such commissions, and to determine the effectiveness of
the referral programs, the users who become subscribers to our Online
Products or purchasers through such referral websites are tracked using
technologies that do not include Personally Identifiable Information
(such as cookies and/or action tags). Our program operators and the
referral websites themselves can only access non-Personally
Identifiable Information such as data relating to the number of
impressions served, the number of transactions completed, and their
resulting earnings. They cannot access our customers' personal data.
If you choose to apply to be a referral website, we use
the data you provide strictly for conducting business with you. We have
entered into certain agreements with third party program operators for
the purpose of administering our referral programs. Should you become a
referral website of ours through one of our third party program
operators, any information you provide to them is subject to their
privacy policies.
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Online Products.
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We
collect information, some of which may be Personally Identifiable
Information, that you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use
some of our Online Products and the Community Areas. We
also collect information that you provide voluntarily through responses
to special Online Products such as surveys, questionnaires,
self-assessment quizzes, contests and the like. Some of these Online
Products may ask you for health related information. We collect this
information in order to personalize your online experience.
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Handheld Products.
Information
is also collected when you use our Handheld Products, including the
software application needed to utilize the Handheld Products on your
handheld device (the “Application”). During the installation of the
Application and subsequent synchronizations, we collect Non-Personally
Identifiable Information concerning your device (such as the specific
type of operating system and hardware you have, and the amount of free
and total memory) and the Application’s files on your device.
Our Handheld Products also collect information about your
usage of the Application (such as the dates you last synced with the
Inte.com or the dates you last used certain features). When you sync
your device with the Website, we store some of this information.
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Public Forums and the Public Profile Feature.
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We
feature public forums such as those contained in the Community Areas
where you and other users of our Website can communicate with one
another. In addition, we offer both the "Public Profile" and “My Page”
features of our Website to permit you to share information about
yourself (including, if you elect, Personally Identifiable Information)
with others. THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT PROTECT YOU WHEN YOU USE
OUR PUBLIC FORUMS OR PROVIDE INFORMATION (INCLUDING PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION) ABOUT YOURSELF THROUGH THE PUBLIC PROFILE
FEATURE OR THROUGH ANY COMMUNITY AREA AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE. You
should be aware that any information shared in a public forum such as a
message board, blog, personal page, posting, group, bulletin board or
recipe swap or through our Public Profile feature is public information
and may be seen or collected by third parties that do not adhere to our
Privacy Policy, although the availability of personal pages or groups
identified as “private” may be limited to certain permitted users.
However, even information marked “private” may be viewed by our staff.
You should think carefully before disclosing any information in any
public forum, or through the Public Profile feature, on our Website.
For example, you should not select a username that includes personal
information.
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Log Files.
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We
also collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information through our
Inte.com log files, which record data such as user IP addresses,
browser types, domain names, and other anonymous statistical data
involving the use of our Website. This information may be used to
analyze trends, to administer the Website, to monitor our Website's
use, and to gather general demographic information. We may link this
information to Personally Identifiable Information for these and other
purposes such as personalizing your experience on our Website and
evaluating our Online Products in general.
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Email or Refer a Friend.
Through our referral tools for informing a friend about our Website, or
one of our Online Products, we will automatically send your friend a
one-time email containing the information you request to be sent. If
you elect to use these referral tools, we will collect from you certain
Personally Identifiable Information about your friend which you have
provided, such as your friend's name and email address. We do not store
your friend’s information or use it for any other purpose.
DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE?
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Website and
Online Products are not designed for or directed to children under the
age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from
any person we actually know is under the age of 13. We urge all parents
or guardians to participate in their children's exploration of the
Inte.com, and to teach their children about protecting their personal
information while online.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
In general, we use the information collected on our Website and through
our Online Products to help us understand who uses our Website and
Online Products and how they are used, to personalize your experience,
to assist you in using our Online Products, to improve our Website and
Online Products, and for subscription billing purposes, if applicable.
With respect to our Handheld Products, for example, we may use such
information, among other things, to ensure that your handheld device is
supported and that it has enough room for the Application, and to
confirm which versions of the Application’s files are installed on your
device.
If you become a registered user of our Website or subscribe to one of
our Online Products, we may use your information to send you a
welcoming email that may confirm your username. If you "opt-in" (for
example, if you check a box, or if the box is pre-checked, you do not
opt out by unchecking the box) we may send you electronic newsletters,
contact you about Perfect Plate products, services, information and
news that may be of interest to you, and provide you with targeted
feedback. If you no longer desire to receive these communications, we
will provide you with an option to change your preferences. In
addition, if you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with
questions or comments, we may use your information (including
Personally Identifiable Information) to respond to your questions or
comments, and we may file your questions or comments for future
reference. We may also use the information collected to send you
important service announcements and updates regarding our Website or
Online Products or, if you are a subscriber, about your billing account
status. You will not be able to opt-out of these service announcements
and updates as they contain important information relevant to your use
of our Website and/or our Online Products and are not promotional in
nature. (If you do not wish to receive these service announcements, you
may cancel your account with us and delete the Personally Identifiable
Information maintained about you on our systems by contacting our
Privacy Coordinator at the address set out below.)
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In addition, if you become a registered user of our Website or
subscribe to one of our Online Products after April 23, 2004, we may
use
your information to contact you by postal mail about Standout
Production, Inc. products, services, information and news that may be of
interest to you, unless you notify us that you no longer desire to
receive these communications.
We may also use the information gathered on our Website
and through our Online Products to perform statistical analysis of user
behavior, to analyze and evaluate issues relating to nutrition,
weight-loss, behavior and fitness, or to evaluate and improve our
Online Products. We may link some of this information to Personally
Identifiable Information for internal purposes only or to assist you in
your personal weight-loss efforts.
WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES?
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to
by you, we will not disclose any information we gather from you on our
Website.
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Affiliates
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We may disclose information (including Personally Identifiable
Information) about you to our Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy
Policy, "Affiliate" means any person or entity which directly or
indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with PerfectPlate.com or Standout Productions, Inc.,
whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to you that
we provide to our Affiliates will be treated by those Affiliates in
accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may share your
information (including Personally Identifiable Information) with
franchisees of Standout Productions, Inc., but only where we
indicate to you at time of information collection that such information
will be provided to a franchisee, or if we otherwise obtain your
permission.
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Laws and Legal Rights.
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We may also disclose your information (including Personally
Identifiable Information) if we believe in good faith that we are
required to do so in order to comply with an applicable statute,
regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a court or
regulatory order, or other valid legal process. We may disclose
Personally Identifiable Information in special circumstances when we
have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
violating our Terms & Conditions, or to protect the safety and/or security of our users, our Website or the general public.
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Third Parties Generally.
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We
may provide to third parties information about you that does not allow
you to be identified or contacted, including where such information is
combined with similar information of other users of our Website. For
example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique
users who visit our Website, the demographic breakdown of the
registered users of our Website, or the activities that visitors to our
Website engage in while on our Website. The third parties to which we
may provide this information may include potential or actual
advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website
tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees,
researchers and other similar parties.
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Outside Contractors.
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We may employ independent contractors, vendors and suppliers
(collectively, "Outside Contractors") to provide specific services and
products related to our Website or Online Products, such as providing
credit card processing and fraud screening, and developing applications
for our Website and e-mail services. These Outside Contractors may
sometimes have limited access to information collected on our Website,
including your Personally Identifiable Information, in the course of
providing products or services to us. Access to your Personally
Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the
information reasonably necessary in order for the Outside Contractors
to perform their limited function for us. We also require that these
Outside Contractors (i) protect the privacy of your Personally
Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and (ii)
not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any
purpose other than providing us with products or services for which we
contracted.
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Third Party Sellers.
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In addition, through our Website, you may be given the opportunity to
purchase (or to obtain more information regarding) certain content,
products or services which are sold through a person or company other
than us or our Affiliates (collectively, "Third Party Sellers"). We
will attempt to make it clear to you when you are dealing with a Third
Party Seller by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying you that
you are leaving our Website. For example, if you see a phrase such as
"powered by" or "brought to you by" followed by the name of a person or
company other than Perfect Plate, then you are likely on, or about to
enter, a website hosted or operated by a person or company other than
us. Third Party Sellers may request that you submit certain information
to them in order to purchase their products or services or to obtain
additional information from them. You do not need to submit this
information or purchase any products or services from Third Party
Sellers to access our Website. By submitting the requested information,
you affirmatively consent to have that information shared with the
Third Party Seller. This information is used by the Third Party Seller
and may be subject to a different privacy policy. We do not otherwise
share or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to Third
Party Sellers.
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Sale of Business.
We
reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event
of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of PerfectPlate.com. or Standout Productions,
Inc. provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of
this Privacy Policy. We will notify users of any such transfer through
notice on our site and through email.
DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY WHEN YOU LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES?
Our Website contains links to other websites not owned or operated by
PerfectPlate.com. (for example, if you "click" on a banner
advertisement, you will likely be taken off our Website), including
links to websites operated by franchisees of Standout Productions, Inc. We will attempt to make it obvious to you when you
leave our Website and enter these websites by opening a new browser or
otherwise notifying you that you are leaving our Website. However,
please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when our Website links
to other websites and to read the privacy policies or statements of
each and every website. This Privacy Policy applies solely to
information collected by our Website or through our Online Products.
IS THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT SECURE?
We want your information (including Personally Identifiable
Information) to remain as secure as possible. We strive to provide
secure transmission of your information from your computer to our
servers through industry-standard techniques. To help ensure the
integrity and privacy of the Personally Identifiable Information you
provide to us via the Inte.com at the time you elect to become a
registered user or subscribe to our Online Products, we use Secured
Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in transmitting such
Personally Identifiable Information over the Inte.com to our servers.
We secure the Personally Identifiable Information you provide on
servers located in controlled, secure environments, protected from
unauthorized access, use, or alteration. Only employees who need access
to your information to perform a specific task or function are granted
access to such information. In addition, all PerfectPlate.com
employees must abide by this Privacy Policy and are kept up-to-date on
security practices. Any employee who violates this Privacy Policy is
subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
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Notwithstanding
the above commitments to protect your information (including Personally
Identifiable Information) from loss, misuse or alteration by third
parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in
transmitting information over the Inte.com. There is also some risk
that others could find a way to thwart our security systems. As a
result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure
or warrant the security and privacy of any information you transmit to
us, and you do so at your own risk.
WHAT CHOICES DO YOU HAVE REGARDING THE COLLECTION, DISCLOSURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will only use
Personally Identifiable Information for the purposes described above or
as otherwise disclosed at the time we request such information from
you. You must "opt-in" and give us permission to use your Personally
Identifiable Information for any other purpose. If you no longer wish
to receive communications from us via postal mail, you may notify us by
calling us at (800) 651-6000 or by contacting our Privacy Coordinator
at the address set out below. You may change your preference and
"opt-out" of receiving other communications by changing that option in
the My Profile feature of our Website, following the directions
provided in association with the communication, or by contacting our
Privacy Coordinator at the address set out below.
Users of our Website are notified when Personally
Identifiable Information is being collected by third parties on our
Website. We do this so you can make an informed choice as to whether
you should disclose information to a third party.
CAN YOU UPDATE OR CORRECT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
You can always contact us in order to (1) update or correct your
Personally Identifiable Information, (2) change your preferences with
respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or
(3) delete the Personally Identifiable Information maintained about you
on our systems, by accessing My Profile or contacting our Privacy
Coordinator at the address set out below. Such updates, corrections,
changes and deletions will not have an effect on other information that
we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in
accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction,
change or deletion.
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