At Balanced Formula, we value our customers and take their privacy
issues very seriously. This policy will help you better understand why
we need certain pieces of information from you and what we do with it.
1. Information Which is Collected
Registration
Codes and Passwords – You will need to register in order to access some
applications on the Balanced Formula website. When you initially register, you
may be asked to provide some information which you may consider
personal.
IP Addresses – this is a number assigned to
your computer when you connect it to the internet; it functions as sort
of a caller ID for other computers. Web servers use IP Addresses to
identify a particular computer as well as what kind of computer it is
and what kind of browser you are using.
Cookies –
these are strings of text which are loaded into your computer’s hard
drive by the websites that you visit. Nearly all websites use cookies
to track your visits to that website and to store some personal
information; usually your name and your purchase history for that
particular site. It is possible to instruct your browser to block
cookies, or to alert you to when they are being downloaded. If you
block cookies, though, it will prevent you from using some applications
on each website.
2. Businesses and Groups Who Collect this Information.
Balanced Formula will collect this information from you when your visit
our website. Advertisers on our website and other websites to which we
have links may also collect some of this information. You may want to
view the privacy policies of these third-party sites before you log
into the site or provide them with any personal information. Balanced Formula is not responsible for and cannot control the privacy
policies of other companies.
3. The Ways We Use This Information
Balanced Formula will collect information in order to analyze how
individuals and groups use the website. This will give us information
on ways to make our website more users friendly and more applicable to
our customers. Balanced Formula will also use your information to
tailor each website visit to meet your personal needs, thus saving you
time and effort.Balanced Formula may also use the information to send
you news concerning special offers from Balanced Formula or our
partners, unless you let us know that you don’t want to receive this
information.
Balanced Formula may additionally use data which
identifies you, your account or your computer when answering emails or
providing technical support, as well as dealing with the occasional
infraction of our Website Terms and Conditions.
4. Other Parties With Whom This Information Could Be Shared
Third
Party Businesses may be given some of this data on a “need to know”
basis when they have been hired by Balanced Formula for the purpose of
operational, marketing and advertising support, or if these businesses
provide skills or services which we wish to offer our customers.Balanced Formula requires that these third party businesses satisfy our
security and privacy concerns and agree to treat your information
confidentially. Balanced Formula will not release information which is
normally protected by law, and the information is never used for tasks
which fall outside of our oversight or control.
Government
Agencies, Legal Entities and Courts may sometimes compel us to share
information as a result of a government action or a private lawsuit. We
will only provide information which is necessary to meet the terms of
the law, subpoena, or other action. If we are forced to bring legal
action against one of our customers, this may require us to offer some
specific information for court documents.
Apart from the
entities and situations described above, Balanced Formula does not
knowingly provide, nor do we allow anyone else to provide your personal
information to any third party without your consent.
5. Ways in Which You Can Control the Information We Collect, Use and Distribute.
Please
be aware that you might unknowingly share personally identifiable data
when you participate in forums, chat rooms or message boards, and there
is no way for Balanced Formula to monitor these communications or
control what information is shared within them. At Balanced Formula, we
make a priority of safeguarding your personal information, but we are
unable to protect any information you voluntarily disclose online in
open forums.
6. Special Protections for Children Younger Than 13 Years of Age
The
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that we do
not knowingly collect or receive personally identifiable information
from a child younger than 13 years of age unless we also receive
permission from the child’s parent or guardian. Balanced Formula will
also comply with any request of a parent or guardian whose child is a
registered user under 13 years of age to access, change, or remove
personal information about that child from our website. A child’s
personally identifiable information is subject to the same protections
on our website as is the same information pertaining to an adult.
7. Links to Third Party and Affiliate Websites
Users
on Balanced Formula’ website are able to link from our site to third
party, affiliate and partner websites which are not monitored or
controlled by Balanced Formula. We encourage you to read the privacy
policies on each new website to which you link, before you provide any
personally identifiable information to that website. Balanced Formula
cannot be responsible for the actions of third party websites.
8. Changing, Correcting or Updating your Information
Please
emai Balanced Formula at sales@balancedformula if you wish to
change, update or delete your registration information which you
provided to the website when you registered.
9. The Methods We Use to Protect Your Information
Protecting
and securing your personally identifiable information is nearly as
important to Balanced Formula as it is to you. Consequently, we do
everything possible to allow you to securely transmit your personal
information between your computer and our servers.
The fact
remains, though, that no form of data transmission is 100% secure.
While we are staying on the cutting edge of internet security, we are
unable to completely guarantee the confidentiality of any information
you transmit to us.
After we receive your information, Balanced Formula will use every reasonable and available procedure or
technological application to respect your privacy and safeguard your
information. Keep in mind thatBalanced Formula will never request that
you provide a password or other personal information in an unsolicited
phone call or email.
10. Changes To This Privacy Policy
We
will change this Privacy Policy on occasion in response to advancements
in security technology. Notices of these changes will be posted on the
website at the time the change is made, and your continued use of the
website after the changes are posted implies your consent to those
changes.