fitGroups Privacy Policy
fitGroups is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy statement to learn more about our Privacy Policy. This Policy describes the information we collect from you and what may happen to that information, and only applies to such information. This Policy applies to all sites operated under the fitGroups.com domain.
Information We Collect
The information we collect is used to improve the experience for our users, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor. Any data we collect on our site generally falls into the Personally Identifiable Information category.
Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets us know specifically who you are. In general, you can visit our site without telling us who you are or revealing any Personally Identifiable Information.
* fitGroups collects personal information about you when you sign up for a an account. This information includes a nickname selected by you or assigned by us, your email address, your name (if provided), a password selected by you, and your zip code;
* for each fitGroups Group in which you participate, you may choose to create and store a short description or statement that will be viewed by anyone who is accessing that fitGroups Group, and your message board postings.
* fitGroups logs information such as your IP address that you access our server with, and the pages you visit at our website.
* fitGroups may use this information to target specific advertisements or to suggest items to you.
Ordering - When you place an order for products or services, we collect Personally Identifiable Information (such as name, contact and billing information, credit card, and other transaction information). We use this information to deliver your order, process payment, and to communicate with you about the status of your order. Credit card information submitted with your order is used only for payment processing and is not retained on our site. You may request your purchase be shipped by common carrier, in which case certain information will be shared with the respective carrier for delivery purposes.
Cookies
We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at the site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as community and profiles, will be limited.
If you visit fitGroups's web-site, your web-browser automatically discloses, and fitGroups's web-server automatically logs, the following information: the date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web-form, may also be logged. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
If you disclose personal data to fitGroups in conjunction with an identifier such as your name or your credit-card details, fitGroups will collect your data. Moreover, any data that becomes available to fitGroups through any of the means described in the preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier.
Sharing Your Information
Except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, we do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise retransmit any Personally Identifiable Information we collect online unless we have your permission. Any Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us will be used for your purchases and retained in hard copy form of the original invoice as well as within our database system, which generates our invoices.
We may share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties, such as credit card processing companies, in order to facilitate services.
We use other third parties to provide services on our site. When you sign up for these services, we will share information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
From time to time, we may be required to provide Personally Identifiable Information in response to court order, subpoena, or government investigation. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful. We may release Personally Identifiable Information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Limited Warranty or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves.
You should understand that information you provide through the registration process or post to the public areas of our website, or through the use of our platform (including your name (if provided) and location information) may be accessible by and made public through syndication programs and by search engines, metasearch tools, crawlers, metacrawlers and other similar programs.
Security
The Website uses industry standard security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. fitGroups limits the access to this information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. The Website uses many different security techniques to protect data from unauthorized access by individuals inside and outside of the company. Be aware, however, that 'perfect security' does not exist on the Internet.
Use of Information
We use the information we collect about you (including your Personally Identifiable Information) to create a better, more personalized experience for you based on your individual usage habits, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site’s content, layout and Services. These uses improve our site and allow us to better customize it to meet your needs. We also use the information we collect about you to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our Terms of Service Agreement.
Use refers to the application of your information by any part of fitGroups, or any staff-member or contractor of fitGroups in the course of their work.
fitGroups undertakes to use your information only for:
* the purposes for which it was collected;
* such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between fitGroups and you;
* for promotional, sales or any use that we consider appropriate, your correspondence with use or photographs submitted for publication on our website, be it via email, postings on our website, or feedback via the member polls. Our use of such materials is consistent with the restrictions on disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information set forth in this Privacy Policy; and
* such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these circumstances, fitGroups will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to you that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
* such additional purposes as are authorized by law (in particular to protect fitGroups's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfill your undertakings to fitGroups or have committed a breach of the criminal law).
Accessing and Updating Personal Information
fitGroups makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing these requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes). In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. fitGroups share web site usage information about users with reputable partners for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
These advertising partners may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that they collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.
Links To Other Web Sites
Links to third-party Web sites may be provided solely for your information and convenience, or to provide additional information for various other goods and services. If you use these links, you will leave our Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those Web sites linked to our site, nor do we control their content or privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.
Blogs/Groups/Forums
If you use a blog, group or forum on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. fitGroups is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
fitGroups reserves the right to terminate the accounts of visitors or members who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use.
Changes to These Privacy Undertakings
If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes on or post a notice of the change to this Policy on the homepage (
http://www.fitGroups.com) and other places we deem appropriate, so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy statement under which the information was collected.
fitGroups undertakes:
- not to materially change these Terms in a manner that reduces the protections for your information
- to take all possible steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to your information in a manner that reduces the protections for your data
- where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organizations
- where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive versions are readily accessible
- to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated, and readily accessible
Dispute Resolution
Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Policy or previous Privacy Policy statements shall be resolved through negotiation, mediation and arbitration as provided under our Terms of Service Agreement
Consent
By using this website, you consent to the terms of our online Privacy Policy and to our processing of Personally Identifiable Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained where we collect personal information online.
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact our privacy staff at:
privacy@fitgroups.com
