Privacy Policy

At Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com, we are committed to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a text file that is transferred to your web browser's cache when you visit a website. It allows a site to recognize your browser on subsequent visits. It may store user preferences or other information.

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com stores a cookie (a text file or string of information) on your computer, and your browser provides the cookie to Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at:  https://policies.google.com/privacy

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. View Google's list of Ad Technology Providers here:  https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9012903

These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

Non-personalized ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads don't use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks here:  http://www.aboutads.info/choices with more information at http://www.aboutads.info/

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. 

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Google's cookie may enable it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out pagehttps://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Affiliate Products and Services

The sole affiliate services platform we use is Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. It serves Amazon advertising and associated content.

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, Heidi Boudro and Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com earns from qualifying purchases.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below.

For information about Amazon's use of cookies and the procedure to opt out, see 

Amazon's customer Privacy Notice:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496

and its Interest-Based Ads notice:  https://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=5160028011

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
To improve customer service.
To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
To personalize your user experience.
To improve our site.
To improve our products and services.
To run a promotion, contest, survey, or other site features.
To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

If you complete form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of these platforms:

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Twitter   https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Google Plus  https://policies.google.com/privacy

Pinterest   https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Tumblr   https://www.tumblr.com/privacy

Reddit  https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702,Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

Some information is collected by third-party services.

PrintFriendly is a service for visitors to print or email pages of the site. Its Privacy Policy is here:   https://www.printfriendly.com/privacy

Earthlink email may be used to communicate with visitors. The Privacy Policy of Earthlink, a subsidiary of Windstream Services, can be found here:   https://www.windstream.com/about/legal/Privacy-Policy

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, click on this link:  https://www.getting-started-with-healthy-eating.com/gdpr-review.html

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link:  https://www.getting-started-with-healthy-eating.com/gdpr-request.html

Updates and Effective Date

Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Getting-Started-With-Healthy-Eating.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: May 31, 2018