Privacy Policy

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan does not read any of your private online communications.

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan and Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan family of Web sites.

 

Use of your Personal Information

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan collects and uses your personal information to operate the Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan and its affiliates. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan, in order to determine what Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan, or the public.

 

Use of Cookies

The Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan pages, or register with Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan site or services, a cookie helps Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Healthier Steps – Gluten-Free and Vegan services or Web sites you visit.

 

Cookie Opt Out

You can opt out of cookies using the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at this page;
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

Finally, you can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings.

 

Security of your Personal Information

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

Changes to this Statement

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan is protecting your information.

 

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

 

Contact Information

Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Healthier Steps – Gluten Free and Vegan at info@healthiersteps.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.