Muscle & Strength Privacy Policy
Last updated: December 4th, 2009
MuscleandStrength.com is owned and operated by Fit Ventures, LLC. Your privacy while using our websites is extremely important to us at Fit Ventures, LLC. As such, we've prepared the following statement disclosing our policies on the privacy of your information.
It’s important that you carefully read and understand the terms and conditions below about how we capture, store, and use your information.
Definition of the types of information Fit Ventures, LLC collects about its users:
Fit Ventures, LLC collects two kinds of information:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions to interact with our site and to send/receive content. A few examples include information submitted by users to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards, etc.
- Information that users provide when making a purchase through our online store located at the URL MuscleandStrength.com. This includes sensitive information such as a users’ name, address, credit card information, etc. Fit Ventures, LLC strives to protect this information from hackers using 128-bit SSL encryption. This information is kept protected and is never, under any circumstances, shared with a third party.
Fit Ventures, LLC information gathering processes:
By offering products and services on our website, it is necessary for Fit Ventures, LLC to receive information about its users. A description of each information gathering process and the required information necessary to perform that process is as follows:
E-mail Newsletters
Fit Ventures, LLC provides free, monthly electronic newsletters to the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the newsletter removal page.
Message Boards
Users of the site's message boards must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. Fit Ventures, LLC may contact users of our message boards periodically with important messages.
Online Store
Users that purchase an item from our online store are required to enter a plethora of information which is required to process an order. This includes shipping, billing, and contact information such as a user’s name, address, phone number, and payment information.
CHILDREN UNDER 13
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
TRACKING
Fit Ventures, LLC records data about users and their browsing preferences. This information is reported anonymously to us and not associated with any particular user. These statistics can include a user's IP address, browser type, and MIME type and is achieved by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Fit Ventures, LLC use tracking information to determine which web pages located on our websites are more popular than others. As mentioned previously, we do not track the browsing patterns of any particular user, but instead how a particular page performs overall.
COOKIES
Fit Ventures, LLC may place a text file referred to as a "cookie" in the browser-associated files of your computer. This is a common practiced by the majority of websites. While the actual cookie file itself does not contain any information, it will enable us to attach your usage of our site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. To clarify, the only information that a cookie contains is information that you have specifically entered. A cookie from our website cannot read data off your hard drive or monitor your internet usage.
You may disable cookies by turning their option off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie suggested by our site. While accepting cookies is not necessary to use our sites, you do need cookies to participate in our message boards, use our shopping cart, and for surveys.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Fit Ventures, LLC uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
When it comes to users submitting information via our online store, their information is used to process their order, including billing and shipping items purchased.
In addition to these uses, Fit Ventures, LLC creates reports on user demographics and traffic patterns which we may share with advertisers and sponsors. This allows our advertisers to advertise on our sites more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are most relevant to their needs. Please note that we do not track the usage of individual users, but only retain general statistics on our users’ behavior as a whole. We will not disclose information about any individual user to any third party except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
Fit Ventures, LLC uses the information provided by our users to tailor our content to suit your needs and to better understand our audience's demographics. As said above, we will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Fit Ventures, LLC operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. However, Fit Ventures, LLC cannot be responsible for any breach in privacy that is directly or indirectly caused by an individual user’s account password being hacked (guessed). We recommend to our users to practice safe password policies by creating passwords that are more than 10 characters in length and include both letters and numbers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We enable users to opt-out from providing us with their information. This can be achieved by:
- Disabling cookies via a web browser
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using MuscleandStrength.com, its underlying pages, and any other site owned by Fit Ventures, LLC, you consent to the collection and use of this information. If we deem necessary to change this Privacy Policy, we will update the timestamp found at the top of this page.
If you have any questions regarding privacy please contact us.
