This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how www.alt-lifestyles.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not consent to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please don't use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your settings on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may reverse our access to the information that you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. However, we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to let you use some of its features. For instance, they let you log into secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for can't be supplied, and we just use these cookies to supply you with these services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the modifications you make to other parts of our Site that you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they've visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site. We use Matomo for this purpose. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only utilized to enhance how our Site functions. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our consent, third-party advertisers can place cookies to allow them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party sites. You may disable cookies that remember your surfing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see ads, but they may not be applicable to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the firms listed in the above link, not all businesses that function online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, which means you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies which aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you join your accounts or participate with our articles on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You may typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you don't accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your usage of our Site. For example, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might want to log in every time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you publish user-generated articles to our Site, such as via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be confidential or confidential once it's published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we do not associate such opinions with your personal data. If you have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not provide the same level of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, storing or processing. We'll take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to protect personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of data via the world wide web isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required that you use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the aforementioned rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests regarding the personal data related to the particular email address which you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you started before requesting such change or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal information, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We'll reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your regional data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our site.