Online privacy policy is of value to us the same way it is to our clients. Here, we will give details of our privacy policy and describe to you the practices we utilize with regard to the information that we collect on the Body Building Reviews site. This part consists of the kind of information we gather and how we manage it, including the rights you are entitled to as a user.
Getting to Know How Information Is Collected on Body Building Reviews
The Information You Give Us Willingly
There are types of information you may as a user decide to give us willingly. For instance, if you decide to sign up for our newsletter, you will be requested to provide us with some of your personal information such as email address, age, and name to help us send the newsletter to the right intended destination. You may also decide to provide us with additional personal information when you utilize our site services like special promotions.
As Body Building Reviews encourages interaction and community build-up, you may again willingly give us personal information that will enable you to take part in the forum discussions. Also, when you involve yourself in our forum discussions, you be doing it willingly. It is, therefore, vital that you don’t share any of your personal information such as a physical address, passwords, and banking details that you wouldn’t want Body Building Reviews staff or community members to be privy to as all our forums are public.
Cookie Policy
This cookie privacy describes why and when cookies and other similar tracking technologies are utilized by Body Building Reviews, us, and our partners on our sites, advertisements, applications, and related services.
Kindly, refer to Body Building Reviews Privacy Policy to get to learn more about how we utilize cookies and other tracking technologies on the Body Building Reviews sites and how you can reach us for further information.
Information That Is Automatically Collected When You Visit Body Building Reviews
To be able to provide our users with an excellent user experience whenever they visit our websites, we have set our systems to collect certain information automatically. The kind of Information collected includes cookies, IP addresses, web browser, clickstream data, operating system (which enables us to know how our website visitors are navigating and making use of our websites), and mobile device OS to ensure that the feature of our site work as well for you and give us crucial user data to be able to improve our sites as well as their features. This information can be accessible to us as well as the third-party service providers we work with using the information you willingly provide us with.
Our websites may also make use of cookies so as to store valuable user data on the computers of our users. Cookies are tiny files and do not use much space on the hard drive. Also, you can easily erase cookies from your device. We may make use of Flash, HTML, and HTTP cookies to keep information. You can read more about cookies how they are used and how they function at https://www.allaboutcookies.org. You can also refer to the section- Your choices to learn more about how you can easily block cookies or reduce the number of cookies that are saved on your device. Kindly, be aware that if you decide to block cookies on any of our sites, it may limit the functioning of certain features or may cause our sites not to work properly or behave badly.
Tags also called “web beacons” may also be put on certain content and pages that we send directly to our users’ email addresses. Similar to cookies, web beacons are tiny files that enable us to identify which web pages are viewed by which cookies. They enable us to identify the pages our users visit, how many different users frequent our sites, and how users navigate and utilize our websites as well as which links containing emails, we send to our users are opened. Kindly, take note that to be able to enhance the overall user experience, we also involved third-party analytical services like Google Analytics which support analyzing vital data to be able to improve our websites.
About “Do not track signals.” Our users’ browsers may become equipped with setting alternatives known as “Do not track signals” or other similar variations. It is worth noting that at the time of this Terms of Service publication, the precise definition of “do not track signals” is not clear among the industry authorities as far as such browser setting is concerned. Most websites including ours are not set up to meet the terms of “do not track signals.” Learn more about do not track signals by following this link.
Finally, third-party companies that offer services on our websites such as plug-ins, widgets, and app services among others may also automatically gather user data whenever you make use of such services. Kindly be aware that the data we gather using these third-party services like Facebook “Like clicks” is subject to a privacy policy separate from ours.
Visit our websites to learn more about these third-party privacy policies.
When you go through the Disclosure section of our Cookies, you will get more comprehensive information on all data collection as well as user tracking applications that we utilize.
How We May Use the Information We Collect
We have a reason why we gather certain types of user data. Here, will give you the purposes for which we utilize cookies as well as other data-collecting tools. For instance, we will make use of your email address in case you have a question that requires us to respond in a timely manner.
Other reasons why we may collect certain types of personal data when a user visits our websites include:
- To let you know of our new services or to provide you the information you requested directly (i.e. our mailing list) and also provide our users with timely services as regards our websites and services.
- To bring you special offers based on how you make use of our sites and your interests
- To bring you relevant content, promotions, and ads based on the data we gather, the type of articles you open, and how you make use of our site.
- To bring to your attention any changes to our websites, special promotions, or events and to give you instructions on how you can take part or make use of the said information.
- To improve our websites based on statistical analysis on how you utilize our websites and which features you interact with more often. This may also be for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of some marketing strategies, utilizing pertinent data to come up with new features, and making our websites more helpful to our readers.
- To analyze trends and discard features and pages that appear to be of less interest to our users, financial analysis, market research, and anonymizing user data.
- To protect our users and their data against theft, fraudulent and criminal activities and to identify such threats so that they can be neutralized during future site updates.
- To uphold our company’s policies, comply with federal statutes, and cooperate with law enforcement inquiries.
How We May Share Information
Agents, vendors, third-party service providers, consultants, and other partners we work with may from time to time be privy to the data we gather to help them discharge the duties given to them by us. While they may have no access to collected data, they are all entitled to comply with confidentiality agreements and are completely forbidden from utilizing data in any other way apart from offering us the services we have contracted them for.
Also, we may from time-to-time share data with:
- Affiliate partners to lend us a hand in our business
- Third parties for marketing purposes. These third parties may include places where you have subscribed to and given them informed consent such as social media outlets. For example, we may make a cross-reference to your email address consented to us with third parties to which you have also consented in your email in order to custom tailor offers for you on our websites and through email.
- Advertisers we engage to give them the necessary information they require to be able to analyze our user base and give us services we have contracted them for.
- The belief is that any data that we gather could be utilized to prevent financial loss or physical harm or comply with authority should the data be found helpful in prosecuting or identifying criminal activity.
- Judicial bodies and law enforcement. Should there be a need and we are officially approached to share the data we have gathered in court order situations including subpoena we will have no choice but to comply with the authorities.
Government agencies make requests for the data we gather from our users. This is more especially in issues of national security and in this case, we have no choice but to comply with the law. - Any parties involved in a dissolution of, selling off of, or re-organizing our business. This may include a partial or complete sale of our firm. In cases like this, we would be responsible for giving you a notice in advance regarding the transfer of assets and data through a plain notification on our websites or email notification of any kind of ownership transfer and handing over of users’ data. In addition, letting you know that we would make it our responsibility to let you know of the options you have with regard to your personal data or information.
Data Retention and Access
Whenever you visit our website and make use of our services, we may retail relevant data for only as long as it is necessary so as to provide you with the excellent services you opt for and improve your user experience. There are some instances in which we may store your personal information for a much longer time. These instances may be to help us resolve disputes that may arise with any third-party users and comply with applicable laws to enable us to conduct our business. In all these instances, we do respect your autonomy over your personal data, and if requested, we will first have to confirm your identity and whether we have such data in our possession or are in processing any gathered personal information. Be aware that you reserve the right to alter or make changes to your personal information or data as it pertains to our business to amend inaccuracies, request that we cease using the personal information you have willingly shared with us, and request that we delete it.
However, there are certain circumstances in which we won’t be able to comply with such requests if they happen to violate legal statutes, it would involve a disproportionate cost or amount of resources to us or we have not yet concretely confirmed your identity. In any of these cases, we will act on your request in good time and give you an explanation of the situation. You can contact us directly to make such requests.
Your Choices
Unsubscribing from email lists: Every email and newsletter sent by us to your email address has an “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the page. By clicking on that link, you will automatically unsubscribe to our mailing list or direct you to a page with instructions on how to unsubscribe. These emails and newsletters may contain images, banners, or another type of ad media from our ad partners, or we will send you dedicated content from our ad partners on their behalf. When you decide to opt out of such emailing lists or newsletters, we may share your decision with ad partners and third-party affiliates to enable them to also discontinue sending you content.
Block Cookies: Depending on your browser, you can be able to block some or all sites from saving cookies onto your computer or other devices. Please take note that blocking cookies on our websites, may affect certain features and functions from operating properly or may make them unavailable altogether.
Disabling local shared objects or “Flash cookies” In some instances, we may make use of temporary files similar to cookies but usually stored in different parts of your computer. The browser you are using may also enable you to block HTML 5 local storage or erase certain information stored in “local shared objects.” Follow this link for more information on how to erase information that is kept in local shared objects’ destinations as well as how to adjust your device settings on temporary files.
Options regarding third-party ad networks: As disclosed earlier in this Privacy Policy, we may find ourselves sharing a cookie or tracking technology data with third-party advertising affiliates so as to improve our understanding of your interests and deliver content that is more relevant. However, you can decide not to receive personalized ad content by following this link here and opting out of interest-based advertising.
By taking this action, you will not only block ads from appearing in your browser or on our websites but also the ads you see will no more be based on our gathered data and customized to your interests. To learn more about third-party ad networks and other similar services and technologies, visit www.aboutads.info and follow this link to opt out of this kind of service. You can find more information or additional options by visiting NAI’s site.
How We Protect Personal Information
Our policy is about helping us set up and also maintain strict physical, technical, and operational parameters that will help us to protect you and our firm against illegal, accidental, and unauthorized access, manipulation, or loss of data. Kindly take note that even though we may take the best measures to protect your data, it is not possible to guarantee the security of any data that is transferred online. So, by making use of our site and sharing your personal data, you assume some risks as is the case with any other sites, ours included. You are free to get in touch with us to request an invitation to join our bug bounty program. It is a user-friendly interactive program where you are allowed to submit reports on either existing or potential vulnerabilities on any of our websites.
Links From Body Building Reviews to Other Websites
On our sites, you may sometimes come across links to other websites. By clicking on these links and navigating the corresponding websites, you will no longer be subject to our privacy policy but those third parties’ privacy policies as well as terms of use which we strongly advise that you review. We will not be to blame for the terms of use, policies, or content of these websites as we do not own them and, therefore, have no control over them.
Surveys and Quizzes
While on any of our websites, you may be requested to take part in questionnaires, surveys, or other interactive engagements which will require that you provide some basic personal opinions or information. These are usually optional or voluntary engagements that may be administered by third parties usually not subject to the terms of use and policies of Body Building Reviews, which could mean the collection of your personal data that you share by the third-party operator. In this case, you will be subject to their terms of use and privacy policy.
Children’s Privacy
Body Building Reviews and our other websites do not target children who are under the age of 18 years and it is, therefore, our policy not at all to collect data on children below the age of 18 years. Should we unintentionally or unknowingly collect data from a user who happens to be below 18 years and become aware of it, we will immediately get rid of such data collection.
Information for Users Outside the United States
Any data we gather including our users’ personal information may be kept, processed or shared within the United States and other countries where our affiliate partners and service providers operate. Kindly take note that the data management policies and laws may not be strict in these countries compared to the ones in the country you reside in. However, since your personal information security is important to us, we will try our level best to take meticulous precautions and security mechanisms to manage the international transfer of data. We will ensure to transfer of your personal data in line with all applicable data management laws and put in place strict security measures to make sure that your data is safely transferred and not breached by an unauthorized third party. A good example of the measures we may use is the European Commission’s, Model Claus.
By sharing your personal information with us and by merit of using our websites, you hereby agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy in regard to the use, transfer, processing, and management of such information in the United States or other territories of countries. Unless clearly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, we will use this consent as a legal guide for the transferal of data.
If you wish to ask questions or learn more about the international data transfer policies as well as practices on personal data from our site, please visit here.
How We’ll Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may from time to time make updates to our Privacy Policy as well as Terms of Use to ensure that we comply with emerging laws and to also reflect on the changes in our operations and how we gather data. Should we intend to implement any of these changes, we will take the responsibility of informing you of such changes through a prominent post on our website at the top of the policy, including the exact date the changes were made. We, therefore, encourage our users to visit this page from time to time so as to stay abreast of our new privacy policies as well as practices.