PRIVACY POLICY
Our Privacy Policy
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Kardio Matters (the “Company”) respects your right to privacy. The Company has created this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate our firm commitment to your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines our personal data-handling practices for the kardiomatters.com
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Safe Harbor Framework
This Privacy Policy complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. In processing personal data, the Company complies with the following Safe Harbor Principles, as more specifically described in this Privacy Policy: Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer (to third parties), Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement (including verification). More information about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program can be found athttp://www.export.gov/safeharbor/. The Company abides by the privacy laws in the countries where we do business.
Collection of Personal Data
The Company collects personal data to operate effectively and to comply with government regulations. The Company collects and maintains personal data from its current and former customers and employees and, at times, the Company may be exposed to personal data from its customers or any of the foregoing. The Company collects personal data that is voluntarily provided by users when a user signs up for the services provided by the Company and/or when users otherwise submit information during the course of their use of the Company’s services.
The information the Company collects will be used only as described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the way we specify at the time of collection. We will not subsequently change the way your personal data is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal data include, but are not limited to:
- Provide the ability to contact you;
- Comply with government regulations;
- Facilitate giving you advice regarding nutrition and your training regimen;
- Gauge the number of users and usage of the site;
- Store information about your personal fitness goals, medical condition
and preferences; - Recognize you when you return;
- Provide information on goods and services requested or which may interest you;
- Conduct Company marketing, advertising
and promotions; - Notify you of surveys, workshops and other events run by the Company; and
- Notify you about changes to our services.
Personal data about you may be included in the following:
- Online submissions to Company;
- Our interview notes;
- Information obtained through references;
- Results of any fitness and/or medical testing or surveys.
The Company notifies all identified individuals about the purposes for which personal data is collected and used. In appropriate situations, however, personal data may be “anonymized” so that the identity of individuals cannot be known. In these cases, the Company will not notify you regarding the purpose for which personal data is collected and used by the Company.
Cookies
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Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416
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Consent
By using this Site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal data as described herein. If we decide to make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this Site so that you will always know what information we collect and how we use it.
Sharing Your Personal Data
The Company may disclose your personal data to any affiliate or subsidiary of the Company. This sharing of personal data may include combining the personal data gathered by the Company on this Site with information independently gathered on other
Data Integrity
The Company takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and current. You should inform the Company immediately in the event of changes to your personal data.
Security of Your Personal Data
The Company is committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. The Company uses reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Company supports online security using secure server technology because we want your data to be safe. There are state-of-the-art security arrangements and facilities on Company work sites to maintain data security. We contractually bind our employees to comply with your privacy and confidentiality rights.
Children’s Privacy
This Site is not intended for use by children under the age of thirteen (13). The Company does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of thirteen (13). If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of thirteen (13), we will delete that data from our systems.
Verification
The Company conducts an annual self-assessment in order to verify that this Privacy Policy is published and implemented within the Company and that it conforms to the Safe Harbor Principles.
For
In compliance with the Safe Harbor Principles, the Company commits to resolve any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data.
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The Company has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Principles and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU Safe Harbor, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by the Company, please visit the BBB EU Safe Harbor Web site at http://www.bbb.org/us/safe-harbor-complaints for more information and to file a complaint.
Inquiries, Access to and Updating Your Personal Data
The Company needs your help in keeping the personal data you have shared with us accurate and up to date. You may at any time make a written request for access to the personal data that the Company holds about you, in order to review its accuracy and completeness. You have the right to have your personal data amended as appropriate. All access requests are subject to relevant access rules and exceptions set out in the laws of the state or country in which the personal data is located.