Last updated on October 03, 2021.
1. Outline
At offadiet.com, we respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting it.
Off a diet is a website about nutrition, operated by its administrator and owner (“us”, “we”, or “our”). Our website is offadiet.com (the “Website”).
The following Privacy Policy details information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we keep it secure and the choices you have associated with this information.
Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Data and how we will treat it. This covers, but is not limited to, our Website, Emails and Newsletters. By using our Website or other properties of offadiet.com, you consent to the collection and use of the information you provide to us, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and without notice, so make sure you check back occasionally. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will publish those changes on this page.
If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, please contact us at contact@offadiet.com.
2. Data Collection and Usage
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Website for you.
2.1 Types of Data collected
Personal Data.
While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
– Name
– Email address
– Cookies and Usage Data
We may use your Personal Data to communicate with you via email and to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you.
You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us at contact@offadiet.com or by using this page.
We may also collect information of how the Website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information. For more information, you may read Use of Cookies below.
Comments
If you leave a comment on our Website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
When visitors leave comments on the Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2.2 Use of Data
We use the collected data for various purposes:
– To provide and maintain our Website
– To notify you about changes to our Website
– To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so
– To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website
– To monitor the usage of our Website
– To detect, prevent and address technical issues
– To provide you with news, new content and general information about other services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information
2.3 Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
We may process your Personal Data because:
– We need to perform a contract with you.
– You have given us permission to do so.
– The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights.
– To comply with the law.
2.4 Retention of Data
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
2.5 Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of the EEA and/or outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
2.6 Disclosure of Data for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
2.7 Security of Data
The security of your data is of the utmost importance to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
2.8 Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, updated or rectified, please contact us directly at contact@offadiet.com .
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
3. Use of cookies
3.1 What are cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Website more useful to you.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
3.2 How we use cookies
When you use and access the Website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
– To enable certain functions of the Website
– To provide analytics
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Website and we use different types of cookies to run the Website:
– Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Website behaves or looks, such as a user’s language preference on the Website.
– Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information on how the Website is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
3.3 Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Website, deliver advertisements on and through the Website, and so on. For more information, read Service Providers below.
3.4 What are your choices regarding cookies
Regarding your consent to the use of cookies, when you first visit our website, there is a note at the bottom informing you about the use of cookies. If you continue browsing the site, it means you consent to the use of cookies. If you do not consent, please refrain from using the website or disable the use of cookies in your browser settings.
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
4. Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide the Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
4.1 Third Parties
WordPress
The site runs on the open source WordPress platform and several plugins are used to make it work better. The plugins we use either do not collect personal data or comply with GDPR regulations.
Webmail
When communicating with us via email by sending a message to any email address that ends with @offadiet.com, the sender’s email address and message content are stored on the server to make it easier for us to manage them.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page at https://policies.google.com/privacy .
MailerLite email
We use MailerLite email, a third party data processor, to create our newsletter. If you choose to join the newsletter, your email address will be forwarded to their servers and will remain in the database for as long as we continue to use their email marketing services or until you are removed from the list after you click on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of every message we send you. This Service Provider also provide us with information on what kind of device you used to view our message (desktop/tablet/mobile), which of our messages you have viewed and which links you have clicked on the email messages we send you.
For more information on MailerLite email, you may read their Legal Terms of Use and their Privacy and Cookie Policy at https://www.mailerlite.com/legal
4.2 Social Media and other platforms
We use social media and other similar platforms such as Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn to interact with our readers. When you interact with us on these platforms, you have a direct relationship with them and agree to their terms of use. We only have information that you have agreed for us to access through these platforms. We are not responsible for these platforms and how they manage your data. Should you have any privacy related questions please contact them. If you have any questions about our social media activity please contact us at contact@offadiet.com.
4.3 Links to Other Sites
Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
5. Children’s Privacy
Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
6. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes and become aware of modifications. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to do so.
Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy or Cookies Policy, please contact us by email at contact@offadiet.com or by using the contact form below.
