This Privacy Policy applies to the FitPeeps.com Web sites owned and operated by FitPeeps, Reference to "FitPeeps" means FitPeeps LLC. FitPeeps may share information among its subsidiaries or sites that it owns or controls, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
The FitPeeps Web site contains links to other sites. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that FitPeeps is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on FitPeeps.
We hope that reading our Privacy Policy helps you understand how we manage information about you.
Information We Collect About You
While you may use some of the functionality of FitPeeps without registration, many of the specific tools i.e. posting comments on our website, require registration. If you use our Web site without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information. Non-personal information is information that is not traceable back to any individual and cannot be used to identify an individual.
If you choose to register with our Web site, we require you to complete a questionnaire. We ask that you keep your email address current because that it is how we communicate with you.
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our Web site and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers. The information collected helps us dynamically generate advertising and content for and on (i) Web pages or in e-mail newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Web site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use this information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements.
FitPeeps may provide Aggregate Information to third parties for example through completion of our questionnaire. Aggregate Information is data that we may gather as individual pieces of Non-Personal Information (see definition above) from our users, it may combine similar data from many or all the users of the website into one big "batch". An example would be 40% of our users (but not their e-mail addresses) in the Northeast regularly exercise versus 20% of our users in the Southwest. Information that you disclose within the questionnaire is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. This sort of statistical information is called aggregate data because it reflects the habits and characteristics of a large group of anonymous people. Web sites may use aggregate data or share it with their business partners so that the information and services they provide best meet the needs of the users. Aggregate data also helps advertisers and sponsors on the Web know how effectively they are reaching and meeting the needs of their target audience. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
We do not collect or store Personal Health Information about you and we do not collect Personally Identifiable Information such as telephone numbers and physical addresses. Personally Identifiable Information is that can be traced back to an individual (contrast with Non-Personal Information and Aggregate Information). Examples would be your name, home address, telephone number, and Social Security number. Personal Health Information is when your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is combined with known health characteristics. For example, if you indicated that you have a certain disease or condition, when that information is combined with your PII, it becomes Personal Health Information. We do collect information, like your email address, date of birth, and state of residence, you provide to us when you register as a member of FitPeeps and/or when you update your member profile. We use this information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about Web site maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.
Newsletters & Emails to You
At registration and at various times as you use FitPeeps, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from FitPeeps and/or directly from third parties. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information. In order to subscribe to FitPeeps newsletters via email, we need your contact information, name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our automated unsubscribe service will be created on your computer. Click the "send" button. You will then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two to three business days. You may also unsubscribe or change any of your email preferences by clicking on the applicable links in your email newsletter or by changing your profile settings by clicking on any of the view/manage links at the bottom of your FitPeeps Newsletter.
Emails You Send to FitPeeps
This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to FitPeeps by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to FitPeeps.
Comment Boards and other Public Forums
As a service to our members, FitPeeps features comment boards, and blog forums where members can share information, discuss subject matter and support one another. Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal on a comment board or blog is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.
Market Research
From time to time the FitPeeps conducts online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups. For market research, we will not conduct surveys with any person under the age of 18.
How FitPeeps Handles Privacy and Security Internally
Here are some of the security procedures that FitPeeps uses to protect your privacy:
- Requires both a personal username (log-in name) and a password in order for users to access their profile.
- Requires a public 'nickname' different from the username and password, used for any public forums like comment boards.
- Uses firewalls to protect information held in our servers.
- Utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting profile, registration, and questionnaire information to our servers and also during the purchase and sale process within our on-line store. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an Internet browser which supports 128-bit encryption.
- Closely monitors and limits number of FitPeeps employees and independent contractors who have potential access to your information.
- Requires all FitPeeps employees and independent contractors to abide by our Privacy Policy and to be subject to disciplinary action if they violate it.
