Low Carb & Tasty is committed to protecting any personal information that you may provide to us. We believe it is important for you to know how we treat information about you that we may receive from this web site or through any reward program, special offer, communication, advertising, and other related services. Each time you visit LowCarbAndTasty.com or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy at that time.
Information Collected
Low Carb & Tasty collects personal information about you when you register for our services. In order to register for our subscription services, we ask for information such as your name, address, zip code, and email address. We also ask for credit card and if applicable, other pertinent billing and shipping information.
At times, we may request information via surveys, polls, events or contests. Participation for these areas of the site is completely voluntary.
This website and its services are not intended for persons under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children, and we do not knowingly market our products or services to children. If you are under 18, you may use LowCarbAndTasty.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Additional Information Collected Specific to Subscription Services
To register as a member for our subscription services, whether they be free or fee-based services, we also ask for information such as your age and gender, a Low Carb & Tasty screen name, and basic demographic information. Not all of this information is required. Required information is clearly marked during the registration process. Once you register with Low Carb & Tasty and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Low Carb & Tasty also enables subscribers to establish public and/or private groups, and Low Carb & Tasty stores descriptive information about the group as well as a listing of its members.
Use of Collected Information
We do not share, sell, or lease personal information about you, Low Carb & Tasty groups that you administer, or any Low Carb & Tasty groups that you participate in, to any third-parties for their marketing use. We will release information about you or, if applicable, a Low Carb & Tasty group you administer, if you direct us to do so, if we are required by law to do so, or in other specific circumstances exist (for example, suspected illegal activities, suspected fraud, or violations of the Low Carb & Tasty Terms of Use).
At times, we will share aggregated demographic information with our business partners and advertisers. Like most e-commerce sites, when you visit our site, we collect your Internet Protocol address (IP address) and collect information regarding your use of the Low Carb & Tasty website. Your IP address and your site usage are not used to personally identify you. This information is instead used to administer the site and aggregated anonymously to help analyze trends, measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, etc. This information allows us to improve the content and usability of our site.
Account Information & Marketing Preferences
For registered subscribers, you can edit your Low Carb & Tasty account information, including marketing preferences at any time. After logging in, your account information can be accessed from within the ‘My Account’ link on the LowCarbAndTasty.com website.
Security of Collected Information
Your information is maintained on a web server in what we believe to be a well-protected environment. However, Low Carb & Tasty cannot guarantee that your information will remain secure from unauthorized access.
We restrict access to information about you to those Low Carb & Tasty employees who need to know the information to provide products or services to you or to respond to your inquiry or request. Employees who misuse personal information are subject to disciplinary action, including termination.
Your Low Carb & Tasty account is password-protected and in some cases, most notably during billing and credit card submissions, Low Carb & Tasty uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
Cookies & Sessions
Some areas of this website utilize ‘cookies’ that are enabled on your machine to enhance the online services supplied by the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing a website. You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer. If you choose to do this, you may not be able to view all features and content of this website. The site also uses ‘Sessions’ for securing areas and providing personalized services. These mechanisms are employed solely for convenience in order to provide personalized time and cost saving services. They do not contain any identification that would be useful to another individual or organization.
Public vs. Confidential Information
Other than personal registration information, you acknowledge that all of your submissions and postings to public portions of the website (including, but not limited to, message boards, chat rooms, public/private groups) are public and not private information. Low Carb & Tasty specifically disclaims any liability with regard to any actions resulting from your submissions and postings to public portions of the website. Generally, any communication or information which you post to the website is considered to be non-confidential.
Links to Other Sites
The Low Carb & Tasty website may contain links to other sites. Whether or not these other websites contain our brand names, intellectual property, or trademarks, we do not control these other websites nor their business practices, and this privacy policy does not apply to them. Consequently, these other websites may collect different kinds of information and use this information in different ways than we would if collect on this site. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we encourage you to review their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by other sites.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please use the Contact Us! link on our website. We welcome your questions and suggestions about our privacy policy.
Changes to this Policy
Please check this privacy policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. Although we reserve the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy, we will provide notice to you on this web site of any major changes for at least 30 days following the change.