Privacy Policy - Meg is Well

Meg is Well

Last Updated: June 25, 2019

Meg is Well: Finding Health and Healing Through Food (“Website”, “Meg is Well”, “company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is governed by the following privacy policy. This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Meg is Well.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.

What Information Do We Collect?

Information You Voluntarily Disclose to Us: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to email updates, or submitting a contact form.
Information Automatically Collected: We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use the Website and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
Information Collected from Others: We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), as well as from other third parties.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

How Your Information May Be Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Sites;
To send you promotional information, such as email updates. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?

We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own. If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not have the data protection or other laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will, however, take all necessary measure to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable law.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information:

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers in various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics: This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites, user actions on the Website, and Demographics and Interest reporting. This service uses cookies. We use the information provided by this service (such as age, gender, and interests) to better understand our audience, enhance User experience, and tailor our content to our readers’ interests. You can read Google Analytics’ privacy policy here and you can click here to opt out of Google Analytics.

Quantcast: This service provides targeting and measurement solutions designed to understand, influence, convert, and measure our audience, enhance User experience, and tailor our content to our readers’ interests. This service uses cookies. Click here to learn more about how Quantcast uses cookies, read Quantcast’s privacy policy here, or opt out of Quantcast services here.

Google AdSense: This service uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to the Website. It uses the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads to you based on your visits to the Website and to other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page. You can also opt out of other third-party vendors use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

MailChimp: This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. This service uses cookies and web beacons to track behavior and collect information to measure the performance of email campaigns and provide analytics information to enhance the effectiveness of the Website’s email updates. Click here to view their privacy policy.

MailMunch: This service is used to provide MailChimp Forms to this Website to capture your name and email address if you choose to subscribe to the delivery of email updates and newsletters. These forms include

Scroll box email subscription form
Top bar subscription form
Embedded subscribe form for posts

Click here to view their privacy policy.

Jetpack: This service is used to capture your name, email address, and website URL if you choose to leave a comment on any blog post to communicate with Meg is Well or other Users and to capture spam comments through its built-in spam catcher Askimet. The comment form stores your name, email address, and website URL as submitted by you on the form, to respond to your comments. For security purposes, Jetpack captures your IP address when you submit a comment. No other personal information is captured by Jetpack. The spam filter also captures IP addresses for security purposes. Click here to view their privacy.

Contact Form 7: This service is used to provide a contact form on the Site for you to communicate with Meg is Well directly. It doesn’t track users by stealth, write any user personal data to the database, send any data to external servers, or use cookies.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

We will only share and disclose your information in the following situations:

Compliance with Laws: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with the law.
Vital Interests and Legal Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violation of our policies, suspected fraud, threats to personal safety, illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vendors, Consultants, and other Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third party vendors and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work (data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, marketing efforts).
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org. (http://www.networkadvertising.org)
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require them to honor this privacy policy.
Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
Other Users: If you leave a comment on the Website, certain information may be publicly visible.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. This Website uses cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: we use cookies to identify you when you visit our Website and as you navigate our Website.
Personalization: we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the Website for you.
Security: we use cookies as protecting, preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our Website and services.
Advertising: we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you.
Analysis: we use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our Website and services.
Cookie Consent: we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies.

Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your Internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

You can opt-out of Facebook remarketing here.

You can opt-out of Google remarketing here.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Site may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Site. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Meg is Well is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Site will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Email Updates

On the Website, you may subscribe to our email updates, which may be used for advertising purposes. All email updates sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future email updates to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Specific Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal info.

The “Shine The Light” Law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at megan@megiswell.com.

Rights Related to Your Personal Information

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at megan@megiswell.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to megan@megiswell.com
Amend – You may contact us at megan@megiswell.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to megan@megiswell.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this privacy policy.

Children’s Information

This Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at megan@megiswell.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Meg is Well has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the top of this page. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contact Information

At any time, please contact us at megan@megiswell.com for questions related to this privacy policy.