This Privacy Policy applies to www.dietsandnews.com and all other websites, features, or online services that are owned or controlled by Diets and News and that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Websites”), whether accessed via computer, mobile device, or otherwise.

In this privacy policy we, Diets and News (“Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”), aim to give you information on how Diets and News collects and uses your Personal Information through your use of the Websites, including any information you may provide through the Websites when you sign up for an account, sign up to receive information or communications from us, purchase a product or service, or request further services or information from us. 

In case of any inquiries or if you would like to exercise any of your rights provided in this notice, you may submit such inquiries and requests by means provided in Contacts section. 

You may also contact us regarding all privacy related issues by email: [email protected]

This privacy policy forms an integral part of Terms and Conditions.

Your Personal data is processed in accordance with any and all applicable legal acts regulating the protection and processing of personal data.

Any changes to this notice will be published in the website and, in case of material changes, we may inform you about such via email or by other means which we will deem the most fitting in a particular case. 

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT

Personal Information or personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of Personal Information about you that we have grouped together as follows:

Identification information (name, username or similar identifier, date of birth, gender etc)

Contact information (billing address, delivery address, email address, phone numbers)

Financial information and transaction information (bank account, payment card details and details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased from us)

Device and technical information (IP address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and geographical location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology or other unique identifier (a set of numbers or characters that is assigned to your computer, mobile phone, or other device when you are on the Internet) for any computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device (any of which are referred to herein as a “Device”) used to access the Services)

Usage data (information about how you use our Websites, products and services, including all of the areas within our Websites that you visit or use and the time of day you visited the Websites, among other information)

Marketing information (relating to your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences)

Correspondence data (communication content and metadata associated with the communication that you send to us)

We do not collect any SPECIAL CATEGORIES of Personal Information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

We obtain the aforementioned data either directly from you or automatically (As you navigate through the Services, we may automatically collect technical, usage information about your tools, browsing actions and patterns).

FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use the information we collect about you, including Personal Information including, but not limited to: provide you with our products and services and related customer service, to process your registration and account creation with the Websites, to identify you as a user in our system, to provide you with information, products or services that you have requested or agreed to receive, to provide improved administration of our Websites and services, to process transactions you initiate, process payments and provide accurate billing and shipping, respond to your inquiries, to market our services, including recommending products/services that might be of interest to you, to improve our Websites, product and service offerings, to customize and tailor your experience on the Websites, for example, by displaying content that we think you might be interested in, to improve the quality of experience when you interact with our Website and Services for internal business purposes; to notify you about changes to our service, where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice, to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure, to perform other functions as described at the time of collection, with your consent, or as further described in this Privacy Policy. 

We reserve the right to use anonymous data for any purpose and disclose anonymous data to third parties in our sole discretion.

YOUR RIGHTS

Your principal rights under data protection law are the following:

(a) the right to access data;

(b) the right to rectification;

(c) the right to erasure of your personal data;

(d) the right to restrict processing of your personal data;

(e) the right to object to processing of your personal data;

(f) the right to data portability;

(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

(h) the right to withdraw consent.

The right to access data. You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

The right to rectification. You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data. Those circumstances include when: (i) the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; (ii) you withdraw consent to consent-based processing and there are no other legal basis to process data; (iii) you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection laws; (iv) the processing is for direct marketing purposes; or (v) the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. Such exclusions include when processing is necessary: (i) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; (ii) for compliance with our legal obligation; or (iii) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are when: (i) you contest the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; (iii) we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and (iv) you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data, however we will only further process such data in any other way: (i) with your consent; (ii) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; (iii) for the protection of the rights of another person; or (iv) for reasons of important public interest.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

The right to data portability. To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:

(i) consent; or

(j) performance of a contract or steps to be taken at your request prior to entering into a contract, necessary to enter into such,

you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. 

To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.

In addition to specific measure provided in this Section or the website you may also exercise any of the rights indicated herein by contacting us by email: [email protected]

PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 

We may disclose your personal data to other service providers insofar as it is reasonably necessary to provide specific services (including, providers of servers and maintenance thereof, email service providers, service providers used for data analysis or marketing, call centres, customer satisfaction surveys or market research). We take all the necessary measures to ensure that such subcontractors would implement proper organizational and technical measures to ensure security and privacy of your personal data.

We may disclose your personal data to our payment service providers. We will share service data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, transferring funds and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and transfers. 

We may disclose your personal data to our anti-fraud, risks and compliance providers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of protecting your personal data and fulfilling our legal obligations.

In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

COOKIES 

Cookies are small textual files containing identifier that is sent by a web server to your web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server

In the website we use cookies of three main types, for the following purposes:

(k) Required cookies – used to ensure proper performance of the website, security of customers and their data, provision of high-quality services;

(l) Functional cookies – used to enhance the website user experience, analyse the use of the system and in accordance to such improve the provision of services;

(m) Advertising cookies – used to observer user online behaviour and optimize marketing campaigns according to such information.

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We may use:

(n) Google Analytics cookies to observe our website traffic. Cookies used for this purpose help us detect website errors as well as measure website bandwidth. You can view the privacy policy of Google Analytics here;

(o) Youtube cookies to display in our website content uploaded in Youtube. Cookies used for this purpose help us maintain integrity, create informative and dynamic website. You can view the privacy policy of Youtube here;

(p) Twitter cookies to display in our website content posted in Twitter. Cookies used for this purpose help us maintain integrity, create informative and dynamic website. You can view the privacy policy of Twitter here;

(q) Google Maps cookies to, if the user permits, determine users location. Cookies used for this purpose help us adapt website settings in accordance to user’s location and improve user experience in our website. You can view the privacy policy of Google Maps here;

(r) Doubleclick cookies to control the display of ads to our users. Cookies used for this purpose help us distinguish users that already use our services and reduce or stop displaying our ads to such users. You can view the privacy policy of Doubleclick here;

(s) Facebook cookies to manage the display of ads to our users. Cookies used for this purpose help us distinguish users that already use our services and reduce or stop displaying our ads to such users. You can view the privacy policy of Facebook here; 

(t) Google Tag Manager cookies to control advertising cookies. Cookies used for this purpose help us properly distribute ads to users. You can view the privacy policy of Google Tag Manager here;

(u) Hotjar cookies to observe how users use our website. Cookies used for this purpose help us observe the performance of the website and analyse how we can improve our website. You can view the privacy policy of Hotjar here;

(v) Visual Website Optimiser cookies that are used for collecting information on how visitors interact with the pages on website. You can view the privacy policy of Visual Website Optimiser here. 

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via information provided in the relevant browser website, for example Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Websites may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications and certain content on the Websites may be hosted and served by third parties that we do not control. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Websites and go to another site and another entity may collect Personal Information from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites, their privacy statements or content, or to any collection of your Personal Information after you click on links to such outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. In addition, Diets and News content may be included on web pages and websites that are not associated with Diets and News and over which we have no control. These third parties may collect data through the use of their own cookies, pixel tags or other technology, independently collect information or solicit Personal Information, and may have the ability to track your use of their websites and services. Diets and News is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third party.

CHILDREN PERSONAL DATA

The Websites are not designed for, or directed to, children under the age of 18 and Diets and News does not intentionally collect information about anyone under the age of 16 on the Websites. If Diets and News discovers that it has inadvertently collected Personal Information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Information from a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected] 

Last modified 28/01/2022.