Privacy Policy
Planned Diet collects personally identifying information only during (i) contest or sweepstakes Registration, (ii) subscription Registration for sites that require subscription, (iii) opt-in email lists where content is specifically presented, and (iv) online shopping. In addition, Registration is required and information is collected in certain portions of sites in which guests provide content submissions and suggestions or participate in interactive online activities (i.e., community postings, voting, chat, games, or bulletin boards). Planned Diet may use such information to fulfill prizes, track compliance with our House Rules, or for editorial and feedback purposes (to the extent that is explained when guests provide the information). In the event that Planned Diet plans to post any such information on a site, guests are provided prior notification of such posting and given the option of preventing such posting.
Policies for Individuals Under 13
Planned Diet encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the sites.
No information should be submitted to or posted at Planned Diet by guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Planned Diet does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.
No information collected from guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Planned Diet
Guests’ e-mail addresses are never posted on Planned Diet, except where a guest uses our message boards. The Guest has an option to have his or her email address appear.
Policies for Individuals 13 Years of Age or Older
With the permission of a guest who is 13 years of age or over, information submitted at the time of Registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by Planned Diet and may be shared with our affiliates or companies that have been prescreened by Planned Diet. If a guest objects to such use for any reason, he/she may stop that use by e-mail request. Once you have registered with Planned Diet, every effort will be made to maintain your information in a secure environment by Planned Diet and our affiliates.
If you wish to modify your Registration information or stop receiving e-mail updates from Planned Diet, just send an email request admin@planned-diet.com.
Use of Cookies
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while you’re at our site. The use of cookies is an Industry standard — you’ll find them at most major Web sites.
By showing how and when guests use the site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. If you accept the first tracking cookie from any Planned Diet site, you won’t be offered as many afterwards.
How Planned Diet Does Not Use Cookies
Planned Diet never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. Except as described below, Planned Diet does not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that information shared with any third parties whatsoever.
Planned Diet does not use cookies to identify specific individuals, except in such cases as online shopping (see above) and contest registration (where a cookie allows you to enter a contest every day without registering again each time).
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Planned Diet does not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to the Planned Diet cookie policy. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site, such as the shopping, contest, and game areas, will not function properly if you do so.
Links to Other Sites
Users should be aware that when you are on Planned Diet you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Planned Diet that take you outside our service. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or a Planned Diet search result, the click takes you off the Planned Diet site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and partners that may use Planned Diet’s logo as part of a cobranding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online ‘ for example, via message boards or chat ‘ that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While Planned Diet strives to protect its users’ personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.
Your Acceptance of These Terms By using this site, you signify your assent to the Planned Diet Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of the Planned Diet sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. You can send e-mail to us with any further questions.
