The privacy of our store owners and consumers is of the highest importance in helping MyNutritionStore.com create long lasting relationships built on trust. It is our intent to provide the highest level of security and privacy possible to earn your confidence in every interaction with our company and to make your transactions effortless. We will never use your personal data in any way, except to insure your highest satisfaction as MyNutritionStore.com customer or store owner. We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

This Privacy Policy explains our practices for collecting and handling your personal information as a My Nutrition Store (MNS) owner or shopper, as well as what choices you have about its use.

GENERAL

1. This policy covers personal information that you provide to us, including the personal information we collect through the sites, services and software that we use to service you better.
2. You're MyNutritionStore.com Licensing and Distribution Agreement spells out your relationship with My NutritionStore.com (MNS), and the terms and conditions under which MNS offers you access to our services.
3. This policy does not apply to other companies' web sites or services that you may access outside of MyNutritionStore.com. The personal information collected or received by these other companies is subject to their unique privacy policies.
4. MNS policies are intended to:

a. Support government laws and regulations;
b. Protect intellectual property rights;
c. Provide equal opportunity to all store owners and shoppers;
d. Provide an enjoyable and educational shopping and buying experience;

INFORMATION COVERED

5. You can browse the MNS site without revealing any personal information. Once you give us your personal information, you are now known to us. By choosing to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States or in our countries.
6. Information covered in this policy consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you through your interaction with MNS, including:

a. Registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers);
b. Transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products or services purchased through MNS);
c. Information about your visits to MNS sites and pages, and your responses to advertisements or other services offered on MNS sites and pages;
d. Information about the searches you perform through MNS and how you use the results of those searches;
e. Information about MNS offerings that you use, including how frequently you use them;
f. Community blogs or discussions, e-mail and correspondence mailed to us;
g. Information about your MNS preferences;
h. Customer service information about you as a store owner or shopper (such as account history, complaints and interactions with MNS support services, whether online or by phone);
i. Other specific information related to your use of a particular offering;
j. Other supplemental information from third parties including credit bureau information, as permitted by law, due to indebtedness to MNS or if information you have provided cannot be verified; and
k. MNS may ask you to send us additional information, such as your driver license number, credit card statement, or a recent invoice or other information confirming your address, or we may ask additional questions online to help verify your information.

7. This policy includes certain technical and diagnostic information gathered or received about you and your computer system when you use MNS services, including:

a. Browser type (e.g., Netscape, AOL);
b. Operating system type (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS);
c. CPU type (e.g. Pentium);
d. Internet connection type (e.g., connection speed, broadband vs. narrowband);
e. Internet protocol address;
f. Geographic location information; and
g. Computer malfunction or problem information.

8. MNS may collect information about other software on your computer for the limited purpose of protecting your security or improving your online experience.
9. The information you provide to MNS may be supplemented with additional information, including publicly-available information and information from other companies. For example, MNS may use a screen name service, or other similar technologies, to authenticate you and enable you to take advantage of all our service offerings.

USES OF INFORMATION

10. Your personal information may be used to:

a. Identify or address potential threats to your privacy, security and safety, or to the security of your computer;
b. Operate and improve our overall service and enhance your online experience;
c. Personalize the content and advertisements you receive;
d. Fulfill your requests for products and services;
e. Respond to your inquiries and communicate with you;
f. Carryout research about your use of MNS services; and
g. Offer help on other products, programs, or services that may interest you.

11. MNS will not sell or rent your information (such as name, address, telephone number, user name and credit card information) to third parties without your explicit permission. We may share information in order to present joint offers with or via our business partners.
12. With your consent, MNS would also share your personal information with third parties to provide products and services you requested or for MNS to render the service you have requested.
13. MNS will never read your private online communications when you use our integrated communications tools, except in the special circumstances described in this policy. Please note that MNS can not be responsible for information about yourself that you publicly disclose (for example, in blogs or online message boards).
14. Personal information, including the contents of your private online communications, might be accessed and disclosed in response to a legal process (such as a court order, search warrant or subpoena); similarly this information might be used if MNS believes that its web portal or services are being used in the commission of a crime or if we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the personal safety of you or another person, or when it is necessary to protect the rights or property of MNS.
15. MNS may use agents and contractors in order to help operate our service; however, these agents or contractors are required to protect your information in a manner consistent with this policy. They are prohibited from using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services for which they have been contracted.
16. In the event of a change of ownership of MNS due to merger, acquisition, or transfer to another company, your personal information may be transferred. If such a transfer would result in a material change in the use of your personal information, you will be notified regarding the choices you have to decline such a transfer.

CHOICES

17. MNS allows you to access your registration, billing or shipping information, to edit this information and to control what information is collected or used.
18. You can also make choices about how your MNS information may be used to provide marketing offers to you: It is up to you to decide to NOT receive marketing offers:

a. By U.S. mail;
b. By telephone;
c. By e-mail; and
d. Through online pop-ups from MNS.

19. You can manage choices through the "My Account Preferences" section of the MNS website.
20. Your preferences do not apply to communications that are related to your membership, or the fulfillment of a specific transaction you have requested. Similarly, these preferences do not apply to information that you share that supports the basic functionality of the MNS service (for example "user name.")
21. Since the choices you make in connection with MNS may not take effect immediately, it is possible that you may receive a communication before the requested change has been processed

SECURITY

22. To help protect the personal information that you provide to MNS, we use a range of overlapping safeguards. These are listed below.

a. Technical controls that limit access to data without authorization from senior MNS management;
b. Administrative controls that provide checks & balances to assure that personal data can not be misused;
c. Physical controls such as restricted access;
d. Encryption and authentication systems;
e. Passwords, and an account security question to help verify your identity when making changes to your MNS account information;
f. Agreements with vendors and contractors that require them to protect the confidentiality, safety, and security of personal information;
g. All MNS employees, regardless of their position in the company, must acknowledge that they understand and will comply with the MNS privacy policy. Employees who violate this policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination, and prosecution.
h. These safeguards have been put in place to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your personal information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this privacy policy. As you probably are aware, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

23. When you open a store or purchase products or services from MNS, you agree to receive future notices required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act through the continuous posting of this privacy policy online.
24. MNS collects your financial information to:

a. Provide certain offerings that you request;
b. Give you updated information when you use these features;
c. Similarly, if you use a secure payment service to facilitate transactions on third party sites, you provide MNS with information including your name, credit card, billing address and shipping addresses.

25. MNS will not disclose financial information to third parties other than in the limited circumstances permitted or required by law;
26. MNS will disclose your financial information only on your request (for example, to facilitate a purchase on a third party web site).
27. This policy does not apply to financial information that you provide to another company in connection with your use of their sites or offerings. For example, if you identify yourself to an advertiser on the MNS site by placing an order or requesting information, that advertiser may be able to discern and record certain personal or financial information that you voluntarily or inadvertently give them.
28. Only employees and vendors who need to know this information in order to provide you with requested products or services will be authorized access to your financial information.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

29. MNS may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your personal information to enhance and personalize your experience. This includes functionality to:

a. Operate and improve offerings;
b. Authenticate your presence on the site;
c. Remember your preferences and registration information;
d. Enable a shopping cart;
e. Present offerings;
f. Help research and measure the effectiveness of offerings, advertisements, and communications;
g. Customize the content and advertisements provided to you;
h. Help present, target, and measure the effectiveness of advertisements, using data gathered over time and across other networks by ad network providers to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of the MNS audience.

30. MNS and its advertisers and affiliates may also use ad network providers who use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to help present advertisements on MyNutritionStore.com and other web sites.
31. MNS may share certain information with ad network providers that is not personally identifiable (such as gender or geography) to help them deliver more relevant advertisements through their ad networks.
32. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies.

POLICY CHANGES & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

33. MNS may update this privacy policy periodically, so you should review this policy from time to time.

a. Minor changes or clarifications will be announced via the main traffic pages of the site.
b. Substantial changes will be called to your attention with 30 days' advance notice through e-mails or online pop-ups.
c. By signing on to your account regularly you will automatically receive these notices and other important announcements.

34. As a California company, MyNutritionStore.com is subject to the extra protection of California privacy law. California residents may obtain specific disclosures about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for direct marketing purposes. To make a request to MNS under California's privacy law, please send an e-mail to privacy@mynutritionstore.com.

CONTACT US

35. If you have any questions about the MyNutritionStore.com privacy policy or its implementation, or if you have a concern or policy violation you wish to report, you may contact us at the email address privacy@mynutritionstore.com.