February 26, 2010

Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors to Calotor.com is important to us.

We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit Calotor.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. We do not share your information to anyone.

Personal Data
Most of our web services are available without requesting any personal or identification data. To offer you a better experience in dieting, we offer the option to create an account so you can access your saved data later. You are not required to create an account to use our services. If you do opt to create one, we will store your name, email address and password. If you opt in to do so, data you enter in Calorie Counter or Meal Planner will be stored so you can access it later. You can delete the data you saved previously.

Here is a detailed data store and usage by each application:

1. BMR calculator. Any data entered in this tool won't be saved and won't be associated with any information regardless you have an account or not.

2. Calorie counter. This tool can be used without any information being saved on our servers. You can opt to create an account to have your entered data saved for future usage. We do not share this data with anyone and we are not using it in any other way.

3. Meal planner. This tool let you create personalized meals and sums up the nutrients and energy. The meals created will be accessible for you to check later. You need an account to do this. We do not share this data with anyone and we are not using it in any other way.

4. Food search. Any data entered in this tool won't be saved and won't be associated with any information, regardless you have an account or not.

Contacting you
You will be contacted trough email to confirm your account, reset your password, remind you when your subscription is about to expire and after it is expired.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), operating system, the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. We do not connect this data to your personal information ( name or email ). The collected logs are used only for statistical purposes ( i.e. to see which pages are loved the most by our users ).

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. Cookies are used to keep you logged in over multiple visits. Also, cookies are used to track usability and visited pages. This data is not connected to your personal information.

We also use third party advertisements on Calotor.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Remarketing

This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Calotor.com website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can
opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.