Privacy Policy
The Privacy of GlobalNutritionalCenter.com
online customers is treated with utmost respect. The personally identifiable
information on you and your purchases will not be sold, rented or given away
to any other company without your explicit permission. GlobalNutritionalCenter.com
has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment
to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website: GlobalNutritionalCenter.com. GlobalNutritionalCenter.com
takes every precaution to protect our users' information. Your privacy is of
utmost importance to us. It is our goal to run a consumer friendly business
that is efficient and most importantly safe.
Information Collection and Use
GlobalNutritionalCenter.comis the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to
others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
Registration
Registration on this site is not necessary but will assist you in filling in
information on our order form when placing orders. In order to use the shopping
cart on this site, a user is required to give their contact information (such
as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about
the services on our site for which they have expressed interest and to complete
their order.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide
contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information
(like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order,
this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing
information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser,
the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site,
the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving
time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our
site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas
of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of
our users to enhance the experience on our site. Some of our business partners
use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access
to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable information.
Link
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, GlobalNutritionalCenter.com
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this Web site.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user
therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information
requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information
will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will
be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of
this site.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When
users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected
both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter
sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number),
that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software
in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock
icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you
are just "surfing". While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information
mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information
to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our
employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk.
When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your
information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added,
our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on
privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are
kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.