Privacy Policy

This privacy and disclosure policy sets out how Lowcarb-ology, LLC uses and protects any information that you (the reader) give while using https://lowcarb-ology.com. Last Updated March 22, 2023.

Contact Info:

Our Website Address is: https://lowcarb-ology.com/

Email: [email protected]

Privacy Policy

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Lowcarbology LLC may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from October 3, 2013. Updated March 22, 2023.

Lowcarbology LLC believes very strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. The following policy describes what information we collect and how it is used and shared.

How Your Information Is Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website;
To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

What Personal Information Is Collected

Lowcarb-ology.com collects as little information as possible from users who post comments and messages. We will typically collect a name (either real or alias), personal website, and e-mail address. While the name and email are required as proof of you being a real person the website is not a requirement and you can leave it blank.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Effective as of May 25, 2018

As the owner of this website (Lowcarb-ology.com), Lowcarbology LLC understand that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a 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. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website];

(b) Status – we use cookies [to help us to determine if you are logged into our website];

(c) Personalization – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you];

(d) Security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally];

(e) Advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you]; and

(f) Analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services];

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

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 these links:

(a)https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b)https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c)http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d)https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e)https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265/ (Safari)

(f)https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Lowcarbology LLC uses Google Analytics to track anonymous information to help us tailor our content to our readers needs and wants. You can read the Google Privacy Policy to get more information.

With Whom Information is Shared
None of your email information will be shared with third parties. Lowcarb-ology may use your e-mail address in the future to contact you regarding the site, newsletter, or with important information, however, an opt-out will always be provided.

Your name and website may be displayed on the site if you post a comment or a message in the forum.? However, your e-mail address and privacy will always be kept secure.

Opting Out
If Lowcarb-ology.com chooses to send out newsletter updates in the future and we have your email address on file, you may receive a copy of our newsletter. However, at the bottom of every newsletter will be an easy way to opt-out. The editors of our site hate SPAM as much as you and have no intention of filling up e-mail boxes with unwanted messages.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

*Note: Lowcarbology LLC does not currently have registered users.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (CafeMedia) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia?s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Lowcarbology LLC uses HTTPS for its blogs. HTTPS encrypts your information and also prevents your internet service provider (ISP) from seeing what pages you visit beyond the top level of a website. That means they can see that you regularly visit https://www.lowcarbol-ology.com for example, but they won’t see that your spend most of your time on a certain page or in a certain category. For example: https://lowcarb-ology.com/low-carb-meatballs/

Anyone who logs into Lowcarb-ology must use a special 2 factor authentication and are vetted to ensure they have a reason to be in the admin areas of the site. This includes engineers and technical experts who work behind the scenes to keep Lowcarb-ology.com running smoothly as well as administrators. Guest authors are not permitted into these sensitive areas.

Themes, plugins and other tools are kept up to date and regularly scanned for suspicious activity, including hacking attempts.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us: [email protected]

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. If you have provided your email address to us, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided. We will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider may also contact you from time to time. Example: If you opt in to a giveaway and the sponsor needs your email to send what you won.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

Registration or Account Data

We may collect other information from you when you register with our Site in order to use various features. Such information could include your name, birthday, postal code, screen name, and password (if applicable). As you use the Site, we could collect other data that you provide voluntarily (such as comments that you post).

We may also collect information about you through other methods, including research surveys, social media platforms, verification services, data services, as well as public sources.

We may use third parties to provide the functionality to allow you to register for the Site, in which case the third party will also have access to your information. Otherwise, we will not provide any personally-identifying information about you to third parties, except if required by law

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled ‘Additional Rights of EEA Residents.’

Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(i) Access your personal data

(ii) Ensure the accuracy of your personal data

(iii) The right to have us delete your personal data

(iv) The right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and

(v) The right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe 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. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

Disclosure:

Lowcarb-ology uses affiliate links like Amazon and others as a source of income.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click on the links and buy products, the blog may get a commision for purchases made through links in posts. This does not have an effect on your cost.

Some posts are sponsored by advertisers/companies. These posts will always include full disclosure and be clearly labeled as sponsored. Some items that are reviewed are given to me by the company. This will always be noted. Lowcarb-ology is a full disclosure blog.

This policy is valid from 18 July 2013 and last updated March 22, 2023.

This blog is a personal blog. For questions about this blog, please contact [email protected]

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

Lowcarb-ology is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though I and other bloggers may receive compensation for posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinion, findings, beliefs, and/or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Lowcarbology LLC/Lowcarb-ology are created for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered an authority on any issue. While we seek to make sure that the information we provide is true and accurate it is important that you check with your qualified professional physician/nutritionist/or other mentor to ensure that you are following their advice.

Nutritional information is figured with the calculator provided by Bootstrapped Ventures and is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate – although we believe it is in good faith. If 100% accuracy is important to you please use your own nutritional calculators to come up with your numbers.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this Site, please contact us at: [email protected]

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