HEALTHY HABITS
Privacy Policy
HEALTHY HABITS’s Privacy Policy has been developed as an extension of
our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the
highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients. The Policy is designed
to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal
information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions
when using our products and services and receiving news and related content
through our online properties. It reflects our commitment to protecting the
privacy and confidentiality of the personal information entrusted to us by our
clients. This Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies,
business practices, and client needs.
The Policy applies to all current and prospective clients of HEALTHY
HABITS and/or our subsidiaries and/or affiliates (collectively “HEALTHY HABITS”),
as well as to users of our online properties.
COLLECTION OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HEALTHY HABITS has organized its business into three strategic
platforms: Content, Print, and Media. Each of our platforms collects personal
information from clients where such information is required for the provision
of a particular product or service.
Content and Print
Our Content and Print platforms collect personal information that may include
an individual’s name, address (postal and/or e-mail), telephone number as well
as banking, financial, credit card and/or credit information.
As agents involved in data processing, variable imaging, and direct
mailing, we may also obtain personal information from third parties such as our
clients, list owners, and other media owners. Typically, the personal
information is provided to us with specific instructions on how it is to be
used. We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that such personal information
is used only for the purposes stipulated and that it is subject to strict terms
of confidentiality.
Media
Our Media platform may collect personal information through surveys,
questionnaires, and other means. In addition to name, address (postal and/or
e-mail), telephone number, and transaction information, we may collect
demographic information (i.e., age, gender, income, occupation, and education)
and opinions of subscribers, or potential subscribers, to our magazines and
other print properties. For more details, please visit our Magazine websites.
Modes of Collection
HEALTHY HABITS collects personal information about clients through various
applications and order forms, including credit applications, surveys and
questionnaires, face-to-face interactions, and our online properties. For
certain transactions, we may obtain personal information about a client from
third parties, such as consumer reporting agencies.
USE OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION
HEALTHY HABITS uses the personal information we collect to provide
clients with our products and services, manage our business, and comply with
regulatory and industry requirements. More specifically, we use personal
information to create and maintain client accounts, communicate with our
clients, supply clients with our products and services, and provide them with
information about existing or new products and services that we believe would
be of value to them. We may also use information about client interests and
preferences, as well as feedback we receive from surveys, to improve our
products and customer service. HEALTHY HABITS makes all reasonable efforts to
ensure that information is used responsibly, and only for its intended
purposes.
DISCLOSURE OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Content, Print and Media
Depending on the nature of the products and services our clients require, our
Content, Print or Media platforms may disclose personal information to other
business platforms or divisions of HEALTHY HABITS, financial institutions,
credit reporting agencies, and third party service providers such as data
processing and marketing companies.
Media
In addition to the disclosures outlined in the preceding paragraph, our Media
platform may disclose personal information to advertisers, third party service
providers including providers of marketing and promotional services, and other
organizations that offer products or services that we believe would be of value
to our clients.
Other
We will request your express consent to the use and disclosure of your personal
information for specific types of transactions on the application or other
forms used in connection with those transactions. Where it is reasonable to
imply your consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Policy (e.g., in connection with a mailing for the renewal
of a subscription), we may do so. Where it is reasonable, we may also imply
your consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Policy from continuing requests for our products and
services now that you are knowledgeable about our personal information
practices. We will obtain your express consent before using or disclosing your
personal information for any purposes not identified in this Policy.
HEALTHY HABITS discloses personal information where we are
required to do so by law and may disclose personal information to our purchaser
or new corporate entity in the event of a sale, merger, or substantial
restructuring of our business.
LIMITING THE
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Subject to contractual and other legal obligations, you are entitled to
withdraw your consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information.
Specifically, if you prefer that we do not use or disclose your personal
information for marketing and promotional purposes, please notify our Privacy
Officer. Please note that your request may take three to four weeks to
implement. We are legally bound to inform you that withdrawing your consent may
preclude us from providing you with certain products or services.
In the case of personal information obtained from third parties, we will
work with clients, list owners, and other media owners to fulfill the right of
clients to know of the existence, use, and disclosure of their personal
information and to provide access to that information.
USE OF COOKIES
Similar to other commercial websites, our websites utilize a standard
technology called “cookies” and web server logs to collect information about
how our websites are used. Information gathered through cookies and web server
logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at
our websites, and the websites visited just before and just after our websites.
This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information
is associated with you as an individual. If you choose to correspond with us via
e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your
e-mail address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these
electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of non-electronic
information, such as that received by mail and telephone.
Information obtained through our websites is used for internal review, to
improve the content of our webpages, and to customize the content and/or layout
of our pages for each individual visitor; it is not shared with other
organizations for commercial purposes.
ACCURACY OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HEALTHY HABITS will try to ensure that information about you is
accurate, complete, and up-to-date. We may update the personal information in
our records from time-to-time, where current information is required for the
provision of a particular product or service. Please inform us of any change of
name, address, or other information. Should you have questions about the
accuracy of factual information we have collected about you, you will have
access to that information to verify and update it. If we have disclosed
inaccurate information about you to a third party, we will be pleased to
contact the third party in order to correct the information.
INDIVIDUAL
ACCESS
If you have any questions about the collection, use, or disclosure of
your personal information by HEALTHY HABITS, or if you simply want to know
whether we have any of your personal information on file, you may contact our
Privacy Officer by one of the methods outlined below. St. Joseph will respond
to your requests for access in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.
In the event that we refuse access to you, we will provide you with the reasons
for our refusal upon request. Exceptions may include information that contains
references to other individuals, information that cannot be disclosed for
legal, security, or commercial proprietary reasons, and information that is
subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege.
QUESTIONS OR
CONCERNS
To access your personal information, inform us of changes you believe
need to be made to that information, request that we investigate a concern you
have about our personal information practices, or obtain further information
about this Policy and the practices outlined herein, please contact:
CONTACT
Privacy Officer
E-mail: contact@healthyhabitsonline.com