Well Resourced Dietitian Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy governs your use of the wellresourced.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website (“Site”) by the user (“user” “you” “your”). The Site is owned and operated by Megan Boitano Nutrition LLC d/b/a Well Resourced Dietitian (“Well Resourced” “we” “us” “our”). Well Resourced has created this privacy policy to make sure you know what information Well Resourced collects and how Well Resourced uses it. Unless stated otherwise, Well Resourced’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that Well Resourced has about you and your account.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. Well Resourced provides an email notification to users whenever updates to this policy are made.  It is the responsibility of all users of wellresourced.com, however, to revisit this page to check for changes. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before accessing or using the Site. By accessing or using any part of the Site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, then you may not access the Site or use any services.

By using wellresourced.com you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us. “Processing” means using cookies on a computer or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining, and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the United States (“U.S.”), your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the U.S., and processed and stored there under U.S. privacy standards. By visiting our Site and providing information to us, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the U.S.

The Well Resourced Owner shall review and approve any material changes to this policy as necessary. Any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or our use of your personally identifiable information, please contact us at [email protected].

Information Collection and Use

Well Resourced may collect information about you, when you interact with the Site, including, your IP address, name, email address, location, time zone, billing information, Log Data, personally identifiable information, and other data as specifically described herein.

You may provide us with this personal information when you:

  1. Register for a Well Resourced account;
  2. Order products;
  3. Sign up for newsletters, email alerts, and special offers;
  4. Submit job application or inquiry;
  5. Submit information through any contact form on the Site;
  6. Request customer support or send Well Resourced any other communication;
  7. Enter sweepstakes or contests;
  8. Sign up for, or redeem, special offers;
  9. Respond to surveys;
  10. Participate in direct messaging functionality;
  11. Participate in any Well Resourced referral, rewards or promotional programs;
  12. Make use of Well Resourced’s social media widget features; and/or
  13. You may provide us with information about other people, such as their email addresses, if you refer a friend to the Site or Well Resourced promotions or share Well Resourced content with such third party.

Depending on which services you choose to use, Well Resourced may require additional information, such as a business name, a telephone number, a physical address, state/regional identification, billing and payment information, links to various online profiles, professional history/Resume/CV, photos, education history, including degrees, dates and locations of attendance, grades, extracurricular accomplishments and educational institute affiliations, and/or licensure information. Well Resourced may contact users to confidentially request more information and/or to ensure compliance with Well Resourced’s rules.

If you send information through our contact forms, customer service, and/or chat functions on the Site. You will be asked to provide, your name and email. In communicating with us, you will also have an opportunity to share additional information with Well Resourced, in your sole discretion, which may include personal information.   This information is seen only by Well Resourced and is not publicly available. Use discretion when sharing information through chat functions, emails, and contact forms.

You have the right to obtain our confirmation of whether we maintain personal information relating to you. You may access, review, update, erase, or block any information in your account dashboard on the Site, as permitted by applicable law and Well Resourced policies. Deletion or removal of certain information may prohibit you from utilizing the Site or Well Resourced services.

Personal Information Accessible by other Users

Well Resourced permits direct messaging between vendors and Customers on the Site.  If you engage in such messaging, you are permitting your username and contact information (in the form of your email address) to be made available to another user.  Well Resourced does not monitor this communication. While Well Resourced’s policies prohibit use by any user, of such information, outside of such Well Resourced communication, Well Resourced does not have control over an users’ actions. If the content you contribute contains personal information, that information may be shared publicly.  Use discretion when sharing personal information and message content via Well Resourced.

Each user hereby represents and warrants that such user will keep any personal information contained in any message between the users confidential and not use such information, except as specifically instructed by the disclosing user.

Use of Information

Well Resourced uses the information you provide to:

  1. Provide the features and functionality of the Site and to improve Well Resourced’s products and services;
  2. For Well Resourced’s internal business purposes, including, but not limited to data analysis, and audits;
  3. Provide paid-for services to vendors;
  4. Contact you concerning your account activity.
  5. Fulfill your requests for Well Resourced’s products and services;
  6. Communicate with you concerning Well Resourced’s products and services; and
  7. Send you information about Well Resourced’s products and services.

Well Resourced uses non-personally identifiable information to monitor the use and performance of the Site so that Well Resourced can learn more about how people use the Site which helps us improve Well Resourced’s services and significantly enhance your experience on the Well Resourced Site.

In addition to providing you services, we may use your contact information to market to you, and provide you with information about, our products and services, including but not limited to services on wellresourced.com. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such information or communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or in your account on the Site.

Information collected through Product Reviews and Testimonials

You may choose to submit a product review or testimonial. If you post a review, Well Resourced may ask for certain information to validate your review or testimonial such as email address, photo, and your city/state/country of residence. If you submit a review, Well Resourced may publish your geographic location or other anonymous information but your email address will be kept private. Additionally, any personally identifiable information that you submit as part of the review or testimonial can be read or used by other visitors to the Site. Well Resourced is not responsible for any personally identifiable information that you choose to submit as part of your review or testimonial.

Log Data

When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting, and your activity on the Site. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider, your IP address will be different every time you log on. We use Log Data to monitor the use of the Site and of our Service, and for the Site’s technical administration. We do not associate your IP address with any other personally identifiable information to identify you personally, except as required to enforce this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for the Site, or as necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Well Resourced, its employees, customers, or other users.

We want to process as little personal information as possible when you use our website. That’s why we’ve chosen Fathom Analytics for our website analytics, which doesn’t use cookies and complies with the GDPR, ePrivacy (including PECR), COPPA and CCPA. Using this privacy-friendly website analytics software, your IP address is only briefly processed, and we (running this website) have no way of identifying you. As per the CCPA, your personal information is de-identified. You can read more about this on Fathom Analytics‘ website.

The purpose of us using this software is to understand our website traffic in the most privacy-friendly way possible so that we can continually improve our website and business. The lawful basis as per the GDPR is “Article 6(1)(f); where our legitimate interests are to improve our website and business continually.” As per the explanation, no personal data is stored over time.

Personal Information Accessible by Third Parties

Your information may be disclosed to our third-party vendors or   affiliates, otherwise Well Resourced will not sell or disclose your name, email address or other personal information to third parties without your explicit consent, except as may be specified in this policy from time to time.  Well Resourced may prepare and share aggregate non-personally identifying information about our users with third parties, such as advertisers or partners, for research, academic, marketing, commercial, and/or promotional purposes.  For example, Well Resourced may share demographic data that describes the percentage of our users are located in a particular region or who use a particular operating system. Well Resourced or our third-party partners may publicly report the aggregated findings of the research or analysis, but only in a way that would not allow you or any other user to be personally identified.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. Well Resourced does not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means to comply with DNT, and a common approach to responding to DNT.

Your California Privacy Rights

In addition to other rights provided for herein, if you live in California and have an established business relationship with us, you can request a list of the personal information we have shared with third parties for their marketing purposes. We will also give you a list of the third parties that have received your information. You can make a request one time each year. To exercise your rights, you can email us or write to us at the address below. Mention in your letter that you are making a “California Shine the Light” inquiry. We will respond within 30 days.

You may also request that we provide you with an accounting of your personal information held by Well Resourced.  You may also request that Well Resourced delete your personal information. You may submit that request to via email at [email protected], or mail at Privacy c/o Well Resourced Dietitian, P.O. Box 97 Waban, MA 02468.  Upon verification of your identity and within 45 days, we will provide you with a paper copy of your personal information via the United States Postal Service. Well Resourced Dietitian will not discriminate against any end user for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Service Providers. We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without limitation, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and direct marketing campaigns. We will share your personally identifiable information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to binding contractual obligations requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your data, by (i) agreeing to provide adequate protections for personally identifiable information that are no less protective than those set out in this Privacy Policy; and (ii) notifying Well Resourced in the event that such third party is no longer able to provide sufficient protections.

The Service Providers engaged by Well Resourced, and links to their individual privacy policies, are listed at: https://wellresourced.com/service-providers/ and may be updated from time to time.

If we ever were to engage in any onward transfers of your data with third parties for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized, we would provide you with an opt-out choice to limit the use and disclosure of your personal data.

For residents outside of the United States, for instance residents of the EU, Switzerland, UK, or Canada, pursuant to GDPR,  PIPEDA, or other applicable data protection laws, Well Resourced remains liable for the transfer of personal data to third parties acting as our agents unless we can prove we were not a party to the events giving rise to the damages.

Well Resourced may also release your information when Well Resourced, in Well Resourced’s sole discretion believes that such release is necessary or appropriate to:

  1. comply with law;
  2. comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders, government investigations, or other legal process;
  3. enforce or apply the terms of this policy;
  4. investigate or respond to allegations of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other unlawful activity
  5. investigate fraud or similar claims;
  6. protect the rights, property or safety of Well Resourced, Well Resourced’s users, or others.
  7. to protect Well Resourced’s operations; or
  8. to permit Well Resourced to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that Well Resourced may sustain

Well Resourced also may be required to disclose an individual’s personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. In cases of onward transfer to third parties of personal data for non-United States residents, under applicable data privacy laws, Well Resourced is potentially liable.

Business Transfers

Well Resourced may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy. You will be provided with notice in the event of such sale or transfer and have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer.

Advertising

Well Resourced may use third party service providers to place ads on Well Resourced’s behalf across the internet and sometimes on the Site. They may collect anonymous information about your visits to Well Resourced’s Site, and your interaction with Well Resourced products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a web beacon, which is industry standard technology used by most major sites. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this anonymous information used by Well Resourced’s third party service providers, please contact Well Resourced at [email protected].

Security

Well Resourced believes in the privacy of our website users. We safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical, and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. We will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically-stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of government authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

Links to Other Websites

The Site may contain links or references to other websites. Wellresourced.com cannot control and cannot be held responsible for the content that appears on those sites, and is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party. Furthermore, Well Resourced is not responsible for the privacy policies of any third-party site or for how they treat information about their users. These third-party sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information. You may be consenting to those websites through use of ours. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements and terms of service for each of the other websites you visit.

How does Well Resourced secure and store your information?

The security of your personal information is important to us. Well Resourced uses an SSL Protocol to secure the Site.  Well Resourced employs industry standard precautions designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. Well Resourced will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.  Remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.  cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. Well Resourced cannot guarantee complete security.

Well Resourced currently stores user information via secure cloud based web hosting services, provided by BigScoots, and the information is stored on servers located within the United States.

How is your Payment Information secured?

Well Resourced’s merchant gateway is powered by Stripe and/or PayPal.

Stripe is based in San Francisco, CA. The company’s ecommerce platform is PCI compliant adhering to standards and protocols for building and maintaining secure networks for financial transactions.  For more information on Stripe’s security policies click here.  Through Stripe, you can use Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Discover. Stripe has its own privacy policy regarding how they collect and use your information and what you can do to restrict that.  Click here to review their privacy statement.

PayPal is based in San Jose, CA. The company’s ecommerce platform is PCI compliant adhering to standards and protocols for building and maintaining secure networks for financial transactions. For more information on PayPal’s policies click here. Through PayPal, you can use Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Discover. PayPal has its own privacy policy regarding how they collect and use your information and what you can do to restrict that. Click here to review their privacy statement.

Retention of Data

Well Resourced retains personal information when we have an ongoing legitimate business, legal, or compliance need to do so. Our retention periods will vary depending on the type of personal information. The general factors we consider in determining whether to retain personal information are:

  • Whether we have a legal or contractual need to retain the information
  • Whether the information is necessary to provide our services or for functionality of Site features
  • Whether our account holding users have the ability to access and delete the information from their accounts

When Well Resourced has no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, when personal information has been stored in backup archives), then Well Resourced will securely store such personal information until deletion of such information is possible.

Our Policy Towards Children

The Site is not directed to persons under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at [email protected]. We will take actions to promptly remove such data. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personally identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our files.

How can I change, delete, or update my information?

Most of your account information can be changed in the “Dashboard” section of your account on the Site. If you have any questions about what information is stored or would like to obtain a copy of such information, please contact us at [email protected] or Privacy c/o Well Resourced Dietitian, P.O. Box 97 Waban, MA 02468. After receiving proof of your identity, Well Resourced will provide the information to you, and you may request that Well Resourced delete or change any or all of the information.

Disputes concerning this Privacy Policy

Unless otherwise required by GDPR, disputes concerning this policy shall be addressed as provided in the Well Resourced Terms of Use. If you have any inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact Well Resourced at:

Megan Boitano Nutrition LLC d/b/a Well Resourced Dietitian, Attn: Privacy c/o Well Resourced Dietitian, P.O. Box 97 Waban, MA 02468, [email protected]

 

The current version of the Well Resourced Dietitian Privacy Policy was adopted effective as of November 3, 2022.