COOKIES AND
SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES POLICY
Last Updated July 12, 2018
This
Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the different types of cookies and similar technologies that are
used on the websites of FitMetrix, Inc. and its affiliates (“FitMetrix”). Please also consult our
Privacy Policy
[A1]
to understand
how we handle personal and other information in general.
Cookies are a standard
feature of websites that allow us to store small amounts
of data on your computer or other device about your visit to our websites.
Cookies help us learn which areas of our websites are useful and which areas
need improvement.
Some cookies may facilitate
additional website features for enhanced performance and functionality such as
remembering preferences, allowing social interactions, analysing usage for website
optimization, providing custom or localized content and pricing, allowing third
parties to provide social sharing tools, and serving images or videos from
third party websites. Some features on this site will not function if you do
not allow cookies. We may link the information we store in cookies to Personal or
Other Information you submit while on our websites.
We also use technologies similar to cookies, such as web beacons or Flash Local
Shared Objects, as described below.
Cookies
We
may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie
expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard
drive for an extended period of time. Persistent
cookies enable us to track and target the interest of our users to enhance the
experience on our websites. We use various types of
cookies:
·
Essential
cookies, persistent and session type, store information to enable core website
functionality, such as Live Chat and Client ID remembrance.
·
Functional
cookies are cookies that are used to track your preferences, such as your
preferred language or display settings, and customize the website to you. Some
of these cookies may be essential cookies.
·
Analytics
cookies allow us to count page visits and traffic sources
so we can measure and improve the performance of our websites and our marketing
campaigns.
·
Advertising
cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners. Data may be
collected by these companies that enable them to serve up advertisements on
other websites that are relevant to your interests.
Web Beacons/pixel tags
Web
beacons, also known as pixel tags, are tiny graphic objects that are embedded
in a web page or email and are usually invisible to the user but allow checking
that a user has viewed the page or email. We (or third party
data or ad networks we work with) may use web beacons alone or in conjunction
with cookies to compile information about our services, or other information we
or they have collected. Web beacons may be used within our services to track
email open rates, web page visits or form submissions. In some cases, we tie
the information gathered by web beacons to our subscribers’ and end users’
personal information. For example, we use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails
to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to
gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our
marketing campaigns. Web Beacons are also deployed by third parties, in
connection with cookies, to serve interest-based (and other) advertising, as
described in the below section titled “Advertising Networks”.
Flash
LSOs
We
use Flash Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”) and
other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about
your use of our websites. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain
features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing
activity also use Flash LSOs to collect and store information. If you do not
want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your
Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the
Website Storage Settings Panel.
You can also go to the
Global Storage Settings Panel
and follow the instructions (which explain, for example, how to delete existing
Flash LSOs, how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer
without your consent, and how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered
by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting
the Flash player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or
impede the functionality of some Flash applications.
Physical Location
Analytics
Software
We
and our third party tracking-utility partners use log
files on our services to gather certain information automatically and store it
for analytical purposes. This information includes internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use third party
partners such as Google Analytics, which uses cookies and other, similar
technologies to collect and analyze information about use of our services and
report on activities and trends. This
service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps
and online resources. You can learn
about Google’s practices by going to
www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/,
and
opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser
add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please see Section 21 of the
Privacy Policy
[A2]
for
a list of additional third party tracking partners
integrated within the FITMETRIX Services.
We
also use this information to track and aggregate other information to analyze
trends, administer our websites, track users’ movements around our services and
to gather demographic information about our user base in the aggregate.
Advertising Networks
We
partner with third party data or ad network(s) and other service providers to
show you relevant ads (whether for our products or those of other companies),
including ads displayed on our services and on other companies’ websites or
apps, on any of your devices.
We
and our service providers may use cookies and web beacons to deploy and read
cookie identifiers and Mobile Ad IDs, associated with your activities on our
services, third party websites, mobile apps or other information we collect, to
provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. They may also use
these technologies, along with activity information they collect, to recognize
you across the devices you use, such as a mobile device and a laptop or other
computer. These ad networks and their customers may also use any of this
information to measure ad performance, understand their (or our) audience, or
otherwise improve and enhance their marketing.
Similarly,
we or a third party data partner may associate cookies
with hashed (non-human readable) versions of your registration data (e.g., your
email address), along with other interest-based or demographic data. You can
learn more about or opt out of this type of advertising through the links in
the following paragraph.
Mobile Opt Out:
You can opt out of having your Mobile Ad IDs used for interest-based mobile
advertising by accessing the settings on your Apple or Android mobile device,
as follows:
·
Apple
Devices: If you have an Apple device, you can opt out of most cross-app
advertising by toggling Limit Ad Tracking to ‘ON’. This can currently be found
under Settings > Privacy > Advertising.
·
Android
Devices: If you have an Android device, you can opt out of most cross-app
advertising by clicking on Google Settings > Ads, and
selecting the option to opt-out of interest-based ads.
Please
note that these platforms control how these settings work, so the above
instructions may change. Likewise, if your device uses other platforms not
described above, please check the settings for those devices.
Web-Based Opt Out:
If you wish to opt-out of many of the ad platforms that serve or support
interest-based advertising (or learn more about this type of advertising), go
to http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp,
http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ to opt
out in desktop and mobile web browsers.
You may download the AppChoices app at http://youradchoices.com/appchoices
to opt out in mobile apps. For
individuals in the EU, please also visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
Please note that any opt-out from interest-based advertising will not result in
the cessation of all advertising, as we, or our third party
advertisers, may continue to serve you contextual-based advertising. Please
also note that the above opt-out mechanisms are cookie-based, so if you change
or modify your browser, or clear your cookies, you will need to opt out again.
We will use cookies and
similar technologies where you have opted-in and applicable law requires
opt-in.
In addition to the options
provided above, you can refuse or accept cookies from our websites at any time
by activating the settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to
follow in order to enable or disable cookies can be
found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. Please
refer to
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html
for information on commonly used browsers.
If you want to clear all
cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you
can download
three
programs that clean out
tracking cookies:
We
may change this Cookie Policy from time to time. Please
take
a look
at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to
see when this Cookie Policy was
last updated. Any
changes in this
Cookie
Policy will become
effective when we make the revised
Cookie
Policy
available on or through our websites.
Contact
Us.
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at [email protected],
or write to us at the
following address:
ATTN: FitMetrix Legal –
Cookie Policy Issues
FitMetrix, Inc.
4051 Broad
Street Suite 220
San Luis Obispo, CA
93401