Simply For Life™ Health & Nutrition Clinics (“Simply For Life™”, “we”, “us” or “our”) takes steps to ensure it meets privacy principles and requirements with respect to personal information under applicable Canadian privacy legislation. The purpose of this policy is to inform our customers and other individuals we deal with (“you” and “your”) how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information. Personal information is information that is identifiable as pertaining to an individual, as more particularly described under applicable privacy legislation. This policy applies to our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in Canada.
We, and our agents and representatives, collect certain types of personal information and do so in a number of methods, such as:
We generally use your personal information to:
On occasion, we may use your personal information to provide you with information about other related Simply For Life™ products, services & events that we believe will be of interest to you. We make reasonable efforts to ensure that we use your personal information with your knowledge and consent. You may refuse consent to such use (where such options are offered), or you may withdraw your consent by contacting us at 1.506-693-8446.
Your personal information may be used by us and disclosed to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, securitization, insuring, sale, assignment, or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purpose of permitting such parties to determine whether to proceed or continue with such transaction, to fulfill reporting, inspection, or audit requirements or obligations to such parties. In the event that all or part of our business or assets to which your personal information relates is sold, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, your personal information will be used and disclosed by such parties for substantially the same purposes as described in this policy.
We may otherwise disclose personal information as necessary to meet legal, regulatory, insurance, audit, and security requirements, or as permitted or required by law.
We may transfer personal information to outside agents or service providers that perform services on our behalf (for example, billing service providers, mailing houses, or collection agents), in which case we will use contractual or other reasonable means to ensure that your personal information is protected and not used or disclosed for any purposes other than as directed by us.
Please note that our franchisees are independent businesses and we do not control the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information you may provide to our franchisees. Please contact the franchisee with whom you have a relationship if you are concerned about how your personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by these independent franchisees.
If you request that we disclose your personal information to one of our franchisees (for example, if you are participating in a nutrition program operated by us and wish to change locations to a program operated by one of our franchisees), your personal information will be disclosed to the applicable franchisee so that they may provide the products and services you have requested.
Should we assume the operation of one of our franchisees, the personal information in the possession of the franchisee will be:
We operate the website www.simplyforlife.com, which provides information about our products, services and events, request further information, request customer support, or make other inquiries. Personal information provided by you online is used to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests. Personal information that you voluntarily provide in response to our online questionnaires and surveys is used to help us learn more about our customers’ interests and preferences, and to send you periodic information about our products and services (if you have chosen that option).
Our internet servers may passively and automatically collect certain information about Web site visitors’ traffic patterns, which may be linked to their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (which are unique Internet “addresses” assigned to all Internet users by their Internet Service Providers). Server logs may record statistical information, such as visitors’ IP addresses, type of operating systems, time and duration of visit, and pages requested, and identify categories of visitors by items such as domains and browser types. These statistics are only collected and used on an aggregate basis.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are small text files offered to your computer by servers in order to keep track of your browser as you navigate the Web site. Cookies may be stored on your hard drive, or in temporary (cache) memory, in which case they are deleted when you shut down your browser or turn off your computer. We may use cookies to store preferences, record session information such as language preferences, develop aggregate information about Web site visitors’ preferences and interests, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when you return to our site, or customize Web page content based on your browser type or other information you provide. Unless a visitor specifically provides their identity to us (e.g., by providing information through an online form or sending us correspondence from the Web site), cookie information is anonymous and we will not know who the individual visitors are. Information gathered from cookies is only used on an aggregate basis. You can disable cookies using your Internet browser’s settings. Please consult your browser’s help function for information on how to disable cookies. Note: if you disable cookies, certain features of our Web site may not function properly.
Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites that are provided as a convenience only, and which may have different privacy policies and practices than Simply For Life™ and, accordingly, we have no responsibility for such third-party Web sites, and individuals are advised to review the privacy policies of any third-party Web sites they visit.
We protect your personal information using physical, electronic, or procedural security measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information in our custody or control, which may include safeguards to protect against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Authorized employees, agents, and mandatories of Simply For Life™ who require access to your personal information in order to fulfill their job requirements will have access to your personal information.
We may establish and maintain a file of your personal information for the purposes described above, which will be accessible at Simply For Life™ Head Office, 643 Rothesay Avenue, Saint John, NB, E2H 2G9. If you wish to request access or correction of your personal information in our custody or control, you may write to the above address, attention Director of Operations. Your right to access or correct your personal information is subject to applicable legal restrictions. If you wish to make inquiries or complaints or have other concerns about our personal information practices, you may write to the above address or telephone us at 1.506-693-8446.
This privacy policy may be revised from time to time. If we materially change our privacy practices, we will take reasonable measures to notify affected individuals of these changes in advance. If our personal information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes on our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of any new nonessential uses or disclosures of personal information. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically or contact us as described above to obtain a current copy of this policy. This privacy policy is effective as of March 29, 2016.