Overview
Walif understands the importance of privacy to our users. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by Walif. Where additional detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information Walif collects about you and about your use of Walif. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
By using Walif and our websites, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you should not use our website or the app. Your continued use of our website or app following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes.
Information Collection and Use
Personal Information
General
Walif collects personal information when you visit Walif web pages and when you open an account with Walif or use other Walif products or services. Walif may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. We use information for the following general purposes: providing products and services, billing, identification and authentication, improving our services and website, and contacting users and conducting research. We aggregate certain information to develop statistics related to the use of Walif. We may publish some statistics based on aggregated information, but none of these statistics will contain any personally identifiable information.
When you register to open an account with Walif, we ask for information such as your name, email address, date of birth, gender, weight, and height. To purchase certain products and services from Walif, we also ask you to provide other contact and billing information. We do not share personally identifiable information with any third parties.
Depending on the product or service you have selected, we may also collect certain personal information, including personal preferences, activities, and body measurements. Recognizing the highly personal nature of this information, we take special precautions to protect it.
Before and After photos taken on a mobile device are stored on the mobile device unencrypted.
Activity Data We use activity data, including data provided by third-party activity trackers, to provide, personalize, and improve your experience on the Walif website and in mobile applications.
Message Boards and Other Public Forums
As a service to our users, Walif features message boards, social media platforms, group and personal messages, and other public forums where users can share information or post questions for experts to answer. We offer certain online discussions moderated by dietitians and other health professionals. Any information (including personal information) that you reveal in a message board, online discussion, group or personal message, or other public forum is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any personally identifiable information in any public forum. What you have disclosed in such locations may be seen, disclosed to, or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.
Non-Personal Information
General
Even if you do not register with Walif, we collect non-personal information about your use of our website, app, special promotions, and other services.
Cookies
We collect non-personal information about your use of our website. Every computer that accesses a Walif website is assigned different Cookies by Walif. Cookies are required for the use of certain web services. The information collected by Cookies (i) records current session information, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website, (iii) how many people open our emails, (iv) websites referring visitors to us, and (v) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to determine the popularity of certain content, advertisements, and the effectiveness of our marketing programs. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user’s log-in.
Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Additionally, most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, the member section of our website may not work properly, but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to use our public information available without becoming a member of our site. We do not use Cookies to collect or store personal information about you.
Access Logs
Walif automatically collects certain information and stores it in log files, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, referring/exit pages, operating system, browser type, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this non-personal information to analyze trends, administer our website, and gather demographic information about our user base. We also record your IP address with your personally identifiable information to help protect ourselves and our members from abusive users of our website.
Disclosure of Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Walif will not disclose any personally identifiable information it gathers from you on our website or app. We may only release personally identifiable information to third parties to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or as deemed necessary in Walif’s discretion, to protect the legal or property rights of Walif, a user, or a third party, or to prevent personal injury. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your personally identifiable information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.
Security, Encryption, and Confidentiality
Walif uses industry-standard encryption technology to protect your privacy. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with such information to provide products or services to you in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
We utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption in transmitting your personally identifiable information to our servers. In order to take advantage of encryption technology, you must have an internet browser that supports 128-bit encryption.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. You will be required to sign in to your Walif account after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account.
Data Storage
Walif uses third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to operate Walif. The Walif database is stored on secured servers owned and operated by Walif. We may store encrypted database backups offsite with a third-party storage provider to ensure data security in the case of an emergency or catastrophe.
Business Transitions
If Walif is acquired by or merges with another company, the assets of our websites, including personal information, will likely be transferred to the new company.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Walif may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Walif account or by placing a prominent notice on our website. Walif may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy. For these instances, Walif may not notify you of such non-significant changes. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and other appropriate places throughout our website so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently.