Privacy Policy
Here at DietBet, we are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information, and providing a safe and secure environment for all of our players. The purpose of our privacy policy is to outline the information we gather when you visit our site and how we may use that information. By visiting our website (and any others we control), you are signifying your agreement with the practices outlined in this policy.
If you have any questions concerning our privacy policy, please contact us.
What this Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers DietBet's treatment of personal information that DietBet gathers when you are using the DietBet website and also when you use DietBet's services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that DietBet does not own or control, or to individuals that DietBet does not employ or manage.
Information Collected by DietBet
We collect the following types of information from our users:
Information You Provide to Us
We receive and store information that you enter on our website or provide to us in other ways. You can choose not to submit certain information, but the tradeoff is that you may not be able to take advantage of certain of our site's features.
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Registration: In order for you to use DietBet services you must create an
account by completing a registration form. As part of this registration form, we
require select personal information (including your name, email address, etc.).
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User and Player Profiles: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the
information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional
information about yourself in your User Profile, including a profile photo.
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Payment Information: DietBet uses PCI-compliant payment processors and
does not itself see or store your credit card details.
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Invite Friends: A user may choose to identify a friend, colleague, cheerleader,
or a similar third party through our invite-a-friend and cheerleader functions,
respectfully. If a user does this we will collect the recipient's email address. We
will automatically send your friend an email, and if necessary, reminder emails.
DietBet stores this information for the sole purpose of sending the
aformentioned email and any related reminder emails. We also store this
information to track the success of our invitation programs. Your friend may
contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
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Orders. If you purchase a product or service through DietBet, we will collect
standard information in order to fulfill your order (such as name, email address,
and shipping address).
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Weigh-In Photos: In order to play, each player must submit two weigh-in photos
at the beginning and end of each game. These photos are solely used by our
DietBet Referees to confirm a player's starting and ending weight. DietBet does
not use these photos for any purpose other than weigh-in review without
express written permission of the player. After they are reviewed, the images are
stored in our database for auditing purposes since they are used to determine
winners of the game. They are also displayed on your personal profile and
visible only to you, unless you choose to share them with others.
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Bulletin Boards, Blogs, Chatrooms. If you use a bulletin board, blog, or chatroom
on DietBet, you should be aware that personally identifiable information you
submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of the aforesaid
forums. This information could then be used by a third party to send you
unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for such personally identifiable
information that you choose to submit in the forums. We also connect to third-party
services like Facebook and Twitter, and any information that you post on
our site may be sent off our site via these third-party services with your consent.
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Automatic Information. We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us. DietBet and its authorized agents automatically
receive and record certain traffic data on their server logs from your browser
including your IP address, DietBet cookie information, queries, and the page you
requested. DietBet uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its
servers, to analyze trends, and to administer the website. DietBet may collect
and display various aggregate counts of the times that pages have been viewed.
Use of information by DietBet. DietBet uses your information to contact you about your involvement or potential involvement in a game; to bill users who have agreed to play or purchase products through our site; to fulfill product orders; to contact you about DietBet-related news, features, products, surveys, promotions, updates, case-studies, and/or special offers; to facilitate social networking and game set-up (e.g. posting on your Facebook feed, sending friend requests and notifications, creating groups of users with similar goals, or Referee and Cheerleader requests); and, without using personally identifiable information, to analyze and report success trends.
Sharing Your Information
DietBet enables people to discover and share information with one another, and information about the people who use DietBet is very important to us. Although we may share non-personal information, such as aggregate user statistics, demographic information, and website usage information with third parties, rest assured that we will share your personally identifiable information only as described below.
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DietBet Personnel and Affiliates: DietBet personnel, approved academic
researchers, authorized consultants and/or contractors, and payment
processing companies may have access to user information if necessary in
the normal course of DietBet business and/or research. This means that user
information, including name, address, phone number, credit card details may
be used for the following reasons: responding to user requests, ensuring
smooth operation of games, and/or modifying our games product to increase
users' success rates. We may solicit your participation in research,
developing case-studies, and success stories.
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We may also use your personal information to place you in a game with other players who match your weight, age, gender categories and/or who share certain interests, such as playing against other recent mothers or diabetics. Being placed in such a game may thus imply certain private information about you even though this information is not made explicitly public. We do this in order to match you with other people in similar conditions and to make a better, more enjoyable game.
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Agents/Service Providers: DietBet employs third parties to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting or operating the DietBet website, fulfilling orders for products and services purchased through the DietBet websites, sending e-mail and/or other communications, providing wireless services, removing repetitive information from customer lists, data analysis, marketing assistance, credit card payment processing, and customer service. These third parties may have access to your personal information for the purpose of performing such functions on DietBet's behalf.
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Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. If DietBet or all of its assets were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
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Protection of DietBet and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law; to enforce our Terms of Use; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of DietBet, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We also reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on DietBet.
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User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other DietBet users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on DietBet where we allow you to tell other DietBet users about yourself and your interests. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile including your weight. You have the option to disclose your weight, or hide it and only show your relative weight (i.e., we may tell other players that you weigh 150 pounds; however, if you prefer, you can check a box that tells us to only share with them that you've gained or lost 2 pounds since your last weigh-in).
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API: DietBet will allow third parties access to all DietBet data that is already publicly available through the DietBet website. DietBet will keep passwords private.
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E-Commerce: DietBet may allow users to choose to share information with third parties, including marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers.
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Affiliate Entities: DietBet may also provide your personally identifiable information to your affiliated company if you have entered an Affiliate Code during registration or are otherwise a user of our corporate portal.
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With Your Consent: Except as noted above, DietBet will not provide users' personally identifiable information to third parties or use it for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected without their prior permission.
Changes to this Privacy Policy. DietBet may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information that we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by posting an announcement on the DietBet website so you are may stay up-to-date on what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Conditions of Use. If you decide to visit DietBet's website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California law.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective as of November 14, 2014.