PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our blog, website, or application ("app"). For purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (known as the “GDPR”), JADC LLC is the controller of any personally identifiable information (also referred to in the European Union as “personal data”) collected on the Sites.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your email address or other details to help you with your experience. We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our blog, website, or app, or provide to us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

Social Sign-on:  We may provide a means for you to log in using your personal credentials from social media network sites including Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter. We may also provide the opportunity to link your account with us with your account on a social media network site.  If you use these features, we may receive personal information about you from the social media network site(s), including categorical information such as your contacts, interests, likes, and/or other information collected by the social media network site. We collect this information in accordance with the terms of use and privacy policy statement of the social media network site(s).

Mobile Device Location: When you visit our blog, website, or app, we may collect information pertaining to your location, physical movements, and your mobile device. This information may be utilized for providing you with location-specific information or personalized content. Mobile devices typically allow users to disable location services and other information sharing with mobile applications via user-controlled settings in the device's system settings. For more information, contact your device manufacturer or mobile service provider.

Website Analytics and Behavioral Advertising: We use third-party services which allow us to define and measure visitor use of our blog, website, or app and the efficacy of our blog, website, or app and related promotions. We may also use third-party services to display advertisements on other sites over the Internet. On our behalf, these services may use tracking technologies (including cookies and pixel tags) to collect information about your visits to and interactions our website to provide personalized content based on your interests and browsing activities.  Those third-party services may also provide us with audience data, including, but not limited to age, gender, and/or interests which allows us to better understand and customize advertisements for the visitors to our website.

Public Information: We may also collect information about you that is publicly available. For example, information you have submitted in a public forum such as a blog, chat room, or social media network site can be used by us and other third parties and could also be used to customize your personal experience. We may also collect information about you from publicly available records. We recommend that, as a site visitor and/or user, you should carefully determine what information you choose to share publicly.

Email Marketing: Additionally, some of our e-mail, SMS, MMS, and/or other messaging communications may include a customized link to a particular page, product, or content on our blog, website, app, or affiliated resources. By clicking on one of these links, you may enter our blog, website, app, or affiliated resource in an automated manner and we may collect information related to this action, also known as a "click-through."

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or enter information on our site.

How do you collect information?
When you visit, browse, navigate, change membership status, edit profile variables, participate, subscribe, contribute content, select products, or conduct a transaction on our blog, website, or app as part of the process(es), we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and/or email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons only as stated above.

Why do you collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;
2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?
Our company is hosted on the Blogger.com platform. Blogger.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Blogger.com’s data storage, databases and the general Blogger.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, browse/navigate the blog, website, or app or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.

All direct payment gateways offered by Blogger.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Your Rights
You have the right to request a copy of any personally identifiable information that we hold about you.  If you would like a copy of your personally identifiable information, please contact us at gdpr@metapod.life. We will request proof of your identity before sharing such information.  If you discover that the information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, you may correct your information by visiting on of the Sites, or email us for further assistance.

You may ask us to delete personal data we hold about you in certain circumstances. It may not be possible for us to delete all the information held about you where a transaction(s) has been fulfilled or if legal basis exists to retain the information; please feel free to contact us, however, to discuss how we can assist you with your request. When your information is processed on the basis that you have consented to such processing, you have the right to withdraw your said consent, or ask us to stop or restrict processing the personally identifiable information in reference to you, at any time by emailing us at gdpr@metapod.life.

You may also request a transfer of your personally identifiable information to a third party in certain circumstances. If you would like any further information about your rights or how to exercise them, please contact us.
Please communicate any questions, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, to gdpr@metapod.life.

If you are in the European Union, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant data protection authority in your country.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to fulfill your inquiries, provide you services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements. 

If you receive communications from us about new or existing Metapod.life products and/or special offers specific to you, you can unsubscribe to our emails by clicking "unsubscribe" within each email. You may not opt-out of non-promotional service-related communications.

How do you communicate with your site visitors?
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

How do we protect your information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we may use cookies to help us remember and process the items in a shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may use cookies to:

• Help remember and process the items in a shopping cart.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, Some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly. It may affect the user’s experience and may not function properly.

For more information about cookies:

• Visit All About Cookies
  
  
• To see what cookies are used, how to manage them, or how to stop browsers from accepting cookies by changing the browser's settings you may visit the following resources. Please note, however, that deleting or disabling cookies and other tracking technologies may prevent access to some parts of this site.
  
  
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Google Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari (OS X)
• Cookie settings in Safari (iOS)
• Cookie settings in Android
  
  
• To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all blogs, websites, or apps, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  
  
• To learn more, visit https://www.learn-about-cookies.com

Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include blog, website, or app hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our blog, website, or app in the normal conduct of our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party links
We may include or offer third-party products or services on our blog, website, or app. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. 
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548

We may use Google AdSense Advertising on our blog, website or app.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:

• Remarketing with Google AdSense
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• Demographics and Interests Reporting
• DoubleClick Platform Integration

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our blog, website, or app.

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Meta
Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel:
With your permission, our blog, website, or app utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Meta Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Meta"), including Meta Company Products WhatsApp and Oculus, as well as Meta Products like Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel allows us to monitor user actions following the redirect to our blog, website or app after clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are then able to record the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for the purposes of statistical aggregation and marketing analysis. The data collected remains anonymous, which means we are unable to detect the personal data of any individual user. The data , however, is collected and processed by Meta. Meta is able to connect the data with your Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and/or WhatsApp account(s) to utilize the data for their own advertising initiatives, in accordance with Meta's Data Use Policy. More information is available at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Meta and its partners to display advertisements for you within and outside of Facebook. Additionally, a cookie will be saved onto your computing device for these purposes.

Only users over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are under 13 years of age, you must consult your legal guardians.

Facebook Custom Audience Ads:
We may display interest-based ads to you when you are using Facebook, including Facebook Company Products WhatsApp and Oculus, as well as Facebook Products like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, through the Custom Audience Tool ("The Tool"), as offered by Meta Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Meta"), which allows us to personalize our ads based on your browsing/navigation, product selection, and purchasing experience on our site. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information, including your history of browsing/navigation, product selection, and/or purchasing with Meta. The Tool allows us to convert your email address to a unique code that Meta uses to match to unique codes Meta generates from email addresses of its users.

To change your Facebook Ad Settings, or to revoke you permission and opt out of the Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel and related technologies, visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen

To change Facebook location settings, visit https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=location

California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. 
– See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our blog, website, or app.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:

• On our Privacy Policy Page

You can change your personal information:

• By emailing us

How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

Do we let third-parties, including ad networks or plug-ins collect PII from children under 13?
No, we do not allow third parties, including ad networks or plug-ins collect PII from children under 13.

Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

This Privacy Statement describes our policies and procedures in the United States. Regardless of where you reside, or what country or countries you are a citizen of, by using our U.S.-based blog, website, or app or engaging with us while within the U.S., you consent to have your personal data transferred, processed, and stored, and allow us to use and collect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email

• Within 7 business days

We will notify the users via in-site notification

• Within 7 business days

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

How can site visitors withdraw their consent?
If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at privacy@metapod.life.

Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the blog, website, or app. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.