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The Charlotte Athlete respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information that you provide to us. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by The Charlotte Athlete. Please note that The Charlotte Athlete reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how The Charlotte Athlete collects and uses personal information. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by The Charlotte Athlete as explained below.
Personal Information
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can visit our website without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to grant you an access to our protected and secured sites. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data (“User Information”). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.
We may collect personal information through:
Forms: Including order forms, sign-up forms, contact forms.
Email: Customer services inquiries, complaints, etc.
Cookies: Including on your website and Facebook Page.
Our lead generation ads may be used for various purposes, including newsletter/marketing/blog signups (email address, name), new member outreach (email address, name), and possible professional partnership or franchise outreach (email address, name). We may collect this information through our website and social media platforms, and use third-party cookies to aid in this (described in detail below).
Use of User Information
We intend to use such information for purposes of supporting your and your employer’s relationship with The Charlotte Athlete by designing a website content that is suitable for your needs and alerting you to new product and service offerings as they become available. This User Information may be retained by The Charlotte Athlete to verify compliance with the agreement between The Charlotte Athlete and your employer, to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to create a user profile to better serve you and your employer, or to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use your personal User Information to contact you, please let us know and we will not use that information for such purpose. However, please do not submit any User Information if you are less than 18 years of age.
Disclosure of User Information
The Charlotte Athlete does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or product/service offering purposes. For example, we provide User Information to our service providers for direct emailing of our newsletters, online surveys or notifications on The Charlotte Athlete offerings to our viewers. We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; we respond to a court order or you violate our Terms of Use. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for The Charlotte Athlete offerings, in order to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies.
We use Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reporting to advertise online. Websites and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to a website. Our website also uses third-party vendors, including Google and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our website. To opt out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features, you can use this tool for the web: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Accuracy and Security
The accuracy and security of the User Information is important to The Charlotte Athlete. Currently, you may review and request updates to your User Information retained by contacting The Charlotte Athlete. If you contact us to correct your User Information, we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. The Charlotte Athlete is concerned with the security of your User Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we have put in place the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.
Usernames and Passwords
Access to certain content on our website may be allowed under an agreement between you or your employer and The Charlotte Athlete and will require a username and/or password. In some cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing certain The Charlotte Athlete website(s) containing certain confidential information, products, services, or promotional offers (“The Charlotte Athlete Offerings”). By accessing and using our protected and secured website(s), you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password you selected to access such site(s) and consent to our Terms of Use (the-charlotte-athlete/terms-of-service).
Cookies
The Charlotte Athlete uses “cookies”. A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password which helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive, or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. However, access to some of our secured website(s) may require the use of cookies, in which case you must enable only cookies which get sent back to the originating server. Otherwise, you can still access most of the features on our website even without accepting a cookie.
Facebook Pixel Notice
With your permission, our website utilizes the Facebook Pixel service of Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. Using this data also allows us to improve our advertising for a better experience to the users and also retarget you with further advertising on Facebook and the use of Custom Audiences. Which you can find more information about and revoke your permission from here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/.
However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes in accordance with Facebook’s Data use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Pixel Tracking allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
External Links
The Charlotte Athlete website provides links to other third-party websites. Even if the third party is affiliated with The Charlotte Athlete through a business partnership or otherwise, The Charlotte Athlete is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only and you access them at your own risk.
Terms of Use
Please also see our Terms of Service (alphafitclub.com/terms-of-service), which describes the restrictions, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the entire The Charlotte Athlete website.
Questions or Additional Information If you have questions regarding our privacy policies or practices or wish to obtain additional information, please contact us at 215 Southside Dr, Charlotte, NC 28217, (704) 848-6466 or [email protected].