Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will explain how Check Your Food uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our websites - CheckYourFood.com and CheckYourNutrition.com

This privacy policy should be read alongside, and in addition to, our Terms and Conditions, which can be found: here

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What data do we collect?

Check Your Food collects the following data:

• Personal identification information (Name, email address, date of birth, gender etc.). This data is collected when you register for membership
• IP address and site interaction - this data is automatically collected.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide Check Your Food with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
• Register for a ‘free for life’ or ‘premium’ user account on CheckYourFood.com.

How will we use your data?

Check Your Food collects your data so that we can:

• Analyse site usage to improve our offerings.
• Process your order and manage your account.
• Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
• Enable CheckYourFood.com/CheckYourNutrition.com to display nutritional information to you that is personalised.
• Notify you according to the preferences you set when becoming a member of either site.

How do we store your data?

Check Your Food securely stores your data online on a secure server hosted in a secure server centre.

Check Your Food will keep your personal identification information for the period of your membership and a period of time in which we feel that use of your data is beneficial to you, subject to any request from you not to do so. Once this time period has expired (not less than 2 years), we will delete your data by removing your information from our database and any email management software.

Marketing

Check Your Food would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies.

If you have agreed to receive information and marketing, you may always opt out at a later date either via email or by unchecking options in your members profile area.

You have the right at any time to stop Check Your Food from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the Check Your Food .

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us at our email: support@checkyourfood.com

What are your data protection rights?

Check Your Food would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access You have the right to request Check Your Food for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification You have the right to request that Check Your Food correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Check Your Food to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure You have the right to request that Check Your Food erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing You have the right to request that Check Your Food restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing You have the right to object to Check Your Food processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability You have the right to request that Check Your Food transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: support@checkyourfood.com

What are Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org

How do we use cookies?

Check Your Food uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping you signed in
• Understanding how you use our website
• Profiling your interests based on the pages you view

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

• Functionality; Check Your Food uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
• Analytical/performance cookies; Check Your Food uses these cookies to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Advertising; Check Your Food uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Check Your Food sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and allaboutcookies.org/ tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

CheckYourFood.com contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

Check Your Food keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 4th March 2024.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: support@checkyourfood.com

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Check Your Food has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office @ ico.org.uk/