Fitness Friends Privacy Policy

At Fitness Friends we recognise the importance of privacy and are committed protecting your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand the information that Fitness Friends collects and how it is used.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by email at admin@fitnessfriends.com.au.

Gathering of Information

To use some of our services users are require to register as Members.

• 'contact information'. This must include an email address where we can contact you. It may also include your name, mobile phone number, other phone numbers or address details. This information is collected as part of the member registration process and is provided by you. You can update it at any time.
• 'profile information', such as age, gender, nationality, interests, location etc. Please look at any profile on the Fitness Friends site to see the full range of information collected. This information is collected as part of the member registration process, and is provided by you. You can update it at any time.
• Communications (by email or other means, which pass through the Fitness Friends systems) between yourself and other members or employees of Fitness Friends.
• Other personal information provided voluntarily by you. This could be in response to surveys, contests or online activities.
• Emailed comments and/or opinions of other members or site visitors about you. These may include testimonials, complaints and general member feedback.
• Non-personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited etc. None of this information identifies you personally.
• Fitness Friends may, from time to time, review and update this privacy policy statement to take account of new laws and technology and changes to Fitness Friends operations. All personal information held by Fitness Friends will be governed by its most recent policy, posted on Fitness Friends.

Use of Information

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by using the information that you provide to tailor our features and site to the needs of our users.

• Provide you with products or services you have requested
• Personalise and customise your experiences on Fitness Friends
• Post profile information on the Fitness Friends website that is used to promote you to our other members. As such, it may be viewed by individuals anywhere in the world.
• Help Fitness Friends manage and enhance its services
• Communicate with you (including forwarding messages from other members)
• Give you the opportunity from time to time to receive e-mail and 'e-newsletters' from Fitness Friends
• Communications with other members are passed on to those members automatically.
• Other personal information provided voluntarily by you is used to better understand our members and to help us improve and promote our services.
• Testimonials are posted on our website and included in emails to members to help promote our services. Fitness Friends assumes that both partners mentioned in a testimonial are happy for the testimonial to be used in this way.
• Complaints are investigated as appropriate. The fact of the complaint may be recorded and details stored in case of future complaints against the same member.
• Non-personally identifiable information is aggregated and used to help us improve our service and infrastructure.

Who do we share your information with?

Fitness Friends will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Fitness Friends may also disclose information about our users when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required by law.

Fitness Friends may also disclose information to third parties engaged by Fitness Friends to perform functions on its behalf, such as processing credit card information, mailouts, debt collection, marketing, research and advertising.

In the case of a breach of the terms and conditions of our website we reserve the right to provide the details of the offender to the appropriate Association/Client for any action they wish to take regarding the breach.

Cookies

A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. Fitness Friends makes use of cookies to provide authentication to our site and to allow the tracking of the logged in status of a user.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable cookies then you will not be able to access some portions of the Fitness Friends web site.

Browser Level Information

Our web servers automatically collect information about a user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected and used in an aggregated, anonymous manner for internal traffic analysis of our Web sites. This information is automatically logged by most Web sites.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by email at admin@fitnessfriends.com.au.

This statement may change periodically, so to keep up to date with our latest policy always look at this page.

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