Alaziac (“us/we”) tailors information and creates brands you can trust and rely on to connect you to the best possible content, services and products. We aim to customize your experience with us based on your engagement with us. Our goal is to be transparent about how and why we collect and use personal information and to empower you in order for you to control your personal information.
The Policies outlines herein apply whenever you engage with any of our brands through this and any other of our services, including but not limited to, our websites, mobile apps, e-mail communications, voice assistants, and other platforms
Online Identifiers such as: IP address, advertising ID, unique device ID, and other information about your device, and internal and third-party IDs that have been assigned to you.
Location Information such as: Information about your precise location that we collect from your device (in limited circumstances) or also information about your general location derived from your IP address.
Internet Activity Information such as;: Information about your use of our Services, your interactions with the e-mails we from time to time send to you, your activities on other websites you may visit, including the content, web pages and advertisements you view and links you click on, and whether you open, forward, or click the links in any of the e-mails we send to you; also your browsing history; and the social media you use, which includes the “shares” and “likes” you may make on any social media platform that is connected to said Services.
Inferences about Your Preferences and/or: Interests and Other Behavioral Data: including hobbies and interests (such as your favorite foods, which (if any) videos you like, your purchases, your favorite recipes and/or or your consumption tendencies).
Demographic Information: This includes inter-alia: Age, gender, education level, race, income information, occupation, marital status, and some information about your household/family status which could include the presence of children/child and age ranges, your household size, any own/rent indicator, and the possibly the length of time at your residence.
Some of our Brands may also offer for you to register for a print subscription, for a newsletter, on our Services, for additional information, or to purchase products from us. When or should you do that, then those Brands may also collect:
Contact Information: Such as any or all the following: your name, phone number, postal address, or e-mail address.
Account/Registration Information: your services Username and password, reminder questions and answers, subscription and account numbers and also communication preferences which could include information such as which newsletters you would like to receive upon providing us with information.
Payment Information: In event of any payment needing to be made by you then also your: Billing address, shipping address (where applicable), credit card or bank account number, expiration date, and card verification number if and then when you provide that information to us.
Loyalty Account Information: Should such loyalty account be availed then also for that your account name and password, points, and reward selection.
Health/Fitness Information: This includes Information about your health and fitness which may include your body type, general health, physical injuries, exercise and activity levels, weight loss objectives, and dietary preferences and illnesses that you may wish to disclose voluntarily (only when you provide that information to us).
Any other Personal Information That Consumers/You Voluntarily Choose to Provide: Including; any content you submit or make available when you use the interactive features on our Services (such as photos, digital or written communications and comments), as well as the personal information about others that you may share in order to send others or refer to others (such as friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) and information that may interest same.
Note that when/should you interact with our Brands through voice assistants such as by using a “skill” on an Amazon Alexa or by using an “action” on a Google Home device, although we do not collect your voice or audio information, we will nevertheless know what you are “searching” for. At times you may also have the option(s) to provide other personal information such as your e-mail address and/or phone number in order to receive additional information from us.
From You.
Some of our Brands may collect your contact and/or registration/account information and/or payment information and any other personal information when/if you provide it to us. When/should you make a purchase of any of the Services, we also then retain a record of your purchases and order history.
From Your Device.
Cookies: A “cookie” is a tiny file that’s stored on your computer which contains a unique identifier, as well as the address and other information about the website you are visiting. Cookies will help us know whether or not you are a returning visitor to our Services. We can use cookies to recognize that you have visited that website in the past and we are able to understand what is of interest to our customers and thereby ensure the content and services we offer are relevant and compelling to you when you visit our Services. In some cases, we may also use personal information we collect from these cookies to deliver relevant and compelling content to you when you do visit the Services.
Web Beacons, Pixel Tags, and Other Tracking Technologies. These are small strings of code placed on a web page and/or in an e-mail or advertisement. They allow your browser to recognize and store certain types of information, such as cookies previously set and the time and date that you viewed the page with the beacon, and a description of that page.
Opt Out: In most cases you are able to opt-out. There are some cookies that we still need in order to operate the Services. Should you delete those cookies, the Services would no longer function (such as the items you put in a shopping cart in order to be able to place an order on the Services). You can always decide to opt out of or delete the third-party cookies (which are cookies set by advertisers and/or data partners) on our Services. Please bear in mind that if you block cookies, you may not be able to view or access some of the features of our Services.
From Others.
Advertisers. In some cases, should advertisers serve ads on our Services, they will share your e-mail or online identifiers with us so that we can make sure their advertisements or offers reach you.
Service Providers. We may work with various service providers that collect personal information on our behalf in order to provide services to us. These would include hosting of our websites, processing our credit card transactions, fulfilling your subscriptions and/or orders, verifying your identity and also other activities needed to help us provide our content and services to you. We would only allow our service providers to use your personal information in connection with the services that they provide to us.
Contact You.
To send you e-mail and postal mail, Brand newsletters, surveys and/or other communications.
Fulfill Your Subscriptions, Orders, and Other Requests.
Fulfill your orders and requests for products, services, and information.
Some of our Brands may offer products and services you can purchase individually or on a subscription basis. We use the personal information you provide at checkout to process your orders on those sites.
To help you redeem points earned from loyalty programs.
Create and Manage Your Account.
Create and manage your Account, which includes providing you with access to your Account.
Marketing Our Brands to You.
We may use your personal information to market our Brands to you, as well as products and services of the other businesses owned by us.
Personalize Your Experience on Our Services (Including the Content and Ads Displayed to You).
Customize the content and ads you see when you use our Services, visit the websites of other companies, and receive our e-mail communications.
Remember your browser settings and any preferences you set while using the Services.
Recognize you across our Services so that we may deliver relevant interest-based content and advertising to you.
Provide and Improve the Services.
Analyze, operate, and improve our Services (which may include repairing errors or debugging) or develop new ones.
Allow you to participate in certain features, which may include; surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards.
Measure and analyze visitor traffic and usage patterns and improve the quality and effectiveness of our Services, features, and related communications.
Advertising, Marketing, and Other Research for Our Advertisers.
Provide to you special offers, promotions, and even other information from other of our businesses and select third parties.
Understand trends in how the visitors to our Services interact with any of our ads, content, and features on our Services.
Assist our advertisers contact you by e-mail.
Conduct market or audience analysis and related reporting (e.g. to determine whether the ads displayed are effective).
Security and Fraud Prevention.
Enforce our legal rights or comply with the law.
Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with applicable law, and enforce our terms of service on the applicable website.
We may also use your personal information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your personal information, provided we have obtained the required consent.
We share your information with any of our other Group Brands. The Brands covered by this Privacy Statement share your personal information with each other and will use that information as described in this Privacy Statement.
Our Brands also share your personal information with other businesses owned by us, which have their own privacy statements and are not subject to this Privacy Statement.
Service Providers. We may engage certain service providers from time to time to provide services such as credit-card and billing processing, shipping, marketing, advertising optimization and interest-based targeting, e-mail and text message distribution, data processing, mobile analytics, website analytics, user authentication, security, and promotions management. We may also share any personal information we collect about you with these service providers and also authorize them to collect personal information from you directly to support the services that they provide to us. We do not authorize our service providers to share or use your personal information with any other third parties.
Social Media Platforms. We may offer features made available by social media platforms). Some social media platforms may also collect personal information directly from you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies which may differ from ours. Some social media platforms may also act as our data partners.
Advertisers. With the help of the advertisers who may promote their products and services on our Services
we are then able to provide most of our Services and other content to you for free. Brands with ad-supported Services share aggregate visitor information with advertisers, including information about your demographics, internet activity information, interests, and preferences. In some cases, we may share contact information (e.g. your name, age, and/or e-mail address) or online identifiers with these advertisers. If you register for a special e-mail offer from one of our advertisers, our Brands will also share your e-mail address and any other personal information you provided with your request with the advertisers you selected.
Data Partners. Some of our Brands may provide select third-party data partners with lists of our user e-mail addresses in a hashed, encrypted, or anonymized form that they use to recognize you. These data partners may provide us with additional personal information about you (e.g. Your interests, preferences, or demographic information). Other data partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to enable the delivery of interest-based advertising to users. We do not authorize our data partners to share your e-mail address with their other clients.
Legal Compliance, Business Transfers, and Other Disclosures. We disclose personal information about users of our Services when we may believe the law requires it. This may include, for instance; to respond to compulsory process or law enforcement requests, to enforce our terms of service for relevant brands, to protect the rights, property, or safety of users, the public, ourselves, service providers, social media platforms, advertisers, data partners, or third parties. Over time, we may also reorganize and/or transfer various assets and lines of business. We at all times reserve the right to disclose or transfer any personal information we collect to third parties in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, foreclosure, liquidation, amalgamation, or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance, or financing of all or any portion of our business(s).
Your Rights. You have the:
Right to Know: You have the right to ask us to tell you what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you.
Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to ask us to delete the personal information we collect or maintain about you.
Right to Be Free from Discrimination: You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
Right to Access or Correct Your Personal Information: You have the right to request access to and to edit certain personal information that you have provided to us through our Services.
U.S.A.: If you are in the U.S. and wish to exercise your rights the following apply:
Information and Deletion Requests. To exercise your right to information on our data-collection practices on the Services or request deletion of the personal information on the Services, please let us know at support @ acinghealth . com. We will first need to verify that you are who you say you are before we delete or share any personal information with you. You may need to provide us with a copy of your utility bill so that we can then be able to verify your identity. After submitting your request, you will be sent a confirmation e-mail and will need to click on the link provided. If you are a postal subscriber, you will need to confirm your subscription information in order to verify your request.
Authorized Agents. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. If so, you need to contact us in writing at the designated e-mail address above and include permission that you have designated that agent to make the request, and/or forward to us proof of the agent‘s power of attorney. We may follow up with you to verify your identity before processing your authorized agent’s request.
Marketing Communications.
Postal Mail. To remove your name and postal address from lists that we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or to opt out of receiving marketing offers for other of our magazines and products by mail, please send your request to us in a letter addressed to The Compliance officer, Opt-Out Postal, Attn: The Compliance officer: Alaziac, Suite 509,Private Bag X503 Northway KZN 4065 South Africa. Note that if you choose to opt out of our promotional mailings, you may still receive renewal notices and related offers for any magazines or similar subscriptions to which you subscribe.
E-mail. You can opt out from any of our e-mail newsletters or other e-mail list by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message or by visiting E-mail Preferences (offered by some of our Brands) on our Services and updating your preferences. You may also directly email support @acinghealth . com and the process will be taken up further from there. If you no longer want to receive third-party e-mail offers that you requested through our Services, follow the advertiser’s unsubscribe link or opt-out instructions that should be included in every commercial message you receive.
Opt Out of Cookies and Other Technologies.
There are a few ways to opt out of or delete cookies:
On Your Browser (Chrome, Safari, etc.). The settings of the browser you use give you an option to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences). Please be aware that certain browsers cannot block or delete so-called Flash cookies, which use a feature of the Adobe Flash video player to store information on your computer. For information about how to delete Flash cookies, please visit the Adobe website. This will opt you out of cookies on the browser you are using. If you use multiple browsers, you will need to take this step for all relevant browsers.
Please note that denying all or certain cookies may result in a less personalized experience with some of the Services offered on the website.
Opt Out on a Mobile Device. Depending on your device and operating system, you may be able to reset your mobile device’s advertising identifier to limit this data collection or prevent the collection of usage data across unaffiliated applications for interest-based advertising purposes, by accessing the privacy settings on your mobile device. Each operating system, iOS for Apple devices, Android for Android devices, and Windows for Microsoft devices, provides its own instructions. Visit the privacy settings for your mobile device or contact your platform operator for more information.
Opt Out of Nielsen’s Tracking Technologies. Some of our advertisers and Brands may use Nielsen’s measurement services, which contribute to market research, like Nielsen’s TV and Online Campaign Ratings service. Nielsen’s pixel may be in some of the ads on our Services and will record whether or not you viewed the ad. Nielsen uses the data it collects to create ratings reports for advertisers and publishers. For more information about Nielsen’s information collection practices and any related opt-out choices, please see the Nielsen. com privacy policy on their site.
Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising.
We may follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Principles (“Principles”) for Online Behavioral advertising.
To opt out of our use of your website viewing data to serve interest-based advertising on the websites of other companies and e-mail newsletters, visit the DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.
You can also click on the Ad Choices located in the footers of our webpages and navigate to the consumer opt-out form.
Most of the third-party advertising and data companies we may work with, which may include DoubleClick and Google, would subscribe to the DAA Principles and/or are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). To learn more about the information-collection practices of NAI members and your related opt-out choices, please visit the NAI’s website.
You must opt out separately from each computer or device and browser that you use to access our Services, and if you clear your cookies, you will need to repeat the opt-out process.
Mobile App Advertising and Tracking.
Some of our Brands may collect personal information from your mobile device, including unique advertising identifiers and the names and IDs of apps you have installed, as well as information about how you use our mobile applications and other unaffiliated applications. We and our partners may use this personal information to enable interest-based advertising you receive through our Services and within third-party apps and other marketing channels.
Do Not Track
We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards set out in this Privacy Statement and offer the opt-out choices described above.
We and our Brands do not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 16 to provide us with any personal information online. Children should always get permission from their parents before sharing any personal information about themselves over the internet. If you are under the age of 16, please do not register for the Services or provide us with any personal information.
Contests and Other Co-Sponsored Promotions. From time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes, quizzes or other promotions. Participation in these promotions may require registration on our Services. We may share your registration information with co-sponsors or other third parties involved in the promotion that we identify in the rules or entry materials. Note that we do not control these third parties’ privacy practices and also that our Privacy Statement does not apply to their collection and use of your personal information. We may also share some of your entry information with third parties or the public in connection with the administration of the promotion, and this may include inter-alia the winner selection, prize fulfillment and otherwise as may be permitted by the promotion’s official rules, such as on list of winners.
Security, Retention, and Storage of Personal Information. We use commercially reasonable procedures to protect the personal information that we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that personal information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.
Location of Your Data. Your personal information will be transferred to, processed, stored, and accessed by us, and service providers in the United States and/or in other jurisdictions where we or they operate, which may not provide you with the same level of privacy protection as you are entitled to in your jurisdiction. When you visit our Services or use our Brands, you consent to the processing of your personal information in the United States and any other jurisdictions as described here.
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. We adhere where U.S. jurisdiction does apply to us and to that extent, to the principles of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield Principles”) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union (“EU”) to the United States; however, we do not rely on the Privacy Shield Principles when we transfer or receive personal information transferred from the EU. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Statement and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles will govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, please visit the Privacy Shield website.
We are responsible for the processing of personal information it receives under the Privacy Shield Principles or subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. We comply with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers from the EU and European Economic Area (“EEA”), including onward transfer liability provisions.
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles where applicable, we commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us at support @ acinghealth .com.
We are further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to an established alternative dispute-resolution provider at a location and as determined at our sole discretion.
Changes to Our Privacy Statement. Digital technology is rapidly evolving, and should we decide to change our Privacy Statement in the future, we’ll post the changes here and unless otherwise noted, all changes will be effective when posted.
This section contains information on the personal information we collect about residents of California ( “California Consumers”), including the sources of that personal information, how that personal information is used, with whom it is shared, and the rights that California Consumers have under California law. Our collection of your personal information, our data-sharing practices, and your privacy rights are discussed below.
I. Our Collection of Personal Information
We may collect:
Online Identifiers (IP addresses, device IDs, and other internal and third-party identifiers we use to recognize you online).
Contact Information (name, e-mail, postal address, ZIP code, and telephone number).
Location Information, including information about your precise location that we collect from your device (in limited circumstances) and/or information about your general location derived from your IP address.
Internet Activity Information including; your use of our Services, your interactions with the e-mails we send to you, and your activities on other websites you visit, which include the web pages, content, and advertisements you view and links you click on, and whether you open, forward, or click the links in e-mails we send to you; your browsing history; and social media you use, including the “shares” and “likes” you make on a social media platform that is connected to the Services).
Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data (including purchase behaviors).
Demographic Information, such as: age, gender, race, education level, income information, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status such as the presence of children/child age ranges, household size, own/rent indicator, and the length of time at your residence).
Account/Registration Information including username and password, reminder questions and answers, subscription and/or account numbers, and communication preferences such as which newsletters you would like to receive when you provide us with that information.
Payment Information such as billing address, shipping address, credit card or bank account number, expiration date, and card verification number, when you provide it to us as applicable.
Loyalty Account Information, should we run such program, including account name and password, points, and reward selection.
Health/Fitness Information which may include inter-alia: body type, general health, physical injuries, exercise and activity levels, weight-loss objectives, dietary preferences, and other personal related information voluntarily disclosed by you when you provide that information to us ).
Other Personal Information That Consumers Voluntarily Choose to Provide, which may include inter-alia: photos, comments, videos, letters, statements or results or personal information about others that you post or submit on our Services.
Sources of Personal Information:
Yourself (when you register on our Services, subscribe to one of our publications, or otherwise submit personal information to us).
Our advertisers who place ads on services.
Our data partners (these are companies that give us personal information about you to help us and our advertisers understand who you are and what you may be interested in).
Pixels, cookies, and other tracking technologies (which collect personal information about you when you visit our Services online).
How Do Our Brands Use Personal Information?
To Provide the Services to You In Order:
To contact you for instance; to deliver our newsletters, e-emails, messages, telephone calls, surveys, and other communications to you.
To fulfill your subscriptions, orders, and other requests.
To create and manage, where applicable, your account when you register on our Services, and provide you with your membership benefits as may apply.
For Advertising and Marketing:
To market our services to you.
To combine with other personal information, we receive from our data partners to help us learn more about you, your interests, and your preferences so that we can customize your experience on our Services, which may include also including the content and advertisements displayed to you.
To create consumer segments based on said information above which we share with advertisers looking to sell products we think you may also be interested in.
To serve targeted ads to you on the Services or other websites sites (to help us, our advertisers, and our advertising networks and platforms identify the best ads to display to you on our Services, based on the interests, preferences, and other behavioral data associated with your online identifiers).
To assist us identify you and understand your interests and preferences so that we can customize your experience on our Services, which includes the content and advertisements displayed to you.
To assist our advertisers contact you, directly or online.
For Auditing Our Interactions:
To assist us to measure the effectiveness of the ads on our Services, including to understand whether you click on the ads on our Services and whether you buy the products/services advertised.
For Our and Your Security:
To prevent fraud, including by verifying your identity.
To detect security incidents.
II. Our Data-Sharing Practices
We share the personal information below with our service providers. Our service providers help us send our newsletters to you, fulfill your orders, and provide advertising and marketing services, and for analytics, and carry out other activities that support our business. Our service providers only use the personal information we share with them to provide these services to us.
Categories of personal information we may disclose to our service providers:
Contact Information, Demographic Information, Online Identifiers, Internet Activity Information , Payment Information, Interests, Preferences, Other Behavioral Data, Loyalty Account Information, Health/Fitness Information, Other Personal Information That Consumers Voluntarily Choose to Provide.
Personal Information We Sell to Third Parties
In limited circumstances, some of our Brands may share your personal information with data partners and advertisers whom we allow to use that personal information for their own commercial purposes. These disclosures are considered a sale under California law.
Below are the categories of personal information that some of our Brands sell to third parties:
Contact Information, Online Identifiers, Internet Activity Information, Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data
III. Your Privacy Rights
What Rights Do You Have?
Shine the Light Rights – You have the right to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed certain types of personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year. At our option, we may respond to such requests by providing instructions about how our users can exercise their options to prevent our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Right to Opt Out of a Sale of Personal Information – You have the right to ask us not to sell your information to third parties.
IV. How Do You Submit These Requests to Us?
In addition to the rights detailed in the “ Control Your Use of Personal Information” section above, California residents can:
Contact us to exercise your Shine the Light Rights at support@acinghealth.com.
Opt Out of Sales. To opt out of the sale of your identifying personal information by Brands covered by this Privacy Statement let us know to do so and then follow the procedures sent back to you from support@acinghealth.com. To opt out of the sale of your personal information via cookies you can follow the same procedure and also note that you will need to renew this choice on every website you visit and each time you clear your cookies or use a new browser or device.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or its implementation, please contact us via e-mail or in writing to:
Alaziac
Suite 509,Private Bag X503
Northway KZN 4065
South Africa
support@acinghealth.com
Attn: Legal Department, Privacy Office
