Privacy Policy for www.ourbiggestloser.com

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At www.ourbiggestloser.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by www.ourbiggestloser.com and how it is used.

Email Addresses

We collect your email address for the purposes of registration to this site. We may use this email address from time to time to relay important information related to www.ourbiggestloser.com such as information relating to password changes, site outages, site changes or where you have requested to be notified by email in relation to activities on the site (such as the notifications which can be selected in your Email Alerts Page).

We will NEVER under any circumstances provide your email address to third parties unless we have requested and received permission from you to do so.

Your Personal Information

This site is about collecting and tracking your weight loss and so from time to time you will enter your weight into the system. These weight entries will be stored in our database. The database also contains other information which you provide when you register on the site such as email address (see above), name, username and password. Your password is stored in an encrypted format and no one will have access to it. No one except a person logged into www.ourbiggestloser.com with your username and password will be able to access your personal weight history. Other users will only be able to see a value which represents your current weight as a percentage of the first weight that you entered on the site. That is all anyone else except you will ever be able to see.

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, www.ourbiggestloser.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies

www.ourbiggestloser.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customise Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.