Privacy Policy for Summit Sprout

Summit Sprout is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our wellness homepage, including personalized health insights, daily wellness blogs, curated product recommendations, lifestyle upgrade guides, community feedback forums, expert interviews, and interactive goal-setting tools. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on our site includes:

Personal Data

• Voluntarily Provided Information: We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when you register for an account, participate in our community forums, subscribe to our newsletters, respond to surveys, engage with our interactive goal-setting tools, or request information about our services. This may include your name, email address, age, gender, health-related information (e.g., fitness goals, dietary preferences, wellness interests), and any other information you choose to provide.
• User-Generated Content: Information you post to our community feedback forums or other public areas of our site, such as comments, reviews, or testimonials.

Derivative Data

• Information our servers automatically collect when you access our site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the site. This data helps us to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement around the site, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

• We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the site to help customize the site and improve your experience. When you access the site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the site.

2. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via our online platform to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Deliver personalized wellness insights, daily blogs, and lifestyle upgrade guides.
• Provide curated product recommendations based on your preferences.
• Enable you to participate in community feedback forums and interactive goal-setting tools.
• Send you newsletters and other information about our services.
• Process your requests and respond to your inquiries.
• Improve the efficiency and operation of our site.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the site.
• Perform other business activities as needed.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

By Law or to Protect Rights

• If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.

Third-Party Service Providers

• We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

Marketing Communications

• With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

Other Third Parties

• We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis.

Affiliates

• We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

4. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Once we no longer have a legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.

6. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we 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. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

7. Transfers of Information Outside the EEA

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

8. Children's Privacy

Our site is not intended for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child under the age of 18 without parental consent, please contact us immediately, and we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: