What personal data we collect and why we collect it

a) Personal Information Protection and Privacy


Minds Well Fed understands how important your privacy is. We are committed to protecting your privacy and any personal information we collect about you. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about what personal information we collect and how and why we collect it, to outline the steps we take to keep your personal information confidential, and to provide you with contact information at Minds Well Fed should you have questions or concerns about our personal information protection practices.

b) What is personal information?

“Personal information” is personally identifiable information such as your name, residential address and e-mail address and includes information about your products, services, subscriptions and usage, credit card information and billing records. It does not include the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization.

c) What type of personal information does Minds Well Fed collect? Minds Well Fed collects various types of personal information. We may collect any of the following:

  1. Your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name and expiration date, when you purchase products or services from us or products from the online Minds Well Fed shop. By purchasing a product or service from us you consent to have your email address added to a Minds Well Fed mailing list with the purpose of updating you on your purchase, delivering virtual products, informing you of upcoming news, events, updates, promotions and contests pertaining to Minds Well Fed.
  2. Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our events. This personal information might include your name, profession, e-mail address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password and computer information.
  3. Personal information you provide to us when you participate in any of our on-line programs, other meeting spaces, blogs or forums. This personal information might include your name, profession, e-mail address, phone number, photograph, answers to specific questions, password and computer information. The personal information you provide to us when participating in our online programs, meeting spaces, blogs or forums may be used for marketing purposes.
  4. Personal information you provide to us when you participate in one of our contests, sweepstakes or surveys. This information may include your name, email address and street address, and the answers to survey questions. The personal information you provide to us when participating in these promotions, surveys and contests may be used for marketing purposes.
  5. Personal information you provide to us when subscribing to our newsletters or emails or when you use our web site, www.mindswellfed.ca. This personal information might include your name, billing/shipping address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name and expiration date.
  6. Your personal information from our business partners and other third parties provided they have agreed to obtain your consent before disclosing your personal information to us.
  7. Certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to our web site www.mindswellfed.ca.  This information is collected from your computer’s Web browser to enhance your experience on our web site and may include your IP address, operating system, Web browser software, screen resolution, and referrer Web site.

d) How Does Minds Well Fed collect personal information?

We collect personal information that is voluntarily provided to us by our customers, members, sponsors, web site users and the public in general when they contact us via telephone, e-mail, web browser, or in person. As mentioned above, we may also collect personal information from our business partners and other third parties who have agreed to obtain the consent of the person the information pertains to before disclosing the information to us. Minds Well Fed may also collect personal information through the following means:

  1. Cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a web site user’s computer hard drive containing information about the user. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. Minds Well Fed can use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to disclose your individual identity. A cookie will identify your browser, but not you, to our computer servers when you visit our web site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can set your browsers to refuse cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be limited in some areas of our web site.
  2. Web beacons.To assess the effectiveness of promotional and marketing e-mails we send, we may attach a web beacon to the email that provides us with confirmation when the recipient opens the e-mail. This only occurs if the recipient’s computer supports such technology.
  3. Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  4. Gravatar: An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  5. Embedded content from other websites. Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

e) Why does Minds Well Fed collect your Personal Information?


Minds Well Fed may collect personal information about you and use it for the following reasons:

  1. To provide products and services to you, to inform you of changes and other relevant information pertaining to your purchase, to bill you when you make a purchase from us, to acknowledge your support and to provide that information to the Canada Revenue Agency and to contact you when necessary for these purposes.
  2. To provide you with services or recognition you request.
  3. For marketing purposes. We may use your contact information to send you emails about promotions, surveys, contests and special events or providing other marketing information to you. Promotional e-mails are intended to inform you of new or unique opportunities, events or special deals that are available from Minds Well Fed. You can opt not to receive these emails from us by either clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email when you receive it or by sending an email that includes your e-mail address and a request that you not receive our promotional e-mails. In addition, we may send you postal mail notifying you of promotions, surveys, contests or special events or providing other marketing information to you. You can unsubscribe from this postal mail service by sending an e-mail with “unsubscribe” in the subject line to hello@mindswellfed.ca that includes your e-mail address and street address. This information will only be used to remove your from our list of recipients of marketing emails and mail.
  4. To improve the quality of your visit to our web site. We use electronic information such as “cookies” to improve your use of our web site. We collect certain information (e.g., purchasing trends) based on your navigation of our web site to better understand and serve our customers, members and web site visitors. This data allows us to streamline your ability to navigate our web site and develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our customers and members and web site visitors.
  5. To improve our service offerings. We monitor and analyze the use of our service offerings in order to determine which services are popular and useful to our customers, members and web site visitors so that we can improve them.
  6. To better understand your interests. Minds Well Fed may also prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries to describe our services and their popularity to our business partners and prospective advertisers and for other lawful purposes. The aggregated user statistics and information will not contain any personally identifiable information.
  7. To provide a secure and safe environment for our visitors.
  8. To co-operate with law enforcement and to protect against violations of criminal or civil laws.
  9. We may use your personal information to respond when you submit a question or suggestion to us, or when you request assistance viewing your purchase(s).
  10. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

3) THE DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Minds Well Fed takes your privacy very seriously and WILL NEVER sell or rent any personal information we collect. When you buy a product or products through our website (www.mindswellfed.ca), Minds Well Fed discloses your personal information to a third party service provider for production, fulfillment and shipping of your order (as applicable). Minds Well Fed takes steps to ensure that each of our service providers to whom we share personal information are committed to maintaining the privacy of such information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

4) HOW MINDS WELL FED PROTECTS YOUR PRIVACY

Minds Well Fed is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as restricted access and the use of passwords and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We are committed to respecting your privacy at all times. 

All information submitted to our web site or email addresses is transferred to Minds Well Fed. During an on-line transaction, this information is submitted using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. SSL-enabled web browsers employ a security protocol between the client and the server computer in order to ensure that information will be transferred to the intended recipient secured servers only.

Minds Well Fed will keep your personal information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.

There are several places throughout our web site that may link you to other web sites that do not operate under Minds Well Fed’s Privacy Policy. When you click through to these web sites, Minds Well Fed’s Privacy Policy no longer applies. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements of any third-party web sites you visit to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information. Minds Well Fed makes no promises, warranties or representations about these third party web sites and bears no liability whatsoever for your use of them.

The internet is, by its nature, inherently open and subject to interception of information. We cannot guarantee that information you provide to us over the internet or otherwise will not be intercepted by third parties while it is being communicated by means that are outside of our control.

5) YOUR CONSENT

By choosing to provide us with your personal information you are consenting to its collection, use and disclosure in accordance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide any personal information to us without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law. Minds Well Fed encourages you to review our on-line Privacy Policy on a periodic basis. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time-to-time and your subsequent use of our web site will be your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you don’t want Minds Well Fed to collect, use or disclose your personal information as outlined in this Privacy Policy, please tell us at the time the information is requested or collected. You can also contact Minds Well Fed’s Owner, Alyssa Flegg, at 844 366-3432 or by email with any questions or concerns.

6) VERIFYING AND AMENDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Minds Well Fed tries to ensure that all personal information about you that is in our possession is accurate, complete and up-to-date. To enable us to do so, please inform the person to whom you provided your personal information of any change to that information.

You can inquire about, access and review your personal information held by Minds Well Fed and make corrections to it. Please contact us by sending an email to our Customer Relations (hello@mindswellfed.ca) for assistance with these matters. In some cases Minds Well Fed will be prevented from disclosing the requested information to you. If any request you make for access to personal information is denied, we will provide you with an explanation.

7) RESOLVING YOUR CONCERNS

If you have any questions or concerns about Minds Well Fed’s personal information collection, use and disclosure practices, please let us know and we will do our best to help you. You can contact Alyssa Flegg, at 844 366-3432 or by email with any questions or concerns.