Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. USE AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IS GOVERNED BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

General
Garden of Life, Inc. ("Garden of Life") respects the privacy of visitors to the Garden of Life Web site (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy governs Garden of Life's use and collection of information from you in connection with your use of the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may provide to us through other means, including, via electronic mail, telephone or other means.

Use by Children
Use of the Site by persons under the age of 18 is not intended by Garden of Life.

Information Collection
We do not collect personally identifiable information about you, except when you provide it to us. If you elect to complete a survey, or otherwise disclose, submit or offer information, comments, feedback, suggestions, recipes and ideas to Garden of Life, you may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information such as your name, electronic mail address, mailing address, gender, birth date, age and telephone number. Garden of Life does not solicit or collect medical or health care information, please do not provide any medical or heath care information to Garden of Life.

When you submit your personally identifiable information to Garden of Life, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as permitted in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU WOULD PREFER THAT GARDEN OF LIFE NOT COLLECT ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FROM YOU, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH ANY SUCH INFORMATION.

In addition to personally identifiable information submitted by you, Garden of Life may gather information on usage patterns and preferences as visitors navigate through the Site. In gathering this information, Garden of Life may use (i) "cookies" or (ii) pixel tags (also called "clear or single-pixel gifs" or "web beacons"). Cookies assign to each visitor and user a unique, random number that resides on your computer and may provide Garden of Life with your IP address. Pixel tags are images contained within pages of the Site that allow Garden of Life to count users who have visited particular pages of the Site or to access certain cookies. Please note that certain functionality of the Site may not work properly if you turn off cookies.

Use of Gathered Information
Information that you provide to, or that is gathered by, Garden of Life will be used to: (i) contact you, including, without limitation, by creating and delivering electronic mail messages, surveys or other communications; (ii) improve the Site; and (iii) market goods and services of third parties to users of the Site.

Without your permission, we will not share the personally identifiable information that you provide to, or that is gathered by, Garden of Life with any third parties except as otherwise provided herein. We will, from time to time, aggregate your information with the information of other users of the Site. Such aggregated information may be used to instruct advertisers on the Site about the Site's audience but will not identify any individual user personally.

Third Parties
Garden of Life may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including, without limitation, hosting the Site and data analysis. Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their services, but may not use such information for any other purpose. In addition, Garden of Life may enter into agreements with third parties for such third parties to market goods and services to users of the Site who have consented to receive promotional messages; provided, however, that any such agreements will (i) permit marketing only to users of the Site who have requested such information and (ii) require such third parties to include conspicuous opt-out procedures in every promotional message sent to permit you to opt out of receiving such messages.

Compliance with Law and Protection of Garden of Life
Garden of Life must reserve the right to release information that you submit or that Garden of Life gathers in order to comply with the law. We may also release such information to enforce or apply the Terms and Conditions of the Site, or protect the rights, property or safety of Garden of Life, our users, or others.

Future Business Transfers
Our business is constantly changing. As part of that process, Garden of Life, or substantially all of its assets, may be acquired by another company, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, and information that you submitted or that Garden of Life gathered may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Protection of Gathered Information
The information that you provide to Garden of Life is saved in a single, secure database, accessible only by Garden of Life (and our third party hosting service that is prohibited from distributing this information). To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of information, we will employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. Unfortunately, no security system is impenetrable and Garden of Life cannot guarantee the security of our database, or that information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Amendments to this Privacy Policy
Garden of Life reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Garden of Life will post such changes not later than the time of implementing the change. This Privacy Policy was posted on December 14, 2003.

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