Introduction GLUTEN.ORG ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, gluten.org. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.
Information We Collect
• Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you voluntarily submit to us through forms or our contact page.
• Usage Data: Information about your interaction with the site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
How We Use Your Information
• To Provide and Maintain Our Service: To present our website and its contents to you.
• To Manage Your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the site.
• To Improve Our Website: To understand and analyze how you use our website, and to develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• To Communicate with You: To respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer service.
• For Marketing and Promotional Purposes: To send you news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer.
Cookies
• What Are Cookies? Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.
• How We Use Cookies: We use cookies for various purposes, including essential functions, analytical purposes, functionality enhancements, and advertising targeting.
• How to Manage Cookies: You can manage cookies through your web browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, disabling cookies may affect your browsing experience and some features of the website may not function properly.
• More Information: For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
• Consent: You have given your consent for us to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes.
• Contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
• Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Data Retention We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Sharing Your Information
• With Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, and payment processing.
• For Legal Purposes: We may disclose your information where required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Data Security
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.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
• Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• 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.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We do not sell personal information.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for exercising your privacy rights. Exercising Your Rights To exercise any of your rights, please contact us using one of the following methods:
• By Email: Send an email to admin(at)gluten.org with the subject line "Privacy Rights Request."
• By Phone: Call us at 253-833-6655.
• By Mail: Write to us at 31214 124th Ave SE Auburn, WA 98092
When submitting a request, please provide us with sufficient information that allows us to verify you are the person about whom we have collected personal information (or an authorized representative). This may include:
• Your name
• Your email address
• A description of your request and any specific details that will help us process it
We will respond to your request within the time frame required by applicable law.
International Data Transfers
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 from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the 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.
Automated Decision-Making
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
• By email: admin(at)gluten.org
• By visiting this page on our website: https://gluten.org/contact/
• By phone: 253-833-6655