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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

 

 

Keeping Personal Data secure is a top priority for Whole Earth Health. (“WEH,” “we,” “us” or “our”). We comply with the various privacy and data protection laws applicable in the countries and markets where we operate. This Privacy Policy outlines our views and practices and how they pertain to you as a Customer, Site visitor, or office visitor. Please note that not all sections of this Privacy Policy may apply to you based on how you interact with us. Please check back periodically, as these policies may change and your subsequent use of the Site will be deemed acceptance of such changes. However, our fundamental commitment to protecting visitors’ privacy will not change. 

 

1.    Who we are 

This website and its contents are property of Whole Earth Health , domiciled at 88 Abbott Place, Fonthill ON L0S 1E5. WEH is an independent marketing affiliate for leading natural health and wellness companies who market and distribute nutritional and personal care products in more than 16 countries through direct marketing techniques with preference to internet based advertising. 

 

2.    What information do we collect? 

Personal Data. We may collect Personal Data from you based on how you interact with us. Personal Data is any information that relates either directly or indirectly to an identified living individual, or legal entity where applicable. In this Privacy Policy, Personal Data includes the terms personally identifiable information, personal information, or any other term used by applicable law. We have outlined the categories of Personal Data we collect in various instances below. If you wish to see how we use Personal Data, please refer to Section 3 “How do we use Personal Data?” 

 

Categories of Personal Data. The general categories of Personal Data we collect are: 

    • Contact information such as name, title, address, email address, telephone or fax numbers; 
    • Financial information such as bank account details, credit/debit card details, copies of bank or other financial statements, and other information necessary to verify or process financial transactions. 
    • Product information such as purchase history, product returns, product preferences; 
    • IT systems information such as technical information about your equipment used to access Sites, your activity on our Sites; 
    • Publicly available information such as identification, content, audio/visual, employment, demographic, or geographic information available via the internet. WEH does not collect information about you from other sources, e.g., public records or bodies, or private organizations. 

Information Collected Automatically. We do not automatically log Personal Data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means to Personal Data about specific individuals. However, we may record certain information that becomes available to us through your use of the Site, including, without limitation, the number of visitors and frequency of visits to the Site, the websites that you access immediately before and after the Site, the Internet browser you use, and your IP address. If we use this information, it is only on an aggregate basis. 

Cookies and Other Similar Technologies. Unlike most websites, we do not use cookies, or distribute data files that may be automatically stored on your computer. 

3.    Why do we collect Personal Data?  

We may collect Personal Data for a number of reasons, including: 

To prepare and perform an agreement with you. This includes agreements that pertain to order processing deliver/take-back products and manage warranties; or payment processing. 

To meet our legal obligations. This includes obligations such as tax and accounting or responding to requests from public authorities. 

To fulfill our legitimate business purposes. This includes purposes such as providing our services; maintaining the security and integrity of our services; to improve the user/member experience of the Site; to enforce our terms of use, policies and procedures and other rights; or to provide you with information that you may request or opt to receive regarding our products and services.  

Because of your consent. You may consent to receive services or offerings; participate in events and challenges; have your information used in connection with marketing of our products and or servicesYou may withdraw your consent as set out below. 


4.    How do we use Personal Data? 

If you choose to provide us with Personal Data, we will use it to provide you with the services you have requested, to serve you with content, to analyze trends, and to enhance your overall experience while visiting the Site.  If you purchase our products, we will also use your Personal Data to (1) provide services to you (such as processing product orders and/or returns and calculating and paying refunds where applicable). 

WEH may share your information with its manufacturing partners who provide products, product support, product guarantees and shipping services. We do not collect, use, or disclose Personal Data for any other purposes that are materially different from the purposes set forth herein. We process Personal Data on legal grounds including (a) fulfilling obligations under a contract to you; (b) to comply with our own legal obligations; (c) when we have a legitimate interest to use Personal Data; or (d) based on your consent. If we wish to process Personal Data for any other purpose stated in this section, we always obtain your consent first and offer you the choice to opt out of such collection, use, or disclosure. 

 

5.    Sharing Information with Third Parties 

WEH may use internal and external service providers to operate the Site and perform other work on our behalf in the course of providing you with services you have requested such as developing the Site; fulfilling orders; delivering packages; administrative or accounting functions; and providing customer service. These service providers may have access to your Personal Data, but are contractually bound to use your Personal Data only for the purpose of performing their duties. Even so, we remain responsible for your Personal Data and in cases of onward transfer to third parties of data of EEA data subjects received pursuant to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, WEH is potentially liable. Some of these service providers may be established in countries that offer less privacy protection than your country of residence. 

WEH does not currently sell, trade or rent your Personal Data to any unaffiliated third parties for marketing purposes. We value your privacy and will not jeopardize our relationship with you by selling your information to solicitors without your prior consent. WEH may, however, share your Personal Data to fulfill our legal obligations (i) in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) in response to lawful requests by private parties, in connection with a lawsuit, subpoena, investigation or similar proceeding, (iii) to respond to a matter of personal or public safety, (iv) to investigate security incidents, (v) to protect our interests, rights and property, or (v) in the event of a sale or transfer of assets, or in the context of similar business negotiations. 

 

6.    Security of Information 

WEH takes administrative, technical and physical measures to help ensure that your Personal Data remains accurate, timely and secure. However, no data transmission over the Internet, or through an electronic database, is guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we strive to protect your information through measures such as the following steps, we cannot guarantee or warrant its security: WEH uses Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to ensure a secure connection whenever transmitting or receiving Personal Data. With SSL, information transmitted between two computers via the Internet is sent in an encrypted format so that only the sending and receiving computers can decode it. SSL ensures that no one intercepts any of your Personal Data while it is being transferred to us. A secure connection is maintained until the checkout process is either completed or canceled. 

WEH restricts access to Personal Data to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to perform their jobs. They are obligated to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Data and may be disciplined or terminated for failing to meet these obligations. 

 

7.    Data Integrity & Access or Corrections 

WEH keeps Personal Data in active files or systems as long as necessary in order to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required to perform our contractual relationship with our company and affiliated support services. After a or Customer terminates his or her relationship with us, we must keep some information for accounting purposes and for compliance purposes. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information is accurate and complete and will update or correct your information as needed when notified by you. You may request copies of your Personal Data by contacting us at our contact information listed below in Section 11

Depending on the law in your area, you may have various rights concerning Personal Data, which may include, a right of access, rectification, restriction of or objection to processing (including for direct marketing), portability to another controller, or erasure. You may exercise some of these rights by contacting WEH through the contact information provided below. Please be aware that the rights listed above may be subject to various limitations set out by law. 

  

8.     Children 

The Site is a general audience website and is not designed or targeted at children. WEH does not knowingly collect, use or disseminate any Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you believe we may have collected information from your child on the Sites, please contact us and we will make reasonable efforts to delete the information from our records. 

 

9.      Third-Party Links 

The Site may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties over which we have absolutely no control. Any information you provide to third party websites will be governed under the terms of each websites’ privacy policy and we encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing any information to the operators of third party websites. We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content, actions or policies of third party websites. The inclusion of third party websites on our Site in no way constitutes an endorsement of such websites’ content, actions or policies. 

 

10   Privacy Shield Statement. EU Personal Data Transfers 

WEH does not market any products or services in countries within the European Union. We are preparing to move into those markets at a future date to be determined by manufacturers that provide logistical and shipping services in these jurisdictions.

In preparation , WEH
 recognizes that the European Union and its member states have a data protection regime that generally restricts the transfer of Personal Data about individuals located in the EU to recipients located outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”).WEH complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and the United Kingdom to the United States in reliance on Privacy Shield. 

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, WEH commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals will be able to make inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact WEH at:  

Whole Earth Health

88 Abbott Place

Fonthill, Ontario, Canada
L0S-1E5
Info@wholeearthhealth.com

866-503-7116

 

11   California Privacy Rights 

 The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides individuals in California with specific rights regarding their Personal Data. WEH does not discriminate against anyone for exercising rights under the CCPA. This section describes specific rights under the CCPA and how to exercise them. Exercising these rights is subject to WEH receiving and confirming a verifiable request, which process is outlined below. 

 

Collection, Sale, and Disclosure of Personal Data 

Information regarding the categories of Personal Data that WEH collects, the categories of sources from which WEH collects this information, and the business purposes for which WEH collects this information, can be found in the sections tilted “What information do we collect?” and “How do we use Personal Data?” set forth above in this Privacy Policy. 

 

Within the past 12 months, WEH has disclosed for business purposes the following categories of Personal Data to our service providers, as well as with any third party with whom you have instructed us to share this information: 

    • Identifiers (i.e. name, address, IP address, email address, account name, etc.); 
    • Personal Information collected under California Civil Code Section 1798.80; 
    • Commercial Information (i.e. purchasing history or tendencies); 
    • Internet Activity (i.e. browsing or search history, interactions with our Sites); and 

 

We disclose the above-listed categories of Personal Data for business purposes, such as enabling your use of our Sites, services, and products; communicating with you; understanding how you interact with our Sites, services, and products; improving our products, services, and other offerings; helping to detect and prevent against fraud; fulfilling orders; delivering packages; performing administrative or accounting functions; providing customer service; and complying with applicable laws and regulations. 

 

Under the current definitions contained in the CCPA, WEH does not sell, and has not sold in the past 12 months, any personal information. 

 

CCPA Rights 
California residents have the right to ask WEH to disclose what personal information WEH collects and uses. Upon receipt and verification of a verifiable request, WEH will provide an individual with the following information: 

    • Specific pieces of personal information that WEH possess; 
    • the categories of personal information WEH has collected in the preceding 12 months; 
    • the categories of sources from which WEH collected personal information; the business or commercial purpose for which WEH   collects personal information; the categories of third parties with whom WEH   shares personal information; and 
    • whether WEH has sold or disclosed personal information for a business purpose and, if so, a list of the categories of personal information sold or disclosed. 

 

A right of access request under the CCPA is free of charge up to two (2) times in a 12-month period. WEH will not respond to requests that are unfounded, fraudulent, repetitive, harassing, or excessive.  

 

California residents also have the right to ask WEH to delete personal information that WEH has collected about them. An individual may submit a verifiable request to delete following the instructions below. 

 

Upon receipt of a verifiable request to delete, WEH will delete personal information from our records and notify our service providers to delete the same personal information from their records. Please note, WEH may delete some information and deidentify some information. In cases where WEH  deidentifies information, WEH  implements technical safeguards and business processes as outlined in Section 4 “Security of Information”. 

 

WEH may not be able to comply with a deletion request if it is necessary for WEH to keep information in order to, among other things, provide goods or services requested, maintain an ongoing business relationship, comply with legal obligations, protect against fraudulent or illegal activity, or perform other necessary activities as permitted under the CCPA. 

 

How to Exercise Rights Under the CCPA :
A California resident wishing to exercise any rights under the CCPA should submit a request to WEH by either: Emailing us at info@wholeearthhealth.com ; orWriting to us at:

Whole Earth Health

88 Abbott Place

Fonthill, Ontario, Canada
L0S-1E5

 

Please include the following information in your request: 

    • Whether you want to exercise the right to access or delete personal information. 
    • Information WEH may already maintain such as first and last name; the email address you use to interact with WEH ; your ZIP code and the order number or description of products purchased for the last order you placed with WEH (if any). 
    • Whether you are making the request for yourself or for someone for whom you are authorized to act as a designated agent. If you are making the request on behalf of someone else, provide proof of such authorization. 

 WEH will use the information above, and any information it already maintains to verify identity to make sure we do not provide or delete personal information in response to a fraudulent request. WEH may request additional information to help identify an individual or verify that you want your information deleted. If WEH is unable to confirm that the individual making the request is the same person about whom we have collected personal information, we will not be able to complete the request. 

 

WEH will attempt to provide the requested information or confirm completion of a request to delete personal information within 45 days. WEH will notify you within that time period if we will need additional time to process your request. 

 

12. Notice for Nevada Residents Under Nevada law, certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. “Personally identifiable information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online. 

WEH does not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law privacy@natr.com. Please note we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain your request in the event our practices change.  

 

13. Questions and Complaints 

WEH takes your privacy seriously. If you believe we have not complied with this Privacy Policy, please contact us so we can investigate your complaint. 

 

Direct inquiries or concerns about our privacy policy to: 

Whole Earth Health

88 Abbott Place

Fonthill, Ontario, Canada
L0S-1E5
Info@wholeearthhealth.com

866-503-7116

 

Please summarize the nature of your question in the subject line of any email you send.

Thank you for reviewing this policy.