At the same time that AtkinsDietSucks.com is committed to bringing you information tailored to your individual needs, we recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information collected about you. 

AtkinsDietSucks.com does not collect personally identifying information about individuals, except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. 

Web servers serving AtkinsDietSucks.com automatically collect information about which pages each user visits and the domain name of visitors. This is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors and for traffic audits. 

AtkinsDietSucks.com may place a "cookie" on the browser of a AtkinsDietSucks.com user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information. A cookie can be used to tell when your computer has contacted a Web site; we use the information for editorial purposes and for other purposes such as delivery of ads, so we can customize delivery of information without compromising privacy. For example, cookies are used to ensure that you don't see the same ad too many times in a single session. 

A user's personally identifiable information (e.g., name, e-mail address) may be used by AtkinsDietSucks.com for editorial purposes. For example, we may use information provided by you to us as part of an editorial online survey. We may send you e-mails about AtkinsDietSucks.com associations or services as well as on behalf of other companies. 

Except as stated in this privacy policy or at the time of collection, user's personally identifiable information, will not be transferred to a party outside AtkinsDietSucks.com, its divisions, its vendors providing Internet hosting services or third party list managers unless stated at the time of collection. If you do not wish to receive any e-mail or to have us share such information with another party, you may "opt out" at any time by e-mailing us or contacting us by regular mail. 

We do not control the privacy policies of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide hyperlinks. AtkinsDietSucks.com users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others. 

Kids: Be sure to ask your parents for permission before you send any information about yourself, such as like your name, address, or e-mail address, over the Internet, to us or to anyone else and before making any purchases online. 

Parents: We encourage you to get involved with your children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating. Any personally identifiable information collected by AtkinsDietSucks.com that we are aware is from children will be used only for AtkinsDietSucks.com internal purposes such as market research, or for fulfilling requests for information or materials, and may sometimes be included in our database. Such information will not be posted or published by us, or provided to any third parties, without your prior consent. Anonymous aggregated data is sometimes provided to other parties with which we do business, for statistical and market research purposes as described above. Finally you should be aware that if your children voluntarily disclose information such as their names or e-mail addresses on various forums or chat areas, such disclosures may result in unsolicited messages from other parties. 

Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes as soon as they go into effect.