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Privacy Policy

Real Food Whole Life found at https://realfoodwholelife.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This policy explains how we collect, use, and share personal data about your when providing services to you through our Website, products, and services linked to this policy, and when you sign up for our emails, leave comments, or interact with our ads, analytics, and social embeds (collectively, “Services”). Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of our information as described in this policy. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed an acceptance of those changes.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

“Personal data” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual. The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

  1. Account and contact information, including name, address, email address, phone number, username, and other contact information you provide us.
  2. Payment information, including credit card or debit card information and information about the payment methods and services you use in connection with the Services.
  3. Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.
  4. Demographic information, including your age, gender, income level, education, or family or marital status, if you have consented to such information collection.
  5. Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city and precise geolocation, if you have enabled and consented to location information collection.
  6. Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
  7. Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications sent to us.

If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. to access our supplemental California privacy statement, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

We also collect:

  1. Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
  2. Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION 

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you create or update an account, place an order, subscribe, or make a purchase or request, participate in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions, or create, upload, or post content to the Services.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  1. Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
  2. Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those parts or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by contacting us here. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include:

  1. Advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers.
  2. Analytics companies.
  3. Your device manufacturer.
  4. Your internet or mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
  • Fulfill and manage subscriptions, purchases, orders, deliveries, payments, returns, and exchanges.
  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information to develop and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them. 
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

  1. Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
  2. Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
  3. Speed up your searches.
  4. Recognize you when you return to our Services.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

  • Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics data usage click here.
  • Kit – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  To learn more about Kit data usage click here.
  • Affiliates & Sponsorships. We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. We follow FTC disclosure guidance.
  • Shopify – this service is used for purchase of our cookbook, both hard copies and e-books. To learn more about Shopify data usage here. 

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us. We may also disclose personal information to contractors and services providers we use to support our organization (and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and only use it for the purposes which we disclose it to them). 

The categories of personal data we may disclose include:

  1. Account and contact information.
  2. Payment information.
  3. Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.
  4. Demographic information.
  5. Location information, including general geographic location and precise geolocation.
  6. Device information.
  7. Content and information you elect to provide to us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website.

You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.

Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information 

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live for advertising, marketing cookies, and other tracking technologies. 

COOKIES

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

ADVERTISING

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Real Food Whole Life is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for marketing purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

YOUR STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

  1. Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible, and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information, and it will be included in the response to your access request.
  2. Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, considering the information’s nature and processing purpose.
  3. Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
  4. Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes.

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us here. 

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain personal data sales. Residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: contact us here. 

If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access our supplemental California privacy statement and learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

HOW WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately here and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. 

CONTACT INFORMATION

At any time, please contact us at here for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

CHANGES

We’ll update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted here with a new “Last updated” date.

Last Updated November 14, 2025

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