Privacy Policy

Lifestyle Medicine Maine is committed to protecting your privacy on this website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand how we collect and use your personal data. 

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This Privacy Policy describes how Lifestyle Medicine Maine, LLC (“LMME”, “we”, “our”, “us”, "Company") collects, uses and shares information about you gathered through our website (“Website”), your interaction with the Website, and your sharing of information on the Website and/or Company via phone, email, text, and other electronic messages or purchases between you and the Company, collectively referred to as Services.

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Please read this notice carefully to understand how we use, disclose and otherwise manage the personal information we collect about you. If you do not understand any aspects of this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us (our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy). This Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any contractual rights or obligations.

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We are constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Unless we say otherwise, changes will be effective upon the last updated date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will attempt to notify you and/or obtain your consent as required by law. Your use of the Services after changes to this Privacy Policy means you have accepted the changes.

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A Note About Protected Health Information

If you receive healthcare services from our affiliated licensed professional and owner of Lifestyle Medicine Maine, LLC, we may collect Protected Health Information about you that is governed by HIPAA, either directly from you or from or on behalf of our affiliated professional entity. Where this is the case, we act as a “business associate” to the affiliated licensed professional, and the affiliated professional entity’s Notice of Privacy Practices and our agreements with our affiliated will govern the use of your Protected Health Information, not this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about the use and disclosure of your Protected Health Information, please contact our affiliated licensed professional.

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“HIPAA” means Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and their implementing regulations as amended from time to time. “Protected Health Information” is individually identifiable health information that is protected by HIPAA and that we receive on behalf of Covered Entities, including information regarding your physical and mental health conditions and treatment. “Covered Entity” refers to a health plan, healthcare provider or other entity subject to HIPAA.

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Information We Collect

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Information that you provide to us. We collect information you provide to us through the Services and offline, for example when you create or modify your account, register for our educational courses ("Courses"), purchase products from us, request information from us, contact customer support, fill out any form through the Website, or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include:

- Name
- Address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Payment information, including payment method and billing information. (Our payment processors, receive and process your payment information. Depending on the processor, we may also receive and store certain billing information, including the last four digits of the credit card number associated with the transaction.)
- Username and password
- Photographs, videos or sound recordings
- Any other information requested or provided through a contact form, registration form, email, text or other message through the Services.
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Information We Collect Automatically. Whenever you interact with our Services, we automatically receive and record information from your browser or device using cookies or similar technologies. This information may include your IP address, geolocation data, device identification, the type of browser and/or device you’re using to access our Services, and the page or feature you requested. To learn more about the cookies and other technologies we use, please see our Statement on Cookies and Similar Technologies below.

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The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve the Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to the Services.
We may use this data to customize content for you that we think you might like, based on your usage patterns. We may also use it to improve the Services – for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of a Service, and we can use that knowledge to make the Services more helpful to as many users as possible.

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How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

- present our Services and their contents to you
- provide you with information, products, or other services that you request from us
- fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it
- register and service your online account
- process credit card and debit card transactions
- send you promotional materials or advertisements about our products and services, as well as new features and offerings
- enforce our Terms or other legal rights and remedies
- notify you about changes to our Services or any products we offer or provide
- fulfill any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect  your information or pursuant to your consent.
We may aggregate and/or de-identify information collected by the Services or via other means so that the information is not intended to identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

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How We Share Your Information

Vendors and Service Providers. We may provide Information to third-party vendors and service providers that help us operate and manage our Services and deliver products and Services that you purchase through us. These vendors and service providers will have access to your personal information in order to provide these services.

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‍Third-Party Analytics. We use selected third parties to collect data about how you interact with the Services. This information may be used to, among other things, improve the functionality of our Services.

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With Your Consent. In addition to the sharing described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals when we have your consent to do so.

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Legal Proceedings. We will share personal information with third party companies, organizations or individuals if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

- meet any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
- enforce applicable Terms, including investigation of potential violations;
- detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
- protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Lifestyle Medicine Maine, our users, customers or the public as required or permitted by law.

Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes or we otherwise transfer assets relating to our business or the Services to a third party, such as by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer or sell your personal information to the new owner. In such a case, unless permitted otherwise by applicable law, your information would remain subject to the promises made in the applicable privacy policy.

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Statement on Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our Services use cookies and other data collection technologies described in this section.

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Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive that collects and stores information about your equipment, preferences and browsing patterns. We use cookies to analyze web page traffic, usage patterns, and to tailor our Services to your individual interests. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

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Web Beacons. A web beacon (also referred to as clear gif, pixel tag or single-pixel gif) is a transparent graphic image used in tandem with cookies that enables us to record a user’s actions. We use web beacons to count users who have visited those pages, verify system and server integrity and for similar statistical measures.

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Third-Party Advertising and Analytics. We may allow others to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Services, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links you clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests, and better understand your online preferences. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info/choices.

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The third-party service providers we may use for advertising and analytics include, but are not limited to:

- Google Analytics and Google Ads. Google’s ability to use and share information it collects about your visits to the Services is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. To opt out
of Google Analytics, you may disable cookies on your browser or install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Ad-On.
- Facebook Ads.  Facebook’s ability to use and share information it collects about your visits to the Services is restricted by Facebook’s Privacy Policy. To opt out of Facebook Ads, you can manage your Ad Choices.

- Instagram Ads.  Instagram's ability to use and share information it collects about your visits to the Services is restricted by Instagram's Privacy Policy. To opt out of Instagram Ads, you can manage your Ad Choices.

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Do Not Track. Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature (“DNT”) that signals to the websites that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Many websites and applications, including our Services, do not currently respond to web browser DNT signals because such signals are not yet uniform. For more information about DNT signals, please visit allaboutdnt.com.

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Choices You Have Regarding Your Information

Accessing and Updating Your Information. You may review and request certain changes to the information we have collected about you by contacting us (our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy).

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Text Messages and SMS. Lifestyle Medicine Maine and those acting on our behalf may send you text (SMS) messages at the phone number you provide us. These messages may include operational messages about your use of the Services. You understand that by providing your mobile phone number, you expressly consent to receive automated  text  messages from us  to  the  mobile phone number you  provide. Consent to receiving text messages is not required in order to be a user. Message and data rates may apply, and you should check the rates of your mobile carrier. You can opt out of receiving text messages by texting STOP in response to any text message. We share your mobile phone number with service providers with whom we contract in order to send you automated text messages, but we will not share your mobile phone number with third parties for their own marketing purposes without your express consent.

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Marketing Communications. You may choose to stop receiving marketing, promotional, reminder, or notification emails from us. You can opt-out of these messages following the instruction contained in the message or by contacting us and requesting to opt-out (our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy).

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Retention of Your Information

As a general matter, we will keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. If a law requires us to retain your information for a longer period of time, we will comply with that law. We will also retain your personal information as necessary to protect our legal rights.

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Security of Your Information

We maintain safeguards designed to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of your information in our custody and control. No data, on the Internet or otherwise, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot and do not ensure or warrant the security of your information.

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Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect information, including personal information as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and believe he or she has disclosed personal information to us, you may contact us to request that we delete and stop use of that information (our contact information is at the end of this Privacy Policy). If we learn that we have received any information directly from a child under age 13 without first receiving his or her parent’s verified consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) to inform the child that he or she cannot use the Services. We will then subsequently delete that child’s information.

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Links to Other Websites

Our Services may contain links to other websites and those websites may not follow the same privacy practices as Lifestyle Medicine Maine. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of such third parties to learn more about their privacy practices.

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Information for Users from Outside of the United States

The Services are intended for use only in the United States. If you use the Services or contact us from outside of the United States, please be advised that (1) any information you provide to us or that we automatically collect will be transferred to the United States; and (2) by using the Services or submitting information, you explicitly authorize its transfer to and subsequent processing in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or otherwise need to contact us, please do so by emailing us at info@lifestylemedicinemaine.com

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