Privacy Policy

We understand how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of this website and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to the website Nutrikon.com owned and operated by Feline Butcher, Inc. ("Butcher, Inc.") Butcher, Inc. may share information among its subsidiaries or sites that it owns or controls, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

A. Important Information

California law allows any person to provide nutritional advice or give advice concerning proper nutrition--which is the giving of advice as to the role of food and food ingredients, including dietary supplements. This California law does NOT confer authority to practice medicine or to undertake the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of any disease, pain, deformity, injury, or physical or mental condition and specifically does not authorize any person other than one who is a licensed health practitioner to state that any product might cure any disease, disorder, or condition.

No information or interaction with this website is intended to practice medicine, to undertake the diagnosis prevention, treatment or cure of any disease, pain, deformity, injury or physical or mental condition. When you use this website, you should understand that we are not providing medical advice. We encourage you to seek information from your health care provider for your health needs.

B. General Information

This website contains links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Butcher, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit through a link or advertisement on this website.

You may use areas of this website without registration. Specific tools and services on our website require registration. If you use our website without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information (information that is not traceable back to any individual and cannot be used to identify an individual).

To collect this Non-Personal Information we use Cookies. A Cookie is a small data file that is stored on the hard drive of the computer you use to view a website.

Cookies are placed by that site or by a third party with a presence on the site, such as an advertiser and are accessible only by the party or site that placed the Cookie (i.e. a Cookie placed on your computer by us is not accessed by any other site you visit but a Cookie placed on your computer by an advertiser may be accessed by any site on which that same advertiser has a presence).

Cookies can contain pieces of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Butcher, Inc. encrypts any PII it stores in its Cookies. These Cookies often are used to make the site easier to use. For example, if you check a box to ask that we store your user name on your computer so that you don't have to enter it each time you visit the site, it's stored in a Cookie on your computer.

Depending on the tool or service you have selected, we may also collect Personal Health Information. When your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is combined with known health characteristics, it becomes Personal Health Information. For example, if you indicated that you have a certain disease or condition, when that information is combined with your PII, Personal Health Information is created.

You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information and Personal Health Information you submit to Butcher, Inc. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you as contemplated in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.

Most browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about you.

We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when you register and/or when you update your profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you emails about website maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.

C. Newsletters & Emails to You

At registration and at various times as you use this website, you will be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email from Butcher, Inc. and/or directly from third parties. These emails will not contain Personal Health Information. At the time you sign up for our email newsletters or any time thereafter, you can choose to receive additional promotional emails from Butcher, Inc.

In order to subscribe to such newsletters via email, we need your contact information, such as name and email address. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email newsletter. An email to our automated unsubscribe service will be created on your computer. Click the "send" button. You will then be unsubscribed from that newsletter within two to three business days. You may also unsubscribe or change any of your email preferences by clicking on the applicable links in your email newsletter or by changing your profile via the website.

In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the website of a third party which, acting on behalf of Butcher, Inc., notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.

When you use our website’s "Email a Friend", the website emails the article or other content you designate to your friend's email address and identifies your email address as the sender. Butcher Inc. uses the friend's email address to send your friend the particular email you requested.

D. Emails You Send to Butcher, Inc.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to Butcher, Inc. by email. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to us. We try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not always able to do so.

E. Message Boards and other Public Forums

As a service to our users, our website features message boards, chat rooms and other public forums where users with similar interests or medical conditions can share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer.

Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a chat room, message board, posting or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes.

F. Website Registration and Interactive Tools

After you have registered with the website, you may choose to use certain interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself including Personal Health Information. Some of the tools do not retain your Personal Health Information, while others store your Personal Health Information in accordance with the authorization you provide at the time you use the tool.

G. Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither Butcher, Inc. nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian, however, may use the website for a minor. The parent or guardian is solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use of the website. The parent or guardian assumes full responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the interpretation and use of any information or suggestions provided for the minor.

H. Market Research

From time to time Butcher, Inc. or its contractors conduct online research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site, our sponsors and opinions on important healthcare issues, through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups.

When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is not used for sales solicitations. When a survey is sponsored by a third party, the survey results are reported to the sponsor. Personally Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by Butcher, Inc. and its service providers and contractors and will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. For market research surveys we will not knowingly accept survey responses from or conduct interviews with any person under the age of 18. Some surveys may provide remuneration to participants such as a small cash fee for your time or an entry into a sweepstakes for a larger prize. Each survey will disclose whether or not it is a paid survey.

In addition to collecting survey responses from our members, Cookies may be used to authenticate respondents or to help you pick up where you left off in a survey. If you have Cookies disabled you may not be able to participate in some studies. Cookies may be used to connect survey data with the website usage characteristics. You will be notified when we would like to use Cookies in this way and your consent will be requested for these Cookies.

I. Information Collected By Third Parties

Sponsors or advertisers on the website may use their own Cookies or other online tracking technologies in the banner advertisements served on the website and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than Butcher, Inc. to serve their ads and to monitor users' responses to ads, and these companies may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies on our website. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the website of such a third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination; this re-direction process should not be apparent to you.

We do not control these third parties' use of cookies or other tools, or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. However, we do require sponsors, advertisers and other third parties who collect cookie or similar information through our website to agree that they will not collect any Personally Identifiable Information from our site without your consent. They have promised us they will not link any non-personal cookie or similar information collected by them on our site to Personally Identifiable Information they or others collect in other ways or from other sites except as may be described in connection with a particular program. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies or similar tools on their own sites.

J. Disclosure of Your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Butcher, Inc. will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We may only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.

The website’s operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to Butcher, Inc. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our website. Unless you specifically request to not receive emails and newsletters from Butcher, Inc., these contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for Butcher, Inc. We also contractually require that our operations and maintenance contractors 1) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and 2) not use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.

K. Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Websites

Certain content and services offered to you through our website are served on websites hosted and operated by a company other than Butcher, Inc. ("Third Party Contractor Web sites"). Butcher, Inc. does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Contractor Web sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other Web sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Butcher, Inc. does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Web sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other Web site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. Butcher, Inc. makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our website and enter a Third Party Contractor Web site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" followed by the name of a company other than Butcher, Inc., then you are on a Web site hosted by a company other than Butcher, Inc.

Butcher, Inc. also provides links to sites provided by Third Party Contractor Websites that have business arrangements with Butcher, Inc. to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through Butcher, Inc. An example of this would be _____________.

L. Limitations on Removing or Changing Information

Upon your request, we will delete your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our servers.

K. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Personally Identifiable Information - We will inform you if a material change to the Privacy Policy, which means a change that expands the permissible uses or disclosures of Personally Identifiable Information allowed by the prior version of the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this website will indicate acceptance of the changes. You may of course choose to discontinue use of the website. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.

Personal Health Information - We will inform you if a material change in the Privacy Policy is made that involves the use of your Personal Health Information, and your express authorization will be requested. If you choose to not accept the new privacy policy, then the current privacy policy conditions will remain in effect, so long as our website continues to make the functionality available. Butcher, Inc. reserves the right to discontinue or limit functionality in all its products.

Non-Significant Changes – Butcher, Inc. may make non-significant changes to the Privacy Policy that do no affect Personally Identifiable Information or Personal Health Information. For these instances, Butcher, Inc. may not notify the user of such non-significant changes.