Privacy Policy
GENERAL
Please read this section of our website to learn more about our philosophy and privacy policy. By using our services and viewing this Site, you are consenting to the information collection, use and disclosure practices described in this privacy policy.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that this Site is hosted on our computer servers in the United States. Any personal information collected through this Site may be transferred to the United States and other countries that might not provide an equivalent level of protection as the data protection laws in your home country. Your use of this Site or submission of any personal information will therefore constitute your consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of your home country.
TYPES OF INFORMATION GATHERED
Whole Foods Market Wellness Club may gather the following types of information: (1) personal information given voluntarily while using a feature of this website, for example, during a registration process or purchase, including name, address, phone number, e-mail address, birth date; health and wellness information; financial information, such as credit card number; (2) information gathered as a result of voluntary participation in a survey or poll, or when communicating with our webmaster or customer service Team Members; and (3) information gathered automatically when visitors visit our website.
Whole Foods Market Wellness Club may share this information with certain business partners. Whole Foods Market will only share personally identifying information with these business partners if they agree not to disclose the information to other parties and agree not to use this information to solicit.
Whole Foods Market may share aggregate data collected through its website that does not personally identify any party with our research partner, and may from time to time share this type data with other business partners.
Whole Foods Market may disclose specific information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when required by law, or to protect our or others' rights, property, or safety. We do not provide information to these agencies or companies for marketing or commercial purposes. Also, if you participate in any blog or other online forum on our Site, any personal information that you post on the website may be shared with other participants in the forum. In any of these situations, the recipient of the personal information may be located in the United States or another jurisdiction that may not provide an equivalent level of data protection to the laws in your home country.
REGISTRATION
In order for you to receive certain benefits of our website you may first be asked to supply certain information. Whole Foods Market wants to supply you with information that benefits you and the more relevant information we have about you the better we are able to do this.
SURVEYS AND POLLS
From time to time, Whole Foods Market Wellness Club website users may be asked to participate in voluntary surveys and polls. As a part of this process you may be asked to supply personal information such as demographic information and lifestyle preferences. These surveys will be strictly voluntary and you can choose to disclose this information or not.
COOKIES
Whole Foods Market may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, which may include your IP address, Whole Foods Market's cookie information, session time, click path analysis, and the pages you request. Whole Foods Market will only use this type data in an aggregate form which does not identify you personally.
WHOLE FOODS MARKET'S USE OF INFORMATION
Whole Foods Market may use information gathered through its website for the following general purposes: (1) to customize content delivered to you; (2) to contact and provide service to you as well as improve the overall delivery of Whole Foods Market's services; and (3) to conduct research for other purposes related to Whole Foods Market's business.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
This document was last updated July 19, 2011. Whole Foods Market may update this privacy policy at any time. If so, Whole Foods Market will post the updated privacy policy on this site. Whole Foods Market encourages you to review this privacy policy from time to time for any changes.
CHILDREN
Parents should always supervise their children while online. Whole Foods Market's website is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. So that we may comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we ask that children under the age of thirteen not provide any personal information on this website.
LINKS
This website contains several links to other websites not controlled by Whole Foods Market. We have attempted to choose our linked partners with great care; however, Whole Foods Market is not responsible for the privacy practices of any linked site. You should read the privacy policy of each linked website to understand the related policy. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected through Whole Foods Market's Wellness Club website. In addition, when you browse, they may place their own cookies on your computer and we do not control cookies placed on your computer by third parties whose links appear on our site.
SECURITY
Whole Foods Market has attempted to take all reasonable steps to have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in place to protect personal information gathered through this website. This includes compliance with related federal regulations and may include use of industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web sites, and you do so at your own risk.