Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 01/01/2025
Last Updated: 07/19/2025
Who we are
The National Fitness Institute (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. This document explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website http://nationalfitnessinstitute.org, and use our services.
Information We Collect
a. Personal Data
We may collect personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and payment information when you register, subscribe, or otherwise interact with us.
b. Usage Data
We automatically collect information about your interactions with our site such as IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and pages viewed.
c. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information collected to:
- Provide and manage your account
- Process transactions
- Send promotional emails and updates
- Improve website functionality and customer experience
- Enforce our terms and prevent fraudulent activities
- Comply with legal obligations
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with:
- Service providers: to perform tasks on our behalf (e.g., hosting, analytics, payment processing)
- Legal authorities: as required by law or to protect our rights
- Business transfers: in the event of a merger, sale, or asset transfer
CCPA Rights (California Residents)
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
- Right to Know: You can request details about the personal data we collect and how we use it.
- Right to Delete: You can request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out: We do not sell your data, but you may request an opt-out from any future sales.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@nationalfitnessinstitute.org with the subject “CCPA Request.”
GDPR Rights (EU/EEA Users)
If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) include:
- Right to Access: Know what data we have and how it’s used.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to Erasure: Request deletion of personal data.
- Right to Restrict Processing: Ask us to limit how we use your data.
- Right to Data Portability: Receive a copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to Object: Object to processing of your data under certain circumstances.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time.
To exercise these rights, contact us at info@nationalfitnessinstitute.org with the subject “GDPR Request.” You may also contact your local data protection authority.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Data Security
We implement reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law.
Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such sites.
Children’s Privacy
Our service is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
International Users
If you are accessing our site from outside the United States, be aware that your data may be transferred to and processed in the U.S.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” and will be effective as soon as it is accessible.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this policy or your data, contact us at:
Email: info@nationalfitnessinstitute.org