Privacy Policy

To access some features of LowCarbEating.com, free site registration is required, including providing a verified email address. While we will not share or sell your email address, please remember that posts and comments to LCE are publicly available and indexed in Internet search engines. That means that email addresses posted on the site (such as in the forums) are publicly available, and can potentially be harvested by spammers. Please exercise caution when sharing any personal information in a public venue.

Notice: Any method of tranferring or harvesting email addresses appearing anywhere on this site for the purpose of sending email is stictly prohibited; this notice provided in accordance with the Can Spam Act of 2003.

Emails from LCE

Members who have opted to receive administrative email may receive occasional emails from us. Those who don't wish to receive site emails may designate in their member profile to not receive administrative email. (Please opt out from your member profile as opposed to reporting site email as "Spam" to your email provider, since spam reports impact our ability to get news to others who do wish to receive our messages.) You may change your email preferences by logging in with your username and password to access your email preferences, or you may contact us if you have lost your password or have some other difficulty in opting out of emails.

Cookies & Tracking

Cookies must be enabled in your browser to use some site features, as they hold your username, password and some viewing preference information.

Some of our advertisers may use cookies or "web beacons" when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the AdSense program) information such as your IP address, your ISP, your browser, or whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing local ads to a visitor) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to completely disable or selectively turn off some cookies in your browser settings, or with programs like Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other sites.

Objectionable Content

Posted on LCE

Anyone who finds material posted by another user objectionable is encouraged to contact us. While we don't take responsibility for content of all member posts and comments, we do try to keep the site a friendly, helpful place for all. We may remove posts or comments from the site at our discretion. If you're uncertain about appropriate content for the site, you're encouraged to contact a Staff Member for clarification.

Please note: Although we don't specifically retain personally identifying information about our visitors, when you post or comment on the site, your IP address is logged. If a poster violates our terms of use, we reserve the right to deny access to our site, or to contact your Internet service provider or employer (if the posting was made from the business), as we deem appropriate. We will also comply with legal requests to provide information as required.

Offsite Links

This site contain offsite links; since such content is out of our direct control, we cannot ensure everything you find linked from LCE won't be objectionable. We will, however, remove links to material that we feel is inappropriate as we become aware of them. Additionally, other sites will have different privacy policies. Please refer to their policies in making informed decisions.

Summary

At LCE, we respect your privacy and will do what we can to safeguard it. Ultimately, however, you are responsible for maintaining reasonable privacy practices at any site you visit. Stay safe out there!