Welcome to our website, www.legitbodybuilding.com (hereafter referred to as the "Site"). We provide our services in accordance with the following Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We encourage all visitors and users of the Site to read these carefully and proceed with accessing our pages or services only if they accept them.
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Definition of Personal Data
"Personal Data" refers to any type of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes any individual to whom the data pertains, whether their identity is voluntarily disclosed or not.
"Personally Identifiable Information" denotes information that can be directly or indirectly linked to a specific individual.
Aggregated statistical data that no longer allows for the identification of specific individuals is not considered Personal Data or Personally Identifiable Information.
Applicable Legislation
- Data Protection Directives from the European Union.
- The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) effective from May 25, 2018.
Protection of Minors and Personal Data
We collect and/or process personal data strictly when necessary. We assure you that we will not sell, distribute, rent or publicize your personal data in any manner.
Although the content of this Site is family safe, the law in some countries may require the visitors / users whose age is under 16 years to have the consent of their parents before visiting / using the pages / services of this Site.
Visitors / users of the Site and their Personal Data
This Site does not collect and does not use Personal Data or Personally Identifiable Information directly from its visitors.
- It does not collect any personal data directly and does not keep such data.
- It does not provide directly a way for user registration, subscriber or membership and does not contain a relevant database.
Personal Data retention
The only personal data we directly collect from you is your email address and name, provided you voluntarily contact us through our contact form. These data are retained for a limited period and are promptly deleted in case of spam or upon conclusion of our communication, unless retention is legally mandated.
Third-party content and products within our site
Some content and advertisements are provided by unrelated third parties. For instance, we may embed videos from providers like Youtube in our articles. When you view these videos, third parties may display ads and monitor your ad views and interactions for statistical purposes.
Encryption and Data Security when navigating our Site
Since this Site is hosted on Google's Blogger platform, all online traffic (file / data transfer) between this Site and your browser is strictly encrypted and securely transferred from Google's servers to you and vice versa, through the HTTPS protocol using the TLS (Transport Layer Security / SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) so that no intermediary can intercept or observe any use of the pages / services of our site by you.
The Encryption and the Digital Certificate on our Site are certified by Google Trust Services, using 2048-bit secure encryption keys, providing you with utmost security and privacy for your data.
International Data Transfer
Your use of this Site, in some cases, may lead to the transfer, storage and / or processing of your anonymous data in other countries, through Add-ons and / or Ads. These countries include countries in the European Economic Area, the United States of America and Canada. In particular, through our site (through the Add-ons and Ads it may contain), data such as Internet Protocol (IP), basic information about your browser, resolution / screen size of your system and / or other relevant non-personal data from which you, based on the GDPR compliant Privacy Policies of the third parties described herein, will not be directly identified as a person in any way.
Providers (Content, Add-ons and / or Ads) appearing on this Site, referred to in the above paragraphs as well as in the following paragraphs, comply with policies that are compatible with international laws. Anonymous data that may be transferred, stored and / or processed, according to their Privacy Policies is compliant with international laws and the goal of the data is only anonymous ad personalization / targeting and / or analysis of general statistical interactivity with their content.
Your rights
You have the right to request clarification of the information we collect about you (if you believe it exists) and ask us to correct inaccuracies in this information, to oppose or request limitation of processing, and to request access, deletion or portability of your information. Under certain jurisdictions, we may reject the processing of unnecessarily duplicated requests, requests that require a disproportionate technical effort, requests that jeopardize the confidentiality of others or are impracticable or are not otherwise required by law.
If you believe that there is possible processing of your personal data by us and it offends you or violates the applicable law, please contact us with an email or through our social media accounts to resolve the issue, or you may file a complaint with the appropriate Supervisory Authority.
Cookies and related technologies
Our Site, as well as third parties providing content such as Ads or Add-ons and Videos, may use cookies, pixels, or beacons on certain pages of our Site. Our Site may use first and / or third party cookies to identify your settings for the site, for the proper operation and personalization of its content displayed directly and / or by third parties, for technical reasons and / or anonymous traffic analysis. Cookies are small text files stored in your browser, they cannot not read or edit any document or file on your system.
Types of cookies
The types of cookies that may be used on our site, as well as on most other sites, are described below:
Session cookies
These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser's cookie file only during your visit and are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
Persistent cookies
Persistent or permanent cookies remain on your system until they are deleted by you or expired. The expiration period depends on each cookie separately and its duration may vary from a few months to years. They are necessary because they store the (anonymous) choices of visitors / users so they do not have to choose them every time they enter the site.
First-party cookies
They are installed on your system only by the site you visit. They include a unique identifier (to be able to separate you from other visitors) for anonymous tracking of your navigation within the site and for aggregated statistical measures only.
Third-party cookies
They are used by third parties such as (possibly) some ads and / or social add-ons and / or third-party content to track your visits to their content and sites, typically for ad targeting (personalized ads) and / or for aggregated statistical measures.
Related cookies that may be used on our Site from third-party content, services, and / or products:
Embedded videos via YouTube
They can place cookies on your system if you watch on our Site videos provided by third parties such as Google's YouTube. If you choose to disable these cookies (as described in the section "Ability to delete and / or prevent cookies" below), you may not be able to see the embedded videos.
Google's reCAPTCHA security system for contact form abuse management
Uses necessary cookies from Google, with unique identifier for anti-bot security and abuse tracking purposes. reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.
Google Fonts API
Our site may use Google Fonts in its template, Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure.
For more information on YouTube's, reCAPTCHA's and Google Fonts API's cookies and privacy policies, read:
Google Analytics cookies
Our site uses Google Analytics by using only first-party cookies with basic anonymous data to see and analyze statistics of traffic on its pages. We see these statistical data in aggregate form only, that is, as a statistical measure, but not in a manner that would identify you personally in any way. The IP addresses of all visitors analyzed by Google Analytics are automatically anonymized.
Names and descriptions of the Google Analytics cookies used by our site:
Name: _gat_blogger | Duration: 1 minute | Description: Used to limit the rate of automated requests for statistical measurement.
Name: _gid | Duration: 24 hours Description: Used to anonymously divide visitors / users of the site into statistical metrics.
Name: _ga | Duration: 2 years Description: Used to anonymously divide visitors / users of the site into statistical metrics.
While not recommended, you can also install a browser add-on from Google into your browser, to opt out of Google Analytics cookies if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Opera. This will prevent this and other websites from collecting data for statistical purposes from Google Analytics: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
Advertisement related cookies
This site may use first and / or third party cookies for "personalization of ads" to display ads through Google's "AdSense" service, which (as well as the selected third-party Advertising Technology Vendors who are advertising through that service) can place first and / or third party cookies on your system when you are browsing the internet and visit sites that use personalized ads from these vendors, such as our site. The cookies, in some cases, are used to display ads that relate to you and your interests. The following paragraph explains how this is possible:
Ads can be targeted based on past or historical data collected to determine or influence ad selection, including past search queries, activity, site or app visits, demographic information or location. For example, if you visit sites with information for visiting New York, you may see New York hotel ads when viewing an other site that uses personalized ads.
Table of selected Ad Technology Vendors who may advertise through Google AdSense on our site:
Below is a table displaying selected advertising technology vendors and relevant pages on their sites containing the privacy policies of these approved advertising vendors. These vendors may display ads on our site through Google's AdSense as third parties. They may also use and/or install third-party cookies acquired from other sites you have visited to improve ad targeting and gather statistics:
If you would like to get more information about personalized ad cookies and how to exclude or disable them, check the following links:
- How Google uses information from websites or apps using its services
- How Google uses cookies in advertising
- Disable (or enable) personalized ads and check the information that Google uses to show you ads
- www.youronlinechoices.com (Settings and a Guide to behavioral advertising and privacy on the Internet)
You can also install a plugin from Google on your browser to always keep the "personalization of ads" on the Google Network always turned off: Chrome plugin | Firefox plugin | Internet Explorer plugin
Ability to delete and / or prevent cookies
You can set your browser to delete the cookies either selectively or collectively, or make it warn you about the use of cookies, or not allow the acceptance of cookies under any circumstances.
The setting can be done through your browser settings. Although, if you select that you do not wish to accept any cookies, you may encounter malfunctions in the appearance of this site and other sites also.
Browser manufacturers provide help pages about managing cookies in their products. See below for more information per manufacturer:
For other browsers, consult the documentation provided by the browser manufacturer.
Revocation of consent to cookies
Deleting cookies with one of the above ways will also delete / revoke your consent to cookies from our site (if you clicked on the "OK" button in the message that appeared when you entered our Site) because your consent is stored through a cookie (name: displayCookieNotice) on your system, so that our Site recognizes your choice the next time you re-enter it, so that it does not display the message again.
Change of terms
In any case, the Site reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy and the Terms Of Use by informing or not the visitors / users and within the existing or upcoming or possible legal framework. If a visitor / user does not agree with the Privacy Policy and the Terms Of Use provided herein, he / she must revoke the consent by deleting the cookies and must not enter the site and not use its pages / services.
Effective (Date/Month/Year): 11/4/2021