Disclosures and Policies for Privacy and Membership

Medical Disclaimer: Content on this web site is for information purposes only. It cannot substitute for personalized, professional medical advice or care. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical issues you have or to discuss how information here is pertinent to you individually.

Disclosure

This website, including my research reviews, is written and edited by me. This blog does not accept any form of advertising. If I provide links to products or books, this is for information only, and I do not earn any form of commission or payment for doing so. Views and opinions expressed here are purely my own, representing my best efforts to share information that is scientifically accurate at the time it is written.

As part of my business, I am paid for freelance projects and ongoing consulting work for publications, nonprofit organizations, and medical and educational institutions, as well as various food companies and food commodity organizations. I only work with businesses and brands compatible with my professional beliefs. If I receive free product, paid educational travel, or other compensation, and then blog about it, I specifically identify any such compensation with a disclosure statement in the post. In social media, any sponsored posts are indicated with the hashtags #sponsored or #client.

Sometimes material I write about is related to organizations for which I consult. Currently and in the recent past this involves only the American Institute for Cancer Research.

I’ve built a career based on professional and personal integrity, and I will continue to act only in ways that support that.

Membership

The Daunting to Doable Nutrition^TM Pro Circle (“the Circle”) is a paid membership for registered dietitian nutritionists that opens to new members periodically throughout the year at times determined by me (Karen Collins). I may delete or remove (without notice) any user content posted on the community membership site that does not meet guidelines posted there. And I may terminate membership and access to the membership site for any member at my sole discretion at any time for any violation of membership guidelines, with refund of the most recent month’s paid membership fee.

Use of Membership Materials:  Sharing or distributing items or files provided through membership, as well as any other digital proprietary information that is the property of Karen Collins, must follow instructions stated on the material or at the site of download. Members, and anyone other than Karen Collins, are not authorized to sell these materials, and such sales are strictly prohibited.

It is illegal to reproduce or distribute copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. All copyrights shown are retained by Karen Collins, MS, RDN, with all rights reserved.

Some materials with copyright to Karen Collins are specifically designated with permission for printing or otherwise sharing with patients or other people. Sharing of these materials must follow requirements stated on the specific material or site from which it was downloaded.

Membership Payments: Members’ are required to pay for their membership at the time of purchase and then every month thereafter on the same date each month. I may terminate your membership and remove you from all my paid membership platforms if your payment fails and I am unable to contact you to collect this.

Monthly membership fees remain at the level in place when a member joined, as long as that member continues a member in good standing (which means paying monthly membership fees on time and abiding by community guidelines as stated on the membership site).

Membership Cancellation Policy and Refunds Policy:  Members may cancel their membership at any time by emailing me via the Contact section of this website or the primary membership site. Members retain access to the membership for the remainder of the month covered by their final payment, and then all access to membership content and the community site is removed. Refunds are not provided once a member joins and has accessed the membership site.

Members who cancel their membership and re-join may not return at the membership fee from their previous membership period. Rather, they will be charged whatever is the membership fee current at the time they re-join.

Confidential & Proprietary Information: Karen Collins Nutrition and the Circle membership do not seek and do not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through these Sites. Please note that any information or material sent to these Sites will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sharing any information or material, you grant Karen Collins Nutrition an unrestricted, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty free license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit, and distribute those materials or information; and you also agree that I (Karen Collins) am free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques that you send to me or the membership for any purpose.

Privacy Policy

I value your privacy. I’ll treat your contact information as I want mine treated – Except when required by law, your personal information will never be sold, rented, traded or shared with any third party outside of my organization without your specific consent. I am the sole owner of any information collected on this site. I only have access to or collect information that you voluntarily give me via email or other direct contact from you.

I take precautions to protect your information, both online and offline. Personal information is encrypted and transmitted to me in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page. The computers/servers in which I store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

When you interact with my website, it may receive and store certain types of usage-related information, such as your computer’s IP address and browser information.

I use Google Analytics to track statistics regarding visitors to my website in an effort to better meet the needs of my readers. No personally identifiable information is transferred from my website to Google Analytics.

My website uses cookies to record information about what pages users visit. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described above.

From time to time, my website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google or Facebook, in order to market my website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to my site. (You can opt out of all Google Ads at any time by modifying your Google Ad settings through Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web.)

Using My Website

Unless otherwise stated, I (Karen Collins) own the intellectual property and rights to all content and material on this website. Subject to the license below, all intellectual property rights are reserved.

The following uses are not permitted:

• Re-publication of content from my website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for re-publication;
• Sale, rental or sub-license of any content from my website;
• Reproduction or duplication of any content on my website for commercial purposes;
• Modification of any content on my website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for modification;
• Redistribution of content of my website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for redistribution. Users are permitted to share content on social media channels, as long as a link to my website is included.

From time to time, my website will utilize various plugins or widgets to allow sharing of content via social media channels, email, or other methods. Use of these plugins or widgets does not constitute any waiver of my intellectual property rights. Such use is a limited license to republish the content on the approved social media channels, with full credit to Karen Collins, RDN.

Copyright: Unless otherwise noted, the design, content and all components of my website are copyrights owned by me or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.

Trademark: Taking Nutrition from Daunting to Doable^TM is my professional trademark. This trademark may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not that of Karen Collins, in any manner likely to cause confusion among consumers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits me.

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