Privacy Policy
Pilates Body Mechanics understands how important your privacy is. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) sets out the privacy policies and practices for Body Mechanics LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Pilates Body Mechanics”) with respect to how Body Mechanics collects your personal information. It also describes how Body Mechanics maintains, uses, and discloses personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected from you by Pilates Body Mechanics via the Site. This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can access certain information that Pilates Body Mechanics may collect about you.
In this Privacy Policy, personal information means information about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained from the information as further defined under applicable privacy laws (“Personal Information”).
Please note that the Site may contain links to other third-party websites that are not controlled or operated by Pilates Body Mechanics. All of these third parties are listed in section 4.4 of this Agreement. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites, and Pilates Body Mechanics is not responsible for the content of such third-party websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. Pilates Body Mechanics encourages you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties upon disclosing your Personal Information to such parties or when visiting such third-party websites.
1. Consent of Collection of Information. By submitting Personal Information to Pilates Body Mechanics and its Site or any of its service providers, you agree and consent to the collection of your Personal Information and consent to the use, disclosure and transfer of your Personal Information in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. You may always refuse or withdraw your consent by contacting Pilates Body Mechanics at hello@bodymechanicspilates.com. You understand that if you withdraw your consent, Pilates Body Mechanics may not be able to continue to offer its services and provide its information to you.
2. Children Under 18. The Site is not intended for children under eighteen (18) years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any Personal Information to or on the Site. Pilates Body Mechanics does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Site or through any of its features, register on the Site, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If Pilates Body Mechanics learns we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe Pilates Body Mechanics might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at hello@bodymechanicspilates.com.
3. Revisions to this Privacy Policy. Pilates Body Mechanics reserves the right, in Pilates Body Mechanics’s sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. Pilates Body Mechanics will treat your continued use of the Site following such revision as your acceptance of the revised terms. All revisions will be posted to the Site and will apply to any Personal Information collected on or after the date posted. Pilates Body Mechanics will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained, unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
4. What Personal Information does Body Mechanics collect and how is it processed?
4.1 What do we collect? Pilates Body Mechanics may directly collect your name, address, phone number and email address. There may be other information you provide but that will not be collected by Pilates Body Mechanics and instead will be collected by the third parties Pilates Body Mechanics works with as outlined in section 4.4.
4.2 Email. We may send you a newsletter or other promotional materials through email. We will only contact you through our newsletter for promotional or informational purposes. Subscribing to our newsletters is optional and you will always be able to unsubscribe.
4.3 Phone Number. We may collect your phone number and we may contact you via phone to contact you or if we feel there is information which would be beneficial to share with you. In accordance with everything outlined in this Privacy Policy, if you do not want to be reached by phone, you can ask us not to contact you via phone or you can choose not to share your phone number.
4.4 Third Parties. Pilates Body Mechanics may work with third party applications in order to provide you with the best services on the Site. These organizations may collect Personal Information from you in order to provide you with the services, including your name and contact information. Specifically, the third parties Pilates Body Mechanics may work with on the Site are listed below. We’ve included links to their privacy policies to ensure you are comfortable using them.
4.1.1 Showit: https://showit.com/privacy/
4.1.2 Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/402411646841720
4.1.3 Zoom: https://zoom.us/privacy
4.1.4 FloDesk: https://flodesk.com/privacy-policy
4.1.5 Uscreen: https://www.uscreen.tv/privacy-policy/
4.1.6 Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy
4.1.7 Acuity: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
4. 1.8 ManyChat: https://manychat.com/legal/privacy
5. How will Pilates Body Mechanics use your Personal Information? Your Personal Information will be used to provide you with promotional and informative materials and offers and deliver the products and services you can purchase or subscribe to from the Site. Specifically:
5.1 Your credit card information will not be kept by Pilates Body Mechanics but instead by one of the third parties listed in section 4.4 above;
5.2 Your name and e-mail address are collected but will not actually be stored on the Site. Any information captured will be processed through third party websites in section 4.4 above;
5.3 Your phone number may be used to contact you via phone if there is information we would like to share which we feel would benefit you;
5.4 If you subscribe to our newsletter your Personal Information will be used to send the newsletter to you;
5.5 If we send you the Newsletter for marketing purposes, we will send you emails about promotions, special events and other information. You can opt not to receive these emails from us by either clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email when you receive it or by sending an email that includes your email address and a request that you not receive our promotional emails;
5.6 We may use your Personal Information to respond when you submit a question or suggestion to us, or when you request assistance regarding a service or product you purchased.
5.7 We may share your information if we believe in good faith that disclosure of your information is required to protect your safety or the safety of others, to investigate a fraud, or to respond to a government, judicial or other legal request or to comply with the law;
5.8 We may also share certain aggregated, anonymized information with a third-party provider in order to assist us in improving the Site.
6. Storing Your Personal Information. Pilates Body Mechanics’s web service may store your Personal Information when you interact with the Site. Pilates Body Mechanics will be happy to delete any of your Personal Information that it holds upon a written request made by you. Your Personal Information will be safely disposed of by Pilaes Body Mechanics.
7. Email Notice: When you register to use Pilates Body Mechanics services or by purchasing any products from a vendor using Pilates Body Mechanics services, your email will automatically be listed in Pilates Body Mechanics mailing list. You will receive welcome information, account information, and other marketing related information related to Pilates Body Mechanics services and the products you viewed and purchased. You may choose to opt out of receiving emails from Pilates Body Mechanics, but if You choose to do so, You may not receive technical support requests, account updates and notifications, product updates, security updates or updates to the Terms of Services of Pilates Body Mechanics as well as updates to Privacy Policy of Pilates Body Mechanics.
8. Fair Information Practices: To be compliant with the Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify the users via in-site notification within seven (7) business days. We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
9. CAN SPAM ACT: The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
- Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
- Send you additional information related to your product and/or service
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
10. Storing Your Phone Number. Your phone number will be kept in the phone or contacts database of Pilates Body Mechanics and associates. Wherever it is stored, it will always be protected with a password and will never be shared with third parties without your permission.
11. We Play by The Rules. The Site and Pilates Body Mechanics abide by all relevant United States federal and State privacy laws in all aspects of our operations. This Privacy Policy is also compliant with GDPR and CCPA regulations. If you have any questions about our legal compliance, feel free to reach out to hello@bodymechanicspilates.com.
12. Do Not Track Signals. Body Mechanics currently does not recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track (DNT) signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working on Do Not Track standards and there is no accepted standard on how to respond to such signals.
13. Analytics. The Site keeps the following information from your visits to our webpage:
13.1 Visitor information to improve our customer engagement which tells us where and when people visit the Site and how long they stay there; and
13.2 IP information for website and server security.
14. Cookies. The Site uses ‘cookies’ to keep a record of the number of times you’ve visited the Site and how you interacted with the Site during each visit. In addition to this, the Site also uses cookies which are not absolutely essential for your use of the Site. Your continued use of the Site serves as consent for these cookies.
14.1 A cookie is a small text file that gets sent by the servers of the Site to your hard drive and can only be read and interpreted by the Site’s servers. No Personal Information is stored in the cookie and there is nothing on it which can identify you personally.
14.2 Cookies have an important function in how you interact while visiting the Site, ensuring the usability of the Site’s different features, helping the Site understand your preferences, and thus can improve your experience on the Site. If you do not want cookies from the Site, simply adjust the settings in your web browser to disable cookies. This may change the way you access the Site and may also render some of the Site’s features unusable, but of course it is your choice to do so.
15. Disclosure of Personal Information. Pilates Body Mechanics will NEVER sell or license any Personal Information we collect from you. Body Mechanics is not liable for any disclosure of your Personal Information by any third party, particularly the ones outlined in section 4.4 above. By purchasing the services and products offered by Pilates Body Mechanics, you agree to be bound to and consent to the provisions of our third parties’ privacy policies. In the event that Pilates Body Mechanics changes its practices, you will be notified and you will be able to opt-out of Pilates Body Mechanics using your Personal Information by contacting us at hello@bodymechanicspilates.com.
16. Choice of Laws and Venue. This Privacy Policy and the use of the Site are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Florida. The parties agree to irrevocably submit all claims to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Florida. If a dispute arises, we agree to first resolve it through binding arbitration to take place in the State of Florida.
17. Your Consent. By choosing to provide Pilates Body Mechanics with your Personal Information you are consenting to its collection, use and disclosure in accordance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide any Personal Information to us without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law.
18. Protecting Your Privacy. Pilates Body Mechanics is committed to protecting your privacy. Security measures, such as using passwords on servers and computers, and locked cabinets where Personal Information is stored have been adopted to protect your Personal Information against loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Online transactions are completed using third party applications outlined in section 4.4 above. Please refer to the third parties’ privacy policies, of which links have been provided above, for clarification on how your transaction and Personal Information will be handled. Pilates Body Mechanics makes no promises, warranties or representations about the manner in which your Personal Information is handled by third parties and bears no liability whatsoever for their use of them.
19. Verifying your Identity. Pilates Body Mechanics will ask you to verify your identity when you contact us or submit a request regarding your Personal Information. Pilates Body Mechanics will ask you to provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person who we collected Personal Information about.
20. The Internet Can Be Unreliable. The internet is, by its nature, inherently open and subject to interception of information. We cannot guarantee that the information you provide to Pilates Body Mechanics over the internet or otherwise will not be intercepted by third parties while it is being communicated by means that are outside of Pilates Body Mechanics’s control.
21. Verifying and Amending Your Personal Information. Body Mechanics tries to ensure that all Personal Information about you that is in our possession is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Please contact us at hello@bodymechanicspilates.com. to advise us of any changes to your Personal Information. You may request access to the Personal Information held by Pilates Body Mechanics at any time or seek to make corrections to it.
22. Resolving your concerns. If you have any questions or concerns about Pilates Body Mechanics's Personal Information collection, use and disclosure practices, please let us know at hello@bodymechanicspilates.com and we will do our best to help you.