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[H2] On A Journey To Achieve Balance®, Since 1992.
Dreamed up in Santa Barbara, CA by an innovative group of athletes, wellness experts and people with a passion for life (and food!), our goal from the beginning has been to make it easier for everyone to get the balanced nutrition they need to power through the day and ultimately live a more balanced lifestyle. So while we’ve put a ton of hard work into creating delicious and nutritious energy bars over the years, coming up with our name was easy!
We believe in loving life and living it to the fullest, enjoying today while looking after tomorrow. So our products are all about laying down the nutritional building blocks for a healthy, happy life. Our Original, Gold and Dark bars were inspired by the 40-30-30 nutrition principle to deliver lasting energy with a great balance of carbohydrates, protein and dietary fat. Balance bare bars still offer a great nutritional profile, but they are not based on the 40-30-30 principle. All of our energy bars are crafted to be a nutritionally smart snack, that you can feel good about enjoying anytime, anywhere.
When it comes down to it, the good life is all about balance. So to help you achieve it, we’re going to keep fun fitness tips, energizing recipes and of course, delicious Balance Bar products coming your way!
[H2] Our Mission
To salute your determination to lead an active, well-rounded life by providing deliciously wholesome, on-the-go nutrition for lasting energy. Balance® is all about providing the nourishment you need to do what you do best—live each day to the fullest!

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Last Updated: August 9, 2021
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Protecting your privacy is very important to us.  Sports Supplements LLC and its subsidiaries including, without limitation, Worldwide Sport Nutritional Supplements, Inc., Healthwatchers (DE), Inc., Balance Bar Company, Best Bar Ever, Inc., Met-Rx Nutrition, Inc., Met-Rx USA, Inc., Met-Rx Substrate Technology, Inc., Worldwide Sport Nutritional Supplements, Inc. d/b/a 1440 Foods Company, and Worldwide Sport Canada ULC and its online partner WorldPantry.com® will only use the information you share with us to process your orders and to enhance your shopping experience. Because we respect your privacy and your preferences in how we use your information, our goal is to be transparent about our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your information.
This WorldPantry Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to our online and offline data collection practices, including when you visit our portfolio of partner shopping sites, powered by WorldPantry.com (the “Site”), or when you contact us by phone, chat or email, subscribe to our mailing lists, or engage with us on social media.  WorldPantry only sells to and ships to United States addresses and will not collect any personal data from users in the European Union. This Policy is therefore applicable only to United States consumers.
This Policy is subject to our Terms of Use located at: https://www.worldpantry.com/termsconditions.html. We may update this Policy from time to time, as specified in the “Changes to This Privacy Policy” section below.
California state law confers certain rights relating to personal information to its residents. If you are a California resident, please also see our California Consumer Privacy Section in this Policy located here.
[H2] Your Consent
You should read this entire Policy before submitting information to us in any form or using our Site. Whenever you submit personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and storage of that information in accordance with this Policy.
We may make full use of all information that is de-identified, aggregated, or otherwise not in personally identifiable form.
[H2] Collection and Use Of Information
We collect personal information about you in the following ways: 1) from you, when you voluntarily submit information directly to us; 2) using automated technology, including when you visit our Site, social media platforms, or interact with our electronic advertisements or communications; and 3) using third party sources, including our brand partners and their shopping sites, service providers, analytics providers, or through social media and other websites or services we interact with. Automated technology collects information from your computer or mobile device and includes cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, or other similar technology. More information is given below in the “Cookies and Other Technology” section below.
All personal information may be used for the purposes stated in this Policy.  We may combine data collected from third party sources.
We collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described in the chart in Annex 1 below.
[H2] Retention of Data
We will retain your personal information (collected through online and offline methods) for as long as it is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. We will also retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
[H2] Intended Audience of Websites; COPPA Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).  We do not knowingly collect information from minors in the United States or elsewhere with or without the consent of their parents or guardians.  If you are not 16 or older, you should not visit or use our Site or social media accounts.  If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take the appropriate steps in accordance with our legal obligations and this Policy.
[H2] Email Marketing
If you no longer wish to receive email marketing communications from us, you may opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails by using the unsubscribe method provided in our communications (e.g., by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the email to unsubscribe). Please note that unsubscribing from our promotional material will not prevent us from contacting you for other reasons, such as responses to customer service inquiries, or information about products you have purchased or about which you have requested information.
[H2] Security
We take reasonable appropriate steps to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, whether in transmission or storage.  We provide a high level of security for our computer systems, databases, and networks to protect all customer information in our systems.  In order to place your orders and access your account information, you will need to sign in to our secure server. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software encrypts all the information you provide before it is sent to us.
While we take reasonable steps to secure your information from loss, misuse, interference and unauthorized access, modification and disclosure, you should be aware that transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, that no security procedures or protocols are ever guaranteed to be 100% secure from intrusion or hacking, and there is always some risk assumed by sharing information online. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us.
[H2] Cookies and Other Technology
[H3] How does the Site use cookies?
Automated technology collects information from your computer or mobile device and includes cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, or other similar technology.  A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a website that is saved on your hard drive by your computer’s browser.  A “web beacon” is a small object or image that is embedded into a web page, application, or email and is used to track activity.  They are also sometimes referred to as pixels and tags.Our uses of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies fall into the following general categories:Operationally Necessary. This includes technologies that allow you access to Site, that are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security, or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping cart, saved search, or similar functions;Performance-Related. This includes technologies to assess the performance of our Site, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our Site, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our Site;Functionality-Related. This includes technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Site. This may include identifying you when you sign into our sites or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our sites;Advertising or Targeting-Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our Site or on third party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that has been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.
[H3] How do I manage cookies?
You may refuse or accept cookies from the Site at any time by activating settings on your browser. To find more information about cookies and for instructions on how to disable them please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or visit the help section of your browser.  Most browsers are initially set to allow cookies, but also offer the option to restrict cookies or warn you of their use.
[H2] Third Party Advertising And Analytics Disclaimer
We and/or third parties including third-party advertising companies and service providers on our behalf, may use cookies, web beacons and other similar technology, to collect information from you such as your activities on the Site for the purposes described in this Policy including analytics, targeted advertising, monitoring performance, and improvement of our Site (traffic, errors, page load time, popular pages, etc.)
Examples of our third-party service providers to help deliver our services or to connect to our services include:
Google Analytics and Google Ads: We use Google Analytics to understand how our website, services, advertisements and products perform and how you use them. We have already entered into a service provider addendum with Google.  However, if you would like to take additional precautions to opt out of Google Analytics and Ads, you can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s Opt Out browser add on:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and opt out of interest-based Google ads using https://adssettings.google.com/u/0/authenticated.To learn more about how Google processes your data, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Facebook Pixel and Facebook Ads:  We use Facebook Pixel to understand how our website, services, advertisements, and products perform and how you use them. We use Facebook Ads to advertise and market our services to you. We have already enabled the Limited Data Use feature with respect to Facebook Pixel. To learn more about how Facebook uses your data please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation or log on to your Facebook account and access your settings. To understand more about Facebook advertising and manage your preferences please visit https://www.facebook.com/about/ads.
Remarketing and Advertising Opt-out: We use remarketing services to inform, optimize, and serve ads on third-party websites to you based on your use of our Site and social media. For more information regarding targeted advertising and to opt out of sharing your information with third-party companies engaged in targeted advertising, including social networking sites visit the AdChoices website powered by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) at https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.  If you choose to opt out, you will continue to receive advertisements but they will not be tailored to your interests.
This Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, third-party cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies on third party websites or which are covered by such third parties’ privacy policies. For more information, we encourage you to check the privacy policies of these third parties to learn about their privacy practices.
[H2] Third Party Sites
The Site permits you to link to other websites on the Internet through direct links or through applications such as “share” or “like” buttons, and other websites likewise may contain links to the Site.  Unless otherwise indicated, prior to visiting our Site or social media accounts, or once you have left our Site or social media accounts, all collection and use of your information is governed by the privacy statements of those websites and not by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies found on such other websites, services, and applications to understand how your information is collected and used by them.
[H2] Do Not Track Notice:
Because there are not yet common, industry accepted “do not track” standards and systems, our website does not respond to Do Not Track signals.  In addition, we may allow third parties to collect personal information from your activity on our website, as described in the “Information Collection and Use” section above and as described in Annex 1 below.
[H2] Changes to this Privacy Policy
WorldPantry.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. The ‘Last Updated” legend at the top indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy to the Site, so you should check back from time to time.
[H2] Contact Us
We value your business and welcome your feedback.  Any concerns you have are important to us. If you have further questions about your privacy, please contact us:WorldPantry.com®, Inc.790 Tennessee StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107866-972-6879customerservice@worldpantry.com
[H2] CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS ONLY:  Your California Privacy Rights
The purpose of this section is to inform California residents from whom we may collect personal information about certain rights California affords to its residents with respect to personal information.
[H3] RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED, DISCLOSED OR SOLD
You have the right to request that we disclose to you the following information about personal information we collect from you:
categories of personal information collected;categories of sources of personal information collected;the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; andthe specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you over the past 12 months.
You also have a right to know if we have sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose over the past 12 months and, if so, the categories of personal information sold or disclosed and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed, along with the business or commercial purpose for which the personal information was sold or disclosed.
[H3] Requests to Know
To make a request for any of the information set forth above (a “Request to Know”), please submit a verifiable consumer request pursuant to the instructions below. You may only make a Request to Know twice within a 12-month period.  We will acknowledge your Request to Know within 10 business days and will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.
The Request to Know must provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the personal information was collected, sold or disclosed and must contain sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your request.  If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to your request.You can make a Request to Know the personal information we have about you in the following ways:
You may make a request here:  ccpa@worldpantry.comYou may also make a request by phone by contacting us at 1-888-388-7658.

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