The Protein Pulse Privacy Policy
The Protein Pulse (https://proteinpulse.com) is operated by The Sparks Group, Inc. The site is the home of The Protein Pulse, a daily newsletter and podcast. This policy describes the information the site collects and how it is used.
Information collected
When you submit the contact form, we receive the information you enter: typically your name, email address, and message, and in some cases your phone number and company. The submission reaches us as an email that also records the time of submission, your IP address, and your browser. We use this information to respond to your inquiry and for no other purpose. Our server keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page requested, browser) to operate and secure the site.
Cookies and analytics
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure visits and page views. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and sends Google your page views, interactions such as outbound link clicks, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. A single Google Analytics property covers thesparks.group, greatplainsprotein.com, and proteinpulse.com, so a visit that moves between the three sites is counted once. Google Signals is disabled, and Google does not use this data to build advertising profiles on our behalf. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy. To opt out, install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Apart from Google Analytics, the site sets no cookies and uses no advertising trackers. Fonts are served from our own server, and no page embeds content from other services. The site does not respond to Do Not Track signals. The opt-out add-on is the available control.
Disclosure
We do not sell or share your personal information. Google receives analytics data as described above, and only for that purpose. Newsletter subscriptions are handled by beehiiv under beehiiv's privacy policy.
Retention
Contact messages are kept as long as needed to respond and maintain a record. Server logs are kept until we delete them.
Your rights
To ask what information we hold about you, or to have it corrected or deleted, email info@thesparks.group. We will comply unless the information must be kept for security or legal reasons.
Changes
If the site begins collecting new information, this policy is updated first, with a new version and effective date.