Effective Date: Feb 03, 2009
PRIVACY POLICY
Thank
you for visiting the privacy policy of Savings Marketplace (the
"Site" or “Company”). We take privacy seriously, and want you
to feel comfortable using the Site. This page describes our online privacy
policy ("Privacy Policy"). By visiting the Site, you are accepting
the practices described in this Privacy Policy, as well as our website Terms
and Conditions.
We
reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting
such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically. In order to track
any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will include a historical reference at
the bottom of this document.
This
Privacy Policy will tell you, among other things:
·
Your privacy rights.
·
How and what information we collect.
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How we may use information.
·
How we may share information.
·
Your choices regarding the sharing of information.
IF
YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR OUR TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR VISIT THIS SITE OR PROVIDE THE COMPANY WITH
ANY INFORMATION OR USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS OFFERED
OR PROVIDED ON COMPANY WEB SITES.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact
us.
YOUR
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning January 1, 2005, California residents who provide personal
information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household
use are entitled to either (1) a list detailing the categories of information
shared and the entities to which such information was provided, or (2) be
notified of a mechanism by which a consumer may opt-out of having their
information shared with third parties. We have elected the second option. To
opt-out of having your information shared with third parties, send your
request, including your full name, email address and postal address to:
Customer Service
101 First Street, MBN 232
customerservice@savingsmarketplace.com
COLLECTION
OF INFORMATION
We collect and combine personally identifiable information (“PII”) and
non-personally identifiable information (“Non-PII”) through various sources as
outlined below. Each time you provide us
or our partners information via the Site, we collect personally identifiable
information including (but not limited to) your name, email address, mailing
address, and telephone number. You may also provide us or our partners with
information that, when combined with personally identifiable information,
provides us with a better idea of who you are, such as your IP address, gender,
birthday, marital status, education level, payment information, information
about your background, interests, health, education, career goals, and shopping
preferences, purchase history, and any other personal information or unique
preference information you provide to us or our partners (collectively with the
personally identifiable information, "personal information"). If you choose to use our services, we may
require you to provide information as indicated on the forms throughout the
Site.
Ad Serving Partners
Website operators that license our ad serving technology pass information to us
so that we may serve relevant advertisements to you.
Publisher Partners
When you complete a registration or offer form that is hosted by one of our
website publisher partners on our behalf, the website publisher partner may
submit all or a portion of the information that you submitted on the form to
the Company.
Marketing Partners
We may receive information about you from third party
marketing partners that provide us with consumer data.
Automatic Information/Digital Identifiers
We collect information through our web server
applications, such as Internet Protocol or “IP” address, date/time stamp,
browser type, and referring URL.
Additionally, we may use pixel tracking technology to track the
completion of transactions with us or our advertisers, the source information
for those transactions, and your IP address, date/time stamp, browser type, and
referring URL.
Government Forms
The Company may be required to create, collect, maintain, and submit certain
information required by the government, such as your license, IRS Forms W-9 and
1099. This information, which may include your taxpayer identification number,
will not be used, shared, transferred, or sold for marketing purposes.
USE
OF INFORMATION
By signing up ion our Site you expressly opt in to receive future information
about products and services from us and grant us permission to share your
information with our third-party marketing partners in order to more
effectively market to you. Our partners and we may link your name, address and
email address to other information, such your web activity on this and other
sites and past purchase information. By providing your personal information
here, some of your future web activity will be known to our partners and us,
and will be used to show you more relevant online advertisements. We may use
the collected PII and Non-PII for any legally permissible purpose in our sole
discretion, including but not limited to those explained below.
Relevant Ad Serving
We may serve advertisements to you based, in part, on your IP address, the
demographic and geographic information you submitted to the Company during the
website registration process, your web activity on this and other sites, and
past purchase information about you that we obtain from affiliated entities and
from third parties. Our partners and we
may also use personal information about your visits to this and other websites
in order to provide relevant advertisements to you about goods and services
that may be of interest to you.
Customized Offers/Pre-fill Offers
Our technology may select certain offers for you to
view based on the information we have about you. Additionally, this technology
may pre-fill some or all of the data fields with the information you submitted
during the website registration process in order to allow you to avoid having
to re-enter this information. We may not show all of the pre-filled data fields
to you.
Secondary offers
We utilize customized post transactional technology to provide you with
secondary offers and help advertisers generate sales. Once you purchase a
product or service from one of our reward advertisers, you will be offered
additional products or services that we think may be of interest to you. If you
elect to purchase products or services from an advertiser in the post
transactional channel, we will pass the information that you provided during
the initial transaction to the subsequent advertiser, including but not limited
to your credit card information. This information pass is done to enhance and
simplify your purchasing experience. Your information will only be passed to an
advertiser in the post transactional channel after you have elected to purchase
their product or service. By electing to purchase their product or service you
consent to the passing of your data to the third party advertiser in question.
Customer Service and Fulfillment
We may use your information to operate the website
promotion, service your account and to fulfill rewards earned through Company
websites. We may also use your information to verify your identity or claimed
account status and, where we consider appropriate, investigate your compliance
with the terms and conditions of the website promotion or any advertiser offer.
We do retain customer service correspondence.
Credit Card Preauthorization
By submitting your credit card information to us or to
one of our partners, you are authorizing the Company or its agent to
periodically verify that your credit card account is valid and has credit
available by charging, and thereafter crediting, a small sum to the card.
Marketing
We may use your information in our online (e.g.,
e-mail marketing) and offline (e.g., telemarketing, cell phone text messaging,
skip tracing, and direct mail) marketing programs. If you would like to be
removed from these programs please follow the opt-out instructions.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We may share the collected PII and Non-PII for any legally
permissible purpose in our sole discretion, including but not limited to those
explained below.
Within the Company
We may share information we collect with affiliated companies, including our parent
company and other subsidiaries of our parent company, for use in their ad
serving and marketing programs.
Vendors
We may share your information with various third party vendors that are not
part of the Company, including but not limited to vendors that provide us with
technology to deploy commercial e-mail, vendors that sell the products or
services for which you have qualified through one of our websites, and shipping
companies that we utilize to ship products to you.
Advertisers
When you participate in an offer by completing a form,
we will transfer the information you submitted on the form to the applicable
advertiser. When you answer “yes” or
“no” to a survey question, we may transmit some or all of your information to
advertisers that we believe may be of interest to you without providing you
with another opportunity to review the information. When you select “yes” next to an offer, we
will transfer some or all of your information to the applicable advertiser
without providing you with another opportunity to review the information.
Ad Serving
We pass information to ad networks or ad serving companies so that they can
deliver relevant
advertisements that may be of interest to you. Those web pages will contain a link to that
company’s privacy policy.
Marketing Partners
We may
share, license or sell your information to third parties for various marketing
purposes, including their online (e.g., e-mail marketing) and offline (e.g.,
telemarketing, cell phone text messaging, skip tracing, and direct mail)
marketing programs. If you would like to be removed from these programs, click
here and follow the opt-out instructions.
Data Enhancement/Appending/Validation
We may use third party service providers to enhance our database with
additional data about you, including but not limited to past purchase
information, age ranges present in your household, whether you own or rent a
home, the length of time you have lived at your residence, whether you are a
mail order buyer or responder, household income, and gender. Further, we may
use third party service providers to validate the data we have in our database
and append additional data to other data points we have in our database. Additionally, we may share, license or sell
your information to third parties for use in their data validation,
enhancement, information verification services, and, to the extent permitted by
law, individual reference or look-up services.
Governmental Agencies or Compliance
We may share your information with law enforcement
officials or governmental agencies: (1) in response to their request; (2) when
permitted or required by law; or (3) to establish our compliance with
applicable laws, rules, regulations, or guidelines. We may store and share your information with
third parties for suppression or opt-out purposes. We also may share your information with third
parties when: (1) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential
fraud or unauthorized transactions; (2) investigating fraud that has already
taken place; (3) enforcing or applying existing terms and conditions and/or
other agreements; (4) protecting the rights, property or safety of our
websites, our users or others; or (5) responding to subpoenas, court orders or
legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against
legal claims. In all cases, this information is not provided to these entities
or persons for marketing purposes.
Right to Transfer
Should the Company choose to sell or transfer business assets, it is possible
that the information we possess may be transferred as part of that transaction.
The Company may decide to retain a copy of the information post sale or
transfer.
THE
COMPANY MAY USE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE
PURPOSE IN COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT WE MAY TRANSFER
YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS AND MARKETERS FOR VARIOUS MARKETING
PURPOSES, INCLUDING THEIR ON-LINE AND/OR OFF-LINE PROGRAMS OR SERVICES. By
completing and submitting one of our registration pages, forms or surveys, you
are consenting to receive commercial e-mail that informs you about new
merchandise, sales, special discounts and promotions. If you no longer wish to
receive email, follow the instructions at the bottom of every email.
The cost of
the free gift is absorbed by the sponsoring companies featured on this site.
Users who opt-in to the offerings from these companies are also electing to
receive additional information from these companies. The companies may request
additional demographic and/or personally identifiable information for their use
in subsequent marketing and promotional activities.
CONSUMER CHOICES
Marketing Communications
By completing and submitting a registration form you
are consenting to receive marketing communications from us and our third party
marketing partners. If, after you have shared your information with the
Company, you decide that you do not want to receive marketing communications
from the Company you can discontinue the communications by clicking here and following the
opt-out instructions. If you have registered or submitted information under
more than one e-mail account, you must submit separate unsubscribe requests for
each account.
Please note
that under the CAN-SPAM Act, an advertiser is required to provide an opt-out
mechanism for consumers to unsubscribe from future emails about the advertiser.
Although not required to by law, many email marketers also include an opt-out
mechanism to enable consumers to be removed from their mailing list. This has
caused some confusion for consumers in opting out. The table below clarifies
which opt-out mechanism you should use.
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To Receive No Further Emails... |
Opt-Out Mechanism to Use |
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From the advertiser |
Advertiser's |
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From the email marketing company |
Marketer's |
|
From the advertiser or email marketing
company |
Both |
Cookies
"Cookies" are a feature on your browser software. If enabled, cookies
may store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of
this Site. Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features appeal the most
to you and what content you may have viewed on past visits. When you visit this
Site again, cookies can enable us to customize our content according to your
preferences. You can disable cookies, although the Site may not function
properly for you. Your browser preferences can be modified to accept or reject
all cookies, or request a notification when a cookie is set.
If you'd like
to opt-out from having us or our partners collect your Non-PII, please click here. When you opt out, we will place an opt-out
cookie on your computer. The opt-out cookie tells us not to collect your
Non-PII to tailor our online advertisement campaigns. Please note that if you
delete, block or otherwise restrict cookies, or if you use a different computer
or Internet browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice.
Customer Service
If you have any questions contact us or write
to us at
Customer
Service
101 First Street, MBN 232
customerservice@savingsmarketplace.com
INFORMATION
YOU PROVIDE TO COMPANIES AND THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site. The Site contains links that
direct you to websites owned and operated by other companies. In particular,
when you take advantage of a promotional offer, you will be directed to the web
sites of our marketing partners that will also collect your personal
information, such as credit card companies. Company does not control, and
assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of
any third party websites, which may employ cookies and/or collect personal
information. In addition, Company will not and cannot censor or edit the
content of any third party site. Please be sure to read the privacy policy of
each third party website that you visit.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Persons under the age of 18 are not eligible to use this Site. We recognize the
unique privacy concerns regarding children. We are committed to carefully
protecting privacy where children are involved no matter the point of contact.
In particular, our intention is to fully comply with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Per COPPA guidelines, we do not knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
If a parent or guardian is made aware that a child under the age of 13 has
provided us with personally identifiable information through any point of
contact, we ask you contact us and we will delete the
information about the child referenced from our files.
LOCATION
OF DATA AND SECURITY
Your information may be stored and processed in the
We use reasonable technical efforts to prevent unauthorized access or
disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Information. However, nearly
all Internet transmissions pass through many servers not controlled by us, and
therefore we cannot guarantee that any information you provide us or we collect
will not be intercepted or altered in that process. Also, as noted above, your
Information is shared with third parties whose privacy policies and practices
are beyond our control.
For additional information
or specific questions, please contact us