Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Rights
Your privacy is important to us. MyCommunityShopper.com as a business has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy only applies to transactions, activities and data gathered, on the MyCommunityShopper.com web site and does not apply to any other web site or any other company that may refer you to MyCommunityShopper.com. Please review this privacy policy from time to time as we may have made modifications. Every-time you visit this Site or provide us with information you are accepting the practices described within this privacy policy.
Your IP Address
In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we may use IP addresses to help identify users and to gather broad demographic information about users.
Like most websites, each time users visit the Site, we may collect IP addresses and the web page from which you came with the goal of enhancing your experience.
Cookies And Related Technologies
A cookie is a small file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer ready for future access when you return to the site. We may use cookies to tailor and improve the content we deliver to you while you are on our site. The cookies do not contain or capture any personal information. You can configure your computer's browser to alert you when a site is attempting to send you a cookie and allow you to accept or refuse the cookie. Your decision to refuse cookies from MyCommunityShopper.com will not prevent you from using the site, but may limit your ability to take advantage of some of the advanced features.
Information We Collect From You
We respect your right to privacy. We do not collect personally identifiable information (for example your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) about you from the Site unless you voluntarily provide it to us. In order to operate this Site and provide you with information on products and services that may be of interest to you, we may collect profile information (i.e. information that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number and email address), public information such as user ratings and reviews and a user name from you. Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect profile information from children under the age of 13.
Information Other Web Sites Collect From You
On the Site, we may place links to other web sites operated by other parties. When you click on these links and visit these other web sites you need to be aware that we do not control these other web sites or these other web site’s business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your profile information to help us efficiently send you information, offers and other promotional materials for MyCommunityShopper.com’s or third parties' goods or services. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as Discount coupons, special pricing discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides you with the option of declining to receive offers from MyCommunityShopper.com by "opting-out" of receiving this type of communication.
By electing to receive communications such as emails or promotions or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your profile information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we will have the right to use and disclose all such information you submit in the same manner in which we use and disclose all other information you submit.
Your profile information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets of MyCommunityShopper.com. We may also disclose specific information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of MyCommunityShopper.com or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your profile information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. However, all of these parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your profile information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such profile information.
Use of Public Information
When you register on the Site, you must enter a user name. You will also be given the chance to designate certain information in your profile. You may change these this information in the Edit My Profile section of the Site. The Site may provide you with the opportunity to give user reviews and ratings for restaurants, hotels, bars, events and other items. Your user name and public information may appear next to your user reviews and ratings if they are posted on the Site. Your user name and information may also appear on a reviews section of the Site. Please note that no personal information will be available to other visitors.
Security Information
We take your security seriously and takes reasonable steps to protect your information. No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to ensure security on our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any firewalls or secure server software we may employ. We will continue to evaluate and implement enhancements in security technology and practices, however we can only take steps to help reduce the risks of unauthorized access.
Update Your Preferences and Personal Information
When you provide profile information to the Site, you must enter a user name. You may also be given the chance to designate certain other information and to opt-out of receiving certain communications from us and third parties. We also give you the opportunity modify profile information you have provided to us, or to change your information at anytime by clicking on Your Profile link, then clicking on the Edit My Profile link and selecting those portions of your profile you would like to update. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes.
After you submit your information in connection with searching for products or services and elect to receive communications or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs such as discount or rewards programs offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, we may use such information to send you marketing emails. However, if we do so, we will provide a link that you can click on to opt-out of receiving subsequent marketing emails generated from the same such information. In many cases we will also provide opt-in boxes so that you can indicate your preferences before receiving marketing emails.
Please note that changing or deleting your information through edits of your profile, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from MyCommunityShopper.com will only change or delete the data in our Profile database for purposes of future transmissions from the Site and for managing future communications from MyCommunityShopper.com. These changes and deletions will not change or delete information that we may have already forwarded to any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
Revisions
This privacy policy was last revised on January 2, 2007.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page.
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