Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how we handle your personal information. We collect, use, and share personal information to help the SmartLocalDeals website ("SmartLocalDeals") work and to keep it safe (details below). This policy is effective January 1, 2009.
Collection. Information posted on SmartLocalDeals is obviously publicly available. We collect and store the following personal information:
email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information;
Use. We use users' personal information to:
provide our services
resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
encourage safe trading and enforce our policies;
customize users' experience, measure interest in our services, improve our services and inform users about services and updates;
communicate marketing and promotional offers to you according to your preferences;
do other things for users as described when we collect the information.
Disclosure. We don't sell or rent users' personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without users' explicit consent. We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a posting or other content violates other's rights, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. We may also share personal information with:
corporate affiliates who help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services. (Our corporate affiliates will market only to users who ask them to).
service providers who help with our business operations.
Communication and email tools. You agree to receive marketing communications from us unless you tell us that you prefer not to receive such communications. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference by following directions provided with the communication. You may not use our site or communication tools to harvest addresses, send spam or otherwise breach our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. We may automatically scan and manually filter email messages sent via our communication tools for malicious activity or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store such messages. If you use our tools to send content to a friend, we don't permanently store your friends' addresses or use or disclose them for marketing purposes. To report spam from other users, please contact customer support, customerservice@SmartLocalDeals.com.
Access, Modification, and Deletion. You can see, modify or erase some of your information by reviewing and modifying your posting or account status page, by signing on to "My SmartLocalDeals," or by contacting customer support (customerservice@SmartLocalDeals.com) to review any personal information we store that is not available on SmartLocalDeals. We retain personal information as permitted by law to resolve disputes, enforce our policies, and prevent bad guys from coming back. If you have further questions, you may contact Customer Support, customerservice@SmartLocalDeals.com.
Security. We use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure, but as you probably know, nothing's perfect, so we make no guarantees.
General. We may update this policy at any time, with updates taking effect when you next use the site or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. If we or our corporate affiliates are involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. Send questions about this policy to customerservice@SmartLocalDeals.com. |
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