SmartShopIt Internet Corporation
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At SmartShopIt Internet Corporation we have a few fundamental principles:
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
In order to use this Web site, you must
first complete the registration form and create a Member name and password.
You must be at least 13 years of age to use this site. During
registration you are required to give contact information (such as name
and email address). We use this information to contact you about the
services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic
information (such as education, income level and gender) to us; we encourage
you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized
experience on our site.
Based on this information, if you elect, you may receive:
SmartShopIt Internet Corporation is the sole owner of the information collected on SmartShopIt.com. SmartShopIt.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
If you purchase a membership, product
or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information
from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such
as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such
as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
From time-to-time we may provide you
the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site.
If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable
information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. The requested information typically
includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to better design
the site to provide the right information to our Members. We may
also use this information to provide our participating retailers, advertisers
and affiliates as to the aggregate nature of the survey results.
We will never provide an personally identifiable information with anyone,
unless you have made that information available on your Profile.
We use may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
If you choose to use our referral service
to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s
email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time
email inviting him or her to visit the site. SmartShopIt Internet
Corporation stores this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us via our Contact Us page on the site to request that we remove this information from our database.
The Member knows that in using this site they may provide information such as product pricing and their rating opinions of products and retailers. The Member understands that this information is shared with other Members. The only identifiable link to you and that information is your Member id that you select when registering on the site. Therefore, please protect your privacy appropriately by not using easily identifiable Member ids if you wish to remain anonymous.
We will occasionally send you information
on products, services, special deals and promotions. You can sign
up for these emails from us on your profile page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.
We will send you strictly service-related
announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.
For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance,
we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.
We store information that we collect
through cookies and log files to create a “profile” of your preferences.
We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing
history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored
promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site
for you.
We share your profile to other third parties in aggregate form only.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We share aggregated demographic information
about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information
does not identify individual users. This will help attract advertisers
with specials and promotions specific to our Members looking for better
prices on their grocery and sundry items. We also use this to
help attract coupons for products our Members are shopping for.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’
of having your personally identifiable information used for certain
purposes, when we ask for this information. We give you full control
over what information you will receive on your Profile
If you no longer wish to receive our
newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving
them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication
or by emailing us at optout@SmartShopIt.com. We also offer an opportunity to opt-out
of certain communications on our Member profile page.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather
certain information automatically and store it in log files. This
information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system,
date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not
identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site,
to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic
information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
SmartShopIt may set and access SmartShopIt cookies on your computer. We may combine personal information collected from you with information from other ChatAny services or third parties to provide a better user experience, including customizing content for you.
ChatAny uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use ChatAny services in order to improve the quality of our services.
This Web site contains links to other
sites that are not owned or controlled by SmartShopIt Internet Corporation.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site
that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Profile Comments/Public Forums
If you use the comments or forum on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in your profile or on the public forums.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry
standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both
during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission
over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us via our Contact Us page on the web site.
In the event SmartShopIt Internet Corporation goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or the Member message system of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes to this privacy statement.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a prominent notice on our site.
If you have any questions or suggestions
regarding our privacy policy, please contact us on our Contact Us page
on our web site.
Effective Date: June 2, 2008
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