BargainDepot.net Privacy Policy

Your privacy on the Internet is important to BargainDepot.net. When you register directly with BargainDepot.net or one of our Network Partners to provide certain information about yourself in order to receive email from BargainDepot.net, you become a BargainDepot.net Member. Below is an explanation regarding the type of information collected from BargainDepot.net Members and what is done with this information. By registering online through BargainDepot.net's Web sites or the Web sites of our Network Partners, you are agreeing to the terms of BargainDepot.net's Privacy Policy. You should also review our Network Partners' privacy policies for more information on their data collection and handling practices.

This Privacy Policy only applies to personally identifiable information that you provide when you register at the BargainDepot.net Web site or at the Web sites of any of our Network Partners ("Member-Provided Information"). "Personally identifiable information" means your name, residence address, email address or other information from which your identity may be ascertained.

If BargainDepot.net acquires information about you from other sources ("Other Information"), even if you provided substantially similar or identical information at the time you registered. Other Information is not governed by this Privacy Policy and this Privacy Policy does not restrict us with regard to use of such Other Information. Further, the Privacy Policy does not cover the conduct or practices of any other parties, including without limitation, any third-party source of information. Nor does this Privacy Policy restrict the disclosure, sharing or transfer of aggregate-level information. "Aggregate-level information" is any information that does not allow a BargainDepot.net Member's identity to be ascertained in a commercially likely manner. It is solely at a BargainDepot.net Member's discretion if he or she chooses to provide personally identifiable information to a marketer or other party by making a purchase, requesting additional information, or communicating directly with the company or organization after visiting its Web site or otherwise, and this Privacy Policy does not govern any such information provided.

How We Gather Information
We are in the business of intermediating between potential buyers who wish to receive highly valuable promotions and offers of goods and services and companies who offer those promotions, goods and services. We collect the information you voluntarily give us when you register for an offer.

We obtain information from our Network Partners and clients. We mandate that any company providing us with data certify that the data represents permissible e-mail data. If we become aware that the data is not in compliance we will terminate our relationship with them immediately.

Member-Provided Information: As part of the BargainDepot.net Member registration process, a prospective member is asked to provide an email address and interest category selections. The prospective member, at his or her option, may voluntarily provide additional information, including personal, geographic and demographic information. BargainDepot.net uses these data to assemble broad demographic information about BargainDepot.net Members in general. The primary purpose of this data collection is to ensure that BargainDepot.net Members receive relevant, targeted offers and information from BargainDepot.net.

Web Traffic Information: BargainDepot.net also collects and monitors incoming and outgoing Web site traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers and to administer its Web site.

"Contact Us" Information: BargainDepot.net uses "contact us" forms as a way for BargainDepot.net customers, potential customers and BargainDepot.net Members to communicate with BargainDepot.net. BargainDepot.net collects the information supplied by the sender of the "contact us" form in order to establish and maintain relationships with customers, potential customers and BargainDepot.net Members. BargainDepot.net also uses email links located on various pages of the BargainDepot.net Web site to allow you to contact BargainDepot.net with questions or comments you may have. Email communications and the ideas sent to BargainDepot.net in these email communications become the property of BargainDepot.net. BargainDepot.net uses the email communications to evaluate and improve its services and Web site. BargainDepot.net also may save these email communications as an archive to address Member questions and concerns, for auditing purposes and to ensure privacy compliance with third-party Internet Service Providers.

Use of Cookies and Clear GIFs
As an important and necessary part of providing customizable and personalized services to our BargainDepot.net Members, BargainDepot.net uses cookies and Clear GIFs to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie or Clear GIF is a small amount of data that is sent to a Member's browser from a Web server and stored on your computer hard drive. Areas of BargainDepot.net's Web site where BargainDepot.net Members are prompted to log in or that are customizable require acceptance of cookies and Clear GIFs. Cookies and Clear GIFs are also used to help BargainDepot.net track the response to messages sent to Members on behalf of Customers so that BargainDepot.net can monitor and report campaign results to the Customer and track response history. With respect to cookies and Clear GIFs, you have a choice. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies and Clear GIFs, to be notified when a cookie or Clear GIF is set, or to reject all cookies and Clear GIFs. If you choose to reject all cookies and Clear GIFs, you will be unable to use those BargainDepot.net services that require the use of cookies or Clear GIFs in order to participate.

How We Use Information
BargainDepot.net uses the information you provide to provide you with information products and services that meet your interests and needs. Our marketing partners wishing to contact you either give their e-mail message to us and we deliver it to you, or we provide your identity to them so they can deliver messages directly to you. Your shared-interest information is shared through aggregated data, segregated into categories and may be tied to your name. It is solely at your discretion if you choose to provide additional personally identifiable information to a marketing partner by making a purchase, requesting additional information, or communicating directly with the company or organization after using its website.

When you register with BargainDepot.net or one of our Network Partners, you will receive offers from BargainDepot.net or our marketing partners, should you choose to receive them. Our marketing partners, and others, may use this information to make offers to you in your areas of interest or other offers regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We do not obtain or share credit information about you. Only we, or our marketing partners, will possess your e-mail address and other personally identifiable information.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

You Can Control the Use of Your Information
At any time during the period you agree to receive offers, you have the right to choose not to receive offers from any of our marketing partners. You can do this by notifying the marketing partner through return e-mail or by clicking on an unsubscribe link that you wish to not receive such information in the future from that partner. If you wish to opt-out of receiving offers from BargainDepot.net or one of our websites as well, you may do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email message.

Security
We utilize the latest server technology to house our database. To protect our database we use a complex system of backups and firewall technology. These technologies are deployed as part of a sophisticated security architecture and protocol. All data resides in a tightly controlled, secure data center.

Sharing
We currently use several outside companies to execute the marketing campaigns on behalf of some of our marketing partners. We will share your e-mail name or other contact information that is necessary for these third parties to provide these services. These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purposes of providing these services.

Notification of Changes
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Links
BargainDepot.net has not reviewed any or all of the websites linked to or from our website and is not responsible for the content of any off-website pages or other websites linked to or from this website. BargainDepot.net encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked websites, because their privacy practices may differ from ours. Your linking to this website, off-website pages, or other websites is at your own risk and without the permission of BargainDepot.net.

Sale or Merger
If all or part of BargainDepot.net should change controlling ownership, or BargainDepot.net merge with another party, Member-Provided Information may be transferred as part of that event; such transfers, to the extent allowed by law, will always be conditioned on the preservation of the promises made in this Privacy Policy.