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The Savinz, Inc. Privacy Policy
Savinz, Inc. (“Savinz”) knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting or using the Savinz website, Savinz's services and applications, and any other linked pages, features, or content offered from time to time by Savinz in connection therewith (collectively, the "Service"), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to giving you transparency of our privacy practices and control over your data. To that end, in addition to this Privacy Policy, please find:
- A 'Privacy Primer' page, intended to educate and elucidate users about privacy on Savinz
- A table showing the default privacy settings on available to you at Savinz
- A set of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions!) related to privacy
- You may also email us with any privacy-related questions you have at privacy@team.savinz.com
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers Savinz's treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") and other data that Savinz gathers when you are accessing Savinz's Service. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Savinz does not own or control, or to individuals that Savinz does not employ or manage. In addition, the Service contains links to outside sources, both ones we have added ourselves (online stores for example) and ones that members have submitted. While we attempt to provide links only to those sites that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any web sites you visit and the third party applications you use.
What Personal Information Does Savinz Collect?
The information we gather from users enables us to personalize and improve our services and to allow our users to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Service. In connection with the Service, we request and display some Personal Information to other users and visitors of the Service, which allows users to identify each other. We collect the following types of information from our users.
Personal Information You Provide to Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our Service or provide to us in any other way such as through directing your stores to send your emails to your unique @savinz.com email address. The types of Personal Information collected may include your name, user name, address, email address, phone number, birthday, product desires, prices of products purchased, description and name of products purchased, date of purchase, store of purchase, and product Wishlist use information and browser information. The Personal Information you provide is used for such purposes as allowing you to interact with other users, improving the content of the Service, customizing the advertising and content you see, and communicating with you about specials and new features. We may also draw upon this Personal Information in order to adapt the services of our community or your enthusiast groups, your buying groups, to your needs, to research the effectiveness of our network, and to develop new tools for the community.
Personal Information Collected Automatically:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Service or services. When you use the Service by directing your stores to send emails such as receipts, coupons, discounts, and other information to your unique @savinz.com email address, Savinz automatically receives and records information on our server logs from the information contained in the unique @savinz.com emails sent to Savinz. Savinz also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from the information received through your browser or mobile platform including your location, IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested within Savinz and outside Savinz web site.
Generally, our service automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and other information from users who use our unique @savinz.com email system, similar to TV ratings that indicate how many people watched a particular show. Unless you specifically set your privacy settings to allow the data received from your emails, shopping, comments, and Wishlists to be open to all (called “Everyone”), Savinz only uses the data in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. This type of aggregate data enables us to figure out how often users use parts of the Service or services so that we can make the Service appealing to as many customers as possible, and improve those services. The aggregate data also enables us to figure out what products are being purchased, by what type, or category, of user, for what prices, from which stores. The aggregate data also enables us to show other real time information such as, for example, shopping trends, product purchase trends, spending trends, and store selection trends. As part of this use of information, we may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our customers, collectively, use our site. We share this type of statistical data so that our partners also understand how often people use their services and our Service, so that they, too, may provide you with an optimal online experience. Again, Savinz never discloses aggregate information to a partner in a manner that would identify you personally. Our goal is to empower the Savinz shopper with good shopping information to help the Savinz Shopper easily and quickly find the right products at the right prices.
Email Communications:
We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from Savinz if your computer supports this type of program. Savinz uses this confirmation to help us make emails more interesting and helpful and improve our service. If you do not want to receive email or other mail from us, please indicate your preference during the registration process or by making a modification on your account settings page or through the 'settings' tab on our website once you're logged into the service.
What About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. Savinz may or may not use cookies but if Savinz does use cookies, the cookies do not collect Personal Information, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Service's most attractive features. Ads appearing on the Service may be delivered to users by our advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Savinz and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The information we gather from users enables us to personalize and improve our services and to allow our users to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Service. In connection with the Service, we request and display some Personal Information to other users and visitors of the Service, which allows users to identify each other. We collect the following types of information from our users.
Personal Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. Savinz may share your Personal Information only as described below.
Use of the Service: The Service is primarily designed to help you share information, including your shopping experiences, products purchases, prices of products, and stores from which the products are purchased, with others. This not only includes the shopping information that you provide directly to Savinz, but also information that you broadcast to third party services using the Service. You can control your sharing of shopping information through your privacy settings accessible through the 'settings' tab on our website once you're logged into the Service.
Information you submit to the Service through using your unique @savinz.com email with stores will be available to users of the Service in accordance with the selected privacy settings. Your name and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Service network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access all of your information (e.g., WishLists, shopping experiences) unless they have a relationship to you (friends) that allows such access at different privacy and anynomous levels based on your privacy settings.
Please remember that if you choose to provide personal information using certain features of the Service, that information is governed by the privacy settings of those particular features and, unless selected otherwise, may be available to the wider Savinz community or may be published on the Savinz website, which is subject to indexing by third party search engines. Individuals reading this information may use or disclose it to other individuals or entities without our control and without your knowledge. Therefore, we urge you to think carefully about including any specific information you may deem private in your comments about your Shopping purchases or your WishList or even if you select a particular store to use the unique @savinz.com address that will send store information such as receipts, coupons, or discounts or other store-provided content that you create in the Service (products purchased, wislist selections, comments, or otherwise).
While the Service does allows you to aggregate your shopping information in one platform by providing stores with your unique @savinz.com email, at no time does Savinz ask you to provide your credit card information or store passwords for the Service database. You should be aware that if your store provides your credit card information in emails such information will be stored in the Service database and that but such credit card information is will not be made available to other users or to third parties but will be located in your stored emails at the Savinz platform.
The Service allows you to connect with certain third party services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook and other similar services). When you broadcast information to such third party services, such information is no longer under the control of Savinz and is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third parties. Additionally, certain Personal Information may be made available to third party developers using our Application Programming Interface (“API”) if you or your 'friend' use third party applications developed by such third party developers. Use of third party applications developed using our API are subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third party developers. You should be aware that such third party applications may expose purchase information in broad and creative ways and some third party services may permit you to make your information publicly available and accessible by everyone on the Internet. You can control whether your Savinz purchase activity is broadcast to third parties through your privacy settings or by not using a third party's service or application.
Businesses We Do Not Control: We enter into relationships with a variety of businesses and work closely with them. In certain situations, these businesses sell items or provide promotions to you through Savinz's Service. In other situations, Savinz provides services, or sells products jointly with these businesses. You can easily recognize when one of these businesses is associated with your transaction, and we will share your Personal Information that is related to such transactions with that business, unless you have elected not to be solicited by marketing partners during the registration process or through the account settings page.
Agents: We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, Savinz's agents do not have any right to use Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information for the above purposes.
User profiles: User profile information including user name, Twitter account name, Facebook account name, and other information you enter may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Service. Users' email addresses and phone numbers will not be directly revealed to other users by Savinz, except when the user is "connected" to another user as a Friend and chooses to email them from within the Service or chooses to display their email address and phone number on their profile page through the privacy settings.
Communication in response to User Submissions: As part of the Service, you will receive Savinz transactional email and other communication relating to your @savinz.com emails. You acknowledge and agree that by posting such shopping information Savinz will send you email and other communication that it determines in its sole discretion relate to your shopping information. Savinz also will use your email to send you updates on when your Savinz friends check-in, when you receive a new friend request, or a Savinz newsletter - however, you can opt out of all of these communications on your account settings page.
Promotional Offers: As part of the Service you may be exposed to offers from Savinz on behalf of other businesses. However, in connection with such offers we do not give the other business your name, address, or email address.
Invitations: When you invite someone to join the Savinz community, please be aware that we will disclose your real name, as an invitation containing your name will be sent to the email address of the person you wish to invite. This information is necessary to make sure your invitee knows who has contacted them. To build a community based on trust and empathy, we feel this disclosure is necessary.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Savinz, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Savinz goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Savinz may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.
Protection of Savinz and Others: We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Savinz, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties, and will be able to prevent the sharing of this information.
Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: For clarity, we may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as the number of products purchased, the prices of individual products, the stores where those products are purchased.
Is Personal Information About Me Secure?
Your Savinz account Personal Information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
Savinz endeavors to safeguard user information to ensure that user account information is kept private. However, Savinz cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
The Service may contain links to other sites. Savinz is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Service.
What Personal Information CanI Access?
Savinz allows you to access the following information about you for the purpose of viewing, and in certain situations, updating that information. This list will change as our Service changes.
Username and password Phone number Email address Other User profile information (e.g., home city, photo) Usage information (e.g., your shopping history)
DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT
Should you ever decide to delete your Savinz account, you may do so by contacting Savinz at privacy@Savinz.com, or by clicking on the “delete account” link on your account settings page. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages in your inbox and any promotional offers you received, will be removed from the site and deleted from Savinz's servers. Because of the way we maintain Savinz, such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information or posts may remain on backup media for up to ninety (90) days.
What Choices Do I Have?
As stated previously, you can adjust your account settings to control the amount of information you share with users of the Service, even though some settings may be needed to take advantage of certain Savinz features. You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the “What Personal Information Can I Access” section above. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
You delete your account via your account settings page. Please note that Savinz will need to verify that you have the authority to delete the account, and some information may remain in our records after deletion of your account.
If you do not wish to receive email or other mail from us, please indicate your preference during the registration process or by making a modification on your account settings page. Please note that if you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Policy, those legal notices will still govern your use of the Savinz Service, and you are responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes.
Independent Privacy Program
Savinz, Inc. is a licensee of the ___________Privacy Program. _[eTrust???]_________is an independent organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the user of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the website Savinz.com. Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by ______________.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact via email privacy @ savinz.com. I f you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact ___________Privacy Program at ___________Privacy Program URL. ___________Privacy Program will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
Links to Other Websites
Our Services contain links to other websites. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personally identifiable information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement
Savinz cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law. 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, to protect the property and rights of Savinz or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Savinz may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make material changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Service or sending you an email. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Service after such changes have been first posted.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Service, please send a detailed message to: privacy @ team.savinz.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Effective Date: August 21, 2010
