PRIVACY POLICY
Protecting your privacy is important
to us. We hope the following privacy policy ("Privacy
Policy") will help you understand how we collect, use
and safeguard the personal information you provide to us on
this GimmeNetwork.com web site (the "Site").
We
are committed to making your use of the Site easy and enjoyable
as possible. Please take a moment to read the following Privacy
Policy to determine how your personal information will be
treated as you make full use of our many offerings. By using
the Site, or providing the information requested by the Site,
or by continuing to use the Site after having an opportunity
to review this Privacy Policy, you agree to accept the terms
of our Privacy Policy and our use of the information we collect.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please
do not use the Site.
GimmeNetwork.com reserves the right to
modify this Privacy Policy at any time without giving you
prior notice. Your use of the Site following any such modification
constitutes your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Policy
as modified. The last date this Privacy Policy was revised
or modified is set forth below ("Effective Date").
I. What personally identifiable
information does GimmeNetwork.com collect from me and how
does GimmeNetwork.com use my information?
To create an account, we collect your name,
email address, and a shipping address. You will also create
a password that you may change in the Account page of our
site. We will initially use this information to set up your
account, to send you a registration confirmation email and
to log your shipping information so that we know where to
send your order.
We use other trusted third party business
partners to host a short survey or offer form on the Site
which, with your consent, will collect the personally identifiable
information entered on the preceding address form page in
order to supply you with information about various special
offers and services. If you agree to participate in a special
offer hosted by a third party business partner, your personally
identifiable information included in the short survey or offer
form will be transferred by our third party business partners
to the appropriate advertiser referenced in the survey or
offer. Although GimmeNetwork.com may have independently
received similar information from your use of the Site, GimmeNetwork.com
does not have access to any additional information that you
provide on a third party hosted site. All information provided
to our third party business partners is subject to the posted
privacy policies of our third party business partners. For
your protection, our third party business partners are prohibited
from accessing any of your personal information until you
consent to such transfer and such business partner has provided
you a link to its privacy policy. We urge you to review such
privacy policy before consenting to the transfer of your personal
information.
In order to enhance the service we provide,
and to expedite the offer process, we may pre-populate data
fields on a third party business partner's survey or offer
form with the information that you provided to GimmeNetwork.com
on the Site. Additionally, we may use certain third party
business partners to host the survey or offer form and transfer
the completed survey or offer form to other third party business
partners. In an effort to safeguard your privacy, third party
business partners are contractually prohibited from using
any information in a pre-populated data field until they have
posted a link to the privacy policy of the third party business
partner/advertiser listed in the applicable offer and you
have consented to the transfer of such personal information
by consenting to the offer or submitting the survey. Likewise,
third party business partners that serve as the host of the
survey or offer form are contractually prohibited from using
or retaining your personal information for any purpose other
than the compilation and transfer of such personal information
to our third party business partners/advertisers. Once your
personal information is transferred to a third party business
partner your personal information is subject to that partner's
privacy policy and GimmeNetwork.com is not responsible
for use of your personal information by such business partner.
In a further effort to safeguard your privacy,
you are provided with the option of exiting the survey or
offer process of our third party business partners at any
time prior to submitting your personal information to such
third party business partner offer or survey. You must consent
to each offer on an individual basis for your personally identifiable
information to be transmitted, accessed and used by such third
party business partner.
When you place an order, your shipping information
is sent to a vendor who will fulfill and ship your product(s).
Our suppliers will also safeguard your personal information
and are contractually prohibited from disclosing your personal
information to other parties for any reason. They will not
have access to any referral information you provide.
Our goal is to deliver offers to people
who we believe will find them of value. Offers are developed
and managed under strict conditions designed to safeguard
the security and privacy of customer personal information.
When you click on an offer, you will be redirected to that
advertiser's site. An instruction box will appear explaining
to which offer you are being redirected. Although the site
may still display a GimmeNetwork.com address on the landing
page, you are in fact on a third party offer provider's website,
and any information you submit will be transmitted to this
third party.
As a member of the Site, we will be sending
transactional emails for various reasons as you continue to
use our site. For example, a welcome email will be sent thanking
you for joining, or an email telling you an order has shipped,
etc. These emails are required for logistical purposes and
users cannot opt-out of these types of emails.
If you contact GimmeNetwork.com, we may
keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever GimmeNetwork.com
collects personal information, we make an effort to include
a link to this Privacy Policy on that specified page.
With your consent, GimmeNetwork.com may
from time to time send commercial e-mails with additional
offers and products. GimmeNetwork.com is committed to ethical
and responsible e-mail practices. Accordingly, GimmeNetwork.com
strives to make sure that all commercial e-mails sent by GimmeNetwork.com
are compliant with the Can-Spam Act of 2003. Members may opt-out
of receiving promotional mailings by clicking on the opt-out
link contained in the body of any commercial e-mail sent by
GimmeNetwork.com or by unsubscribing from commercial e-mail
by logging into your Member account on GimmeNetwork.com,
clicking on the unsubscribe link and entering the e-mail address
that you wish to unsubscribe from further commercial e-mail
messages from GimmeNetwork.com.
Please note that we can only allow one account
per household. This rule exists to protect our advertising
partners, as it serves to engender high quality, unique leads.
Potential users who reside in households with multiple people
are recommended to share an account.
With your prior consent, we will work with
other third party businesses using the personal information
that you supply to us on the main signup page to bring selected
retail opportunities to our members via direct mail, email
and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers
of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup
and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation
and email marketing. At any time, you may choose to unsubscribe
from third party commercial e-mail messages by logging into
your Member account on GimmeNetwork.com, clicking on the
unsubscribe link and entering the e-mail address that you
wish to unsubscribe from further commercial e-mail messages
from third parties. Keep in mind that if you take advantage
of an offer from a GimmeNetwork.com business partner and
thus, become their customer, they may independently wish to
send offers to you. In the event that you are not interested
in receiving future offers from these affiliates, you must
contact them directly to fulfill your list removal request.
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 Site. If your personally identifiable
information changes, you may update it by making the necessary
edits by logging into your account on GimmeNetwork.com
and clicking on the Account link.
There is no way to deactivate an account;
if you no longer wish to remain a member of the Site, simply
stop logging in to your account.
II. What are cookies and how does
GimmeNetwork.com use them?
"Cookies" are small pieces of
information that are stored by your browser on your computer's
hard drive. GimmeNetwork.com uses cookies to better understand
your traffic patterns on the Site as well as keeping your
login information securely stored. This information helps
us improve the navigation and flow of the web site. Additionally
this may allow users who choose to be remembered when they
come back to the Site to be automatically logged in. We link
cookies to personally identifiable information so that we
may track your activities on the Site in order to credit you
for completing the offer. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but if you choose to disable the use of cookies,
you will run the risk of not receiving proper credit for completing
an offer. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers/offer
providers) may use cookies on our site. We have no access
to or control over these types of cookies.
Third-party Advertisers that serve ads onto
the Site may also use their own cookies.
III. Who is collecting information?
When you are on a Site and are asked for
personal information, you are sharing that information with
GimmeNetwork.com, unless it is specifically stated otherwise
in this Privacy Policy or in an offer or survey form or registration
form that you may be asked to complete as part of utilizing
the service. For example, with your consent certain information
like name, e-mail address and address, as well as your responses
to survey questions, may be shared with affiliates and trusted
business partners to better provide the services offered on
the Site.
Please be aware that GimmeNetwork.com
partners, advertisers and web sites that have links on our
site may collect personally identifiable information about
you. The information practices of those Internet access partners,
advertisers, and web sites linked from GimmeNetwork.com
are not covered by this Privacy Policy. GimmeNetwork.com
has no liability or responsibility for these independent policies
or the use of any personally identifiable information you
independently transfer to these companies.
IV. With whom does GimmeNetwork.com
share my information?
As set forth in Section I, GimmeNetwork.com
may submit your personal information to third party business
partners to participate in their offer or survey. Except as
otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, GimmeNetwork.com
will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information
except when you have decided to opt-in to receive information,
we have your permission or under special circumstances, such
as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it
or under the circumstances described in this Privacy Policy.
The following describes some of the additional ways that your
information may be disclosed.
a. Business Partners & Sponsors: GimmeNetwork.com
may disclose your personal information to trusted business
partners or sponsors with your consent. Some or all data collected
on the Site may be shared with a business partner. For example,
you may consent to the transfer of your personal information
by affirmatively submitting your personal information to such
business partner by participating in their survey and submitting
the information to the business partner.
b. Other: GimmeNetwork.com may also disclose
account information in special cases when we have reason to
believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating
GimmeNetwork.com's policies or may be causing injury to
or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally)
GimmeNetwork.com's rights or property, other GimmeNetwork.com
users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
GimmeNetwork.com may disclose or access account information
when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and
for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary
to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
Lastly, GimmeNetwork.com may disclose a users e-mail address
as part of a suppression file or do-not-e-mail list to its
partners and affiliates to make sure that a users unsubscribe
requests are forwarded to the appropriate parties to ensure
removal of the user from partner and affiliate databases in
compliance with law, including without limitation, the Can-Spam
Act of 2003.
c. Acquisitions. As GimmeNetwork.com
develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell
our business assets. Customer information is generally one
of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus,
in the event that GimmeNetwork.com or all of its assets
are acquired, customer information, including any visitor
information collected through the Site, would be one of the
transferred assets.
d. Access. At any time you may send us an
email to privacy@GimmeNetwork.com to request a listing
of all the types of your personal information disclosed by
GimmeNetwork.com to third parties and business partners.
If requested, GimmeNetwork.com will provide an e-mail response
within thirty (30) days informing you of the recipients of
your personally identifiable information and the type of information
disclosed to third parties, or business partners.
V. What security precautions are
in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my
information?
The security of your personal information
is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry
standards to protect the personal information submitted to
us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However,
no method of transmission over the internet, or method of
electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive
to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Account information for GimmeNetwork.com
members are password-protected so that you and only you have
access to this personal information. You may edit your GimmeNetwork.com
account information by logging into your Member account on
GimmeNetwork.com, clicking on the Account link and revising
your personal information.
We recommend that you do not divulge your
password to anyone. GimmeNetwork.com will never ask you
for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited
email. Also remember to sign out of your GimmeNetwork.com
account and close your browser window when you have finished
your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your
personal information and correspondence if you share a computer
with someone else or are using a computer in a public place
like a library.
VI. Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act
The Site is not intended for use by children
and anyone who provides a date of birth under the age of 13
will be prohibited from accessing the Site. GimmeNetwork.com
encourages parents and guardians to be familiar with the web
sites that their children visit. The Federal Trade Commission
("FTC") regulates the means by which web site operators
collect and use personal information from children under 13,
pursuant to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 (the "Act"). For more information about the
Act and children's on-line privacy in general, visit the FTC's
web site at http://www.ftc.gov.
VII. Miscellaneous Provisions.
a. Disclaimer of Liability. Under no circumstances
shall GimmeNetwork.com be liable for any damages, including,
but not limited to, indirect, special, incidental, consequential
or exemplary damages, that result from the use of the information
or materials posted to or collected as a result of the user's
accessing the Site or use of the service provided by GimmeNetwork.com,
even if GimmeNetwork.com has been advised of the possibility
of such damages.
b. Enforcement/Redress. If for some reason
you believe that GimmeNetwork.com has not adhered to this Privacy
Policy, please notify Customer Service. GimmeNetwork.com
will endeavor to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate,
take steps to correct a problem.
c. Security of the Data Collected. The Site
is not a secure web site. GimmeNetwork.com cannot and does
not ensure or warrant the security of any information collected
by use, transmitted over the Internet, or maintained in your
user profile. You agree that any data transmission you make
or receive through the Site is at your own risk.
VIII. Additional Information.
If you have a question that was not addressed
in this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by sending an e-mail
request to privacy@GimmeNetwork.com.
DATE OF LAST MODIFICATION
November 14, 2005
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