Last updated August 21, 2010
This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for the YourBestDeals website
(collectively, the “Website” located at www.YourBestDeals.com).
YourBestDeals.com, Inc., a California Corporation, the provider of the Website
(referred to as “us” or “we”), is committed to protecting your privacy online.
Please read the following to learn what information we collect from you
(the “User” or the “End User”) and how we use that information. If you have any
questions about our privacy policy, please email us.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE,
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL
THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.
1. Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this
privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that
you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
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 notice on our home page.
2. Types of Information Collected and Uses of Collected Information
We collect two types of information about our Website Users: Personally Identifiable
Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
Personally Identifiable Information.
Personally Identifiable Information is information that identifies a specific
End User. When you engage in certain activities on the Website, such as
creating an account, ordering a product or service from us or our partners,
submitting content and/or posting content in discussion forums, entering a
contest or sweepstakes sponsored by us or our partners, filling out a survey,
posting a review, sending us or our partners feedback, requesting information
about our services, submitting an affiliate agreement, applying for a job,
posting a video or signing up for special offers from third parties through
the Website (collectively, “Identification Activities”), we may ask you to
provide certain information about yourself. It is optional for you to engage
in an Identification Activity. If you elect to engage in an Identification
Activity, however, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information
about yourself, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip
code), email address, telephone number and date of birth. When you order products
or services, we may also ask you to provide us with your credit card number,
expiration date and authentication codes or related information. Depending
on the activity, some of the information we ask you to provide is identified
as mandatory and some is identified as voluntary. If you do not provide the
mandatory information for a particular activity that requires it, you will
not be permitted to engage in that activity.
Tell-A-Friend/Buy it for a Friend.
If you choose to use our referral service or buy a deal for a friend, we
will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically
send your friend a one-time email with the gift you bought for them or inviting
him or her to visit the site. YourBestDeals stores this information for the
sole purpose of sending this one-time email, sending their gift, and tracking
the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at support@YourBestDeals.com to request that we
remove this information from our database.
We use Personally Identifiable Information to provide products and services to
you, administer sweepstakes and contests, enhance the operation of the Website,
improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Website use, improve our
product and service offerings, and to tailor your experience with third parties
as provided in Item 3 of this Privacy Policy. For example, if you send our
customer service an email we may use your comments and feedback to tell others
about our services, and may post your comment in our marketing materials or on
our Website. Your comments may contain personal information such as your name,
we will obtain consent from you to post your name along with your comment prior
to posting your comment for public view. In addition, if you use our Website to
send information or a product to another person, we may store your personal
information. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot,
resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our
agreements with you, including our Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy,
comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify
a specific End User. This type of information may include things like the Uniform
Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to our Website,
the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser
you are using and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We, and/or our authorized
Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers, may automatically collect this
information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like
Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, as described in Items 4 and 8 of this Privacy
Policy.
We use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, administer the
Website, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable
law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We may also share this
information with our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers to
measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.
3. Release of Personally Identifiable Information
We will not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personally Identifiable Information with
other parties except as provided below:
We may share your information with YourBestDeals Merchants. From time to time, we
provide offers from particular merchants (referred to as “YourBestDeals Merchants”)
who, as part of the offer, request information on YourBestDeals customers who
purchased the offer in order to aid redemption. In those cases, we share some of
your Personally Identifiable Information with YourBestDeals Merchants. Sharing this
Information may allow a YourBestDeals Merchant to market directly to you should they
choose to do so. However, we will only share Personally Identifiable Information
with a YourBestDeals Merchant if you engage in an Identification Activity, and then
only to the YourBestDeals Merchant involved in that Identification Activity.
We specifically disclaim any responsibility or liability for the actions of such
YourBestDeals Merchant. While we inform them that they are only permitted to communicate
with you for the purposes of the specific promotion with YourBestDeals, we do not have
any responsibility for the actions of the YourBestDeals Merchant, and the actions of
the YourBestDeals Merchant are not in our control.
We may share your information with Authorized Third Party Service Providers. We provide
services and products through third parties. These “Third Party Service Providers”
perform functions on our behalf, like sending out and distributing our administrative
and promotional emails. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with
such Service Providers to fulfill orders, deliver packages, send postal or email,
administer contests or sweepstakes, remove repetitive information on customer lists,
analyze data, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links, process
credit card payments, operate the Website, troubleshoot, and provide customer service.
We may also collect personal information from individuals and companies (“Affiliates”)
with whom we have business relationships and may share your information with Service
Providers to accomplish our administrative tasks. For example, when you order a service,
we release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment
for the service and, if applicable, release your address to the delivery service to
deliver the service. Likewise, we may release an Affiliate’s information to our bank
to send out a payment. We encourage YourBestDeals Merchants and Third Party Service
Providers to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personally
Identifiable Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such
parties and is not subject to our control.
We may remarket your information. Remarketing is a way for us to connect with users,
based upon your past interactions with the YourBestDeals website. Third-party marketing
vendors may be hired by YourBestDeals to perform remarketing services. As a result,
third-party vendors, including Google, may show YourBestDeals ads on sites on the
internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a
user's prior visits to YourBestDeals's website. Users may opt out of Google's use of
cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. This information is used only for remarketing
purposes and will not be used by them for any other purpose.
We may share your information in a Business Transfer. As with any other business, we
could merge with, or be acquired by another company. If this occurs, the successor
company would acquire the information we maintain, including Personally Identifiable
Information. However, Personally Identifiable Information would remain subject to this
Privacy Policy.
We may share your information for our Protection and the Protection of Others. 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 comply with a judicial
proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website; enforce or apply this
Privacy Policy, our Website Terms of Use or other agreements; or protect the rights, property
or safety of the Website, its Users or others.
4. Release of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Partners,
Affiliates and Advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic
information (which does not include any Personally Identifiable Information) with
“Third Party Advertisers” or “Third Party Advertising Companies” and other parties
as provided below:
We use Third Party Advertising Companies to serve ads when you visit our Website.
These companies may use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits
to this and other websites in order to provide, through the use of network tags,
advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Some of
these Third Party Advertising Companies may be advertising networks that are members
of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). If you would like more information
about any NAI member company, or you would like to opt-out of targeted advertising
from any NAI member company, click here:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp
We also use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze Non-Personally
Identifiable usage and volume statistical information from our Users to administer
our Website and constantly improve its quality. We may also publish this information
for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for Advertisers. Please note
that this is not Personally Identifiable Information, only general summaries of the
activities of our Users. Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used
by us.
5. Updating and Correcting Information
We believe that you should have the ability to access and edit the Personally
Identifiable Information you provide us. You may change any of your Personally
Identifiable Information by logging into your account and accessing the "my account"
section of the site, sending us an email at support@YourBestDeals.com or writing to
us at 610 Tree Top Lane, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. Please indicate your name, address
and email address, and what information you would like to update when you contact us.
We encourage you to promptly update your Personally Identifiable Information if it
changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed;
however, because we keep track of past transactions, you cannot delete information
associated with past transactions on the Website. In addition, in may be impossible
for us to completely delete all of your information because we periodically backup
information.
If you choose to store credit card information on the site, this is stored on a secure
page and you may delete your credit card information at any time by going to the
"my account" section of your profile.
6. User Choices on Collection and Use of Information
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, although it may
be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website.
As a condition of purchase of our products and services, we will send you Administrative
and Promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity and
purchases as well as updates about our products and promotional offers. You cannot opt-out
of Administrative Emails. “Administrative Emails” relate to a User’s activity on the
Website, and include emails regarding a particular User’s account, requests or inquiries,
and purchases of products and services. In contrast to Administrative Emails, however,
you do have a choice with respect to Promotional Emails. Promotional Emails advertise our
products and services, including exclusive sales and other offers, and/or the products and
services of our Advertisers and Affiliates. If you do not want to receive Promotional
Emails from us, you may elect to opt-out of receiving Promotional Emails at any time after
registering by e-mailing us at support@YourBestDeals.com, by writing to us at the address
contained herein, or by hitting the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any of our
e-mails. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what
Promotional Emails you do not want to receive.
7. Security of Information
We take security seriously and take numerous precautions to protect the security of
Personally Identifiable Information. You can access your Personally Identifiable Information
on our Website through a password and your email address. This password is encrypted.
We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone. In addition, your Personally
Identifiable Information resides on a secure server that only selected personnel and
contractors have access to. We encrypt certain sensitive information (such as credit card
information) using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure that your Personally
Identifiable Information is safe as it is transmitted to us.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security
measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies which do the same, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Website, and are not
responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.
8. Data Tracking
Cookies. To facilitate and customize your experience with the Website, we store cookies
on your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a User’s computer for
record-keeping purposes which contains information about that User. We use cookies to save
you time while using the Website, remind us who you are, and track and target User interests
in order to provide a customized experience. Cookies also allow us to collect Non-Personally
Identifiable Information from you, like which pages you visited and what links you clicked on.
Use of this information helps us to create a more user-friendly experience for all visitors.
In addition, we may use Third Party Advertising Companies to display advertisements on our
Website. As part of their service, they may place separate cookies on your computer. We have
no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by
our Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any Advertiser. Most browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline
cookies. Please note that if you decline or delete these cookies, some parts of the Website
may not work properly.
Other Tracking Devices. We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and
web beacons to track your use of our Website pages and promotions, or we may allow our Third
Party Service Providers to use these devices on our behalf. Pixel tags and web beacons are
tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Website, or in our emails that allow us
to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or
open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a Non-Personally Identifiable
notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor
traffic and behavior on our Website, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and
performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our Affiliates and/or
Marketing Partners for the same purposes.
9. Privacy Policies of Third Party Websites
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you
on www.YourBestDeals.com. Other websites that may be accessible through this Website have their
own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. If you link to any such
website, we urge you review the website’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the
policies or practices of third parties.
10. Miscellaneous Privacy Issues
Children. Minors under the age of 18 may not use the Website. We do not knowingly collect
personal information from anyone under the age of 18, and no part of the Website is designed
to attract anyone under the age of 18. YourBestDeals does not sell products for purchase by
children. In certain instances, we sell children's products for purchase by adults.
Public Areas. We may provide areas on our Website where you can publicly post information
about yourself, can communicate with others such as discussion boards or blogs, or can review
products, restaurants, and submit media content. This information may be accessible by other
consumers and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches, and therefore this
information could be read, collected, and used by others. For example, if you post your email
address along with a public restaurant review, you may receive unsolicited messages. We have
no control over who reads your postings or what other users may do with the information you
voluntarily post, so please use caution when posting any personal information. We do obtain
consent from our users to post their name along with their reviews.
Facebook Connect. The YourBestDeals Site allows users to access Facebook Connect to interact
with friends and to share on Facebook through Wall and friends' News Feeds. If you are logged
into YourBestDeals and Facebook, when you click on "Connect with Facebook" your profiles will
merge if the email addresses match. If the email addresses don't match, we ask you if you want
to merge them and you must enter your YourBestDeals password to validate that they control
that account. If you are already logged into YourBestDeals but not logged into Facebook, when
you click on "Connect with Facebook" you will be prompted to enter your Facebook credentials
or to "Sign up for Facebook." By proceeding you are allowing the YourBestDeals Site to access
your information and you are agreeing to the Facebook Terms of Use in your use of
YourBestDeals Sites.
Conversely, if you are not currently registered as a YourBestDeals user and you click on
"Sign in Using Facebook," you will first be asked to enter your Facebook credentials and
then be given the option to register and join YourBestDeals. Once you register on the
YourBestDeals site and Connect with Facebook, you will be able to automatically post recent
activity back to Facebook. You have the option to disable Facebook Connect at any time by
logging into "My Profile" and clicking on "My Facebook Profile." Further, you can edit
privacy settings for the reviews that appear on Facebook or disconnect this service by
visiting the Facebook Application Settings page.
Notice of Privacy Rights to California Residents.
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights
under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (the “Act”) and the California Business
and Professions Code. As required by the Act, we will provide you with the categories of
Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through the Website and the categories
of third party persons or entities with whom such Personally Identifiable Information may
be shared for direct marketing purposes at your request. California law requires us to
inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of Personally Identifiable Information we
collect and what third parties we share that information with;
(2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed
by those companies. The Act further requires us to allow you to control who you do not want
us to share that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email
or standard mail to the address found below. When contacting us, please indicate your name,
address, email address, and what Personally Identifiable Information you do not want us to
share with Affiliated Businesses or Marketing Partners. The request should be sent to the
attention of our Corporate Office, and labeled “California Customer Choice Notice.” Please
allow 30 days for a response. Also, please note that there is no charge for controlling the
sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information or requesting this notice.
11. Contacting Us
Whether you’re a new or loyal customer, restaurant owner, marketer, publisher, media member
or job seeker we’d like to stay connected and want to hear from you!
Corporate Address
YourBestDeals Inc. (d/b/a YourBestDeals)
610 Tree Top Lane, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
For Customers
Customer Service Inquiries | support@YourBestDeals.com