WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy covers the website www.DealStork.com (the “Website”) and is effective as of November 11, 2009.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other websites, and the Company makes no representations as to the privacy practices of other websites.

Our Privacy Commitment to You

This Privacy Policy is designed to maintain your trust and confidence, help you understand how we collect, use and protect personally identifiable information that specifically identifies you or your account (“Personally Identifiable Information”) that you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions about how you may access, correct or delete this information.  Please read our Privacy Policy carefully.  By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the Website Terms and Conditions (as amended).

Children Under Age 13

We strive to protect the online privacy of children.  We will not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from or about children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent.  By using the Website, you represent that you are 13 years or older.  However, we cannot prohibit minors from visiting the Website, and we necessarily rely on parents and other responsible parties to supervise the use of the Internet and the Website by such minor children.  Please do not attempt to register or send any information about yourself to us if you are under the age of 13.  If a child under the age of 13 has provided the Website with Personally Identifiable Information, we ask that a parent or guardian please email us at support@DealStork.com and we will delete the information about the child from our files.

What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use the Information?

We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information on the Website unless you voluntarily provide such information.  Personally Identifiable Information is that which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, email address, and telephone number.  In order to participate in some aspects of the website like creating an account, purchasing a voucher, or signing up for our newsletter, you may be asked to provide Personally Identifiable Information.  You may be asked to provide your credit card information, such as number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information when buying a voucher. You are not required to participate in these activities; however if you choose to do so, you will need to submit certain required pieces of information to complete the activities.  When you choose to participate in these optional activities, we may contact you to request additional personal information such as your shopping preferences and demographics.
We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to improve your website experience, provide deals that fit your interests, analyze website usage, and improve our advertising efforts. We may also track your past purchases to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. In addition, we may notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, complete administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our agreements with you, including our Website Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. If you use our Website to send information to another person, we may store your personal information along with your recipient(s), as well as use that information to allow the recipient to view and access the information you requested we send.
You may contact us if you no longer wish to be contacted by us or receive promotional or marketing materials.  We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with, or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other Personal Information we may have collected about you.
We may share Personally Identifiable information about you with businesses that offer vouchers on DealStork.com as well as those businesses that assist the operation of our business through functions such as operation and hosting of the website, order fulfillment, email and direct mail delivery, administration of promotional events and contests, database design and maintenance, data and trend analysis, marketing and advertising, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service.
We encourage our business counterparts to adopt and post privacy policies. However, DealStork.com does not have knowledge of or control over the use of your Personally Identifiable Information by third parties.
If you post comments or information on any publicly accessible area of the Site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected or used by any person for any purpose. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable or other information you choose to submit in these forums.
We automatically track certain non-identifying information through the Website through the use of “cookies.”  We place a cookie into the browser file on your computer.  The cookie is a small computer file the web server uses to recognize the computer of certain users that have previously visited the Website.  Cookies assist with our ability to provide certain functionalities through the Website.  Cookies do not contain or collect any personally identifying information but collect information regarding the usage patterns associated with the user’s personal computer.  Information tracked with cookies is primarily used to improve and update the site and to provide site-traffic data, and is only collected on an aggregate basis.  When and if we do present such aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.  If you do not wish to permit the placement of cookies on your computer, most web browsers have a feature which will allow you to block cookies.  However, you should be aware that blocking the placement of cookies may disable or hinder certain Website functionalities.

We may automatically gather and store other non-identifying information, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, click stream data, the referring URL (the web page you left before coming to the Website) and the pages, links, and graphics you visited on the Website.  We may use this information, which does not include Personally Identifiable Information, to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users’ movements around the Website, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole and compile aggregate statistics about usage of the Website.  We may use third party advertising consultants to assist us in analyzing this data.  We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.

We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders.  Additionally, we may share Personally Identifiable Information when we believe it necessary to comply with the law, to enforce the Terms and Conditions of the Website, or to protect our interests or rights, property, and safety of our employees and customers.

Sale or Change of Control of the Company

We reserve the right to transfer or assign your Personally Identifiable Information in connection with the sale of our business. We reserve this right without regard to whether such sale is structured as a sale of assets, a sale of a controlling interest of our stock, a merger with or into another entity, or otherwise.  We are not obligated to notify you of any such transfer, assignment or change of control transaction.  In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Personally Identifiable Information is treated, transferred, or used.

How Can You Review or Remove Information We Collect?

If your Personally Identifiable Information changes, or if you no longer desire to receive our promotional materials, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate your information by making the change on our member information page, by emailing a customer service representative at support@DealStork.com, or by contacting us by telephone at the contact information listed below.  We will respond to your request within ten (10) business days.

You can opt out of our use of cookies as described above.  You cannot access or change other non-identifying information that we collect in aggregate or an automatic basis from visitors to the Website.

How Do We Protect and Secure Personal Identifiable Information?

We take security seriously and take a multitude of precautions to attempt to insure that we protect 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 urge 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 using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure that your Personally Identifiable Information is safe as it is transmitted to us.
Realistically, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we have 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.

What Should I Know About Disclosing Personally Identifiable Information on Other Websites?

The Website may contain links which direct users to websites operated by third parties.  Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites.  If you choose to click on one of these links, you will be directed to the website operated by a third party.  Any information that you submit at these websites is submitted directly by you to these third parties and will be governed by that third party’s privacy practices and procedures.  The privacy policies of other websites will vary in how well your personal information is protected.  Certain websites may not implement a privacy policy.  If you provide Personally Identifiable Information online that is accessible by the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.  It is ultimately your responsibility to maintain and protect your Personally Identifiable Information.  We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of these third parties.

You Consent to Terms and Conditions of This Privacy Policy, Including Any Future Revisions

Your use of the Website and any dispute arising from it is subject to this Privacy Policy, as well as our Terms and Conditions and all of its dispute resolution provisions, including mandatory arbitration, limitations on damages and choice of law described in the Terms and Conditions.  If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the Website, 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.

Review this Privacy Policy frequently, as we reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you on a revised version of our Privacy Policy, by email, or by means of a notice on the home page of our Website.  Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on the Website.  Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Website
If you have any questions or concerns please email us at support@DealStork.com.  You may also reach us by phone at (651) 317-4868.