PRIVACY POLICY
SmartBargains is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to this online store (the "Store"). This Privacy Policy applies to the Store. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other web sites to which we link. You agree that your use of the Store signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Store.
Information Collected
SmartBargains keeps track of information in order to give you a more enjoyable, convenient shopping experience. When you shop with SmartBargains or set up an account with us you will be asked for personal information such as your email address. Before completing your first purchase, we will ask you for personal information such as your name, phone number, payment information or credit card, if applicable, and billing and shipping addresses. This information, along with proper payment, is necessary to fulfill your order. In addition, we use this information, your shopping history and other information that we have gathered or that you have provided to us for internal purposes and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed to our staff and to third parties involved in the completion of your transaction, the delivery of your order or the support of your use of the Store. By making a purchase on our Store, you grant SmartBargains permission to contact you at your e-mail address. At any time, you may stop receiving marketing emails by following the opt out procedures set forth in such emails. We may also ask you for information regarding your and your family's shopping preferences and demographics in order for us to better fill your needs. However, all information not necessary to fulfill your order is optional.
Note: It is not necessary to provide us with information to view our Store.
In addition, through the Store, we automatically gather certain information about the use of the Store, such as how frequently certain areas of the Store are visited, including through the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies. Most browsers can be set to prevent cookies or to notify you when one is being placed.
The Store also makes use of a technology designed to enhance your browsing experience and to provide aggregate non-personally identifiable information about the use of the Store to us.
How We Use Your Information
We will not share or disclose your information to anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use personally identifiable information in order to give you a more enjoyable, convenient shopping experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We may also track your past purchases to provide you with a personalized profile of your shopping history. We may use your email address or phone number to contact you if we have questions about your order. In addition, we may notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to access your information in connection with their performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. If you would like more information about this practice and your choices, click here.
Also, we may share personally identifiable or other information with our parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates. SmartBargains is a division of Retail Convergence.com, LP.
Occasionally, we provide our postal mailing list (consisting of customer names and postal mailing addresses, but not e-mail addresses) to other companies whose products we believe may be of interest to you. In order to determine those products that we believe may be of interest to you, the information that you give us and information about your order may be combined with other personally identifiable information (such as demographic information and past purchase history) available from our records and other sources. If you prefer for us not to provide your name and postal mailing address to third parties, you may contact us in one of the ways provided below.
You will receive notice when your personally identifiable information might be provided to any third party for any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, and you will have an opportunity to request that we not share such information.
We may disclose information in order to comply with a subpoena, court order, administrative or governmental order, or any other requirement of law, or when we, in our sole discretion, deem it necessary in order to protect our rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to fight fraud and credit risk reduction or to enforce or apply our Store Terms of Use.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
We use non-personally identifiable information in the aggregate, so that we can improve the Store and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
How We Protect Your Information
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
The Store encrypts your credit card number and other personal information using secure socket layer (SSL) technology to provide for the secure transmission of the information from your PC to our servers. In addition, only those employees and third parties who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are allowed such access.
How You Can Access and Edit Your Information or Remove Yourself From Our Newsletters, Updates & Reminders Lists
You are able to review and edit your information from our Store at any time. If you have already registered with us, click here to access your information. If you would like to opt out of receiving marketing emails or change your preferences to receive emails or other communications from us, follow the opt out information at the bottom of all marketing emails or email us at contactseller@smartbargains.com. We will take commercially reasonable steps to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as we process your request. If you would like to restrict our use of your information, contact us in one of the ways provided below. While we make efforts to accommodate requests to restrict our use of your information, we reserve the right to delete all or a portion of customer information if we can't reasonably accommodate a requested restriction.
Children's Privacy and Parental Controls
Our Store is intended for use by general audiences that are 18 years of age and older. If you are not 18 or older, please do not use our Store. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that you can use to prevent your children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.
Changes in Policy
You unconditionally agree that using the Store signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy Policy which is a part of SmartBargains's Terms of Use. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Store. Your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and all other portions of our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages and application of the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
SmartBargains reserves the right to change the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, at any time. We will post the revised Privacy Policy here and your continued use of our Store indicates your asset to the Privacy Policy as posted.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or wish to update or remove your information or restrict how we use your information, please call 1-866-692-2742 or email ContactSeller@SmartBargains.com.
Effective as of November 17, 2008
SmartBargains.com, a division of
Retail Convergence.com, LP, 10 Milk Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
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