Deals & Steals Blog Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is to assist you in understanding how we might collect and use the personal information you provide us with and assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and and our services.

Information We May Collect

When you visit our Web site you may be providing us with two kinds of information: Personal information you willingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and web site usage information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.

Registration Information

You may provide us with information about you, your business or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of this site, register for certain services we offer, or register for email newsletters.

Email Correspondence

If you choose to correspond with us using email, we may, at our discretion, retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses addressed to you.

Web Site Usage Information

Similar to many other web sites, our web site utilizes standard technology known commonly as “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and standard web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used by visitors. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, length of time spent visiting our web site, and the web sites you visited just before and just after our web site. We as well as our advertisers and ad serving companies may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine which advertisements and promotions visitors have seen and how they responded to them.

How We Use the Information That You Provide to Us

Generally, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to inform you regarding important changes to our web site, new services or special offers we think you will find valuable.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a web site, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to place this file in an area of your hard drive specifically designated for cookie files. Each web site may send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences will allow it, but your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Our Use of The Information We Collect from Cookies

If you were to shop on our web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other shoppers so your shopping cart is only available and used by you. We may also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s standard log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of visitors using our web site and what sections of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to improve our web site and better serve our visitors. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided in your cookies.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other types of business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to some types of personal information that may include your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you with valuable information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with these alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide certain types of information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. We may also use third parties to facilitate our business operations, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to some of your personal information for use in connection with legitimate business activities. As we continue to develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is typically one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer these types of information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to make you aware of important changes to our web site, new services and special offers we think you will may find valuable. As our customer, you will be given, in accordance with current laws and regulations, the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.

Securing Information Transmissions

Email is not currently recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we ask that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption to protect personal information.

Certain Disclosures

We may be compelled to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to:

1. Conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or our affiliated parties.

2. Protect and defend our rights and property, the site, the users of the site, and/or our affiliated parties.

3. Act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the site, us, or third parties.

Sites We Link To

We cannot be and are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site nor the information or content contained on those sites. Much of the time, links to other web sites are provided to serve solely as pointers to information regarding topics that may be useful to the users of our web site.

Please do remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and any interaction on any other web site, including web sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site’s own policies. You are encouraged to read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent

By visiting and using our web site you willingly consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described above. In the event that we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes here on our web site to keep you aware of information we may collect, how we may use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.