Privacy Policy
Our Committment to Privacy
Overview
BargainBetty.com is committed to respecting your privacy and taking all reasonable efforts to protect your information. We take Privacy very seriously here at BargainBetty.com and post this Privacy Notice to explain our Privacy Policy and explain what we do with the personal information that we collect from our users. Please take the time to review this notice and check back as we reserve the right to update it from time to time. Any future changes made will still adhere to our over-arching policy to never use, sell, rent. or otherwise disclose the information given by a user in a personally identifiable manner.What Data We Collect and Why
Our vision at BargainBetty.com is to maximize the rewards and savings for all of our members and to provide them with as many benefits as possible. The first key way in which we provide value is to discount the commissions we receive from our merchants and return those dollars back to you. Instead of keeping these funds for ourselves, we make our money primarily from marketing partnerships with our merchants, and advertising.
Upon sign up with BargainBetty.com, you have the option to provide your name, address, gender and age. In addition, you have the option provide use with your interests in specific categories. This information helps us understand your interests and develop an understanding of what might appeal to you. Based on these demographics and interests, we are able to determine what types of merchants and specials would benefit our members most.
When a member shops or visits one of our merchants, BargainBetty.com may track this information to have a summary of our member's buying interests. This information will be used by BargainBetty.com to make relevant and personalized offers to our members. As with any other information that you supply to BargainBetty.com, none of the information that we collect will be released in any personally identifiable way, only in aggregate or anonymous form
<back to top>How Your Information is Used
We collect information to provide better, more relevant offers to you, whether it is targeted advertising, new merchants that we think our members may like, or choosing new partnerships. For example, we would be able to discern that 10,000 shoppers would like more Apparel Coupons and BargainBetty.com could contact Apparel Retailers asking them for coupons for use by BargainBetty.com Shoppers. Never would an Apparel Retailers know that Christine in Oregon would like an Apparel Coupon.
<back to top>Who Sees Your Information
Only those BargainBetty.com employees trained in our security processes with managerial oversight would ever have access to your personal information. Primarily this information is accessed to provide customer service or to send you your discount checks.
We may use contractors or vendors to help us provide some of the services at our site. If we need to disclose personal information for them to provide the services, it is with the requirement that the information is kept confidential and is used only for those services. These contractors or vendors are bound to adhere to our Privacy Policy and all of the restrictions on BargainBetty.com information pertain to them as well.
<back to top>How We Keep Your Information Secure
BargainBetty.com uses reasonable efforts to protect your information including a secure, encrypted connection (called an SSL connection) on all pages where you transmit personal data to us. Whenever you access any of your account pages or change any of your user information, it is done over an SSL connection to BargainBetty.com. In spite of the fact that all important data is sent over an SSL connection, you may notice that on merchant pages, the “padlock” icon in the corner of your browser sometimes does not appear. This is a display issue only, and is caused by the fact that the merchant session is running inside a frame. Rest assured that any time you enter your credit card information at a merchant site, it IS an SSL connection secure connection.
<back to top>Your Privacy with Bargainbetty.com
BargainBetty.com will never ask for your username, password or any other personal information in an unsolicited phone call, email or letter. Should any one contact you requesting such information, please contact BargainBetty.com directly via email at: customercare@bargainbetty.com.
Further, any contact with BargainBetty.com customer service in which personal information is exchanged with a customer service representative will be used only for the purpose of satisfying that request. Any personal information you provide will not be recorded or used for any reason beyond that of the stated request without your consent.
<back to top>Your Privacy with Our Merchants & Advertisers
BargainBetty.com contains links to various other sites. Each of these sites has a privacy policy that may differ from that of BargainBetty.com. The privacy practices of other websites linked to BargainBetty.com are not covered by this privacy policy.
BargainBetty.com will not disclose any of the personal information supplied upon registration to our merchants or to any other third party except as expressly mentioned in this Notice. The only information that may be shared between BargainBetty.com and one of our listed merchants is information that pertains to orders. Order information, including order numbers and amounts, may be available to either BargainBetty.com, the merchant, or third party affiliate program management companies for accurate discount tracking purposes. This order information does NOT include credit card or address information. This information will not be released by BargainBetty.com to other parties unless required by law.
BargainBetty.com does not record any personal information passed from our members to our merchants, including credit card information or merchant passwords.
<back to top>Our Email Policy
BargainBetty.com does not support spamming by our members and we explicitly prohibit it in our member agreement. If you would like to report an incident of spamming, please contact customercare@BargainBetty.com. We will investigate and take suitable action at our discretion.
BargainBetty.com sends out three kinds of emails. Our members may receive:
(a) email essential to the maintenance of your account (most commonly when we need your address to mail you a check).
(b) email notifying you about credits and debits to your account (most commonly when we credit you with a discount).
(c) email newsletters and special offers from BargainBetty.com and our merchants and other partners. You always have the option of opting out of types 2 and/or 3 here.
Please understand that, though we may have some small influence over our members, we fundamentally cannot control the online or offline actions of our members or other parties, especially when it comes to their use of email or participation in moderated or unmoderated newsgroups and forums, know on BargainBetty.com as “Talk”. While we will investigate complaints sent to customercare@BargainBetty.com.com and take appropriate action with our members, we will typically not provide any information to third parties about our conversations with our members. We encourage people to resolve disputes directly with each other and discourage people from attempting to use BargainBetty.com to police their mailbox or newsgroup.
<back to top>Cookies and How They Are Used
Cookies are small text files that a web site can write to your computer. We may use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to BargainBetty.com and shop without having to log in again. Cookies are also used by many of our merchants to identify you as an BargainBetty.com member.
BargainBetty.com requires its members to have cookies enabled in order to accumulate discounts.
<back to top>Your Choices and Responsibilities
Periodically we may send you emails on new BargainBetty.com features or special offers. On every one of these emails you will be given the choice to unsubscribe from BargainBetty.com mailings. Choice of membership is yours at all times, and you are free to remove yourself as a member of BargainBetty.com at any time. Simply follow the directions in any of our emails.
You may also choose to what degree you would like us to contact you. When we ask for your account info, you may choose that we contact you with special offers, contact you about your orders, or not contact you for either.
It is the member's responsibility to update and maintain accurate contact information in their account. You can make changes by visiting you’re my Account >> My Profile page and entering corrections. Email and street addresses that are entered into a member's personal profile page are the addresses that will be used for all contact including the mailing of discount checks. BargainBetty.com is not responsible for checks that are sent to incorrect addresses, if the address in question was the address listed in that member's account at the time of issuance.
We will post all changes to this Privacy Notice here at our site. Please check for revisions when you visit our site again so that you will always be aware of our policies and any changes that might occur.
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