Privacy Policy (Effective date: 6/27/2011)
This privacy policy applies to users who have signed up directly at www.CoolStuff2win.com or at one of our data partners’ websites.
CoolStuff2win is a service built by you and is constantly changing based on feedback from you. In order to do this we do collect information each time you visit us, and sometimes we ask for your Personal Information. This policy explains what information we do collect, and how we use it. If you have any questions about this policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@CoolStuff2win.com
Our Users
Visitors Under 13: CoolStuff2win is not directed to children under the age of 13. You must be 13 years or older to register as a member of CoolStuff2win, register to use any of our services or provide any Personal Information to CoolStuff2win.
Parents: CoolStuff2win encourages you to understand the on-line activities that your child is involved in. If you have any concerns about our site, wish to find out if your child is a member of one of our services or wish to cancel your child’s membership, please contact us at webmaster@CoolStuff2win.
Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information (“Personal Information”) is any information that tells another person who you are, how to contact you and/or how to locate you, such as:
Name
Home, or other address
E-mail address
Telephone number
Age
Gender
Information We Collect and How We Use It
CoolStuff2win has several ways to collect personal and non-personal information when you visit our site and/or our partners’ sites. This information is used to provide you with a unique experience that matches your likes and dislikes. We may sell, rent or share your Personal Information with our partners who may present you with 3rd party offers via email, telephone and postal mail. CoolStuff2win may also sell, share or rent our user’s non-personal, aggregated demographic and psychographic information or summary information with our partners, advertisers and other third parties to bring you selective offers via postal mail or telemarketing. This data is not linked to any Personal Information that can identify you or any individual person. The areas that we do collect Personal Information are:
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Registration
In order to use many of the services on our website, you must first complete a registration form. This registration form may be located directly on our site or on one of our partner’s sites. During registration you are required to give your contact information (such as name and email address), as well as demographic information (such as zip code, gender and age). CoolStuff2win uses this information to contact you, to provide you with more personalized service and to learn more about our user demographics and preferences. When you register with and you select “Yes, I want to receive information and special offers from PollingOffers.com” - you explicitly authorize us to share your information with Datran Media to contact you via email. |
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Contests & Promotions
From time-to-time our site holds promotions, contests, etc where we ask for information. Participation in these promotions or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and e-mail address), and demographic information (such as zip code and age level). Contact information is normally used to notify the winners and award prizes. For other uses of the information, please refer to the specific contest or promotion rules, as it varies from contest to contest. |
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Special Offers & Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page or our partners’ registration pages.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section herein and in each offer. |
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Surveys & Polls
Surveys and polls are sometimes conducted on CoolStuff2win’s site. These surveys or polls may be just for fun, on behalf of a third party or for improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Survey data provided to third parties is in the form of aggregated data. We will not conduct any surveys or polls on behalf of a client that will not protect your privacy. |
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Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section. |
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Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. |
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Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information and your purchasing history to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties. |
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Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the Personal Information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us. |
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Contact Us & Feedback
When you contact us via e-mail (either with a request, or to provide feedback), you provide us with your name and e-mail address. We will not use this information to contact you for purposes other than responding to your request. |
Cookies
The use of cookies is an industry standard and you'll find them at most major Web sites. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user for a particular web site. CoolStuff2win sometimes uses cookies to track information, to understand our users better, and for our users' convenience. For example, CoolStuff2win can remember your login address using a cookie, so you don't have to re-type it every time you come to the site.
In addition to cookies stored on the user's hard drive, CoolStuff2win also uses session cookies to manage user sessions. These are small bits of data that allow our web server to communicate with a user's browser, and when the user closes the browser the session cookie terminates.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to these cookies.
Log Files
When you visit CoolStuff2win, we automatically recognize your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and IP address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer whenever you are on the Web. We sometimes use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, better administer our Web site, report abusive users, analyze trends, track user’s movement and use and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We also track and analyze click-stream data for the same purposes.
Security
Your account information is protected by a login and password procedure so you should not disclose your password to anyone else. If your password is lost or if you believe someone else has obtained access to it, you should change it immediately. To change your password, follow the instructions below for changing Personal Information.
Correcting/Updating/Deleting Personal Information
If your Personal Information changes (such as your zip code), you may update your account. You must login first, then just click in the left navigation column where is says “Account Help” and you can view, update and correct your account information. If you would like to discontinue your member account, please e-mail us at unsubscribe@CoolStuff2win.com
Communication with Users
You will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out option below.
We may also send you site and service announcement updates. You are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service.
Choice/Opt-out
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from CoolStuff2win or our partners, you may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the applicable e-mail or e-mail us at webmaster@CoolStuff2win.com
Notification of Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
Business Transitions
In the event CoolStuff2win goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Exceptions
CoolStuff2win reserves the right to disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our customers, our employees, the public or our company. In addition, any information that we collect or compile it an asset of CoolStuff2win and may be provided to a third party in conjunction with the sale of our company or a portion of our assets to a third party.
Contact CoolStuff2win
webmaster@CoolStuff2win.com
CoolStuff2win
911 Western Ave., Suite 209
Seattle, WA 98104 |
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