Last Updated 02/11/2011
Community Offers respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information communityoffers.com (the "Site") will collect and how we will use that information. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Service during registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on January 1, 2010. Our site may contain links to other web sites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners or other sites to which we provide links from our sites. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the web site sponsor when linking to other web sites. Any questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to Communityoffers.com at privacy@communityoffers.com.
What Information Do We Collect?
You can browse most of the Site without telling us who you are. If you choose to give us personal information you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States.
If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet so that we or our business partners can correspond with you, it is our intent to let you know how we will use such information. Some examples of this type of personal information include the information you electronically submit (such as your name or email address) when you register to print, email or save offers on the Site, information that you post on customer feedback boards on the Site , or information contained in search requests or questions that you submit to the Site. If you decide not to supply or provide Community Offers with certain information while using the Site, we may not be able to provide you with some services that are dependent on the collection of this information.
Some specific ways in which we collect and use information you supply to us include:
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Membership Registration
To make use of certain features of the Site (such as coupon emails or mobile phone messages containing coupon offers) a visitor needs to register and provide us with certain information. The registration form asks the visitor for his or her name, age range, address, zip code, email address, mobile phone number, general demographic information, and coupon category preferences. If a visitor does not wish to provide any information other than their name, age range, zip code, and an email address, then all other fields may be left blank. The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features. The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. For example, we cannot offer you personalized coupons or maps and driving directions to local businesses if you don't tell us where you live. Of course, if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of coupons and other content available on our site without registering.
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Email Newsletter
When you register on the Site you may be asked whether you would like to receive future offers or new offers from Community Offers. You can also sign up for our email newsletter to receive special deals and announcements by simply entering your email address. If you do not wish to receive these offers via email, simply "opt-out" by emailing optout@communityoffers.com and enter "Unsubscribe" into the subject line.
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Information that is Automatically Collected
Community Offers also collects and stores information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the Site. For example, to enhance your experience on the Site, Community Offers uses a standard feature found in Internet browser software called a "cookie". Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies help track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you have entered preference information before. The Site also uses web beacons (also known as "single-pixel GIFs") to access cookies and to count users who visit our web pages or open our HTML-formatted email messages. Another example of information that the Site automatically collects, but does not store, as you navigate the Site is limited information about your connection to the Internet, including your IP address. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use the information we automatically collect to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our website.
How Secure Is The Information We Collect?
Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. Community Offers is committed to industry best practices concerning security to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information in our possession. However, as you know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.
Transactions on the new advertiser sign up forms are conducted in a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session, which encrypts all transaction data for transmittal in a format that prevents theft of the information. While on a secure page, the lock at the bottom of a web browser becomes locked and this lets you know that you are in a secured session.
Our servers are located in a secure, supervised environment. Our databases are accessible only by persons who have entered into and are bound by a confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement with us.
When you visit the Site, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily.
Information about Children's Online Privacy
Community Offers does not market its services online to children under the age of 13 and does not operate a children's area likely to be of special interest to children. Community Offers does not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to register with the Site or to otherwise disclose personally identifiable information on our website, or to access those features that require registration. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about them over the Internet.
Information Sharing with Third Parties
To make the Site more valuable to our visitors, occasionally we may offer some additional features in conjunction with other third party service providers. Community Offers will not disclose the information that it collects online from you to allow third parties to use such information to mail or email other promotional offers directly to you unless you have permitted Community Offers to disclose such information for the purposes of receiving promotional offers from such third parties. If you choose to receive these promotional offers, then your information may be used for direct mail or email marketing. In addition, the Site includes links to other sites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies are separate from this Privacy Policy. When you provide information in the course of obtaining third party products or services through the Site, the use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of the provider of those third party products or services, even if it appears that you are on Community Offers-branded pages throughout the transaction. The third party provider's privacy policy may differ from ours and you should contact the third party provider if you have any questions about its privacy practices. Please take special care at all times to be aware of which privacy policy governs your activity on the Internet. Disclosure of Certain Information to Advertisers We may, at times, present information to our advertisers, but only in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within the Site. Community Offers does not sell to, or share with, third parties, any personably identifiable information of its members.
Changing Your Preferences
If you wish to change your election (or to review, update, or delete the information you provided when you registered with us), you may do so at anytime in your personal profile.
Other Disclosures
We may occasionally release information about our visitors in order to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights, property, safety of visitors to the Site, or customers, the public or Community Offers. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the event that another company acquires Community Offers, one of its lines of business, or substantially all of its assets, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
Protection of Your Information
Community Offers is committed to keeping secure the data you provide us and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration. Agents or contractors of Community Offers who have access to your personally identifiable information in connection with providing services for Community Offers are required to keep the information confidential and are not permitted to use this information for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for Community Offers.
All information gathered on our site is stored within a Community Offers controlled database accessible only to Community Offers. We do not keep credit or debit card information stored on our site. However, as effective as any security measure may be, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Community Offers places safeguards to protect against loss, misuse, unauthorized access and alteration of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We are continually making changes and improvements to the services we offer through the Site. If we need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, we will post the changes before they take effect. If you have any questions about the Community Offers' Privacy Policy, please contact privacy@communityoffers.com.
Community Offers
12400 Highway 71 West, Suite 350
Austin, TX 78738