BUYABARGAIN PRIVACY POLICY
Effective November 26, 2008
Buyabargain LLC (“Buyabargain”) knows that you care how information about you is used and shared. This notice describes Buyabargain’s privacy policy for our web site (the “Site”) including all online services and functions.
Affiliation with Amazon.com
Buyabargain.com is a searchable online advertising guide featuring the goods and services of Amazon.com and other suppliers. All online orders are processed through Amazon or its authorized representative. Because of this relationship, Amazon’s Privacy Policy will also apply to your use of Buyabargain.com.
Amazon has the right to change its privacy policy at any time. Please visit Amazon.com to read Amazon’s Privacy Policy and Conditions of Use for the latest information. You can read Amazon’s Privacy Policy here.
Registration
You must register with Amazon.com in order to purchase products and use certain of the Site’s online services and functions. If you just want to browse the Site, registration is optional.
Please read Amazon’s Privacy Policy and Conditions of Use for information regarding registration.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. Buyabargain use cookies on the Site.
Buyabargain uses both “session ID cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Buyabargain uses session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. If you check “remember me on this computer” when logging in to the Site, Buyabargain also sets a persistent cookie to store your username passwords, so you do not have to enter it more than once. The persistent cookie also enables Buyabargain to track and target the interests of users to enhance the experience on the Site. The persistent cookie is removed when you uncheck the “remember my email address” check box.
Your web browser allows you to control and limit cookies on your computer. If you reject cookies, you may still use the Site, but your ability to use some areas or functions of the Site may be limited.
Some of Buyabargain’s business partners (such as advertisers) use cookies on the Site. Buyabargain has no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Buyabargain only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Email from Buyabargain for Newsletters and Announcements
Buyabargain reserves the right to use your username and email address to provide you with email newsletters and announcements.
Product Information and Offers
The email address information that you provide on the Site may be used to contact you about other product and service offers from Buyabargain. Buyabargain may also use that information to let you know of additional products and services from other companies that you might be interested in. If you do not wish to receive these kinds of communications, you can opt out by sending an email specifying “opt-out” in the subject line to information@buyabargain.com.
Significant Announcements by Email
Buyabargain may also use your registered name and email address to provide you with significant announcements about Site functions or services that you are registered to use, about this Site, about any user account you may create, about fulfillment of a specific transaction you have requested, or about other significant developments that may affect your use of the Site. You cannot opt-out of this kind of email.
Additional Information for Specific Purposes
This Site may request additional information from you on product order forms or other online transaction forms. Such forms may require you to provide contact information (such as name and mailing or shipping address) and payment information (such as credit card number and credit card expiration date). Information that you provide in this way may be used for billing and accounting purposes, for recording products and services that you have licensed, bought or downloaded, and to fill your orders. Buyabargain may use this contact information to communicate about orders, products, services, or fees or charges.
Buyabargain uses Amazon to ship orders and process payments for goods and services. Buyabargain may also use an outside shipping company to ship orders and uses a credit card processing company to process payments for goods and services. These companies have access to user information in order to perform their functions.
Buyabargain may partner with other third parties to provide specific goods or services. When you sign up for such goods or services, Buyabargain will share names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these goods or services. Buyabargain does not authorize third party providers to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose related to these goods or services.
Communications with Others
The Site may allow you to contribute to one or more blogs or communicate by means of online functions.
Nothing requires you to disclose your identity to others. If you choose to disclose your identity to third parties using any Site function or service, you do so at your own risk. Buyabargain is not responsible for the privacy or security of any information, personal or otherwise, that you may choose to communicate or exchange using the functionality of the Site.
Each item of information or any materials you contribute for such purposes are your “Public Content.” Public Content must be content and information that you have a right to disclose and transfer and must not violate any other person’s privacy or intellectual property rights.
Feedback to Buyabargain
Buyabargain has feedback functionality on the Site that allows you to submit comments, suggestions, or bugs found. Buyabargain may collect your name or username and email address in order to follow up with you or thank you for a suggestion. Please submit all inquiries to information@buyabargain.com.
Anonymous Data
Buyabargain may track the Site to analyze trends, administer the Site, track your actions and use of the Site, record transactions, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. Such analysis is not linked to personally identifiable information.
Buyabargain may share aggregated demographic and usage information with its partners and advertisers. This aggregated information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Links
This Site may contain links to other sites. Buyabargain is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Buyabargain encourages users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of sites that collect personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to information collected on this Site.
Security Technology
When a Site’s registration/order form asks users to enter financial information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected during transmission through the Internet using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software. You should see the lock icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked or open when you are just surfing. If you have any questions about the security, you can send an email to information@buyabargain.com.
Correction/Updating of Personal Information
All personal information and correction of such information is done at Amazon’s Customer Profile page.
Protection of Minors
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to register on this Site or use any functionality for which registration is required.
Business or Asset Transfer or Sale
Buyabargain may be sold, might sell or buy businesses or assets of businesses, or Buyabargain might merge with another business. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Buyabargain, a line of business of Buyabargain, or substantially all the assets of Buyabargain are transferred, customer information may well be one of the transferred assets. Buyabargain will make reasonable effort to provide notice on the Site and to notify you via email to the most recent email address that you have provided to Buyabargain of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Release of Information for Legal Reasons
Buyabargain may release information concerning your use of Buyabargain (including, but not limited to, posted Public Content, registration information, and network records) when it believes in good faith that such release is appropriate to comply with the law (for example, pursuant to a statutory demand, subpoena, warrant or court order), to protect against fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of the Buyabargain, to protect Buyabargain's rights or property, enforce any contract between you and Buyabargain, or if Buyabargain reasonably believes that a situation involving danger of death or injury to any person requires disclosure.
Limited Use
Buyabargain does not intend to sell, share, or rent information obtained on this Site other than as discussed in this privacy policy.
Changes in This Privacy Policy
If Buyabargain decides to change its privacy policy, Buyabargain will post those changes on Buyabargain’s Site so Buyabargain’s users can remain aware of what information Buyabargain collects, how Buyabargain uses it, and under what circumstances, if any, Buyabargain discloses it.
Your California Privacy Rights
Residents of the State of California, under the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the Company has disclosed personal information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes and a disclosure of the shared information. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that provides you with an “opt-out” choice for use of your personal information by third parties for marketing purposes, the Company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.
This Site qualifies for the alternative option. Its privacy policy provides you with information on how you may opt-out from the use of your personal information by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal information during the preceding year for marketing purposes.
If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices, send a request to the following email address: information@buyabargain.com.
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