MyGroceryDeals.com Privacy Policy

(last updated March 2007)

We never send email without prior permission indicated by you.

You may cancel your membership at any time and remove your My Profile information immediately.

MyGroceryDeals.com is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information and the details of your personal shopping behavior. This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we collect, how it is protected, what we do with it and how you can correct or change information. By using the MyGroceryDeals.com web site and providing information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Collection of Personal Information

While the nature of our relationship requires that we acquire certain personal details, under no circumstances wil any of that individually identifiable information knowingly be made available to anyone outside of our organization other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy. All this information serves solely to personalize your visit, and ONLY IF YOU CHOOSE TO RECEIVE IT, to send you various information by e-mail. We never send email without prior permission indicated by you.

When you register with MyGroceryDeals.com (a personal profile in My Profile), you provide us with your name, e-mail address, city and postal/ZIP Code, primary and secondary grocery stores you frequent, household composition, as well as other voluntary information with respect to any allergy you or a member of your household may have. You e-mail address serves as your Username, and you will be required to use a password to access the site. Your password should be kept strictly confidential to prevent unauthorized use. You may cancel at any time and remove your profile information immediately.

Non-Disclosure of Personal Information

MyGroceryDeals.com does not sell, rent or otherwise share in any way any personal information about individual members (such as name, e-mail address) to third parties, except as to provide the service or as described below.

1. Aggregated Information. MyGroceryDeals.com may use aggregated information regarding its members and usage of the service (such as member demographics and traffic patterns) and disclose such aggregated information to advertisers, partners and others for various purposes.
2. Third Party Service Providers. MyGroceryDeals.com may employ other companies and individuals to perform certain functions such as analyzing data. They may have access to personal information to perform their functions.
3. Sale of Business. MyGroceryDeals.com may transfer Member Profile data and other personal information in connection with the sale of MyGroceryDeals.com or the sale or transfer of its business operations in your geographic area to a third party provider who agrees to be bound by this Privacy Policy until you consent that such information will be governed by the policies and terms of such third party provider.
4. Enforcement of Agreement or Compliance with Law. MyGroceryDeals.com may use or disclose personal information when MyGroceryDeals.com believes it is appropriate to enforce MyGroceryDeals.com’s Terms and Conditions of Use, to protect the rights, property or safety of MyGroceryDeals.com or its users, or to comply with the law.
5. Technical Support requests: MyGroceryDeals.com may from time to time access login information to help individuals rectify login problems efficiently.

Only the employees, representatives or officers of MyGroceryDeals.com responsible for the management and development of MyGroceryDeals.com’s web site have access to the information collected there. These employees, representatives or officers all have been instructed to comply with then current Privacy Policy with respect to personal information.

Other Information Gathered for Statistical Purposes

Certain information is collected automatically whenever you access MyGroceryDeals.com’s web site, but none of this information identifies you personally. Among other data, it notes the domain name and IP address used to access MyGroceryDeals.com’s web site as well as the type of browser and system you are using. MyGroceryDeals.com makes use of information gathered for statistical purposes to keep track of the number of visits to its web site with a view to introducing improvements.

Cookies

MyGroceryDeals.com also reads certain types of information whenever you interact with us through the use of “cookies”. Cookies are text files saved to your computer's hard drive through your web browser which enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide you with certain features. They are required to login to this, and may other sites. These “cookies” allow us to give you customized and personalized service and helps us identify ways to improve your experience. Cookies are also used to help us aggregate and compile information to offer our advertisers. Cookies don’t install any software on your computer and do not disclose any personal information. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to reject or disable cookies or receive notice when a new cookie appears. If you choose to reject or disable cookies, you will be unable to login to our site.

Retention and Destruction of Personal Information

MyGroceryDeals.com will keep personal information only as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or as required by law. MyGroceryDeals.com will maintain reasonable controls, schedules and practices for information and records retention and destruction that apply to personal information that is no longer necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or required by law to be retained. You may cancel your membership at any time and remove your profile information immediately by clicking on the link in My Profile.

Security Safeguards

The security of your personal information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal information is stored and maintained in a secure environment. MyGroceryDeals.com takes technical, contractual, administrative and physical security steps to protect your personal information that you provide to us. We have implemented procedures to ensure that your personal information is only made availabe to such designated personnel as is necessary to carry out the stated purposes that we have communicated to you.

Risks Associated with the Internet

Despite MyGroceryDeals.com’s efforts to ensure third parties will not access or obtain personal information concerning you through its web site, complete confidentiality and security cannot be guaranteed currently on the internet. Communication via the internet is subject to interception, loss or alteration. You acknowledge and agree that MyGroceryDeals.com cannot assume any responsibility or be liable for damages resulting from the transmission of any confidential or personal information that you make to us through the internet and that such communications are at your own risk.

Hyperlinks to Other Sites

MyGroceryDeals.com’s web site may contain hyperlinks enabling users to visit sites maintained by other companies. MyGroceryDeals.com has no control over these sites and is not responsible for those listed on its site. Any information you transmit to these sites will be subject to privacy policies applicable to those sites. If any of these sites are knowingly found to contain, unethical, illegal or immoral material or have been proven to be involved in such action, we will immediately take action to remove the link.

Reservations

MyGroceryDeals.com reserves the right at any time to modify this Privacy Policy. We will post an appropriate notice on the MyGroceryDeals.com home page indicating that the Privacy Policy has been updated or modified. Any change to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date the change is posted and will apply to information collected from the date of the posting of the revised Privacy Policy as well as existing information held by MyGroceryDeals.com. Please refer to our web site and this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the MyGroceryDeals.com web site signifies your acceptance of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

Changing or Removing your Personal Information

You may at any time review and change your personal information stored by MyGroceryDeals.com by accessing the My Profile page at MyGroceryDeals.com. You may also request that MyGroceryDeals.com permanently remove all personal information stored by MyGroceryDeals.com at any time by visiting My Profile and clicking on the Cancel My Membership link. MyGroceryDeals.com will immediately remove all such information and will not thereafter use personally identifiable information about you in any way. Such requests will automatically terminate your MyGroceryDeals.com service and render you unable to login again.

Contact Us with Privacy-Related Questions

If you have a complaint or problem, you may email us and we will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal MyGroceryDeals.com department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or feel that we are not abiding by the terms of our posted Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@mygrocerydeals.com.

BY USING OUR WEBSITE AND PROVIDING INFORMATION TO US, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OUR WEBSITE. CONTINUED USE OF YOUR ACCOUNT AND LOGIN ON OUR WEB SITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.