Privacy Policy for WWW.SNIPP.COM, brought to you by Consumer Impulse Inc. Effective
Date – November 1, 2007 This privacy statement ("Privacy Policy") covers the Website
www.SNIPP.com (the "Site"), owned and operated by Consumer Impulse, Inc. ("SNIPP.COM",
"we", "us", "our"). Your privacy is important to us and we appreciate your expectation
that we will share information about you carefully and responsibly. This Privacy
Policy describes our practices with respect to your personally identifiable information.
Specifically, this Privacy Policy sets forth (i) the types of personal information
collected by SNIPP.COM, (ii) how SNIPP.COM collects user information, (iii) how
SNIPP.COM uses personal information, (iv) how SNIPP.COM protects personal information,
(v) with whom, if anyone, user information is shared, and (vi) how you may access,
verify, and if necessary, correct personal information SNIPP.COM has collected about
you. By visiting the Site and/or using the SNIPP.COM services, you agree to the
terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy,
you may not access the Site or otherwise use the SNIPP.COM services. If you have
any concern about privacy on the Site, please send an email to privacy@SNIPP.com
and we will try to resolve it
What Personal Information Does SNIPP.COM Collect?
We collect the following types of personal information from our users:
A) Information You Provide to Us
We receive and store personal information you choose to enter on the Site, or provide
us in any other way, such as by telephone or by electronic mail. For example, when
you register for our services, we collect personal information about you. This information
may include your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, mobile phone number,
and credit card number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your
ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. You may also choose
to provide the email addresses or mobile phone numbers of friends or family members
to tell them about the SNIPP.COM services. We may combine the information we collect
from you with information about you that we receive from other online and offline
sources, such as from our merchant partners, in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of the SNIPP.COM services. For example, we
may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic
area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic
area. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt-out of our combining
of such information. In addition, if you voluntarily complete a detailed advertiser
questionnaire, we collect personal information about you. This information may include
your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, as well as general information
about your business. . In order to access some services, you will be asked to sign
in with an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your credentials. If
you access our services via a mobile phone, you may also use your telephone number
and a PIN as an alternative credential to your username and password. As part of
creating your credentials, you may also be requested to provide questions and secret
answers, which we use to help verify your identity and assist in resetting your
password, as well as an alternate email address.
B) Automatic Information
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive
through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell
us how and when pages in our Website are visited and by how many people. We use
cookies to improve the quality of our service, to store your preferences and other
information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to
repeatedly enter the same information, and to display your personalized content
and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these sites. Our cookies do
not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through
cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen
name or email address is. The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers
will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to
command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable
cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because
cookies enable you to take advantage of some of the Site's most attractive features.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on the Site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
We automatically receive and store certain other types of information whenever you
interact with us. For example, our servers track the type of Web browser you are
using, where you travel within the Site, and the page to which you link from the
Site. We collect this information to better understand what products and services
are of interest to our users. Generally, our service automatically collects usage
information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to the Site and its components.
This data is only used in the aggregate. This type of collective data enables us
to figure out how often customers use parts of the Site, so we can make the Site
appealing to as many customers as possible. In addition, we may provide statistical
information, not information about you personally, to our partners about how our
customers, collectively, use the Site. We share this type of statistical data so
that our partners also understand how often people use their areas of the Site,
so that they, too, may provide you with an optimal Web experience. When you use
Snipp services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends
whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as
your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the
date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify
your browser. We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you
view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with snipp.com sites
and services.
Many companies offer programs that help you to visit Websites anonymously. While
SNIPP.COM will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot
recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available
When you connect to the SNIPP.COM services on your mobile device, if your mobile
phone service provider uniquely identifies the device, SNIPP.COM will receive this
information. SNIPP.COM may use your unique mobile device identification information
to offer you extended services and/or functionality. Certain SNIPP.COM services
may require our collection from you of the phone number, and/or other unique identifiers,
for your device. We may associate that phone number to the mobile device identification
information and to other information we have collected from and about you; however
we will not use that number for telemarketing. Some mobile phone service providers
are required to operate a system that will record the physical location of devices
that use their service. Depending on the mobile phone service provider, SNIPP.COM
may automatically receive this information.
How Does SNIPP.COM Use the Personal Information it Receives?
SNIPP.COM may use your personal information to send you promotional e-mails regarding
the Site, your preferences, or ways in which we can improve your future experiences
at the Site. If at any time you decide that you want to stop receiving such promotional
e-mails from SNIPP.COM, please notify us by sending an e-mail to privacy@SNIPP.com.
In addition, as noted above, we collect and use your personal information to operate
and improve our sites and deliver the services or carry out the transactions you
have requested, better understand what products and services are of interest to
our users, make the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for
you to repeatedly enter the same information, perform research and analysis aimed
at improving our products, services and technologies; and display content and advertising
that are customized to your interests and preferences.
To this end, we may use personally identifiable information in an aggregate form
to gain a broader perspective of what preferences our users have, and to measure
interest in the various areas of the Site.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain
mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information
on technical service issues, and security announcements. We may also occasionally
send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products
or services available from snipp.com and its affiliates.
Personal information collected on snipp.com sites and services may be stored and
processed in the United States or any other country in which snipp.com or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using a snipp.com site or service,
you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Does SNIPP.COM Share the Personal Information it Receives?
SNIPP.COM does not share your personal information except as approved by you or
as described below:
A ) Agents and Service Providers: SNIPP.COM may engage other companies and individuals
to perform services on our behalf. Examples of these services include processing
credit card payments, sending postal mail and e-mail to you, and analyzing data.
While these agents and service providers may have access to your personal information
in connection with the performance of services for SNIPP.COM, they may not use such
information for any purpose other than providing such services to SNIPP.COM.
B) Protection of SNIPP.COM and Others: We release account and other personal information
when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply
our Terms of Use, including investigations of potential violations thereof; detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or protect the
rights, property, or safety of SNIPP.COM, our users, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit
risk reduction.
C) Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell all
or certain of our assets or business. In such transactions, your personal information
may be one of the transferred business assets.
D) Some snipp.com services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another
company. If you register for or use such services, both snipp.com and the other
company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.
In using SNIPP.com services you may choose to opt-in to allow third party firms
to send you communications through email or on SMSs using your mobile phone. In
such cases, upon giving your consent, third-party firms may send you communications
directly. SNIPP.com may also act as an intermediary and send the communications
on their behalf.
How Secure Is the Personal Information I Provide?
We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to protect the security of your personal
information during transmission, which encrypts the information you input. You can
further help to ensure your security by taking a few simple precautions. For instance,
you should protect against unauthorized access to your Site username and password
and to your computer. You should also be sure to sign off when finished using a
shared computer. We have taken certain physical, electronic, contractual and managerial
steps to safeguard and secure the information we collect from our users and store
on our servers.
What Information Can I Access?
Upon your request, we will provide you with access to, and the ability to correct,
certain information about you, such as your username and password, contact information,
transaction information and credit card account information. You can access or correct
this information in the Account section of the Site.
Third Party Websites
The Site may permit you to link to other Websites on the Internet, and other Websites
may contain links to the Site. These other Websites are not under our control. The
privacy and security practices of Websites linked to or from the Site are not covered
by this Privacy Policy, and SNIPP.COM is not responsible for the privacy or security
practices or the content of such Websites.
Children
This website is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from any children under 13. When a site does
collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 13, the site will
either block such users from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain
consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of their children's personal
information.
Terms of Use
If you decide to visit the Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy
is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on
damages and application of California state law.
Changes
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time, at our sole discretion. Use of information
we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information
is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting
an announcement on the Site so you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Advertisements Displayed by Third Parties
We allow third-party ad serving companies, including ad networks, to display advertisements
on snipp.com web pages. Ad serving companies often place a persistent cookie on
your computer in order to recognize your computer each time they display an online
advertisement to you. Because these companies may serve advertisements on many different
websites, they may be able to compile information over time about where you, or
others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they
display. These companies may use this information to make predictions about your
characteristics or preferences and to display targeted advertisements that they
believe may be of interest to you. They may also associate this information with
your subsequent visit, purchase or other activity on participating advertisers'
websites in order to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements. These companies
may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting based on their cookies.