OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Your Personal Information Provided By You and How We Use It:
Sometimes we will ask you for information through surveys and our website. Some may be denoted as a requirement, other times, it will state optional. By providing the information you agree to our use pertaining and consistent to this statement below:INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY YOU:
- Zip Code and E-mail Address: On our website, we ask for your Zip Code to compute a price and comparison within your area. We will not sell your personal information at anytime. We will however, anonymously use it for demographic reasons for our third parties and us to better serve you.
- Basic Contact Information: To use our services, we ask you to become a registered user. To become a registered SmartyMarket.com member, we ask for some basic contact information, such as username, Zip Code, and an email address. We use this basic contact information to aid the use of certain features of our Website (e.g., prices, lists, stores in your area). We reserve the right to send you information about our company, services and products, and to communicate from time to time. by sending you newsletters or updates via email; however, you will be able to have the Op-out option.
- Content or Correspondence Submitted By You: If you choose to post content on our Website where posting is available (for example, a product or cart areas), or submit personal correspondence to SmartyMarket.com, we may collect and maintain that information in a file designed for you to better serve you.
INFORMATION ACQUIRED AUTOMATICALLY
We accumulate certain data on the Website through your search history and activities, cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or use of third party websites to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that detail their viewing preferences, activities and interactions with. Therefore, collected information is tied to the user's personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to shape a user's visit to their Websites, and, subject to the Opt-Out Policy stated below, to direct pertinent marketing promotions and communications to them.Cookies: A cookie is a piece of data tied to information about the user and stored on the user's computer. We use both session cookies, which terminate when a user closes his browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on the user's computer until manually deleted. Cookies are used to help make your use of our Website more enjoyable and easy to use. SmartyMarket.com creates these cookie files on your hard drive through your browser and uses them to save information on your SmartyMarket.com username, Zip Code and Website preferences. This is to better server you, so you can avoid re-entry of this information each time you visit our Website. . Cookies also help us to deliver content and advertisements specific to your interests and in your area. For example, we may use cookies to collect anonymous information about your use of our sites and services (including your browsing history, the terms you searched, the products you viewed, etc.) and your interaction with our advertisements that are served on the Website or other sites. We also may allow our advertising partners to use cookies to collect this kind of anonymous information. This information is not associated with your personally identifiable information. You may decline our cookies if your web browser software permits, although this may prevent you from accessing certain features on our Websites.
PEOPLE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
Our Website is not designed for people under 18 years of age. By using our website and services, we assume that you are 18 years or older. We are not responsible for children under the age of 18 years old.Third Party Advertising and Links to Third Party Websites
Third-party Internet advertising companies deliver some of the advertisements that appear on our Website to you. These companies use certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and also use cookies, clear gifs or similar methods to collect information such as anonymous data about your visit to and use of the Websites and interactions with their advertisements and to provide you with advertisements that are tailored to your interests. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that these companies may use, and this Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of these advertisers and third-party Web sites. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits residents of California who are registered users and use our service for private, family or household purposes to request certain standard information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes (including a list of categories of data disclosed in the previous calendar year and names and addresses of data recipients). To make such a request, please contact us as provided below.