Privacy Policy
Updated as of August 16, 2010
Thank you for visiting http://www.dizzle.com (the "Website"). At dizzle, LLC ("dizzle"), we value and respect your privacy, and this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and protect any information you may provide to us. Our Terms and Conditions of Use describe the terms and conditions governing your access to and use of the Website and are incorporated herein by reference and form an essential part of this Privacy Policy.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE FOLLOWING ANY CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, SIGNIFIES YOUR CONSENT TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY BOTH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THOSE SET FORTH IN OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE EXIT THIS WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY AND DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE OR PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION TO US.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
dizzle markets and/or re-markets merchant vouchers to users of this website through daily offerings. As a part of our business operations, we routinely collect and retain information about our customers and about other users of the Website, such as software developers, advertising agencies and merchant partners who may wish to have access to information about us or our services. This information is necessary in allowing us to provide our services or to provide information about our services and company. It may be used for such activities as administration of records; execution of accounting and funding; compliance with laws or regulations; and/or the development of future products.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Some of the users of our Website are businesses or other non-person legal entities. While most of the information we receive and collect is not of a personal nature, portions of the transaction information we receive may include public and non-public personally identifiable information about individuals ("Personal Information").
Personal Information. Personal Information is information that identifies a specific person. When you engage in certain activities on the Website, such as creating an account, ordering a merchant voucher from us or our partners, submitting content and/or posting content in discussion forums, entering a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by us or our partners, filling out a survey, posting a review, sending us or our partners feedback, requesting information about our services, submitting an affiliate agreement, applying for a job, posting a video or signing up for special offers from third parties through the Website (collectively, “Identification Activities”), we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself. It is optional for you to engage in an Identification Activity. If you elect to engage in an Identification Activity, however, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal information about yourself, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including zip code), email address, telephone number and date of birth. When you order merchant vouchers, we may also ask you to provide us with your credit card number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information. Depending on the activity, some of the information we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some is identified as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory information for a particular activity that requires it, you will not be permitted to engage in that activity.
USAGE INFORMATION
We may also collect certain indirect and/or aggregate information as a result of your use of, and interaction with, the Website ("Usage Information"). We may use certain standard web measurement and tracking technologies such as "cookies," web server logs, or other statistics programs to collect Usage Information and track and record how you use the Website. This data is anonymous and does not personally identify you. Usage Information helps us measure the success of the Website and its features or pages and to improve your online experience. Your browser may have an option that allows you to accept cookies, reject cookies, or receive notification when a cookie is sent, but you should note that the use of such restrictive browser settings may limit your use of the Website. We do not use spy ware, adware or any other similarly intrusive software.
USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
We use your information in order to provide the services you request and to analyze, manage and improve the Website so that we may continually strive to provide you with the best possible service. In compliance with applicable laws, it is our policy to require only the Personal Information necessary to enable users to complete the specific transaction requested; we do not condition your participation in any specific activity on our Website, including any transaction, on the disclosure of more Personal Information than is reasonably necessary to complete such specific activity and/or transaction. Information such as traffic patterns and the number of page visits help us to further develop and improve the Website layout to better meet your needs. We also use information such as your name and e-mail address to contact you, respond to your inquiries, and send you information. We may use such information to notify you of special offers and other services that we believe may be of interest to you or to notify you of important new changes to the Website. Finally, we use collected information to help us diagnose problems with our services, software or other products as well as our Website server or other technical issues relating to the performance of the Website. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., name, email address, etc.) on a bulletin board, chat room or on any other community forum that is or may in the future be offered on the Website, such information may be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties. We have no control over this type use of your personally identifiable information and, as such. cannot be responsible. This Privacy Policy does not preclude our unrestricted use of non-personal, summarized, derived, or aggregate information (i.e., volumes, totals, averages, etc.).
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose the information we collect from and about you: (a) when necessary to perform services on your behalf; (b) when we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, customers or other users of the Website, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities, or is appropriate or necessary to enforce the Terms and Conditions of Use, take precautions against liability, investigate and defend against any third-party claims or allegations, and/or protect the security or integrity of the Website; (c) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws or such rules and regulations; (d) to our business partners, for research, analytical and marketing purposes, such as analyzing usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website and/or to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf.; or (e) otherwise with your consent. We may sell or buy other businesses or entities. In such event, we may transfer or assign the information we have collected as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In such transactions, your information, including Personal Information, may be included in the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your information, including Personal Information, is treated, transferred, or used and your information, including Personal Information, may be included in the transferred assets. We may use your Usage Information to identify and develop products and services that may be of interest to you and/or share this information with certain third parties for direct marketing purposes with respect to special offers, products, services, programs, promotions, surveys, publications, invitations or other opportunities that may be of interest to certain demographic groups. Under the laws of some jurisdictions, you may be entitled to request disclosure regarding how we share your Usage Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes ("Information-Sharing Disclosure"). To the extent required by applicable law, we shall provide the Information-Sharing Disclosure to you upon rightful request made in writing to dizzle, LLC, Attention: Corporate Compliance, 10662 Black Forest Dr., Parker, CO 80138.
We may share your information with our merchant partners. From time to time, we provide offers from particular merchants who, as part of the offer, request information on our customers who purchased the offer in order to aid redemption. In those cases, we share some of your Personal Information with those merchants. Sharing this Information may allow our merchant partners to market directly to you should they choose to do so. We specifically disclaim any responsibility or liability for the actions of such merchant. While we inform them that they are only permitted to communicate with you for the purposes of the specific promotion with us, we do not have any responsibility for the actions of the merchant, and the actions of the merchant are not in our control.
We may share your information with third party service providers. We provide services and products through third parties. These providers perform functions on our behalf, like sending out and distributing our administrative and promotional emails. We may share your Personal Information with such providers to fulfill orders, deliver packages, send postal or email, administer contests or sweepstakes, remove repetitive information on customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links, process credit card payments, operate the Website, troubleshoot, and provide customer service. We may also collect personal information from individuals and companies with whom we have business relationships and may share your information with providers to accomplish our administrative tasks. For example, when you order a merchant voucher, we release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment for the merchant voucher and, if applicable, release your address to the delivery service to deliver the merchant voucher. Likewise, we may release a merchant partner’s information to our bank to send out a payment. We encourage all of our merchant partners and third party service providers to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personal Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control.
We may remarket your information. Remarketing is a way for us to connect with users, based upon your past interactions with the website. Third-party marketing vendors may be hired to perform remarketing services. As a result, third-party vendors, including Google, may show dizzle ads on sites on the internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to dizzle's website. Users may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. This information is used only for remarketing purposes and will not be used by them for any other purpose.
We may disclose or share Non-Personal Information with merchant partners, affiliates and advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic information (which does not include any Personal Information) with third party advertisers or third party advertising companies and other parties as provided below:
We use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use Non-Personal Information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide, through the use of network tags, advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
We also use third party service providers to track and analyze Non-Personal Information usage and volume statistical information from our users to administer our Website and constantly improve its quality. We may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for advertisers. Please note that this is not Personal Information, only general summaries of the activities of our users. Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used by us.
To facilitate and customize your experience with the Website, we store cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes which contains information about that User. We use cookies to save you time while using the Website, remind us who you are, and track and target User interests in order to provide a customized experience. Cookies also allow us to collect Non-Personal Information from you, like which pages you visited and what links you clicked on. Use of this information helps us to create a more user-friendly experience for all visitors. In addition, we may use Third Party Advertising Companies to display advertisements on our Website. As part of their service, they may place separate cookies on your computer. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any Advertiser. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline cookies. Please note that if you decline or delete these cookies, some parts of the Website may not work properly.
We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our Website pages and promotions, or we may allow our Third Party Service Providers to use these devices on our behalf. Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Website, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a Non-Personally Identifiable notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behavior on our Website, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our Affiliates and/or Marketing Partners for the same purposes.
OPTING-OUT
You may opt-out of receiving communications about special offers or programs by clicking on a link provided at the bottom of the email communication.
LINKED SITES
Our Website may contain links to other websites which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of information collected through third-party websites. And expressly disclaim any liability related to such collection, use or disclosure. We are also not responsible for any information or content contained on such websites. Links to other websites are provided solely as a convenience. Your browsing, use and interaction on any other websites, including websites which have a link to the Website, are subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any website that you may access through, or which links to the Website.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Website is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from, children under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not use or access the Website at any time or in any manner. If you believe that you may have information regarding a person under 18 that you believe to have registered an account with, or otherwise provided Personal Information via, the Website, please contact us at mail@dizzle.com.
SECURITY PROCEDURES
We take commercially reasonable precautions and have implemented commercially reasonable technical measures intended to protect against the risks of unauthorized access to, erroneous disclosure of, and unlawful interception of information submitted via the Website. However, you also have a duty to protect your own Personal Information. Your email transmissions and/or other communications containing such information, including Personal Information, may be unlawfully intercepted or accessed by third parties and/or the Website may be subject to hostile network attacks or administrative errors. We cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information transmitted over the Internet. Once we receive your information, we take steps that we believe are commercially reasonable to limit access to your information to only those employees and service providers whom we determine need access to the information to provide the requested services, products, offers or opportunities that may be of interest to you. However, even after we receive your information, we cannot guarantee that your information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed as a result of a breach of our commercially reasonable efforts or as a result of any other event beyond our reasonable control. Accordingly, we cannot and do not guarantee that your information, including Personal Information, is completely secure and safe from such risks. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ENSURING, GUARANTEEING OR OTHERWISE OFFERING ANY DEFINITIVE PROMISE OF SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR INFORMATION, INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION OR USAGE INFORMATION, THROUGH THE WEBSITE.
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, although it may be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website.
As a condition of purchase of our products and services, we will send you administrative and promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity and purchases as well as updates about our products and promotional offers. You cannot opt-out of administrative emails. Administrative emails relate to a user’s activity on the website, and include emails regarding a particular user’s account, requests or inquiries, and purchases of products and services. In contrast to administrative emails, however, you do have a choice with respect to promotional emails. Promotional emails advertise our products and services, including exclusive sales and other offers, and/or the products and services of our advertisers and affiliates. If you do not want to receive promotional emails from us, you may elect to opt-out of receiving promotional emails at any time after registering by writing to us at the address contained herein, or by hitting the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any of our e-mails. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what promotional emails you do not want to receive.
SPECIAL NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL USERS
By using the Website, you agree and acknowledge that the Website is hosted in the United States. If you are attempting to access the Website from a physical location within Canada, the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and the Terms and Conditions of Use, you are transferring your information, including Personal Information, to the United States and you consent to such transfer. Use of this Website and the interpretation of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and/or the State of Colorado, United States of America; other than such rules, regulations, case law, and/or international treaties that would result in the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or the State of Colorado. Through your use of this Website, you consent to the application of such laws and the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the United States and the State of Colorado in all disputes: (a) arising out of or relating to the Website and/or this Privacy Policy; (b) in which the Website and/or this Privacy Policy is an issue of fact; or (c) in which the Website and/or this Privacy Policy is referenced in a paper filed in such dispute. Both dizzle, LLC and you hereby agree that such courts shall have in personam jurisdiction and venue with respect to such party, and each of us hereby submits to the in personam jurisdiction and venue of such courts and waives any objection based on inconvenient forum. A printed version of this Privacy Policy and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Privacy Policy to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.
CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we may revise this Privacy Policy. The most current version of this Privacy Policy can be reviewed by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link located at the bottom of our Website. Your use of the Website following the posting of any revised Privacy Policy shall be deemed acceptance of the revised policy, so we strongly recommend that you check back on this Privacy Policy periodically. If, and only if, we make revisions to this Privacy Policy that result in a material lessening of the restrictions on our use or disclosure of your Personal Information, we will make a commercially reasonable attempt to provide you notice of such revision before implementing such revisions with respect to such Personal Information.
If you disagree with the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time, your sole remedy is to terminate your use of the Website and inform us of such termination as described in this Privacy Policy. Continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to any Privacy Policy as in effect.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions or comments with respect to this Privacy Policy or your rights hereunder, please contact us at legal@dizzle.com.
MISCELLANEOUS
If any part of this Privacy Policy is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of this Privacy Policy shall continue in force and effect.