Privacy Policy
Shop4theCause.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
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What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how Shop4theCause.com treats personal information that Shop4theCause.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Shop4theCause.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy covers how Shop4theCause.com treats organizational information that Shop4theCause.com collects and receives, including information related to any organization’s past use of Shop4theCause.com. Organizational information is information about that identifies an organization like its name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Shop4theCause.com does not own or control, or to people that Shop4theCause.com does not employ or manage.
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Information Collection and Use
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| General
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- Shop4theCause.com collects organizational information when an organization registers with Shop4theCause.com, and when supporters select an organization to support.
- Shop4theCause.com collects personal information when you register for any periodic email. Shop4theCause.com does not have any to the specific details of your personal purchases of any of the sites with which we are associated. We receive periodic reports from these stores regarding the purchases and the corresponding commission that is due to a particular organization. No personal information is included in these reports.
- Shop4theCause.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Shop4theCause.com cookie information, and the page you request.
- Shop4theCause.com uses information for the following general purposes: to improve your experience on the site and to reduce the number of pages you must access in order to shop.
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| Children
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- When a child under age 13 attempts to register with Shop4theCause.com, we ask that he or she obtains parental permission.
- Shop4theCause.com will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
- Shop4theCause.com does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.
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Information Sharing and Disclosure
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- Shop4theCause.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Shop4theCause.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Shop4theCause.com communicate with you about offers from Shop4theCause.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Shop4theCause.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Shop4theCause.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Shop4theCause.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Shop4theCause.com may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- Shop4theCause.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
- Shop4theCause.com advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
- Shop4theCause.com does not rent, sell, or share information about an organization with other people or nonaffiliated companies except for what is shown on the web site so an individual supporter can select the organization, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Shop4theCause.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your organizational information to help Shop4theCause.com communicate with you about offers from Shop4theCause.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We transfer information about an organization if Shop4theCause.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Shop4theCause.com will notify the organization before the information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
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Cookies
- Shop4theCause.com may set and access Shop4theCause.com cookies on your computer.
- Shop4theCause.com allows the companies that track the commissions to set and access cookies on your computer.
- Shop4theCause.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Shop4theCause.com's cookies.
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Your Ability to Delete Your Information
- You can delete your organization from Shop4theCause.com by alerting Shop4theCause.com via email. An organization’s information may remain in our archived data, but it will no longer be actively displayed on the site.
- You can delete your personal information from Shop4theCause.com by alerting Shop4theCause.com via email. Your personal information may remain in our archived data, but you will no longer receive any periodic correspondence.
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Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal and organizational information.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Shop4theCause.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal or organizational information by sending a notice to the primary email address noted with Shop4theCause.com.
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Questions and Suggestions
- If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:
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