Last modified: 07/14/2016
Introduction
SynergyCard, Inc. ("Company" or "We")
respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with
this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect
from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.SynergyDigitalSavings.com
(our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using,
maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
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On this Website.
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In email, text, and other
electronic messages between you and this Website.
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Though mobile and desktop
applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated
non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
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When you interact with our
advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those
applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information
collected by:
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Us offline or through any other
means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party
(including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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Any third party (including our
affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including
advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies
and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do
not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our
Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy.
This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website
after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please
check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended
for children under 13 years of age, and such use is prohibited. No one under
age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly
collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do
not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its
features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use
any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide
any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone
number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
By using the Website, you
represent that you are at least eighteen years old and that you understand you
must be at least eighteen years old in order to create an account and purchase
goods or services through the Website. If we learn we have collected or
received personal information from a person under the age of eighteen without
verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you
believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please
contact us at [email protected].
Information We Collect About You and How We
Collect It
We collect this
information:
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Directly from you when you provide it to us.
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Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information
collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and
information collected through cookies, web beacons, local shared objects,
files, tools and other tracking technologies.
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From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us.
When you visit, or
register on the Website, we may ask you to provide information:
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by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal
address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number or ANY OTHER
INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS THAT IS DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNDER AN APPLICABLE LAW, and any other identifier by
which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");
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that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as
data from Cookies, Pixel Tags and Web Beacons, and Device Data. (“non-identifying
information”); and/or
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about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access
our Website and usage detail.
This
information includes:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our
Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, making a purchases, or
otherwise when you provide us with your personal information during your
interaction with the site. We may also ask you for information when you enter a
contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our
Website.
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Records and copies of your correspondence including email
addresses, if you contact us.
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Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for
research purposes.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of
the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial
information before placing an order through our Website.
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Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide
information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted")
on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or
third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User
Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk.
Although we limit access to certain pages and you may set certain privacy
settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be
aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we
cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may
choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not
guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized
persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data
Collection Technologies.
As you navigate through
and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection
technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing
actions, and patterns, including:
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Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data,
location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you
access and use on the Website.
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Information about your computer and internet connection,
including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect
information about your online activities over time and across third-party
websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
Information
Collection and Tracking Technologies. The technologies we use for this
automatic data collection may include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file
placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser
cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you
select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website.
Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies,
our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
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Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use
local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about
your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are
not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
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Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may
contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear
gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example,
to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other
related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain
website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking
Technologies.
Some content or applications,
including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including
advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web
beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when
you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your
personal information or they may collect information, including personal
information, about your online activities over time and across different
websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide
you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these
third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any
questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact
the responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we
collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information,
to:
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Present our Website and its contents to you.
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Provide you with information, products, or services that you
request from us.
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Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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Provide you with notices about your account/subscription,
including expiration and renewal notices.
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Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any
contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and
collection.
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Notify you about changes to our Website or any products or
services we offer or provide though it.
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Allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
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Answer your questions and respond to your requests;
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Perform analytics and conduct consumer research.
The information we
collect automatically is statistical data and may include personal information,
and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in
other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website
and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us
to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Store information about your preferences, allowing us to
customize our Website according to your individual interests.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website
We use location information
that we collect to help deliver a better and more personalized service.
We may also use your
information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services
that may be of interest to you.
We may use the information
we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our
advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal
information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or
otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you
meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated
information about our users, and information that does not identify any
individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal
information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
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To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use
to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep
personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we
disclose it to them.
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To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or
transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or
as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal
information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets
transferred.
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To third parties to market their products or services.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if
you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of
our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address
to the recipients.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the
information.
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With your consent.
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To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including
to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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To enforce or apply our terms of use Terms of Use or
terms of sale Terms of Sale
and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect
the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the
purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information
We strive to provide you
with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have
created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your
information:
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Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your
browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are
being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the
Flash player settings page on Adobe's website.
If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may
then be inaccessible or not function properly.
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Location Information. You can choose whether or not to
allow the Website to collect and use real-time information about your device’s
location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of
location information, some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not
function properly.
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Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising.
If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or
non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the
relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, either the
order form or the registration form. You can also always opt-out by logging
into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by
checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating
your request to [email protected].
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Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to
have your email address or contact information used by the Company to promote
our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the
relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, the order form,
the registration form, or at any other time by logging into the Website and
adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or
unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to
[email protected]. If we have sent you a
promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from
future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided
to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration,
product service experience or other transactions
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Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use
information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements
according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by checking
the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data the order
form or the registration form. You can also always adjust your user advertising
preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant
boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. For
this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept browser
cookies.
We do not control third parties' collection or
use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these
third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information
collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from
members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the
NAI's website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change
your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account
profile page.
You may also send us an
email at [email protected] to request
access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to
us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your
user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we
believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the
information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User
Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain
viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by
other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the
Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use Terms of Use
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code
Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to
request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to
third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request,
please send an email to [email protected]
or write us at: 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 208, San Diego, CA 92130.
Data Security
We have implemented
measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and
from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you
provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Wherever we
collect sensitive information such as credit card data, or payment
transactions, that information will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of
your information also depends on you. Where we have given you or where you have
chosen a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share
your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out
information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information
you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the
transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although
we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the
security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any
transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not
responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures
contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post
any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the
privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material
changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by
email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a
notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised
is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have
an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for
periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any
changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment
about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
[email protected] or 858-569-8842
