Last updated July 26, 2011

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for the Deal Events website (collectively, the “Website” located at www.dealevents.com).  Deal Events, Inc., a Delaware corporation, the provider of the Website (referred to as “us” or “we”), is committed to protecting your privacy online.  Please read the following to learn what information we collect from you (the “User” or the “End User”) and how we use that information.  If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email us.

1.       Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of notice on our home page.

2.       Types of Information Collected and Uses of Collected Information

We collect two types of information about our Website Users:  Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

Personally Identifiable Information.

Personally Identifiable Information is information that identifies a specific End User.  When you engage in certain activities on the Website, such as creating an account etc. (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) and email address.  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.

Refer a Friend

If you choose to use our referral service, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address.  We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.  Deal Events stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.  Your friend may contact us at support@dealevents.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

We use Personally Identifiable Information to provide products and services to you, administer sweepstakes and contests, enhance the operation of the Website, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Website use, improve our product and service offerings, and to tailor your experience with third parties as provided in Item 3 of this Privacy Policy.  For example, if you send our customer service an email we may use your comments and feedback to tell others about our services, and may post your comment in our marketing materials or on our Website. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our agreements with you, including our Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a specific End User.  This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address.  We, and/or our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers, may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, as described in Items 4 and 8 of this Privacy Policy.

We use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, administer the Website, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.  We may also share this information with our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.

3.       Release of Personally Identifiable Information

We will not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personally Identifiable Information with other parties except as provided below:

We may share your information with Authorized Third Party Service Providers.

We provide services and products through third parties.  These “Third Party Service Providers” perform functions on our behalf, like sending out and distributing our administrative and promotional emails.  We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with such Service Providers to fulfill orders, deliver packages, send postal or email, administer contests or sweepstakes, remove repetitive information on customer lists, analyze data, operate the Website, troubleshoot, and provide customer service. We may also collect personal information from individuals and companies (“Affiliates”) with whom we have business relationships and may share your information with Service Providers to accomplish our administrative tasks.

We may share your information for our Protection and the Protection of Others.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website; enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, our Website Terms of Use or other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, its Users or others.

4.       Release of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Partners, Affiliates and Advertisers.  We also use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze Non-Personally Identifiable 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 Personally Identifiable Information, only general summaries of the activities of our Users.  Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used by us.

5.       Updating and Correcting Information

We believe that you should have the ability to access and edit the Personally Identifiable Information you provide us.  You may change any of your Personally Identifiable Information by logging into your account and accessing the "my account" section of the site. We encourage you to promptly update your Personally Identifiable Information if it changes.  You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past transactions, you cannot delete information associated with past transactions on the Website.  In addition, in may be impossible for us to completely delete all of your information because we periodically backup information.

6.       User Choices on Collection and Use of Information

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 using the website we will send you Administrative and Promotional emails.  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 and requests or inquiries.  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 hitting the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any of our e-mails.

7.       Security of Information

We take security seriously and take numerous precautions to protect the security of Personally Identifiable Information.  You can access your Personally Identifiable Information on our Website through a password and your email address.  This password is encrypted.  We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone.  In addition, your Personally Identifiable Information resides on a secure server that only selected personnel and contractors have access to.  Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies which do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Website, and are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.

8.       Data Tracking

Cookies.

To facilitate and customize your experience with the Website, we store cookies on your computer.  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. 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.

9.       Privacy Policies of Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on www.dealevents.com.  Other websites that may be accessible through this Website have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices.  If you link to any such website, we urge you review the website’s privacy policy.  We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.

Feedback

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information.  We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property.  We may use feedback for marketing purposes or to add to or modify our services without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.

Facebook Connect.

 The Deal Events Site allows users to access Facebook Connect to interact with friends and to share on Facebook through Wall and friends' News Feeds.  If you are logged into Deal Events and Facebook, when you click on "Connect with Facebook" your profiles will merge if the email addresses match.  If the email addresses don't match, we ask you if you want to merge them and you must enter your Deal Events password to validate that they control that account.  If you are already logged into Deal Events but not logged into Facebook, when you click on "Connect with Facebook" you will be prompted to enter your Facebook credentials or to "Sign up for Facebook."  By proceeding you are allowing the Deal Events Site to access your information and you are agreeing to the Facebook Terms of Use in your use of Deal Events Sites.

Conversely, if you are not currently registered as a Deal Events user and you click on "Sign in Using Facebook," you will first be asked to enter your Facebook credentials and then be given the option to register and join Deal Events.  Once you register on the Deal Events site and Connect with Facebook, you will be able to automatically post recent activity back to Facebook.  You have the option to disable Facebook Connect at any time by logging into "My Profile" and clicking on "My Facebook Profile." Further, you can edit privacy settings for the reviews that appear on Facebook or disconnect this service by visiting the Facebook Application Settings page. 

10.   Contacting Us

Email | support@dealevents.com