CONSUPO.com believes that trust is an important component of the service we provide to our members through our website, CONSUPO.com (the “Site”). To ensure that we earn and keep that trust, we make every effort to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is provided to inform you about our collection, use and disclosure of information you choose to share with us through the Site.
This Privacy Policy is considered to be a part of the CONSUPO.com Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms of Service” or “TOS”). By using the Site you agree to be legally bound by the terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Service, including this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you are also consenting to CONSUPO.com’s privacy practices, including the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information that you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy. Please read the Privacy Policy below to understand how we collect, use, and treat your personal information. If after reviewing this Privacy Policy you have questions regarding our treatment of your personal information, please send your questions to privacy@consupo.com.
What this Privacy Policy Covers. This Privacy Policy covers the personal information that CONSUPO.com collects from you or about you on our Site, and personal information that our business partners may share with us, if any.
This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or the actions of people that CONSUPO.com does not employ or manage.
Anti-Spam Policy.
CONSUPO.com is 100% opposed to unsolicited commercial email or spam. We do not send emails to anyone without permission and we do not sell or provide email addresses to any unauthorized third party. If you receive any unsolicited emails from spammers, please be assured that CONSUPO.com did not provide your email addresses to such parties. This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet.
If you believe that you have received an unsolicited email from us, please contact our Privacy Department at privacy@consupo.com and we will investigate.
Security
CONSUPO.com uses physical, electronic and administrative safeguards, including advanced firewall and password protection for our databases, designed to protect the security of data. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees that need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Information Collected by CONSUPO.com
Information you Give Us. CONSUPO.com collects personal information from you when you register to write a review, provide a rating or comment on our Site. We will only collect your personal information if you choose to share it with us. When you register with CONSUPO.com, we ask for your contact information (like your name and email address) and basic demographic information (like your date of birth, gender, hometown and zip code). We may use your contact information to get in touch with you when necessary. Your registration information is stored in a database at CONSUPO.com. If you enter a sweepstakes, contest or survey we may also ask you for some demographic information such as your income level. We may also receive information about you from our business partners.
Information Gathered Automatically. CONSUMP.com also use "cookies" to automatically recognize returning users. Cookies used by the Site may contain your user name, email address, IP address or zip code. A cookie is a small file on your hard drive that allows us to display your previously defined search criteria and notification preferences whenever you visit our Site. "Clear gifs" are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and may be used to track the online movements of Web users or to let us know if you have opened an email that we sent you.
Your access provider assigns an internet protocol address to your computer when you use the Internet. We collect each IP address that accesses the Site; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; your behavior on the Site and related services, including the products and merchants you view or searched for, as well as the URL you come from and go to next; cookie number; participating merchants you visit and the items that you purchase. We use this data, as well as other data in our databases, to analyze site and user behavior, troubleshoot technical problems, resolve disputes, address complaints, prepare aggregated reports that we may share with others and customize your experience on the Site.
You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser (contact your ISP for help), but doing so may prevent us from delivering certain services to you (e.g., saved searches). Your browser must also be set to accept cookies in order to access the Site as a registered member.
Other companies which place advertisements on our pages or offer products on our Site may collect information about you via their cookies on your computer when you click on their content. The use of cookies by these companies and any information collected by these companies are not subject to this Privacy Policy.
How CONSUPO.com Uses the Information Collected
We may use the information we collect from you to confirm the validity of submitted reviews, customize our services, tailor our services to your interests, improve the content of our Site, and notify you about our products and services. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see the Choice-Opt-Out section below).
CONSUPO.com may also use the information for internal purposes, such as studying our user’s preferences. We use the information collected regarding the activity on our Site (such as the number of users and the pages commonly visited) on an anonymous basis. We may aggregate this anonymous information and use it to improve our products and services, including our Site.
Information that is Shared or Disclosed
We may share your personal information with business partners who work on behalf of CONSUPO.com to provide you with a product or service. These business partners may only use your personal information to assist CONSUPO.com, and are prohibited from using your personal information for other purposes.
We may disclose anonymous aggregate information (for example, the percentage of our viewers that visit the product review section of our Site) to third parties such as our advertisers or business partners.
In addition, we may share data with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and other companies under a common control or acquirers. As our business evolves, CONSUPO.com may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy. In such an event, personal and anonymous information may be one of the assets transferred.
We may disclose information when required by law or under the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to applicable law, comply with legal process served on CONSUPO.com, or to protect the property or interests of CONSUPO.com, its agents and employees, personal safety, or the public. Under such circumstances, CONSUPO.com may be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process from providing notice of the disclosure, and CONSUPO.com reserves the right not to provide such notice in its sole discretion.
Other Use and Disclosure of Information for the Site
You can publish reviews, comments and other content on our Site. Members can choose to rate products or reviews. Your reviews and ratings are displayed publicly. Your member name is automatically displayed with reviews and comments you publish, and if other members choose to, they can receive email notifications of your publications or publish their own comments to your reviews.
We, and our licensees, can republish your content as described in our Term of Service. We publish product ratings and use them to develop aggregate ratings, personalize site views and merchandise products. We use your review ratings and web of trust to personalize site views and identify/feature popular members. For example, we may promote most popular or highest-earning reviews and members. While we don't expect to transfer the complete review rating and web of trust database to others (except as contemplated elsewhere in this Privacy Policy), we use the database throughout our network and to generate results for others.
Links to Other Sites
The Site contains links to other web sites. CONSUPO.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If you have concerns about how other web sites collect and use information about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy policy.
Minor’s Privacy
CONSUPO.com is not designed or intended for use by anyone under the age of 14. By using the Site you represent and warrant that you are 14 years of age or older. If we discover that you are under 14 and have registered with us, we will delete your registration.
International Privacy
If you are not a US resident, your use of CONSUPO.com shall constitute consent to the transfer, storage, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information in the U.S. in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Choice/Opt-Out of CONSUPO.com Email Communications
At any time (and except for administrative emails), you have the ability to opt-out of receiving communications from CONSUPO.com and our partners. To unsubscribe from the CONSUPO.com email newsletter, contact Customer Support and let us know that you would like to discontinue this service. In addition, each of our email messages contains a link at the bottom of the email for purposes of adjusting your email subscription preferences or to be removed from our mailing list.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
CONSUPO.com may change how we collect, use or treat your personal information. Please check back periodically to review any changes that we have made to the Privacy Policy. Should CONSUPO.com make any material changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our homepage at www.CONSUPO.com.
How to Contact Us About Privacy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of CONSUPO.com, you may contact:
CONSUPO.COM, LLC
Attn: Customer Support/Privacy
218 Main Street Box 782
Kirkland, WA 98033-6108
USA
Or, if you would like to contact us via email, at privacy@consupo.com