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Privacy Policy
Freebirdee LLC., a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company, and provider of the Website (hereinafter referred to as “Freebirdee”, “us” or “we”), provides the information set forth below to inform you of the privacy practices that Freebirdee utilizes in connection with its use and operation of this website. We are committed to protecting your privacy in connection your use of this website consistent with the terms set forth below. We urge you to read the following so you will understand the nature and types of information we obtain from you in connection with your use of this site and how we utilize that information. Throughout this statement you will be referred to as the “You”.
We cannot allow you to utilize the Website without agreeing to the conditions of this privacy policy. As such, if you utilize this Website you will be deemed to have agreed to the terms and conditions of this policy statement, which, along with our terms of service, govern the terms of your use of this Website. By further utilizing our Website you will be deemed to have consented to our use of your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information according to this privacy understanding.
Types of Information Collected and Usage
The two types of information that we collect about you are Personal Information and Non-Personal Information. Personal Information is information that identifies you specifically. When you order a product or service, post a profile, participate in a contest, complete a survey, post a comment, request information, send us feedback, apply for a job, or sign up for special offers, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself, such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and date of birth. When you order products and/or services, we will also collect your credit card number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information. We consider this Personal Information. Some of the information we ask you to provide is mandatory and some is 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. We may also use Personal 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.
Personal Information. Your Personal Information is used to provide products and services to you, understand how our customers are utilizing the Website, improve the Website, improve our business operations, improve the quality of our offerings, and to tailor your use and enjoyment of our Website and our affiliates and merchants. We reserve the right to use your Personal Information to resolve disputes, complete administrative processes, contact you, troubleshoot the Website, enforce our agreements with you, including this privacy policy and our terms of use. We will further use your Personal Information to comply with applicable law, cooperate with law enforcement activities and analyze technical problems within the Website.
Non-Personal Information. Non-Personal Information is information that does not specifically identify you. Non-Personal Information may include 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. Freebirdee and its affiliates and customers may automatically collect this information when you visit the Website via tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags.
We use Non-Personal Information to administer and troubleshoot this Website and gather demographic information, to analyze trends, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We may also share this information with our affiliates, merchants, service providers and advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.
Third Party Information. If you refer another to this site or purchase a product or service for a third party, we will ask you for the third-parties’ name and email address. We will send one email with any gift you bought for them and invite them join Freebirdee. Freebirdee utilizes this information for the sole purpose of sending this email, sending the gift, and tracking the success of our Website. We will remove the third-parties’ information if they contact us and request that we do so.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
From time to time will make changes to this privacy policy, we will also post those changes here and post a notice on FreeBirdee Blog so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. It is important that you understand that we reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using Freebirdee. Continued use of Freebirdee following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
We would also like to use your positive emails that you send to us. However, we will obtain consent from you to post your name along with your comment prior to posting your email on the Website.
Collected Information Sharing
We will not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personal Information with other parties except as provided below:
We provide offers from participating merchants who, as part of the offer, request information on our customers who purchased the offer so that purchased orders may be redeemed. We do share some of your Personal Information with our merchants. This sharing of Information may allow one of our merchants to contact you directly. You agree that Freebirdee will have no liability for the actions of our merchants. While we inform our merchants that they are only permitted to communicate with you for the purposes of the specific purchase, we do not have any responsibility for their independent actions.
We utilize independent contractors and third party companies in connection with our operations. We may share your Personal Information with said parties to process credit card payments, fill your orders, deliver packages, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links, operate the Website and otherwise operate our business. Your personal information may be shares with such parties for the purposes of our business operations. We request our merchants, independent contractors and other third party companies to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personal Information by such parties is governed by their standards as is beyond our control. By using our Website, you agree that we will in no way be responsible to you for any damages you may suffer as a result of the conduct of a Freebirdee Merchant and/or a Third Party Service Provider.
Remarketing. Remarketing is a way for us to connect with users, based upon your past interactions with the Freebirdee website. Third-party marketing vendors may be hired by Freebirdee to perform remarketing services. As a result, third-party vendors, including Google, may show Freebirdee ads on sites on the internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to Freebirdee’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.
Sharing Non-Personal Information. We disclose Non-Personal Information with third-party entities. Third party advertising companies may 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. Some of these Third Party Advertising Companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). If you would like more information about any NAI member company, or you would like to opt-out of targeted advertising from any NAI member company, please contact the NAI.
Making Changes to Your Personal Information
You may update your Personal Information. If you choose to store credit card information with us it is stored on a secure page and you may delete this information at any time. However, because 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.
Administrative and Promotional E-mails
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 products and services, including exclusive sales and other offers, and/or the products and services of our Merchants, 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.
Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken significant steps to protect your Personal Information, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information and we are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.
Cookies. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of Freebirdee may not work properly, and you may not be able to receive our services.
Advertisers. We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements. These advertisers and ad servers may use Cookies and/or “Web Beacons” in order to monitor information related to served advertisements. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.
This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any party. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline cookies
Pixel Tags, Web Beacons, and Other Industry Standard Techologies. 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 third parties 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.
Children. Minors under the age of 18 may not use the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18, and no part of the Website should be deemed to be designed to attract anyone under the age of 18. Freebirdee does not sell products to children. In certain instances, by using this Website you are representing that you are at least 18 years of age.
Facebook Connect. The Freebirdee 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 Freebirdee 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 Freebirdee password to validate that they control that account. If you are already logged into Freebirdee 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 Freebirdee Site to access your information and you are agreeing to the Facebook Terms of Use in your use of Freebirdee Sites.
Conversely, if you are not currently registered as a Freebirdee 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 Freebirdee. Once you register on the Freebirdee 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.
In the event we go through a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that acquirer’s assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy and as governed by this Privacy Policy.
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (the “Act”) and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by the Act, we will provide you with the categories of Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through the Website and the categories of third party persons or entities with whom such Personally Identifiable Information may be shared for direct marketing purposes at your request. California law requires us to inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect and what third parties we share that information with; (2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed by those companies. The Act further requires us to allow you to control who you do not want us to share that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or standard mail to the address found below. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what Personally Identifiable Information you do not want us to share with Affiliated Businesses or Marketing Partners. The request should be sent to the attention of our legal department, and labeled “California Customer Choice Notice.” Please allow 30 days for a response. Also, please note that there is no charge for controlling the sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information or requesting this notice.
If you have questions or concerns about our FreeBirdee Privacy Policy, contact us:
help@FreeBirdee.com.
Last updated April, 1, 2011
