Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Shop For Cheap Rates .com is committed to making your online shopping experience
as convenient and as safe as possible. Please read our Privacy Policy to learn more about our commitment to
protecting your information.
First, a little bit about ourselves: Shop For Cheap Rates .com is a portal website to multiple partnered vendors
who provide you great opportunities to receive 'cheap rates. Shopforcheaprates.com, as a portal site, has taken
certain steps to ensure that your data is properly collected, handled, and protected when you search for cheaper
rates.
Registration: Registration is
simply a way to enhance customer interaction within our network of partnered sites. The only information this site
collects is 1-your email address (if you sign up for our newsletter) and/or 2-the first six digits of your phone
number, which will help us customize our presentation to better serve your needs. Your email address will be stored
in our servers and accessed only to send you the email newsletter. The first six digits of your phone number - used
exclusively in our Best Rate Calculator - are stored in a browser cookie,
and will be utilized to hold data for the user's next visit to this site.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, you will be emailed a weekly publication directly from
the Dollar Stretcher - the authors of our newsletter. Users who no longer wish to receive our
newsletter or promotional materials from Shop For Cheap Rates .com may opt-out of receiving
these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email.
Customer Service: Our customer service page will
require ONLY your name, email address, and phone number. This information is required to
research your request and to reply with an answer to your inquiry. Your information is entered
into a database housed on our server to ensure that your inquiry is tracked and answered in a
timely fashion. We also use this data to re-open trouble tickets that were entered in the past.
Refer-A-Friend: The refer-a-friend feature of this site allows you to
send an email announcement to your friends, family, and associates. This email will suggest and encourage the
recipients to visit this website and to sign up for our discounted product offerings. The email addresses you enter
are not stored anywhere and are discarded once the original email is sent. Order Forms:
When you find a product you wish to order, we will send you directly to a third party site managed and maintained by
the corresponding product vendor. Here you are requested for contact information (like name and shipping address)
and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in
touch with you. Though the order forms are not hosted or maintained by Shop For Cheap Rates .com directly or covered
by our privacy statement, we have carefully screened each one for security and have deemed them safe, as each order
form is protected with 128-bit Verisign encryption. Cookies:
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user.
Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. For instance, by
setting a cookie on our site, you will not have to log in a password or phone number more than once, thereby saving
you time and making your online shopping experience more enjoyable. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use
our site without any negative results whatsoever. Log
Files: We use IP addresses and/or referring URLs to analyze trends, administer the site, track users'
movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses and referring URLs are not linked
to personally identifiable information. Sharing:
As we stated in our order forms and registration declaration above, we are a portal website.
Consequently, we work with other companies to provide your information to vendors who provide the cheap rates. All
orders use outside shipping companies to ship orders, and credit card processing companies to bill users for goods
and services. Links:
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Shop For Cheap Rates .com is not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, though we have screened each company for appropriate
security and information privacy practices. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read
the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. Security: This
website takes every precaution to protect our users information. When users submit sensitive information via
the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. We coordinate with our partnered sites to
assure a secure and seamless experience when submitting your sensitive information to their sites.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to staff
at shopforcheaprates.com
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your email or phone number),
or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or remove that
user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by contacting
our Customer Support Department.
Choice/Opt-out: Our users are given the opportunity to
"opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point
where we ask for the information.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of
receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email.
Users of our site are always notified if their information is being collected by any outside
parties. For instance, we use pop-up windows when moving to a new site. We do this so our users
can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an
outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes: If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it,
and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify users by way of an
email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
However, if you have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you
will not be contacted. Nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. We will only use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. |
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