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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