
INMARKET MEDIA LLC PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: April 5, 2011.
INTRODUCTION
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to the inMarket Media LLC web site (http://www.inMarket.com) or http://Chk.pt, the CheckPoints application for the Apple iOS, Android Operating System, other inMarket mobile device applications that link to or include this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “inMarket Sites/Apps”, (i.e. CP Site/App) (however accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise). The inMarket Sites/Apps are owned and controlled by inMarket Media LLC (“inMarket,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy also applies to interactive features or downloads that are owned or operated by inMarket, are available through the inMarket Sites/Apps, or that interact with the inMarket Sites/Apps and post this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers information collected by any of the inMarket Sites/Apps and does not cover any information collected at any other web site, application or offline by inMarket (unless specifically stated). This Privacy Policy explains inMarket’s information collection practices at any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, such as the types of information inMarket collects regarding visitors to the CP Site/App and how we may use that information. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. In addition, please review the CP Site/App’s New Terms of Use , which governs your use of the CP Site/App and describes CheckPoints rewards program.
Table of Contents
1. What Information do The inMarket Sites/Apps Collect?
- (a) Information You Provide To Us
- (b) Information We Collect As You Access And Use Any Of The inMarket Sites/Apps
- (c) Information Third Parties Provide About You
- (d) Information You Provide About A Third Party
2. How Do We Use The Information Collected?
3. How and When Do We Disclose Information To Third Parties?
- (a) When You Agree To Receive Information From Third Parties
- (b) Third Parties Providing Services On Our Behalf
- (c) Sweepstakes, Contests And Promotions
- (d) Administrative and Legal Reasons
4. What About Information I Disclose Publicly?
- (a) User Generated Content and Public Information
5. Does Third Party Content and Links to Third Party Locations Appear on Any inMarket Site/App?
6. Are There Third Party Ads Served on Any inMarket Site/App?
7. How Do I Change My Information And Communication Preferences?
8. What About Consent To Transfer Information To The United States?
9. What Should Parents Know About Children?
10. What About Security?
11. What About Changes to the Privacy Policy?
1. What Information do the inMarket Sites/Apps Collect?
(a) Information You Provide To Us
- Personal Information and Demographic Information. We may ask you to provide us with certain categories of information such as: (1) personal information, which is information that could reasonably be used to identify you personally, such as your name, e-mail address and physical address (“Personal Information”); and (2) demographic information, such as gender, zip code or similar information (“Demographic Information”). We may collect this information through various forms and in various places on any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, including account registration forms, prize fulfillment, newsletter registration, or when you submit information, communicate or otherwise interact with us. If we combine Demographic Information with the Personal Information we collect, we will treat it as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
- (b) Information We Collect As You Access And Use Any of the inMarket Sites/Apps
- In addition to any Personal Information or other information that you choose to submit to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps (i.e. the CP Site/App), we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with any of the inMarket Sites/Apps (“Usage Information”). This Usage Information may include the browser you are using, the URL that referred you to our inMarket Sites/Apps, all of the areas within any of our inMarket Sites/Apps that you visit, and the time of day, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise improve any of the inMarket Sites/Apps. In addition, we collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for your mobile device, computer or other device used to access any of the inMarket Sites/Apps (any, a “Device”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the inMarket Sites/Apps, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Usage Information may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. Whenever we associate Usage Information or a Device Identifier with your Personal Information, we will treat it as Personal Information
- A few of the methods that may be used to collect Usage Information include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods hereafter developed):
- Cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to visit any of the inMarket Sites/Apps. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by you to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our pages within any of the inMarket Sites/Apps. If you choose to disable cookies or Flash cookies on your Device, some features of some of the inMarket Sites/Apps may not function properly.
- Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1x1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in any of our inMarket Sites/Apps pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a web page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, to monitor how users navigate the site/app, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.
- Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
- Additionally, the inMarket Sites/Apps use GPS software (or other location based services) to locate you so we may verify your location, deliver you relevant content based on your location, as well as allow you to share your location to other users as part of the services of the inMarket Sites/Apps. Upon use of the app, we provide location-based services to your approximate or exact location information. You should consider the pros and cons involved in disclosing your location information to other people. Where a user of the inMarket Sites/Apps requests that their location information be revealed to other persons, the user will be provided options for managing sharing services such as through Twitter and Facebook.
- Further, we employ various tracking and fraud verification practices, which collect information that may be associated with your account. For instance, we may keep records of the barcodes you scan.
- (c) Information Third Parties Provide About You
- We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect about you with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those sources with information we collect through any of the inMarket Sites/Apps. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any Personal Information received, unless we have disclosed otherwise.
- (d) Information You Provide About A Third Party
- If you send someone else a communication from any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, such as sending an invitation to a friend, the information you provide (names, e-mail addresses, etc.) is used to facilitate the communication and is not used for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person or we explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use any send-to-a-friend functionality on any of our inMarket Sites/Apps, your e-mail address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.
2. How Do We Use The Information Collected?
- Use of Information by inMarket. inMarket may use your Personal Information, Demographic Information or Usage Information that we collect about you: (1) to provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive, including to send you electronic newsletters, or to provide you with special offers or promotional materials on behalf of us or third parties; (2) to enable you to participate in a variety of the inMarket Sites/App’s features such as our rewards program; (3) to process your registration with any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, including verifying your information is active and valid; (4) to improve the inMarket Sites/App or our services, to customize your experience on any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, or to serve you specific content that is most relevant to you; (5) to contact you with regard to your use of any of the inMakret Sites/Apps and, in our discretion, changes to the any of the inMarket Sites/Apps and/or any of the inMarket Sites/App’s policies; (6) for internal business purposes; and (7) for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. Further, we may use your geo-location information to display nearby businesses and offers, or to verify certain actions.
- Please note that information submitted to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps via a “contact us” or other similar function may not receive a response. We will not use the information provided to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request unless you agree otherwise.
3. How and When Do We Disclose Information to Third Parties?
- inMarket may share non-personally identifiable information, such as Unique Device Identifiers and aggregated user statistics, with third parties. We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes unless you consent to such sharing at the time you provide your Personal Information, such as signing up for their email list or connecting via a social media platform such as Facebook or Twitter. We may share the information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information and as described below or otherwise in this Privacy Policy.
- (a) When You Agree To Receive Information From Third Parties.
- You may be presented with an opportunity to receive information and/or marketing offers directly from third parties. If you do agree to have your Personal Information shared, your Personal Information will be disclosed to such third parties and all information you disclose will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties and, therefore, you should review the privacy policies and practices of such third parties prior to agreeing to receive such information from third parties. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communication from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly.
- (b) Third Parties Providing Services On Our Behalf.
- We may use third party vendors to perform certain services on behalf of any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, such as hosting the inMaket Sites/Apps, designing and/or operating any of the inMarket Sites/App’s features, tracking inMarket Sites/Apps analytics, enabling you to participate in CheckPoints rewards program and enabling inMarket to send you newsletters or performing other administrative services. We may provide these companies with access to user information, including Personal Information, to carry out the services they are performing for you or for inMarket.
- (c) Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions.
- We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (any, a “Promotion”) through any of the inMarket Sites/Apps that may require registration. By participating in a Promotion, you are agreeing to the terms, conditions or official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor(s) of the Promotion to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion. If you choose to enter a Promotion, Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, without limitation, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules, such as on a winners list.
- (d) Administrative and Legal Reasons.
- We may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information, including Personal Information, including disclosure to third parties: (i) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law; (ii) to protect and/or defend any of the inMarket Sites/App’s Terms of Use or other policies applicable to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) to protect the safety, rights, property or security of inMarket or any third party; and/or (iv) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we may use IP address or other Device Identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
- inMarket may share your information and data, including, without limitation, Personal Information, Demographic Information and Usage Information with its subsidiaries and affiliates for internal reasons. inMarket also reserves the right to disclose and transfer all information related to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, including, without limitation, Personal Information, Demographic Information and Usage Information: (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of any of the inMarket Sites/Apps or applicable databases; or (ii) in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of inMarket’s membership interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process.
4. What About Information I Disclose Publicly?
- (a) User Generated Content and Public Information.
- Any of the inMarket Sites/Apps may permit you to submit ideas, photographs, writings, pictures, user profiles, data, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, including Personal Information (collectively, “User Generated Content”). User Generated Content may be published online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). Others may have access to this User Generated Content and may have the ability to share it with third parties across the Internet. Please think carefully before deciding what information you share, including Personal Information, in connection with your User Generated Content. Please note that inMarket does not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly, share with others or otherwise upload onto any of the inMarket Sites/Apps. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any content or information that you disclose or receive through any of the inMarket Sites/Apps.
- We may also publish your name, voice, likeness and other Personal Information that is part of your User Generated Content, and inMakret may use the content, or any portion of the content, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities. For full terms and conditions regarding User Generated Content you submit to any of the inMarket Sites/Apps, please review our Terms of Use.
5. Does Third Party Content And Links To Third Party Locations Appear on any of the inMarekt Sites/Apps?
- Any of the inMarket Sites/Apps may contain content that is supplied by a third party, and those third parties may collect usage information and your Device Identifier when pages from any of the inMarket Sites/Apps are served to you. In addition, when you are on any of the inMarket Sites/Apps you may be directed to other locations (e.g., third party web site) that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third party locations. For example, if you “click” on a banner advertisement, the “click” may take you off an inMarket Site/App onto a third party location. These other third party locations may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit Personal Information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. inMarket encourages you to note when you leave any inMarket Site/App and to read the privacy statements of all third party locations before submitting any Personal Information to those locations.
6. Are There Third Party Ads Served on the inMarket Sites/Apps?
- The inMarket Sites/Apps may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on inMarket Sites/Apps and may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the inMarket Sites/Apps. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the inMarket Sites/Apps and other locations you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. The inMarket Site/App’s third party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies on your Device and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your Device via a Device Identifier. These third party cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one.
7. How Do I Change My Information And Communications Preferences?
- You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of registration. The inMarket Sites/Apps may allow you to review, correct or update Personal Information you have provided through an inMarket Site/App’s registration form or otherwise. inMarket will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. You may cancel or modify your communications such as newsletters that you have elected to receive from any inMarket Site/App by following the instructions contained within an e-mail you receive. If you have any questions about: (a) access to Personal Information; (b) the collection, use, management or disclosure of your Personal Information; or (c) this Privacy Policy, you should contact us in the following ways: Registered Postal Mail: inMarket Media LLC, P.O. Box 3209, Venice, CA 90291, Attn: Legal Dept; By email: legal@inMarket.com.
8. What About Consent To Transfer Information To The United States?
- The inMarket Sites/Apps are operated in the United States and intended for users located in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or anywhere else outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your Personal Information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. By using any inMarket Site/App or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer, processing and storage of your information in the United States.
9. What Should Parents Know About Children?
- The inMarket Sites/Apps are for general audiences and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children younger than the age of thirteen (13). We will delete any Personal Information collected that we later determine to be from a user younger than the age of thirteen (13). If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us at legal@inMarket.com.
10. What About Security?
- We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use our inMarket Sites/Apps and provide us with your information at your own risk.
11. What About Changes to The Privacy Policy?
- inMarket reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy. However, inMarket will not use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected without your consent.
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