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This Privacy Policy covers the use of the website
www.buyingoutlet.com
At BuyingOutlet, we’re committed to your privacy and your privacy is safe
with us. Our Privacy Policy is simple:
What do we do?
When you visit a recognized shopping or travel website, the BuyingOutlet
software connects to our servers to check for product and travel
information, better prices and alternative offers for the product or travel
service you were interested in, in order to present them to you.
The sites on which BuyingOutlet operates are only sites which we have
examined, cataloged and approved as safe for the user, and the software
maintains a regularly-updated “white list” of such sites. The software does
not track or transmit any data when you visit sites which are not on that
"white list".
The software transmits to our servers only the URL of the e-commerce or
travel site you are visiting or the search term you typed in on these
e-commerce or travel sites. In some of the pages our software also transmits
data about the products or the travel information presented on the page, in
order to provide you with related information and comparative offers.
We offer you comparative product and travel deals, as well as additional
product and travel information, from the most trusted vendors on the net.
What we don't do:
We do not collect any personally identifiable information ("PII") about you.
We do not trade, rent or sell PII to third parties. We do not disclose the
URLs visited by you to anybody else.
We do not transmit to our servers any information about your searches or
website visits, except for information about visits to e-commerce and travel
sites, and searches performed on such sites. When such information is
transmitted to our servers, it is processed only for the purpose of
performing the comparative service and nothing else is being done with it.
We do not display popups on your computer.
Learn more about safe surfing and online shopping from the Federal Trade
Commission.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
(a) Anonymous Aggregate Information
BuyingOutlet collects and stores aggregated anonymous information about the
e-commerce or travel web pages its users view and the data they enter in
search engine search fields while using the BuyingOutlet software (the
“Service”). BuyingOutlet uses this information to determine which alternative
offers and additional product or travel information to display on your
browser window pane.
The BuyingOutlet software does not send to our servers any information about
the web pages you view unless you are visiting one of the e-commerce or
travel sites that we have examined and catalogued. For every such e-commerce
or travel web page you view while using the Service, the BuyingOutlet
software transmits from your computer to the BuyingOutlet server and stores
the following information: your Internet Protocol (IP) Address; the Full
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the web page you are visiting; general
information about your browser and your computer's operating system; your
BuyingOutlet cookie number and the date and time the above information is
logged. We also collect and store the following BuyingOutlet usage
statistics: what is clicked on the browser window pane; the amount of time
the Service is used during each session; which keyword searches are
performed within the application search box and what alternative results are
received during any given session.
If you are only visiting our site (www.buyingoutlet.com), we collect the
following information: the URL of the web page from which you came; the date
and time of each page you view; the name of and information about any
advertisement that brought you to our web site; and computer and connection
information. If the URL of the page from which you came contains any PII
about you, we will not attempt to determine your identity by analyzing the
URL in any way. Also the IP address of the computer from which you arrived
to our site is recorded by the web server; this is an automated information
collection as done by any web server, and we do not store this information
for any type of use.
(b) Personally Identifiable Information
Currently there is no personal registration on our site. In the future, we
may add services that can ask for your registration. In these cases
registration will be optional and you may choose to use the BuyingOutlet
program without revealing any personally identifiable information about
yourself. If you choose to register, the BuyingOutlet software will ask you
for some PII (for example your name, email address, and a city or an airport
near you) in order to create an account.
If you contact us through the "Partner with us" or "contact us" pages, you
are required to provide your e-mail address and, optionally, name and phone
number, so that we may be able to respond to your inquiry. In any event,
this PII is not used in any manner other than to contact you regarding your
inquiry.
Any PII which would be gathered, as described above, is stored separately
from the information about the web pages you view and the data you enter in
search engine search fields and the two types of information are not
correlated or linked.
Except for the specific cases described above, we do not gather PII from you
without your specific permission when you visit the BuyingOutlet site and
download the BuyingOutlet software or use the Service.
COOKIES
Upon visiting www.buyingoutlet.com, a cookie is sent to your computer that
uniquely identifies your browser. This cookie assigns your Web browser a
unique series of numbers, letters, or characters that enables BuyingOutlet’s
servers to recognize and identify your web browser when you are using the
Service and help customize your online experience and make it more
convenient for you. The cookie improves the quality of our service by
getting a better understanding of how people interact with us. Cookies are
also useful in allowing more efficient log-in for users, tracking
transaction histories and preserving information between sessions. Cookies
are not tied to users' personally identifiable information.
Clear gifs
We and our third party advertising companies employ a software technology
called clear gifs (sometimes called web beacons), that help inform us of
what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier which are used to verify that certain content items have been
actually viewed by the user. Clear gifs are not tied to users’ personally
identifiable information.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
BuyingOutlet analyzes its logs of usage paths and stored search terms
collected from users of the BuyingOutlet software to build anonymous web
usage profiles. If a user provides limited PII either through voluntary
registration or through contacting BuyingOutlet, in such case BuyingOutlet
does not correlate or link such user's anonymous usage profile to any PII
such user has provided to BuyingOutlet. BuyingOutlet uses these anonymous web
usage profiles and stored search terms to determine alternative offers to
display.
BuyingOutlet does not:
(a) Associate or store non-personally identifiable web usage data or search
information with any PII;
(b) Analyze such web usage data or search information to determine the
identity of any BuyingOutlet user; or
(c) Use PII to determine which ads and alternative offers to display on your
BuyingOutlet browser window pane.
DO WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
1. PII - We only share personally identifiable information with third
parties under the following circumstances:
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect
our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process served on us.
In the event that BuyingOutlet sells substantially all of its assets or is
acquired, the Service and all information collected by the Service would be
transferred to the acquiring party. In any such transfer, however, such
information would remain subject to any terms and conditions applicable to
the Service at the time the information was collected, including the terms
of this Privacy Policy and any amendment thereto. See "Changes to this
Privacy Policy" section.
From time to time, we employ other companies and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf, such as technical support services. To perform
those functions, it may be necessary for them to obtain access to
BuyingOutlet’s databases and servers, which may contain PII about users. They
may not use such access or information for any purpose other than that for
which such companies and individuals are retained.
2. Anonymous Information - BuyingOutlet works with third party providers to
serve comparative offers when you visit our web site and use the Service,
including the browser window pane. We may share anonymous web site usage
information about the Service, including the browser window pane, with such
companies for the purpose of managing and targeting comparative offers and
for market research analysis on our web sites and the Service. For these
purposes, we and our third party providers may note some of the pages you
visit on our web sites, and while using the Service, trough the use of clear
gifs. As indicated above, the cookies and clear gifs are not tied to any PII
and we cannot identify your personal information through them.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
BuyingOutlet is constantly evolving. New features are continuously being
added to the site and software. With these improvements, our Privacy Policy
may evolve. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those
changes to this Privacy Policy on the BuyingOutlet homepage and website, on
the BuyingOutlet application, and other places we deem appropriate so that
you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this
Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make
material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by
means of a notice on our homepage.
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