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CHIP ROVER PRIVACY POLICY
Chip Rover is committed to safeguarding your
privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your
personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many
offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back
periodically.
ChipRover.com is applying to be
TRUSTe-certified. This certification, if approved, will apply to all
English-language sites under the ChipRover.com domain.
This policy will let you know:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;
2. What cookies are and how they are used;
3. How your information is used;
4. Who is collecting your information;
5. With whom your information may be shared;
6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and
distribution of your information;
7. How you can access, update or delete your information;
8. How ChipRover.com treats your personal identifiable information;
9. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss,
misuse, or alteration of your information;
10. How ChipRover.com protects children's privacy; and 11. What else you should
know about your online privacy.
What personally identifiable information does
ChipRover.com collect from me?
ChipRover.com collects information in several
ways from different parts of our web site. Some personal information is
gathered when you register. During registration, ChipRover.com asks for your
name, email address, gender, zip code, occupation, industry and personal
interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is),
the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register you are
no longer anonymous to ChipRover.com - you are given a ChipRover.com ID and are
able to take full advantage of ChipRover.com offerings.
In addition to registration we may ask you for
personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you
enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by ChipRover.com and/or our
affiliates; when you make a purchase; when you submit stock listing for the web
site; and when you report a problem with our site or services. If you contact
ChipRover.com, we may keep a record of that correspondence. ChipRover.com also
occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.
Wherever ChipRover.com collects personal information we will include a link to
this Privacy Policy on that page.
What are cookies and how does ChipRover.com use
them?
As part of offering and providing customizable
and personalized services, ChipRover.com uses cookies to store and sometimes
track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to
your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All
sites on ChipRover.com where you are prompted to log-in or that are
customizable require that you accept cookies. (See "What are my choices
regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?" for more
information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies to:
1. Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on
our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized
service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when
you "Sign Out" of our services.
2. Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing ChipRover.com is given a
unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage
by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target
advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
3. Assist merchants in ChipRover.com affiliated sites to track visits to and
business at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket.
This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or
"click trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each
merchant's store.
4. Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions,
sweepstakes and contests. When a ChipRover.com hosted promotion uses cookies,
the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through
the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in
prize drawings.
5. Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of ChipRover.com's network of
web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use
this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from
one another so that we can make each new experience on ChipRover.com a better
one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners,
and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto
ChipRover.com may also use their own cookies.
ChipRover.com also collects IP addresses for
system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
In addition, ChipRover.com mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message
headers.
How does ChipRover.com use my information?
ChipRover.com's primary goal in collecting
personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience
on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive
communications, online browsing and many other types of services, some of which
are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we
display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, ChipRover.com is able to
deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to
you.
In our role of delivering targeted
advertisements, ChipRover.com plays the middleman. Advertisers give us an
advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example,
males over 35 years old). ChipRover.com takes the advertisement and displays it
to users meeting that criterion. In this process, the advertiser never has
access to individual account information. Only ChipRover.com has access to
individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner
ads as well as promotional email. You will only receive special offers via
email from ChipRover.com if you have indicated in your account preferences that
you would like to receive them. You can change your account preferences at any
time.
ChipRover.com does research on our users'
demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us
upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from
surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is
compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. ChipRover.com may share this
aggregated data with advertisers or business affiliates.
Who is collecting information?
When you are on a ChipRover.com site and are
asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with
ChipRover.com alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. For example,
some ChipRover.com services are offered in conjunction with a partner company.
In order to provide this co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to
share your personal information with our partner company. If data is being
collected and/or maintained by any company other than ChipRover.com, you will
be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not
want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not
using that particular service.
Promotions that run on ChipRover.com may be
sponsored by companies other than ChipRover.com or may be cosponsored by
ChipRover.com and another company. Some or all data collected during a
promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be
notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not
to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
Currently, most ChipRover.com promotions are limited to US residents.
Please be aware that ChipRover.com partners,
affiliates, advertisers, and web sites that have links on our site may collect
personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of
those partners, affiliates, advertisers, and web sites linked to ChipRover.com
are not covered by this privacy statement. You should always check the privacy
policies of any Internet site you choose to access
With whom does ChipRover.com share my
information?
As a general rule, ChipRover.com will not
disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have
your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good
faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below.
Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and
services for more detailed information about how your personal information may
be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may
be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: ChipRover.com
may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but
this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to
transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of
Service or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules. Some or all
data collected during a ChipRover.com promotion may be shared with a sponsor.
If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you
before we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request
additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give
ChipRover.com permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor
so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address
will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will
be notified prior to the transfer.
Merchants listed on ChipRover.com may have
separate privacy and data collection practices. ChipRover.com has no
responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more
information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies,
return to that store's home page and click on their information link.
ChipRover.com Trading Site: On any
ChipRover.com trading site, we currently provide the information necessary to
facilitate the auction transaction between the buyer and the seller.
From time to time, you may be offered the
opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you
opt-in to receive information from these third parties, ChipRover.com will
(with your permission) share your name and email address with them
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate:
Under confidentiality agreements, ChipRover.com may match user information with
third party data. Also, ChipRover.com discloses aggregated user statistics (for
example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to
current and prospective partners,advertisers, and other third parties, and for
other lawful purposes.
Other: ChipRover.com may also disclose account
information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing
this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be violating ChipRover.com’s Terms of Service or may be
causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally) ChipRover.com's rights or property, other ChipRover.com users,
or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. ChipRover.com may
disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the
law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem
necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
What are my choices regarding collection, use,
and distribution of my information?
ChipRover.com may, from time to time, send you
email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon
registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from
ChipRover.com and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about
products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only
ChipRover.com (or agents working on behalf of ChipRover.com and under
confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you
indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive
such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or,
at any time you can easily edit your ChipRover.com Account Information to no
longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your ChipRover.com ID
and Password in order to access, verify the accuracy of, or modify your
ChipRover.com Account Information.
On some types of ChipRover.com promotions, we
will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries,
and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of
promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you
choose the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these
promotion related email messages may include targeted advertisements.
You also have choices with respect to cookies.
By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all
cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you
choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those ChipRover.com
services that require registration in order to participate. You can still use
many other ChipRover.com sites even if you do not accept cookies.
What is ChipRover.com’s policy on allowing me
to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your ChipRover.com Account
Information and your ChipRover.com Profile at any time by using your
ChipRover.com ID and password.
Your ChipRover.com account can be deleted or
deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any
members-only area of the ChipRover.com network.
Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you
better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally
identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties
without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective
advertisers or partners regarding financial product or service usage on
ChipRover.com are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any
personally identifiable information about any individual user.
Please note that there are several places on
the ChipRover.com website where you can transmit credit card information in
order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time
we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an
encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer)
encryption.
What security precautions are in place to
protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your ChipRover.com Account Information and
ChipRover.com Profile are password protected so that you and only you have
access to this personal information. You may edit your ChipRover.com Account
Information and ChipRover.com Profile by using your ChipRover.com ID and
password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your
password to anyone. ChipRover.com will never ask you for your password in an
unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of
your ChipRover.com account and close your browser window when you have finished
your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal
information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are
using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
As part of a global Internet community
ChipRover.com may have users all over the world. When you give ChipRover.com
personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers
outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to
the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be
used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that
information. Whenever ChipRover.com handles personal information as described
above, regardless of where this occurs, ChipRover.com takes steps to ensure
that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant
Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we strive to protect your personal information, ChipRover.com
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or
from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on
our systems.
What about children's privacy?
Naturally, the safety of children is very
important to us. At the same time, ChipRover.com is a general audience web
site. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending any
information to anyone online. ChipRover.com does not share personal information
about users under the age of 18 with third parties. In addition, ChipRover.com
will not send any direct email offers to users who indicate they are under the
age of 18.
What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you
voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message
boards, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be collected and
used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is
accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and
responsible whenever you're online.
Additional Information
Questions regarding this statement should be
directed to privacypolicy@ChipRover.com.com. If you do not receive
acknowledgement or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you
should contact TRUSTe, assuming ChipRover.com is successful in obtaining their
certification..
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