Local Certificates Privacy Policy

• Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the LocalCertificates.com Terms of Use. Accessing or using the LocalCertificates.com website signifies that the user has read, understands, and agrees to be bound by all terms of this Privacy Policy and the Website Terms of Use. Any user that does not agree to the terms herein is required to exit this page and discontinue use of LocalCertificates.com.
• LocalCertificates.com Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned and operated by LocalCertificates.com. While other Websites may be displayed as links from within LocalCertificates.com, those sites are owned and operated by others, and they may have different privacy policies. When linking from LocalCertificates.com to other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy policies of those sites.

1. Effective Date

This Privacy Policy was last modified August 11, 2007.

2. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

LocalCertificates.com may update this policy at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice. Revised Privacy Policy takes effect upon placement on the Website, and it is the responsibility of all users to understand any and all revisions made.  A user’s continued use of the Website after a revision to the Privacy Policy signifies the user’s agreement with the terms stated in the latest revision.

3. Cookies and Web Beacons

• LocalCertificates.com sets and accesses cookies on your computer (a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record keeping purposes) in order to facilitate and customize the user’s Website access. You may disable these cookies within your browser, but some portions of the Website may require that your LocalCertificates.com cookies be enabled. Cookies can save you time while using the Website, remind us who you are, and track and target user interests to help us build a better Website for your use.
• If Localcertificates.com chooses to use advertisements on its Website, the following will apply: LocalCertificates.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to LocalCertificates.com’s cookies.
• LocalCertificates.com may use pixel tags or web beacons in connection with e-mails sent to LocalCertificates.com users or on the Website, to track your use of our Website pages and promotions.  Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Website, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. They allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behavior on our Website.  No personal information is transmitted through web beacons.

4. Confidentiality and Security

LocalCertificates.com takes the security of your information seriously, and uses commercially reasonable technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information. Your personally identifiable information can be accessed in your account through an encrypted password and your email address.  We recommend you do not share your password with anyone.  We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt sensitive information to protect you further to make sure your personally identifiable information is kept safe.  We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to or from LocalCertificates.com, as data transmitted over the internet and wirelessly cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We are not responsible for the actions of any third party that may receive any such information.  We also limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

5. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Personal Information

• You can edit your LocalCertificates.com account information at any time by visiting your account profile page.
• If your personally identifiable information changes, we encourage you to update it promptly.
• We reserve the right to use your Personal Information in order to send you certain communications relating to the LocalCertificates.com service, such as service announcements, and administrative messages, that are considered part of your LocalCertificates.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
• You can deactivate your LocalCertificates.com account at any time by canceling your account on the account profile page. However, you will not be able to delete information associated with past transactions on the Website because we keep a full record of all past transactions.

6. Information Collection and Use

• LocalCertificates.com does not require that you register in order to view its products or parts of the Website that are available to public access. Registration is required to use certain interactive features such as participating in competitions, receiving newsletters, and ordering products from LocalCertificates.com.
• LocalCertificates.com collects personal information when you register with LocalCertificates.com, when you visit the Website, when you make a purchase, or any time you provide information to LocalCertificates.com about yourself. LocalCertificates.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• We ask for and collect personal information such as your name, address, email address, and other personally-identifying information ("Personal Information"). This may include times when you engage in certain activities on the Website, such as creating an account, ordering a product or service from us or our partners, entering a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by us or our partners, filling out a survey, sending us or our partners feedback, requesting information about our services, submitting an affiliate agreement, applying for a job, or signing up for special offers from third parties through the Website (collectively, “Identification Activities”).  When you order products or services, we may also ask you to provide us with your credit card number, expiration date and authentication codes or related information.
• Personally Identifiable Information is used to provide products and services to you, administer sweepstakes and contests, send newsletters, enhance the operation of the Website, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Website use, and to improve our product and service offerings. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks, contact you, enforce our agreements with you, including our Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.
• LocalCertificates.com automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying information ("Non-Personal Information") on our server logs from your browser even if you do not register with LocalCertificates.com, for example, your IP address, LocalCertificates.com cookie information, and the pages you visit.
• LocalCertificates.com uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes: to determine the URL that was visited before or after visiting LocalCertificates.com, to customize the advertising and content you see, troubleshoot or administer the Website, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, cooperate with law enforcement activities, and fulfill your requests for products and services and improve our services. We may also share this information with our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.

• LocalCertificates.com is committed to protecting the privacy of children. LocalCertificates.com does not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information online from children under the age of 13.
• If LocalCertificates.com learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on LocalCertificates.com without verified parental consent, then LocalCertificates.com will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

7. Information Sharing and Disclosure

LocalCertificates.com does not rent, sell, or share Personal Information with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We use both your Personal Information and certain Non-Personal Information to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
• We may share Personal Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other forms of legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We may share your information with affiliated businesses. We provide products or services jointly with particular businesses. These are known as “Affiliated Businesses.” We share some of your Personally Identifiable Information with Affiliated Businesses in order to help them provide you with better service and track the value of our program. Sharing this information will allow an Affiliated Business to market directly to you should they choose to do so. However, we will only share personally identifiable information with an Affiliated Business if you engage in an Identification Activity, and then only to the Affiliated Business involved in that Identification Activity. For example, if you purchase a gift certificate for a particular restaurant, we may share your name, address, and email address with that restaurant.
• We may share your information with Authorized Third Party Service Providers. We may collect personal information from individuals and companies (“Affiliates”) with whom we have business relationships and may have to also share their information with Service Providers to accomplish our administrative tasks. For example, when you order a service, we release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment for the service and, if applicable, release your address to the delivery service to deliver the service. Likewise, we may release an Affiliate’s information to our bank to send out a payment.
• We may share your information in a Business Transfer. If LocalCertificates.com merges with, or is acquired by another company, the successor company would acquire the information we maintain, including Personally Identifiable Information. However, Personally Identifiable Information would remain subject to this Privacy Policy.
• We may share your information for our Protection and the Protection of Others.  We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of LocalCertificates.com’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We encourage Affiliated Businesses and Third Party Service Providers to adopt and post privacy policies. However, the use of your Personally Identifiable Information by such parties is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to our control.

In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

8. Third Party Website Privacy Policies

This Privacy Policy only covers information in regards to LocalCertificates.com.  Any website that may be accessed through this Website most likely has different privacy policies and terms of use. We are not responsible for the practices or policies of third parties. 

9. Contact Information

All of our information is available on our Contact Us page. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns regarding any information on this page.