HelpingTheWeb.com takes privacy and security very seriously. We at HelpingTheWeb.com know that these issues are essential to making this site a success for us and our members. Rest assured that privacy, security and integrity are first and foremost at HelpingTheWeb.com.
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| 1. What data we collect and why |
| 2. How your information is used |
| 3. Who sees your personal information |
| 4. How we keep your information secure |
| 5. Your privacy with HelpingTheWeb.com |
| 6. Your privacy with our merchants and advertisers |
| 7. Our policies on email |
| 8. Cookies and how are they used |
| 9. Your choices and responsibilities |
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1) What data we collect and why
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Our vision at HelpingTheWeb.com is to maximize the rewards for all of our members and to provide them with as many benefits as possible. The first key way in which we provide value is to forward the commissions we receive from our merchants to you. Instead of keeping these funds for ourselves, we make our money primarily from marketing partnerships with our merchants, and advertising.
When first registering with HelpingTheWeb.com, you will be asked to provide your name, email and webpage. This information is used to send out payments or contact members if they are having problems.
When a member shops or visits one of our merchants, HelpingTheWeb.com may track this information to have a summary of our member's buying interests. This information will be used by HelpingTheWeb.com to make relevant and personalized offers to our members. As with any other information that you supply to HelpingTheWeb.com, none of the information that we collect will be released in any personally identifiable way, only in aggregate or anonymous form. |
2) How your information is used
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| We collect information to provide better, more relevant offers to you, whether it is targeted advertising, new merchants that we think our members may like, or choosing new partnerships. |
3) Who sees your personal information
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Only a very limited number of HelpingTheWeb.com employees ever have access to your personal information. Primarily this information is accessed to provide customer service or to send you your money.
We may use contractors or vendors to help us provide some of the services at our site. If we need to disclose personal information for them to provide the services, it is with the requirement that the information is kept confidential and is used only for those services. |
4) How we keep your information secure
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HelpingTheWeb.com uses a secure, encrypted connection (called an SSL connection) on all pages where you transmit personal data to us. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Whenever you access any of your account pages or change any of your user information, it is done over an SSL connection to HelpingTheWeb.com. In spite of the fact that all important data is sent over an SSL connection, you may notice that on merchant pages, the "padlock" icon in the corner of your browser sometimes does not appear. This is a display issue only, and is caused by the fact that the merchant session is running inside a frame. Rest assured that any time you enter your credit card information at a merchant site, it IS an SSL connection secure connection.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact the Help Desk. |
5) Your privacy with HelpingTheWeb.com
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HelpingTheWeb.com will never ask for your username, password or any other personal information in an unsolicited phone call, email or letter. Further, any contact with HelpingTheWeb.com customer service in which personal information is exchanged with a customer service representative will be used only for the purpose of satisfying that request. Any personal information you provide will not be recorded or used for any reason beyond that of the stated request without your consent.
Changes in this Privacy Statement - If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, 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 statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make changes to this policy, we will notify you, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. |
6) Your privacy with our merchants and advertisers
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HelpingTheWeb.com contains links to various other sites. Each of these sites has a privacy policy that may differ from that of HelpingTheWeb.com. The privacy practices of other websites linked to HelpingTheWeb.com are not covered by this privacy policy.
The only information that may be shared between HelpingTheWeb.com and one of our listed merchants is information that pertains to orders in the furtherance of tracking your order and providing you with a correct reward. Order information, including order numbers and amounts, may be available to either HelpingTheWeb.com, the merchant, or third party affiliate program management companies for accurate tracking purposes. This information will not be released by HelpingTheWeb.com to other parties unless requested by you. 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 to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site or to protect HelpingTheWeb.com and its members from losses.
HelpingTheWeb.com does not record any personal information passed from our members to our merchants when you are shopping through HelpingTheWeb.com. |
7) Our policies on email
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HelpingTheWeb.com does not support spamming by our members and we explicitly prohibit it in our member agreement. If you would like to report an incident of spamming, please contact the Help Desk. We will investigate and take suitable action at our discretion.
We ourselves send out two kinds of emails. Our members may receive:
1) email essential to the maintenance of your account (help if you have problems).
2) email newsletters and special offers from HelpingTheWeb.com and our merchants and other partners. You always have the option of opting out of types 2 here.
Please understand that, though we may have some small influence over our members, we fundamentally cannot control the online or offline actions of our members or other parties, especially when it comes to their use of email or participation in moderated or unmoderated newsgroups. While we will investigate complaints sent to Help Desk and take appropriate action with our members, we will typically not provide any information to third parties about our conversations with our members. We encourage people to resolve disputes directly with each other and discourage people from attempting to use HelpingTheWeb.com to police their mailbox or newsgroup. |
8) Cookies and how are they used
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Cookies are small text files that a web site can write to your computer. We may use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to HelpingTheWeb.com and shop without having to log in again. Cookies are also used by many of our merchants to identify you as an HelpingTheWeb.com member.
HelpingTheWeb.com requires its members to have cookies enabled in order to accumulate cash back rewards. |
9) Your choices and responsibilities
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Periodically we may send you emails on new HelpingTheWeb.com features or special offers.
It is the member's responsibility to update and maintain accurate contact information in their account. You can make changes by visiting your account page and entering corrections. Email and street addresses that are entered into a member's personal profile page are the addresses that will be used for all contact including the sending of Money.
We will post all changes to this Privacy Agreement here at our site. Please check for revisions when you visit our site again so that you will always be aware of our policies and any changes that might occur. |
