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Privacy Policy:
CityMart believes that trust is an important component of the service
we provide to our customers. To ensure that we earn and keep that trust,
CityMart makes every effort to protect your privacy and the
confidentiality of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is
provided to inform you about CityMart's collection, use and
disclosure of information you choose to share with us through the Sites.
This Privacy Policy is considered to be a part of CityMart's User
Agreement. By using the Sites you agree to the terms and conditions of
the User Agreement, including this Privacy Policy. By using the Sites,
you are also consenting to CityMart's privacy practices, including
the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information that
you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy.
What Information We Collect
Information You Give Us. The use of certain features and services on the
Sites requires that you register and supply personally identifiable
information such as your name, email address, telephone number and other
information, which is stored by CityMart. When you register as a
member of the Sites, we may also collect additional information from you
in order to provide you with those specific services and to personalize
your experience on the Sites. For example, Epinions.com users may
provide more information using features such as Wish Lists, and that
information will be stored with your user profile.
Information Gathered Automatically. The Sites use "cookies" to
automatically recognize returning users. Cookies used by the Sites may
contain your user name, email address, IP address or zip code. A cookie
is a small file on your hard drive that allows us to display your
previously defined search criteria and notification preferences whenever
you visit our site. "Clear gifs" are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and may be used to track the
online movements of Web users or to let us know if you have opened an
email that we sent you.
Your access provider assigns an internet protocol address to your
computer when you use the Internet. We collect each IP address that
accesses the Sites; computer and connection information such as browser
type and version, operating system, and platform; your behavior on the
Sites and related services, including the products and merchants you
view or searched for, as well as the URL you come from and go to next;
cookie number; participating merchants you visit and the items that you
purchase. We use this data, as well as other data in our databases, to
analyze site and user behavior, troubleshoot technical problems, resolve
disputes, address complaints, prepare aggregated reports that we share
with others and customize your experience on the Sites.
You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser (contact
your ISP for help), but doing so may prevent us from delivering certain
services to you (e.g., saved searches). Your browser must also be set to
accept cookies in order to access the Sites as a registered member.
Other Data Collection. We may get data from or about you in other ways
not specifically described in this statement. For example, you might
contact Community Care or customer support, or we may get a third party
complaint about you.
Use of Information by CityMart
Information you provide to us through the Sites is used by CityMart
to operate the Sites, provide you with information and services you
request, and to communicate with you. We may, for example, use
information you provide to target ads that we think you may be
interested in, or send emails to you including newsletters and alerts.
Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary (such as
to assist you in your use of the Sites). You may always choose not to
provide us with this information; however, this may limit our ability to
provide you with a specific service. You may opt-out of receiving future
mailings at any time (see the Choice/Opt-Out section below); however,
you may not opt-out of some administrative emails (such as emails about
User Agreement changes or communications about Eroyalties or rebates
earned in the CityMart Cash Back Program) while you are a member with
one or more of our Sites.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information
Aggregated Research Data. CityMart produces research reports and
other information and data about online shopping for participating
merchants, and other customers, as well as media and other interested
parties. Such information and data are based on aggregated, anonymous
information about millions on online shoppers and do not include any
personally identifiable information about individuals.
Co-Branded Services. CityMart usually saves information that it
collects from users and shares this information with certain partners in
order to provide services to users. In order to use certain services on
the Sites, it may be necessary for you to enter information that then
goes to our partner. The areas of the Sites in which partners are
collecting information may be co-branded with our partners' logos. In
these cases, the partner's use of user data is governed by their privacy
policies, not ours. CityMart may receive a copy of such information
from these partners, subject to the privacy policies of such partners.
If you have questions regarding the privacy policy or data collection
practices of one of our business partners, please contact that partner
directly. CityMart does not have control over and is not responsible
for the data collection and use practices of our business partners.
Special Offers. On the Sites, you may also have opportunities to express
interest in or register for third party products and services. If you
do, we will provide data about you to the third party to implement your
request. For example, in the CityMart Cash-Back Program (a service of
the Smart Shopper Club) we work with Ebates.com and they may collect
information on you such as your name, address, email address or
telephone number. For more about Ebates.com's practices and your options
regarding their data collection and use, see Ebates.com's Privacy
Policy.
Advertisers. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when
you visit the Sites. These companies may use information about your
visits to the Sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. When we do this, we do not provide your
name, address, email address or telephone number.
Other. We may share your information with our affiliates, consultants,
vendors and service providers, who assist us in maintaining the Sites
and providing related services such as online registration for events.
For example, we currently use a third party service provider to send
Eroyalties redemption checks and rebate checks earned by participation
in the CityMart Cash Back Program. In addition, Category Leads may
have access to some or all of our Epinions databases. For more
information about Category Leads, see Epinions' FAQs
We may disclose information when required by law or under the good-faith
belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to conform to
applicable law, comply with legal process served on CityMart, or to
protect the property or interests of CityMart, its agents and
employees, personal safety, or the public. Under such circumstances,
CityMart may be prohibited by law, court order or other legal process
from providing notice of the disclosure, and CityMart reserves the
right not to provide such notice in its sole discretion.
Other Use and Disclosure of Information for the Sites
Content and Ratings. You can publish reviews, comments and other
content. Members can choose to rate products or reviews, and to create a
web of trust. As an unregistered visitor, we may allow you to rate
products and/or reviews.
Your review ratings and trust statements are displayed publicly unless
you change the default configuration. Your member name is automatically
displayed with reviews and comments you publish, and if other members
choose to, they can receive email notifications of your publications or
publish their own comments to your reviews.
We, and our licensees, can republish your content as described in our
User Agreement. We publish product ratings and use them to develop
aggregate ratings, personalize site views and merchandise products. We
use your review ratings and web of trust to personalize site views and
identify/feature popular members. For example, we may promote most
popular or highest-earning reviews and members. While we don't expect to
transfer the complete review rating and web of trust database to others
(except as contemplated elsewhere in this Policy), we use the database
throughout our network and to generate results for others.
Eroyalties Redemptions. To request your Eroyalties redemption, you may
need to provide additional data about yourself. We use your mailing
address to communicate about your redemption and, in some cases, other
issues. We do not disclose your social security number to third parties
except as required by law or as otherwise contemplated by this Policy.
Epinions reports redemptions to the IRS as required by law (including
filing an IRS Form 1099 for redemptions over $600 in a calendar year).
Any other data required for redemption may be appended to our records
about you and treated like our other business records.
Email Tools. If you send emails through our site, your email will
include your email address and any personal message you include.
Although we do not retain, in any easily-retrievable way, the addresses
that you are emailing, these emails are not private communications.
Also, you may not use these tools to send spam or content that violates
the User Agreement.
Links to Other Sites
The Sites contain links to other web sites. CityMart is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If
you have concerns about how other web sites collect and use information
about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy policy.
Changing or Deleting Information About You
Registered members may update or edit personal information or delete
their membership account by accessing their Member Profile or Account
information. We try to implement changes to our databases as quickly as
possible. However, not all databases may be updated immediately, and
some old data may remain in our archives and records. Also, we may be
unable to send changes you make to partners, vendors or third party
service providers who have already received your data or content. If
your account or membership is being terminated or suspended, we may
maintain some data to prevent re-registration.
We will retain in our files information you have requested to delete in
some circumstances, such as to REsolve disputes, analyze programs and
enforce our User Agreement. Furthermore, such prior information is never
completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal
constraints, including stored "back up" systems.
Security
CityMart uses physical, electronic and administrative safeguards,
including advanced firewall and password protection for our databases,
designed to protect the security of data. We restrict access to your
personally identifying information to employees that need to know that
information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
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