Linkable Networks, Inc. Privacy Policy

Linkable Networks has been awarded TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe’s program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe’s mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at[email protected]. If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site.

In order to offer you the best possible experience using the Service, we collect information about you as described below.

Information you provide

By registering for the Service, we require personal information about you such as your email address. You also have the option to provide your mobile phone number for text message alerts. We will not use your phone number for telemarketing purposes.

When you use the Service, we provide you with the option to supply us with additional demographic information such as your age, gender, and zip code. We tie this demographic information to the personal information you submit to us. We do this to provide you with targeted Card Linked Offers.

Information we automatically collect

When you use the Site or open one of our emails, we automatically record information about you using clear gifs or web beacons, cookies, and IP addresses. These terms are described in more detail below.

We automatically collect the following information:

• offers you link to in your account
• offers you redeem
• web browser type
• the website that referred you to us
• the web pages you viewed on the Site
• the dates and times you visited the Site
• your response to messages the Service sends

Information collected via technology

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier and safe for you to navigate our site. We set a session scoped authentication cookie that allows a user into the site. We set a session scoped security context cookie that is used to control the behavior of the security software we use. A session cookie will expire when you close your browser, you click the log out button, or if you have been inactive on our site for longer than 20 minutes.

A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

We set an encrypted persistent cookie to identify you and gives you the ability to link an offer to your default account without logging in.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use most areas of our site will be limited. For example, you will not be able to log into your account if you reject cookies.

We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.

We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Email Communications.“

As is true of most Web sites, we use a third party tracking service gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

Direct communications with us

When you send email or other communications to Linkable Networks, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our Site includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Linkable Networks. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any Web site you visit.

Information about you provided by our clients

When we manage card linked offer promotions for a company or organization to which we provide business services, a unique identifier may be shared with us in order to process the card linked offer requesting redemption activity on behalf of that company or organization. We do not receive any personally identifiable information from these unique identifiers, which are used solely to process the card linked offer promotion activities.

Information collected by our advertising partners

We partner with third party ad networks to display card linked offers on other sites. Our ad network partners use cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on Web sites to deliver targeted offers based upon your interests. If you do not want this information used for the purpose of delivering targeted advertisements, you may opt-out with TRUSTe by clicking here or with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) by clicking here. Please note that if you elect to opt-out of receiving targeted advertisements, you will continue to receive generic non-targeted ads.

We may use your personal and other information for any of the following purposes:

• to provide our Services to you, including the display of personalized content, offers and advertising;
• help address problems with and the functioning of the Site and the Service;
• to monitor and conduct internal reviews of the Site and Service;
• to help us better understand and improve the use of the Site and the Service, and to develop new services;
• to protect the security and integrity of the Site and the Service; and
• to contact you, if necessary or at your request.

We share aggregate, non-personal information with our related companies, consultants, advertising clients, merchant partners, service providers, advertising agencies and other third parties for the sole purpose of delivering and improving our Service.

We may share your personal information with other parties in the following circumstances:

• When we have your consent.
• To our service providers such as your bank or payment processor to deliver offer redemptions and savings to your payment card(s). These companies work with us under confidentiality agreements and are prohibited from making any other use or disclosure of your personal information.
• To our service providers such as a customer support service to collect your feedback and administer technical support. These companies work with us under confidentiality agreements and are prohibited from making any other use or disclosure of your personal information.
• If we determine that there has been a violation of Service policies.
• If we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, other users of the Service or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
• To respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.
• To provide information to a company that acquires, is acquired by or is merged with us.

You may view and modify all your information within your Preferences settings at www.mylinkables.com. We encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. Additionally, you may file a request for us to make updates to your information via the feedback form that is integrated within our Site or by emailing us at [email protected]. Please indicate what information you would like to update when you contact us.

We take security seriously and take numerous precautions to protect the security of your information. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We encrypt the transmission of information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We will send you Administrative and Promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity and purchases as well as updates about our products and promotional offers. “Administrative Emails” relate to a User’s activity on the Site, and include emails regarding a particular User’s account, requests or inquiries, and important account activity. For example, we will send you an Administrative Email to confirm that you successfully linked an offer to your account. You cannot opt-out of Administrative Emails.

If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. In contrast to Administrative Emails, however, you do have a choice with respect to Promotional Emails.

Promotional Emails advertise our products and services, including exclusive offers, and/or the products and services of our Advertisers and Affiliates. If you do not want to receive Promotional Emails from us, you may opt-out by following the instructions contained within each of the email communications you receive.

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to Linkable Networks. Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 18. As such, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information from children under 18 on our Site. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 18, please contact us using the contact information listed.

If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services you may delete your account by using the “Opt-Out” mechanism within your account settings page, or by contacting us at [email protected].

We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

We may make periodic changes to this privacy policy, so please review it frequently. The date last revised will always appear at the top of the Policy.

If any change in our privacy policy relates to the way we use your information, we will notify you via email and post a prominent notice on the Site before using your information in a materially different manner than claimed when your information was collected by us. These notifications will take place 14 days prior to changes taking place.