This is the website of Frugalicity.com
Frugalicity.com is committed to protecting
the privacy of our online visitors. We strive to offer our visitors the many
advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized
experience. We may use personally identifiable information (your name, e-mail
address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy
policy.
We will NEVER sell, barter, or rent your email address to any
unauthorized third party. Period.
We collect information from online visitors who ask to
be on our newsletter mailing list and/or receive periodic email announcements.
Anyone who wishes can choose to be removed from our mailing list at any time by
using our contact page.
All online visitor data collected by Frugalicity.com is
protected against unauthorized access. We will not sell, trade, or give your
personal information to other companies or organizations.
How we gather information from users:
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting,
the activities in which you elect to participate and the services we provide.
For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for
access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as
newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you
participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and
other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web sites,
Frugalicity.com also collects information automatically and through
the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For
example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie
technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other
things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from
having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the
number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our
site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through
other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with
information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies,
but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be
asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to
customize the site’s features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect:
Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and
deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy and
do not share your information with anyone.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you)
may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your
usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help
enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or
what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may occasionally be
shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does
not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to
identify you individually.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on
Frugalicity.com to communicate with you about your registration and
customization preferences; our Terms of Service and privacy policy; services and
products offered by Frugalicity.com and other topics we think you
might find of interest.
Personally identifiable information collected by Frugalicity.com
may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site
administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions,
administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you.
Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our
site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information. We will
use your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as
we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with
other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be
among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response
to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to
do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us,
and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or
necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in
such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements:
Frugalicity.com expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates
to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties,
including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers
accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection
policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link
to, or view as part of a frame on a Frugalicity.com page, certain
content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through
Frugalicity.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access,
information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other
parties. Frugalicity.com is not responsible for the actions or
policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies
of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated
by a third party.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third
parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your
preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our
advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before.
Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third
parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information.
Frugalicity.com does not control the use of this technology by
third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any
actions or policies of such third parties.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest
to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on
our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may
collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream
information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of:
GOOGLE: Google's Privacy Center
SiteSell.com is our
All-in-One site building, hosting, and marketing eCommerce partner extrordinaire - Their Privacy Policy is located at the very bottom of their corporate page.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personally
identifiable information on message boards or in chat areas, that information
can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of
Frugalicity.com and this policy.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated
uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information
practices change at some time in the future we will post the
policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these
changes and we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the
time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how
your information is used, you should check back at
our Web site periodically.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age
of 13. If we learn that we have personal information on a child under the age of
13, we will delete that information from our systems.
Frugalicity.com encourages parents to go online with their kids.
Here are a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:
- Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a
parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
- Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
- Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is
treated.
Check out the FTC's site for more tips on protecting children's privacy
online.
Another useful site is the government's Onguard Online.com site which was designed to help consumers with issues of fraud, privacy, and security.
Saving the best for last - all consumers should bookmark the government's excellant Federal Citizen Communication Center which is probably the best free resource on the net for consumers. We also recommend you sign up for a FREE copy of the government's wonderful Consumer Action Handbook. Good use of some of those tax dollars if you ask us!