Privacy Policy

Revision date: March 28, 2012

  • We can be reached via e-mail at admin@thesweeten.com

  • The federal government and technology industry have developed practical tips to help you guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer and protect your personal information.

  • How The Sweeten Uses Your Personal Information*

    This policy covers how The Sweeten treats personal information that The Sweeten collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Sweeten products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, survey information and/or site registrations, name and address, payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address) or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

  • This privacy policy only applies to The Sweeten

    This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Sweeten does not own or control, or to people that The Sweeten does not employ or manage. In addition, some companies that The Sweeten has acquired have their own, preexisting privacy policies which may be viewed on our acquired companies page.

  • INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

    For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address.

    The Sweeten collects personal information when you register with The Sweeten, when you use The Sweeten products or services, when you visit The Sweeten pages or you enter promotions or sweepstakes. The Sweeten may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

    When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, Zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. When you register with The Sweeten and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

    The Sweeten collects information about your transactions with us. The Sweeten automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, The Sweeten cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.

    The Sweeten uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

    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 provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

  • INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

    The Sweeten does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you 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 provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Sweeten under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Sweeten communicate with you about offers from The Sweeten and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
    • • We believe it is necessary to share information 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 The Sweeten’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • • Upon request The Sweeten will provide you access to your own transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about you, contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about you, a description of information that we maintain about you.
    • • We transfer information about you if The Sweeten is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Sweeten will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
    • • 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. The Sweeten does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    • The Sweeten displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria.

  • COOKIES

    The Sweeten may set and access The Sweeten cookies on your computer.

    The Sweeten uses cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site

    The Sweeten 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 The Sweeten’s cookies.

    Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

    General

    • • You can edit your The Sweeten Account Information at any time.
    • • If you do not want to receive marketing e-mail from The Sweeten in the future, please let us know by sending us an email at admin@thesweeten.com
    • • If you supply The Sweeten with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by sending us at admin@thesweeten.com
    • • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the The Sweeten service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the The Sweeten Newsletter, that are considered part of your The Sweeten account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
    • • You can delete your The Sweeten account by visiting My Account.

  • CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

    We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

    We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

    If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, state or local consumer protection office.

  • CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

    The Sweeten may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your The Sweeten account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.