Shoppers Central Privacy Policy

Shoppers Central takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
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What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how Shoppers Central treats personal information that Shoppers Central collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Shoppers Central products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Shoppers Central does not own or control, or to people that Shoppers Central does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General
• Shoppers Central collects personal information when you register with Shoppers Central, when you use Shoppers Central products and services, when you visit Shoppers Central pages or the pages of certain Shoppers Central partners, and when you enter promotions and sweepstakes. Shoppers Central 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 and zip code. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address and Social Security number. Once you register with Shoppers Central and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• Shoppers Central collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
• Shoppers Central automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address, Shoppers Central cookie information, and the page you request.
• Shoppers Central 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.


Children
• When a child under age 13 attempts to register with Shoppers Central, we ask that he or she have parental permission.
• Shoppers Central will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Shoppers Central does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated 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 Shoppers Central under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Shoppers Central communicate with you about offers from Shoppers Central 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 Shoppers Central's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We transfer information about you if Shoppers Central is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Shoppers Central will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Shoppers Central displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
• Shoppers Central 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.
• Shoppers Central advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies). Cookies
• Shoppers Central may set and access Shoppers Central cookies on your computer.
• Shoppers Central 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 Shoppers Central's cookies.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General
• You can edit your Shoppers Central Account Information at any time.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Shoppers Central service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Shoppers Central Newsletter, that are considered part of your Shoppers Central account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can Cancel or Downgrade your Shoppers Central account by visiting our Account Deactivation page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• Shoppers Central 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 Shoppers Central account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.