MyRebate was founded by two former
Deputy District Attorneys who take privacy and security very seriously.
We at MyRebate know that these issues are essential to making
this site a success for us and our members. Rest assured that privacy,
security and integrity are first and foremost at MyRebate.
- What data we collect and
why
- How your information is
used
- Who sees your personal
information
- How we keep your information
secure
- Your privacy with MyRebate
- Your privacy with our
merchants and advertisers
- Our policies on email
- Cookies and how are they
used
- Your choices and responsibilities
- Integrity
1)
What data we collect and why
Our vision at MyRebate is to maximize
the rewards for all of our members and to provide them with as many
benefits as possible. The first key way in which we provide value
is to discount the commissions we receive from our merchants to you.
Instead of keeping these funds for ourselves, we make our money
primarily from marketing partnerships with our merchants, and advertising.
When first registering with MyRebate,
you will be asked to provide your name, address, income and age.
This information helps
us understand your interests and develop an understanding of
what might appeal to you. Based on these demographics, we are able
to determine what types of merchants and specials would benefit
our members most.
When a member shops or visits one of our
merchants, MyRebate may track this information to have a summary
of our member's buying interests. This information will be used
by MyRebate to make relevant and personalized offers to our members.
As with any other information that you supply to MyRebate, none
of the information that we collect will be released in any personally
identifiable way, only in aggregate or anonymous form.
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2) How your information
is used
We collect information to provide better,
more relevant offers to you, whether it is targeted advertising,
new merchants that we think our members may like, or choosing new
partnerships.
3) Who sees your personal
information
Only a very limited number of MyRebate
employees ever have access to your personal information. Primarily
this information is accessed to provide customer service or to send
you your discount checks.
We may use contractors or vendors to help
us provide some of the services at our site. If we need to disclose
personal information for them to provide the services, it is with
the requirement that the information is kept confidential and is
used only for those services.
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4) How we keep your information
secure
MyRebate uses a secure, encrypted connection
(called an SSL connection) on all pages where you transmit personal
data to us. Whenever you access any of your account pages or change
any of your user information, it is done over an SSL connection
to MyRebate. In spite of the fact that all important data is sent
over an SSL connection, you may notice that on merchant pages, the
"padlock" icon in the corner of your browser sometimes does not
appear. This is a display issue only, and is caused by the fact
that the merchant session is running inside a frame. Rest assured
that any time you enter your credit card information at a merchant
site, it IS an SSL connection secure connection.
MyRebate fully GUARANTEES the use of
your credit cards when shopping through MyRebate at any of our
affiliated merchants. If, as a direct result of your shopping through
MyRebate, someone uses your credit card information to make fraudulent
purchases, MyRebate will reimburse you for any costs the credit
card company charges you. Please refer to the user
agreement for complete information. Additionally, all of our
database servers that contain customer information reside only on
MyRebate' physically secured premises or in our equally secured
locations at our service provider.
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5)
Your privacy with MyRebate
MyRebate will never ask for your username,
password or any other personal information in an unsolicited phone
call, email or letter.
Further, any contact with MyRebate customer
service in which personal information is exchanged with a customer
service representative will be used only for the purpose of satisfying
that request. Any personal information you provide will not be recorded
or used for any reason beyond that of the stated request without
your consent.
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6) Your privacy with our
merchants and advertisers
MyRebate contains links to various other
sites. Each of these sites has a privacy policy that may differ
from that of MyRebate. The privacy practices of other websites
linked to MyRebate are not covered by this privacy policy.
MyRebate will not disclose any of the
personal information supplied upon registration to our merchants.
The only information that may be shared between MyRebate and one
of our listed merchants is information that pertains to orders.
Order information, including order numbers and amounts, may be available
to either MyRebate, the merchant, or third party affiliate program
management companies for accurate discount tracking purposes. This
information will not be released by MyRebate to other parties
unless required by law or to protect MyRebate and its members
from losses.
MyRebate does not record any personal
information passed from our members to our merchants, including
credit card information or merchant passwords.
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7) Our policies on email
MyRebate does not support spamming by
our members and we explicitly prohibit it in our
member agreement. If you would like to report an incident of
spamming, please contact abuse@MyRebate.com.
We will investigate and take suitable action at our discretion.
We ourselves send out three kinds of emails.
Our members may receive:
1) email essential to the maintenance of your account (most commonly
when we need your address to mail you a check);
2) email notifying you about credits and debits to your account
(most commonly when we credit you with a discount); and
3) email newsletters and special offers from MyRebate and our
merchants and other partners. You always have the option of opting
out of types 2 and/or 3 here.
Please understand that, though we may
have some small influence over our members, we fundamentally cannot
control the online or offline actions of our members or other parties,
especially when it comes to their use of email or participation
in moderated or unmoderated newsgroups. While we will investigate
complaints sent to abuse@MyRebate.com
and take appropriate action with our members, we will typically
not provide any information to third parties about our conversations
with our members. We encourage people to resolve disputes directly
with each other and discourage people from attempting to use MyRebate
to police their mailbox or newsgroup.
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8) Cookies and how are
they used
Cookies are small text files that a web
site can write to your computer. We may use cookies to identify
you and allow you to log in once to MyRebate and shop without
having to log in again. Cookies are also used by many of our merchants
to identify you as an MyRebate member.
MyRebate requires its members to have
cookies enabled in order to accumulate discounts.
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9) Your choices and responsibilities
Periodically we may send you emails on
new MyRebate features or special offers. On every one of these
emails you will be given the choice to unsubscribe from MyRebate
mailings. Choice of membership is yours at all times, and you are
free to remove yourself as a member of MyRebate at any time. Simply
follow the directions in any of our emails.
You may also choose to what degree you
would like us to contact you. When we ask for your account info,
you may choose that we contact you with special offers, contact
you about your orders, or not contact you for either.
It is the member's responsibility to update
and maintain accurate contact information in their account. You
can make changes by visiting your account
page and entering corrections. Email and street addresses that
are entered into a member's personal profile page are the addresses
that will be used for all contact including the mailing of discount
checks. MyRebate is not responsible for checks that are sent to
incorrect addresses, if the address in question was the address
listed in that member's account at the time of issuance.
We will post all changes to this Privacy
Agreement here at our site. Please check for revisions when you
visit our site again so that you will always be aware of our policies
and any changes that might occur.
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10)
Integrity
Having represented the People of the State
of California collectively for ten years in a never ending fight
for justice, the founders of MyRebate know that your word is who
you are and integrity is the cornerstone of any enterprise whether
public, private or personal. As such, you have our word that we
will protect your privacy and safeguard your shopping at all times.
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