PRIVACY POLICY
PriceBlaze’s Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and
use the personal information that can specifically identify you such as your name,
mailing address, phone number, email address (“personal information”) that you decide
to share, and help you make informed decisions when using PriceBlaze, located at www.priceblaze.com, and its associated domains(collectively “PriceBlaze” or “website”)
We do not require that you provide, nor do
we collect, any personal information
if you are just browsing the Site. We may offer on the Site non-transactional and
transaction based services ("Service(s)") in which, subject to applicable terms
and availability, you may participate (e.g., submitting product reviews or becoming
a Member to buy or sell items through Group Buying, using our Invitation service
to alert friends,
family and associates to products and specials.). In order to
provide you with the Services you request, PriceBlaze may require that you first
provide certain personal information, which we determine is reasonably necessary
in order for us to fulfill your request. If you indicate an interest in participating
in a Service, we will identify what specific personal information you must provide
prior to collecting such information. Any personal information which we collect
from you will only be used for the purposes identified in this Privacy Statement, the PriceBlaze Terms of Use and your applicable Membership Agreement with PriceBlaze,
and as may otherwise be indicated at the time the information is collected. To update,
modify or delete any personal information you provide to us with respect to a Service
you may access your account with PriceBlaze, make the changes on http://www.PriceBlaze.com/myaccount.aspx
and submit the same to PriceBlaze.
PriceBlaze will not disclose your personal information to any third party unless:
1) it is necessary in order to provide you with a particular Service you have requested;
2) it is required of PriceBlaze in order to comply with a legal process in any applicable
jurisdiction (e.g., court order, subpoena, search warrant, law enforcement request);
3) PriceBlaze determines, in its sole discretion, that disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of PriceBlaze, its subsidiaries, affiliates,
co-brand partners or other parties under contract with PriceBlaze, our
users, or
others; or 4) you have provided such data through a partner web site, in which case
PriceBlaze may provide your personal data to that partner (PriceBlaze is not responsible
for its partners' privacy policies or their use, storage and processing of data
collected on their web sites). In addition, PriceBlaze may transmit information
to a merchant, such as an invoice number, which may permit the merchant to deduce
the
identity of a user/reviewer in the event that a merchant disputes a user review
on the grounds that a transaction never took place between the user and the merchant
and/or an order was never made by the user in each case for the applicable product(s)/service(s).
In certain instances, PriceBlaze may request that you provide secondary information
(e.g., demographic information), which we may use, for example, to learn more about
our customers and to develop and improve our services. Any requests for secondary
information will be marked "optional" (or its equivalent). We may compile your personal
information with that collected from other customers to create aggregate data. Aggregate
data is information about groups of customers
and, once compiled, will in no way identify you as an individual. We may disclose aggregate data to our business affiliates,
advertisers, and other parties.
Our web servers collect from Site visitors’ statistical information regarding what
pages are visited, the date and time of the visits, how long it took a user to download
a page, and the TCP/IP address of the user. These automated server functions do
not collect this information
in a manner intended to identify your individual use
of the Site, nor do we use this information for any such purpose. This information
is collected to assist us in maintaining a high quality site, as well as, providing
necessary traffic information to our advertisers.
The Site contains cookie technology, which collects non-personal information about
you which is used to
customize the Site for your future use. When you use PriceBlaze,
we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all
PriceBlazer users (“Blazers”). In addition, we store certain information from your
browser using “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use seesion ID cookies to confirm that users
are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes their browser. By default,
we use a persistent cookie that stores your user ID (but not your password) to make
it easier for you to login when you come back to PriceBlaze. You can remove or block
this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience
feature.
Our third-party advertising companies also separately place or recognize a cookie
file on your browser in the course of delivering advertisements to the Site. These
companies may use non-personal information collected by the cookies about your visits
to the Site and other web sites in order to provide you with advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you.
The Site contains links to web sites of third parties. PriceBlaze is not responsible
for the actions of these third parties, including their privacy practices and any
content posted on their web sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies
to learn more about what, why and how they collect and use personal information.
PriceBlaze adheres to industry recognized standards to secure any personal information
in our possession, and to secure it from unauthorized access and tampering. However,
as is true with all online actions, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully
intercept transmissions of personal information, or other users of the Site may
misuse or abuse your personal information that they may collect from the Site.
PriceBlaze uses third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on the Site.
These third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gifs or web
beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do
so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website
and other websites, but will not collect any information which can personally identify
you or can be linked to you. This information can include: date/time of banner ad
shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, and the IP address. This information
can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently
you may either visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit
the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click
here for the NAI gateway opt-out site. http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy
policies.
Copyrights and Trademarks
All content, graphics, format, design, the user interface and other copyrighted
material on the Site (collectively, "materials") are protected by copyright law
and other intellectual property laws, and are owned by PriceBlaze and/or its licensors
(as the case may be). The materials from the Site are only available for informational
and non-commercial offline use, provided that: the materials are not modified in
any way; all copyright and other proprietary notices and markings are retained and
reproduced in their entirety on any copy made from any material on the Site; and
PriceBlaze has, in its sole discretion, given its prior written approval to such
use of the Site's materials. Any requests to re-use the Site's materials should be sent to: info@PriceBlaze.com.
PriceBlaze, PriceBlaze.com, are registered trademarks of PriceBlaze, and the
PriceBlaze.com
logo and ComparisonEngine, Blazer(s), PartConfigurator marks are trademarks of PriceBlaze.
Any other product names, marks, symbols, trade names, company names and/or logos
which appear within the Site are the property of their respective owners and appear
through the courtesy of, and/or a license from, such owners. Such marks, in addition to the PriceBlaze trademarks, are protected by US law,
including without limitation its laws on trademark and unfair competition, and may also be protected by the laws
in other countries.
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