Privacy Policy
MyLife.com, Inc. ("MyLife") respects your privacy. Our staff, contractors, and others who help us operate our websites follow this policy on privacy and fair information practices for online activities of MyLife. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, MyLife.com, Inc. 2118 Wilshire Blvd. Box 1008, Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784 is the data controller.
This Privacy Policy applies to information MyLife collects online through its website MyLifeDeals.com. By registering as a Member of MyLifeDeals.com, you agree to accept this Privacy Policy and are aware that our policy may change over time as discussed below.
Please refer to our User Agreement for the registered Members' terms of service, which states the terms of use.
I. What Information Does MyLife Deals Collect?
A. Personal Information You Provide
(1) Registration. In order to purchase deals at MyLifeDeals.com, you must create an account by registering at our site and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions. When you register for membership, our registration forms collect your name, address, and email address.
(2) Purchasing a Deal. When you purchase a Deal on MyLifeDeals.com, you will be required to provide us with additional information such as your credit card information or other payment information and billing address so that our service providers can process your payment for the Deal.
(3) Information Collected or Generated Through Use of MyLifeDeals.com. We collect information in the form of the content that you submit during your use of MyLifeDeals.com, such as photos, reviews, ratings, and other information you choose to submit.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily provide information in public areas of MyLifeDeals.com, such as your name and profile, that information can be viewed and possibly used by others, on MyLifeDeals.com, other MyLife sites, and potentially on our partners' sites, such as Wink.com. We advise you not to disclose contact information, including phone number, email address, street address, or instant messenger address (examples of "personally identifiable information") within these public areas that they do not wish to share. This information should instead be maintained in the appropriate email and contact information section of this site, which is protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
B. Information About You Collected from Publicly Available Sources
MyLife also gathers information using public-domain information, including information gathered from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with, or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other information we have collected about you.
C. Information Collected Via Technology
(1) Use of Cookies and Web Beacons. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of information (a file) that a website transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of our site involves cookies. Our cookies are tied to personally identifiable information that you provide when registering for our service. Cookies help us and our advertising service (discussed below) track the frequency and placement of advertisements. Cookies also enable us to measure the aggregate or total usage and traffic to our site and to specific offerings. This aids us in producing content that best meets our users' preferences. In order to implement new services, we may use other types of cookies as well. We also may use cookies to understand better what parts of our site you like best. We may use that information to display advertisements that we think will be of particular interest to you. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of MyLifeDeals.com. To find out more about changing your browser to reject cookies, we suggest the EPIC Cookies Page.
We also employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons) that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable information in order to remember who you are and track your account preferences. We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see, "Your Choices" (below).
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies and Web beacons on our site. We have no access to or control over these tracking technologies. See "Third Party Advertising" (below).
(2) Log Files. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate in order to track the volume of visits, usage of certain features, and length of time on site. This information is used to gain insight into customer needs and behavior in order to help us improve the site and services offered.
(3) Sites You Visit. As you access our affiliate sites and browse around the MyLifeDeals.com, MyLife may collect and store information about which pages and which affiliate sites you visit and other information presented in your browser's URL address line. MyLife will use this information to help determine what our users are most interested in.
II. Does MyLifeDeals.com Use or Share Information About Members and Site Visitors?
A. Providing or Marketing Our Services. If you are a registered member, we use the contact information we collect from you, as follows:
- to register and service your account,
- to send you daily Deal emails,
- to provide you with updates about our services,
- to contact you in response to questions, to solicit feedback and input, and to provide technical support
When you purchase a Deal, we will also use the information you provide us to process the transaction. Additionally, your first and last name along with the purchase code for your Voucher will be sent to the Merchant from who you purchased the Deal.
By registering at MyLifeDeals.com, you agree that we may share this information with our service providers, which may include banks and credit card companies we use to process your transaction. They are prohibited from using this information for any other purpose including their own marketing purposes.
We may engage third parties to perform analysis or data processing of our databases that involves access to this information in order to better provide you with the services for which you joined (in which case we will take measures to ensure that such parties are contractually required to keep the information confidential and not to use it other than in a manner that is necessary to perform their work for MyLife.com).
We may also use or disclose your membership registration or other personally identifiable information, as follows:
B. Comments and Discussion Boards. Be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit (that you do not mark as private) can be read, collected, or used by other users, and could be used by other users to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit.
C. Surveys and User Research. MyLife.com conducts email and web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our audience. It is important to remember that taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not individual data, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising on our service. We also store some of the information that our users provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make the site more useful for you.
D. Other Third Parties. MyLife may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary information regarding our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually but is often used to provide general demographics or statistics.
E. Merger or Acquisition. In the event of a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of substantially all or a portion of our assets (including a website owned by us), you agree that MyLife may transfer your personally identifiable information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale.
F. Legal Authorities. MyLife may also disclose personally identifiable information in cases when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating MyLife User Agreement or may be causing injury to MyLife's rights or property, other users, or anyone else. The MyLifeDeals.com may disclose personally identifiable information of our users to government authorities at our discretion.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
III. How Does MyLife Secure and Store Your Information?
The security of your personal information is a high priority at MyLife. We maintain MyLifeDeals.com and all associated data with technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification, and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, but MyLife is committed to providing appropriate security controls to protect our websites and their information against foreseeable hazards. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. But no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
When you submit information about yourself at MyLifeDeals.com over the internet, the information may travel over many systems that are not under the control of MyLife. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end provide extra assurances that your information will not be intercepted. For example, when you enter sensitive information (such as credit card information and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
If you have any questions about privacy or security on our website, you can email us at privacy@mylifedeals.com or contact our Customer Care team at 1-888-704-1900.
IV. Access to Other Sites Through MyLifeDeals.com
You may also visit independent websites not operated by MyLife that are connected to our network for our users, such as those of Merchants. Such sites are operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these sites will have their own separate membership processes and privacy policies. MyLife does not control sites that are operated by others and so cannot be responsible for the information practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea to check the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of any site before offering any of your personal information.
V. Your Choices
A. Member Profiles. To change or update your account information - such as name, email address, and password - please use the "My Profile" link to change your profile page at MyLifeDeals.com.
If you want to review, amend or delete any personal information that MyLife has collected about you, you can email us at privacy@mylifedeals.com; write us at the address listed here; or call us at the following toll free number, 1-888-704-1900.
B. Email Communications. You can change your communication preference, including opting out of receiving Deals emails, promotional emails or postal mails from us or our partners at any time via the unsubscribe link on e-mails. There is also information set out below regarding how to opt-out of receiving these emails
If you are not a member of MyLifeDeals.com and you are receiving emails you wish to opt out of, please contact Customer Care at 1-888-704-1900 or by email at privacy@mylifedeals.com. You can also unsubscribe from all future MyLife emails by entering your email address here. Please allow 7-10 days for your request to process.
C. Referral Service. We offer a referral service that allows you to tell a friend about our site. We may ask you for your friend's name and email address so that we can send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site.
D. Account-related Communications. We reserve the right to send you customary business communications (i.e. general system and administrative messages, address confirmations, etc.) without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Therefore, even if you unsubscribe from any promotionally oriented emails, newsletters, or account activity updates, you may continue to receive transactional email messages from MyLife.com with important information pertaining to your account and our services.
VI. Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy is available on this page for you to read. This Privacy Policy may be updated and modified from time to time to reflect new features, services and options, as well as any other changes with regard to the use of personal information. Any minor amendments to this Privacy Policy will be posted at MyLifeDeals.com. Your continued use of MyLifeDeals.com or other MyLifeDeals.com services following our posting of a minor change on MyLifeDeals.com will constitute your binding acceptance of the change. Users will be notified by email and shown a prominent notice on the home pages of MyLifeDeals.com of any material changes to our Privacy Policy. We advise that you read the amended policy. By continuing to use MyLifeDeals.com or other MyLifeDeals.com services after such material change, you accept and agree to be bound by the amended Privacy Policy, which will constitute a new Privacy Policy which replaces this one and your use of MyLifeDeals.com and the MyLifeDeals.com services will be subject to the new Privacy Policy.
If any change to this Privacy Policy is unacceptable to you, you agree that your only recourse is to stop using MyLifeDeals.com or other MyLifeDeals.com services.
VII. Still Have Questions?
If you have any other questions about the MyLife.com Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@mylifedeals.com or write to us at:
Effective date: 6/27/2011
Last updated: 6/27/2011
MyLife.com, Inc.2118 Wilshire Blvd. Box 1008
Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784