Privacy Policy
Your access to, and use of, www.ushoplocal.com ("Site") is subject to Acornopportunities, Inc. Terms of Use. Ushoplocal.com has created this Privacy Policy to explain what information we
gather from you when you visit our Site, how we may use this information, and
the security approaches we use to protect your information. This Privacy Policy
is incorporated and made part of Acornopportunities, Inc./Ushoplocal.com's Terms of Use.
By using this Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information
by the Acornopportunities, Inc./Acornopportunities.com in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we decide to
change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy
changes will apply to information collected after the date of the change.
1. What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on the Site, submit
comments, photographs or other materials on the Site, place an order, or
participate in another Site feature.
When signing up for, or registering to make submissions or otherwise use
specific services, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing
address, phone number, credit card information or other information. You may,
however, view our Site without providing such information.
When participating in certain activities, such as commenting on a particular
article, participating in an online chat, or otherwise sending messages through
our web site, the comments, information, thoughts or ideas you provide may be
published on the Site at the sole discretion of Acornopportunities, Inc. / Ushoplocal.com.
We use IP addresses and session identifiers to analyze trends, to administer
the Site, to track user activities, to infer user interests, and to otherwise
induce, deduce, and gather information about individual users and market
segments.
Like many web sites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather
information about visitors and visits to our Site. Please refer to the "Do we
use 'cookies'?" section below for information about cookies and how we use
them.
2. How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, submit
comments, photographs or other materials, purchase products, surf the Site, or
use other Site features in the following ways:
To recognize you, personalize your Site experience and allow us to deliver
the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your submissions and
requests.
To quickly process your submissions and transactions.
To administer blogs, chats, or other Site features.
3. Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?
Comments, email and chat session participation. If you respond with
information including feedback and data, such as questions, comments,
suggestions, names, town of residence, or the like, such information is deemed
to be non-confidential and we have no obligation of any kind with respect to
such information and we are free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the
information to any third party without limitation. We are free to use any ideas,
concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose
whatsoever including but not limited to writing and publishing articles and
other materials incorporating such information.
Non-personal information. We may use third- party advertising companies to
serve ads. Such companies may also gather non-personally identifiable
information about Site visitation patterns so that we can continue to improve
our web site and use such information (not including your name, address, email
address, or telephone number) about your visit to this web site in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to
you.
Order information. Information provided to Acornopportunities, Inc./ Ushoplocal.com as part of the
ordering process is not generally provided to outside parties provided that for
credit card transactions, a third-party financial institution may receive the
credit card number and other personal identifying information, like billing
address, to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions and web site
hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Site,
conducting our business, or servicing you, may have access to such information
and agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law,
enforce our Site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or
safety.
4. Correction/Updating Personal Information
You can correct or update your personally identifiable information by
re-registering or by contacting us by electronic-mail ( sales@acornopportunities.com ).
5. Cookies
This Site uses cookies. "Cookies" are small files that a site or its service
provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if
you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize
your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use
cookies to help us confirm your registration and process the items in your
shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based
on previous or current site activity and compile aggregate data about site
traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and
tools in the future.
In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, our third-party
advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being
sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your
browser (e.g. Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is
a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way
to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many
features that make your Site experience more efficient and some of our services
will not function properly.
6. Safeguarding Information
Acornopportunities, Inc / Ushoplocal.com follows generally accepted industry security standards to
safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and
correctly use personal information. However, no commercial method of information
transfer over the Internet or electronic data storage is known to be 100%
secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of that
information during its transmission or its storage in our systems.
7. Privacy and Third-Party Links
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our Site. In
an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third-party links
on our Site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies.
We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities
of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site
and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link
does not work).
8. Online Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our Site
and not to information collected by us offline.
9. Questions and feedback
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about this Site. Please
send any and all feedback pertaining to this Site to sales@acornopportunities.com.
10. Your California Privacy Rights
Under California’s "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide
personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or
household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, once per calendar
year, information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other
businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information
would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses
of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the
immediately prior calendar year (e.g. requests made in 2009 will receive
information regarding 2008 sharing activities).
