Privacy Statement

This loyalty plugin and Portal Privacy Policy (Policy) describes how we treat personally identifiable information when you download and use a customized browser plugin created by Relief Network for the website and/or the community portal (Portal) of a client publisher (Publisher) working with Relief Network. Relief Network will notify you if we materially change this Policy, at which time you will have the opportunity to discontinue using the loyalty plugin and Portal. This Policy is also subject to our general privacy policy statement for the Relief Network website, located at www.Relief Network.com/privacy. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, please contact us at by email at info@Reliefnetwork.com.
If you decide that you no longer wish to use the loyalty plugin, you may uninstall it at any time via the standard uninstall process for your operating system and browser (e.g., Add/Remove Programs in Microsoft Windows, Add-on Removal in Mozilla Firefox, etc.) You may also hide or deactivate the loyalty plugin by clicking the View menu in your browser and deselecting the loyalty plugin from the list of available loyalty plugins. If you would like to change any personally identifiable information you have provided to us, or have your personally identifiable information removed from our database, please contact us at info@Relief Network.com.
Your use of the loyalty plugin and the Portal, and the information that you share during your use, is also subject to the Publisher's privacy policy displayed at the Publisher's website. Relief Network is not responsible for any use by the Publisher of such information, and we encourage you to read the Publisher's privacy policy. Please also note that the Portal also may contain links to third party websites, many of which are related to the online shopping and reward Programs offered by the Publisher. Relief Network is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Portal or link to such websites, and to read the privacy policies of any website that may collect your personally identifiable information.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

Upon installing the loyalty plugin, you will be prompted to register an account and become a User of the Publisher's Portal, to use various features and benefits associated with the loyalty plugin and available via the Portal. To register an account, you will need to provide various information about yourself, which may include your name, email address, a unique password for your Portal account, your age, gender and income levels. The information regarding your age, gender and income level is collected by Relief Network on behalf of a third party service provider that aggregates such data with other demographic information for marketing purposes. We also collect the age of our Users to determine whether the User is 13 years or older, and therefore eligible to register for a User account. If you do not wish to provide such information, you may leave such data fields blank, in which case you may not be eligible for the same benefits as made available to members that do complete the information.
If you choose not to register an account at such time, you will still be able to use the loyalty plugin, but you will not be able to use many of the features and benefits of the loyalty plugin and will not be able to use the Portal. We may contact you from time to time to remind you of the benefits of registration, and you will have the opportunity to register at a later time.
Once you have registered as a User, your name is used to provide a unique account to access the Portal, interact with other Portal users, post comments or other content, and participate in reward programs, online shopping promotions and other benefits that are made available for the Publisher's Users by Relief Network and its business partners via the Portal (Programs). Your name and e-mail address will be used to identify you in our system and to contact you in connection with the loyalty plugin, the Portal and the Programs. When you have logged into your User account via the loyalty plugin or the Portal, we may also be able to track certain information about searches that you conduct via the loyalty plugin or links that you click on the Portal.

Use and Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

The personally identifiable information collected by Relief Network is generally used as follows:

• To develop, offer and deliver our products and services, to offer products and services of our corporate affiliates, merchant partners, Publishers and other companies, and to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements.
• To conduct market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity, to enforce our terms of use and for other purposes, as otherwise set forth in this Policy and as otherwise authorized by you.
• To notify you via email about special offers or other products and services that may be of interest to you. We may also contact you and deliver information to you that may be targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, and product offering communications. You will always be able to decline any or all of these commnunications by following the directions included in our emails or other communications. Our technology also allows our Publishers to send email messages to the Users that have registered accounts for such Publisher's Portals and Programs.

One of the features of our loyalty plugin and Portal allows Users to invite friends via an email invitation to download the loyalty plugin and to join the Publisher's community and Portal. Relief Network also enables Users to import data from their contact lists from various email accounts that the User may have (such as Gmail, Windows Live, AOL, etc.). Relief Network will not use the information submitted by the User for any purpose other than sending a one-time invitation to the friend as per the User's request.
We do not share your personally identifiable information with nonaffiliated third parties except as permitted or required by law, as otherwise specified in this Policy or as otherwise authorized by you, including as provided below:

• In order to provide our products and services, we may share personally identifiable information about you with our corporate affiliates, agents and service provides to perform functions on our behalf. These services providers are obligated to access and use personally identifiable information only as needed to perform their functions and for no other purposes.
• We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to third parties when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena or search warrant, or in the course of a legal proceeding. We may also disclose personally identifiable information as we believe appropriate to enforce or apply our rights under our agreements with customers, to protect the rights, property or safety of Relief Network, our customers and others, including exchanging information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

Non-personally identifiable information is information that cannot identify a particular person. This type of information would include a zip code or city or state of residence, without an association to a name or address, as well as information transmitted during routine internet communications, a User's Internet Service Provider, a computer's operating system and browser type. We may provide aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our supports to third parties for audit, marketing research and other purposes. Because aggregated data is not associated with any particular person, these third parties will not have access to any personally identifiable information about you.

Data Collection and Cookies

The Relief Network loyalty plugin may enable Relief Network to collect some information as part of its functionality. For example, when you submit a query to Relief Network, the Relief Network loyalty plugin sends some basic information to Relief Network, including your IP address, your search request, and some cookie data. The information sent to Relief Network by the Relief Network loyalty plugin may be logged by Relief Network. This also includes usage data correlated with the Relief Network loyalty plugin as well as any domains visited while the Relief Network loyalty plugin is enabled.
The Relief Network loyalty plugin contains functionality that enables Relief Network to redirect you to the intended location in the event that you enter a non-functioning URL. As part of this function, the Relief Network loyalty plugin sends information on the URLs you type to Relief Network for processing.
Like most websites and loyalty plugin products, Relief Network uses cookies and web log files to track your usage of the loyalty plugin and Portal, including searches that you perform with the loyalty plugin, and your use of the Portal and participation in any Programs. A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer and allows Relief Network to recognize you as a User when you use the loyalty plugin or the Portal using the same computer and web browser and to provide you with personalized features. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you may not be able to use the Portal or obtain full use of the loyalty plugin. Cookies also help us understand how users use and interact with the loyalty plugin and the Portal, which allows us to continually improve our products and services and assist the Publisher with its Portal and Programs. Like the information you enter at registration, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience and to provide you with personalized features.
One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set when you log in to your User account. The next time you visit the Portal, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so that you will not need to log in before using the service, or for functionality used by the loyalty plugin. In order to change your e-mail address or password, however, you will need to re-enter your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the Portal you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Portal site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Portal, we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave the Portal. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. Tracking technologies are used to gather statistical data on users and more generally to improve our services and the offering Programs on the Portal.

No Adware

Other than ads that are on the Portal or in connection with the Programs, Relief Network does not place advertisements on loyalty plugin components and does not require that loyalty plugin users to be exposed to ads. Our loyalty plugin does not launch pop-up or pop-under advertisement browser windows.

Children

In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide access to the loyalty plugin, the Portal or any Programs to, or collect any personally identifiable information from, persons under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under the age of 13, you may not register for any User account and may not enroll in any Programs. If we learn that a User is under the age of thirteen (13), we will take appropriate steps to remove the User's information from the database and restrict the individual from future access to the loyalty plugin, the Portal or the Programs.

Security

We take precautions — including technical, administrative and physical measures — to safeguard your information. We use technical safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption. Your account information including email address is located on a secured server behind a firewall. We authorize access to personally identifiable information, including email addresses, only for those employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. We also enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files.