Effective Date: March 3, 2023
Slickdeals, LLC (“Slickdeals,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) values its users’ privacy across the Slickdeals web site (Slickdeals.net), mobile site, and apps (collectively, the “Properties”). This Privacy Policy pertains to our Properties, the services that we offer on our Properties and your interactions with us outside our Properties other than through our browser extensions (collectively, the “Services”). We have implemented this Privacy Policy to provide you with information about how Slickdeals collects, uses, and discloses information about you. By visiting our Properties or using our Services in any other way, you are agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to our browser extensions, which have different practices. To learn about the information practices for our browser extensions, you should view the Extension Privacy Policy rather than this Privacy Policy. If you choose to use a Slickdeals browser extension in addition to other Services, then the information collected through the extension may be combined with information we collect through other Services, and we will use this combined information to provide both the extension and our other Services to you.
What Types of Personal Information Does Slickdeals Collect from Me?
Slickdeals will collect the personal information you provide to us, for example when you register, take a survey, sign up for notifications, participate in a sweepstakes, email us or otherwise send us your contact information. Personal information may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing and/or billing address, and other information that identifies you as an individual. You can use some of the Services without providing these types of personal information, but certain features may not be available. If you would like to update these types of personal information that you previously provided to us, you can log into your account or email us at [email protected].
If you access our Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device. We also collect information about your device’s precise location over time to provide you with more relevant deals, such as offering deals in real time for a store that you are visiting.
Each time you use our Services, Slickdeals also automatically collects other, technical information, which may be combined with other information we collect about you. This technical information includes, for example, your browser type, the URL of the previous web site you visited, your Internet Service Provider, your operating system, and your IP address. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect such information as described below. We also use analytics and reporting technologies to collect records of your browsing and activities when using our Services, as well as other usage information such as your clickstream patterns, your preferences, and the dates and times that you use our Services.
If you receive email or texts from us, we will analyze related information such as whether you open the email or read the text, and whether you click on an ad or offer in the email or text.
To help us personalize the Services, we may offer you the ability to opt in to allow Slickdeals to automatically scan the emails received and sent in certain email accounts (e.g., Gmail). If you do, Slickdeals will scan your emails in order to collect and analyze information about your purchases over time, the marketing emails that you receive and how you respond to them, and your participation in loyalty programs. We will use all of this information in order to provide you with more relevant content and recommendations through our Services. For any information scanned from a Gmail account, Slickdeals complies with Google’s policies and restrictions on how we can use or share this information. Slickdeals can scan your emails only if you choose to enable this service by providing us with your email access credentials. You can use our Services without participating in email scanning.
When you provide us with your address, we may use third-party services such as the Google Places API to help complete your address information after you begin to type it. We will combine the address information that we collect through this service with any other information that we collect from or about you, and we will use, retain, and share it as described in this Privacy Policy. Additionally, this address completion service allows Google to collect certain information as described below.
We may collect information about you from third parties in other ways as well. If you log in via a third-party service like Facebook or Google, we will collect the information described in the third-party service’s request for authorization. This information may include your name, email address, gender, city, and state. You should review your privacy settings with these third-party services to be sure you are only sharing information you wish to share. Additionally, when you click on a link from our Services, we may receive information from merchants (and their affiliates) about your activities on their linked platforms, such as your purchases. We may use this information to support loyalty programs with merchants or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We may also obtain information, including personal information, about you from other third parties and combine it with the information that we collect from you.
What About Cookies and Web Beacons?
In addition, Slickdeals (and our third-party service providers) use “cookies,” a small data string our server writes to your computer, and other similar technologies to help us manage and analyze your interaction with our Services. These technologies can store information that we collect about you, and can collect information linked to your browser or device that we use for a number of purposes, including improving our Services, keeping count of return visits to our Properties or our advertisers’ or partners’ websites, collecting and reporting statistical information about our users, saving your password and login information, displaying advertising or content based on your interests (as further described below), and learning about how you interact with email or text messages and advertising content. We may also collect information about your search criteria and results, the date and time of your visit to our Properties, and your connection speed and IP address. Cookies may store information that identifies your device, like a hashed email address, but we do not use cookies to store individual identifiers like your name.
Third parties whose products or services are accessible or advertised via our Services may also use cookies on our Properties, and we encourage you to check their privacy policies for information about their information privacy practices.
You may be able to refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, refusing to receive cookies will not stop all data collection and may prevent you from being able to use the full functionality of our Services.
Additionally, emails we send may contain a bit of code known as a “web beacon.” This code allows us to understand the time and date when you open an email and when you use a link within the email to visit a website. If you wish to disable our web beacons, you can do so by turning images “off” in your email software (e.g., Outlook, Outlook Express). Please see your email software instructions or “Help” for more information.
How Does Slickdeals Use My Information?
Slickdeals uses the information collected from users for our business purposes, including the following:
- To customize and personalize the advertising and the content you see.
- To personalize and improve your experience when using our Services.
- To fulfill your requests for our Services.
- To send you information about topics that we think will be of interest to you.
- To alert you to the latest developments and features on our Services.
- To enter you in our sweepstakes when you request that we do so and to award prizes.
- To operate, maintain, and improve our Services.
- To communicate with you, including responding to your communications with us and other communications regarding your registration or use of our Services.
- For our research, recordkeeping, and reporting purposes.
- To monitor our Services for compliance with our Terms of Service and policies.
When Will Slickdeals Disclose My Information to Third Parties?
We may share your personal information with other companies or individuals. For example:
- We may make any information you disclose when you participate in community and social networking features on our Services available publicly, including to other users. Slickdeals is not responsible for the information you disclose in public forums, and we strongly recommend that you disclose your personal information privately, only to users that you know to be trustworthy.
- We may share your personal information with participating merchants to process your purchases, in which case your information may be used and disclosed by the merchant (including for marketing purposes) subject to its privacy policy.
- We may share your personal information with your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
- We may share information with our agents, contractors, service providers, and partners who are providing services on our behalf and on behalf of our merchants and other partners, such as payment processing, data processing, customer service functions, personalizing deals on the Slickdeals Services, and hosting.
- We may share your information in connection with an actual or potential merger, sale, acquisition, assignment, or transfer of all or part of Slickdeals’ assets, affiliates, lines of business, or products, including at bankruptcy.
- We may share your information in order to (i) protect or defend our legal rights or property or the rights/property of our other users, business partners, employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements); (ii) pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; (iii) protect the safety and security of our employees, users, or members of the public; (iv) protect against fraud or for other risk management purposes; or (v) comply with the law or respond to law enforcement requests, subpoenas, legal process or inquiries.
Online Identifiers. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may share information that identifies your browser or device over time (including device or other online identifiers and/or other types of personal information that have been hashed or obfuscated) as well as information about your activities on our Services and on third-party properties, with third-party companies for their own purposes including interest-based advertising across different websites, apps, browsers and devices.
Please see below for information about opting out of the collection and use of data for interest-based advertising by companies participating in industry self-regulation, and for California residents you can also visit the “California Privacy Rights” section below to learn about our practices and your choices.
Deidentified and Aggregated Information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may use and share deidentified information and aggregated information with third parties, advertisers and/or business partners for our own business purposes and for third party marketing and other purposes. We maintain and use deidentified information only in deidentified form—we do not attempt to reidentify such information except as needed to determine that the information is appropriately deidentified.
Do Third Parties Collect My Information?
We use analytics services provided by third parties such as Google and Flurry. These companies use cookies and other technologies to collect data about your use of our Properties and other websites over time. This information will be transmitted to and stored by our analytics providers, who will use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, providing Slickdeals with information for customer service and product development purposes, and providing other services relating to activity on our Properties and internet usage. These providers may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. To learn more about how Google collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities, you may visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/.
As noted above, when you provide us with your address, we may use third-party services such as the Google Places API to help complete your address information after you begin to type it. This address completion service allows Google to collect the address information that you input, along with your IP address. To learn more about Google’s Privacy Policy, you may visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
In addition, you can access third-party features, such as offers, ads, websites, mobile sites, apps, and/or interactive elements such as calculators and widgets, directly from deals and other links on the Services and/or from emails or texts sent by or on behalf of Slickdeals. When you interact with these features, you are providing information directly to third parties and/or directing Slickdeals to send information to third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information sent to or collected by third parties when you interact with these features or you access their properties. We cannot control the privacy practices of third parties, and we are not responsible for such practices. If you have questions about their privacy practices, we encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of any third parties before you visit their properties or interact with them on our Services.
Our Services may include social media plug-ins that link to and share information with third-party social media websites. If you use these tools to share information about your use of our Services or otherwise interact with any social media features on our Properties, those social media companies may collect information about you and may use and disclose that information in accordance with their own privacy policies and your account settings. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of any social media company before using any social media plug-ins on our website to understand the practices that will apply to any information that you provide to these companies.
Please see below for information on how third parties may collect and use information on our Properties for interest-based advertising purposes.
Marketing Choices
You may give consent for Slickdeals to send you one or more text messages, such as a message with a link to download our app. These text messages are automated. You can use and purchase our services without consenting to receive our automated text messages. If you agree to receive text messages, message and data rates will apply. You can opt out of recurring text messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any message or you can email us at [email protected].
Slickdeals may send you email offers that we believe will interest you. If you do not want to receive such offers, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in any message. We will continue to send you servicing emails related to your interactions and relationship with us.
Interest-Based Advertising Choices
Slickdeals adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Principles. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you use our Services, including viewing our emails or texts, and to serve ads on our behalf on non-affiliated properties. These companies may use cookies or other non-cookie technologies to collect information about your visits and activities on our Services, other online properties, and email and text campaigns over time and across different browsers and devices, in order to provide advertisements for us and others about goods and services of interest to you. This type of advertising is called interest-based advertising. The information collected by these third parties may include information about your browser or device including information that identifies your browser or device over time (including device identifiers and/or personal information which has been hashed or obfuscated).
You may visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp to learn more about interest-based advertising, to opt-out of this form of advertising on your web browser by companies participating in the DAA and Network Advertising Initiative self-regulatory programs, and to learn about the effect of an opt-out choice.
If you wish to opt-out of interest-based advertising in mobile apps on your device by companies that participate in the DAA’s AppChoices app, you may download that app onto your device and exercise your choice. AppChoices is available at the links below:
You may also limit data collection and use by third parties for interest-based advertising by using your mobile device settings where available.
If you opt out of interest-based advertising as described above, please note that you will need to renew your opt-out choices if you use a different browser or erase cookies from your browser, reset your device’s advertising identifier, or use a different mobile device. Also, any settings available in your web browser to block cookies may not block the use of non-cookie technologies as described above. Please note that electing to opt out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.
Slickdeals shares data, including hashed email addresses, with LiveRamp to support Slickdeals’s interest-based advertising efforts. To opt out of LiveRamp’s use of data, please visit LiveRamp’s opt-out page here for the choices that LiveRamp provides.
Security
Slickdeals uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your personal information.
International Visitors
Slickdeals does not currently offer its Services in, or support user accounts from, Switzerland, the UK and countries in the European Economic Area. Users from other countries should note that Slickdeals collects, processes and stores information in the United States. By using our Services from locations outside of the United States, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to, and the collection and processing of such personal information in the United States. The laws pertaining to the collection, use, disclosure, and processing of personal information in the United States may vary from those in other countries and may be less stringent than the applicable laws in your state or country.
Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minors under 16 years old, we will take appropriate actions to delete this information.
If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor under 16 years old, and you believe that your child has provided personal information to Slickdeals, you may contact us at [email protected] to request that we delete your child’s personal information from our systems.
State Privacy Rights
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia residents have certain rights under state privacy laws with respect to personal information we collect. If you are a resident of such states, this section of the Privacy Policy contains disclosures required by law and explains rights that may be available to you. This section applies only to personal information that is subject to relevant state privacy laws. As noted above, you should review the Extension Privacy Policy for different state privacy law disclosures and choices related to our browser extensions.
Personal Information We Collect and Disclose. In the past 12 months, we collected, disclosed, and sold (including sharing for targeted advertising (also known as “cross-context behavioral” advertising)) the following categories of personal information.
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| Personal and online identifiers, which can be divided into two groups: | ||
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| Commercial or transactions information, such as general information about items purchased, obtained, or considered |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, interactions with a website, email, app, or ad |
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| Geolocation information, which is limited to general location information, such as your city or state |
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| Sensitive personal information, limited to account log-in and password when you create an account with us |
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| Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences |
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Categories of Sources. We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
- Consumers;
- Merchants;
- Affiliate networks;
- Social networks;
- Service providers; and
- Commercial data resellers.
Why We Collect, Use, and Disclose Personal Information. We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in the “How Does Slickdeals Use My Information” and “When Will Slickdeals Disclose My Information to Third Parties” sections of this Privacy Policy.
Your Rights. Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia have certain rights with respect to personal information collected by businesses, like Slickdeals. If you are a resident of one of these states, you may be able to exercise the following rights regarding personal information Slickdeals has collected about you, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:
- The whether we are processing personal information about you.
- For California residents, the right to know the categories of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell and share about you, the categories of sources from which we collected your personal information, our purposes for collecting or selling your personal information, the categories of your personal information that we have either sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties with which we have disclosed personal information.
- The a copy of the specific pieces of personal information that we maintain about you.
- The right to request that we correct inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected about you.
- The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you.
- The right to opt out of our sale(s) of your personal information, including sharing for targeted (also called “cross-context behavioral”) advertising. Please note that if you opt out of certain practices, we may be unable to provide you with some Services.
While California law provides California residents with an opt-out opportunity related to sensitive personal information, Slickdeals uses and discloses sensitive personal information, as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act, only for purposes permitted by that law that do not require an opt-out opportunity.
You also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the above privacy rights.
To request to exercise any of the above rights, please click on any of the links above and provide your name, email address, and other requested information. You may also contact us by email at [email protected].
Depending on your state, if you have submitted a request that you believe we have not fulfilled, you may contact us to appeal our decision by sending an email with the subject line “Appeal” to [email protected].
Verification. If you submit a correction or deletion request or a request to know or access, we must verify your identity. We do this by comparing information in your request to personal information we have collected about you. Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled.
Authorized Agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. Please contact us at [email protected] for details.
Minors. We do not knowingly sell or share for interest-based advertising the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
Information About Past Year’s California Requests. As required by California law, Slickdeals provides additional information about rights requests we received in . In 2021, with respect to requests from all individuals, Slickdeals:
- Received 6 requests to know, complied in whole or in part with all of them, and denied none of them.
- Received 33 requests to delete, complied in whole or in part with all of them, and denied none of them.
- Received 4767 requests to opt out of data sales, complied in whole or in part with all of them, and denied none of them.
The mean number of days within which Slickdeals substantively responded to individuals’ requests to know, requests to delete, and requests to opt out in the previous calendar year was less than 3 days.
Notice of Financial Incentive for California Residents: Cashback Rewards
If you choose to participate in Slickdeals’ Cashback Rewards program, you will have the opportunity to receive Cashback Rewards points in exchange for Slickdeals receiving information related to offers you purchase. Points may be redeemed through PayPal or gift cards from participating merchants. Through Cashback Rewards, we may collect and share your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes all categories of personal information listed in the “State Privacy Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.
The terms associated with Cashback Rewards are available here. Slickdeals users can choose to opt into Cashback Rewards at https://slickdeals.net/cashback/ by selecting the “1-Click Activate Cashback” button. You have the right to withdraw from participating in Cashback Rewards at any time. You can withdraw from Cashback Rewards by [INSERT].
Does Slickdeals Ever Make Changes to its Privacy Policy?
Slickdeals may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will post an updated Privacy Policy online and link to it from our Properties. We encourage you to regularly review our Privacy Policy so that you are aware of and understand our current privacy practices.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact Slickdeals at [email protected].