WHAT REBATES. (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to the protection of personal information you provide to us or that we collect from you. This Privacy Policy describes the manner in which we collect, use and treat your personal information, including information received through our websites (located at www.whatrebates.com) or other channels such as online portals at events (collectively, the “Website”).
This policy is effective as of 31 October 2023.
Information we process on behalf of our customers: Company analyzes fact situations in order to provide our customers with superior products and services. In the course of providing these products or services, we may obtain personal information about our customers. We require our customers to ensure that they have obtained all authority to provide personal information to us in accordance with applicable privacy laws. We do not collect or use such personal information for any purpose other than to provide products or services to our customers and improve the way we provide those products or services.
In the case of our Website, the Company may collect and use the following information:
When you sign in to access our Website or sign up for our mailing list, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, date of birth or age, email address and a telephone number, along with additional information we need to help manage your profile. We may retain this information and use it to contact you, inform you about our products and services or events, ensure and demonstrate compliance with the law, and assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and product and service offerings.
Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is.
Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.
When you purchase a product or service through our Website, you may be asked to provide us with information relevant to your purchase such as your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, your billing address, and your shipping information. We may retain this information and use it to provide you with the product or service, charge you for the product or service or otherwise administer our relationship with you in respect of the purchase of the product or service, ensure and demonstrate compliance with law, and assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and product and service offerings.
When you contact us with a comment, question or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, address and telephone number, along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment. We may retain this information and use it to respond to you, ensure and demonstrate compliance with the law, and assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and product and service offerings.
If you apply for a job at our company, you may provide us with certain personal information about yourself, such as information contained in a resume, cover letter, or similar employment-related materials. We may retain and use this information for the purpose of processing and responding to your application for current and future career opportunities.
We may partner with third-party advertising services to present you with advertising on third party websites based on your previous interaction with our Website or the fact that you signed up for our mailing list. The techniques our partners employ will not collect information such as your name, email address, phone number or other similar information, but the information collected will allow them to better target advertisements and may be identifiable information (e.g., information about your online activities over time and across different websites, including our Website, may allow them to develop a profile about you (such as your gender, age, and interests) that, if combined with other information could allow you to be identified). We won’t use this information to attempt to identify you.
We have implemented Google Analytics to analyze your interaction with our Website and allow us to review anonymous data regarding the gender, age, and interests of visitors to the Website. We may use this information to adapt our content to better reflect the needs of our visitors. You can learn about Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy and the use of cookies at this link: https://policies.google.com/privacy You can opt out of having your data used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
As a matter of practice, the Company does not disclose, trade, rent, sell or otherwise transfer our customers’ clients’ personal information, except as set out in this policy.
We may transfer or disclose personal information as follows:
We collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Website and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Website. We use this information to help us understand our user’s experience with the Website, understand where traffic is coming from, and to monitor and improve our Websites.
Our Website uses a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Website sends to a user’s browser, which may then be stored on the user’s hard drive so that we can recognize the user when they return. We use cookies to remember your preferences and to authenticate you. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Website features.
We may use web beacons, web bugs, tracking pixels or other methods to track your use of the Website. These tracking methods allow us to understand information about your browsing session. We use the information collected by these methods to help us understand our user’s experience with the Website, understand where traffic is coming from, and to monitor and improve our Websites.
Our Website may contain links to other websites that the Company does not own or operate. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies, notices and terms of use. We do not have any control over such websites, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use or disclose, secure and otherwise treat personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
We understand that data security is a critical issue for our customers and we are committed to safeguarding the personal information in our custody and under our control. We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control.
If we receive a request from an individual to access or update the personal information we have collected on behalf of a particular customer, we will use reasonable efforts to direct that individual to the relevant customer. We will assist our customers wherever possible in responding to individual access requests.
If you submit personal information via our Website or otherwise provide us with your personal information, you may request access, updating or correction of your personal information by submitting a written request to our Privacy Officer (see “Contact Us” below). We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying your identity.
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our personal information practices. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the Website. We strongly encourage you to please refer to this Privacy Policy often for the latest information about our personal information practices.
