Privacy Policy
TheSwineFluFacts.com, TheSwineFluFacts.com (”Company”) understands the importance of online privacy. The following Policy
outlines how we do business, what information we collect and how, under what circumstances the information is
shared with third parties, and your options to control what communications you receive from us and from our
marketing partners. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the postal
address below.
Information we Collect
In order to participate in this promotion, you must first complete the registration information requested. We ask
for an email address so that we may contact you if necessary and we ask for a mailing address so we know where
to ship the products that you have chosen pertaining to our special offers.
Registering for this promotion automatically subscribes you to the TheSwineFluFacts.com Daily email newsletter, but you will
receive an instant email message from TheSwineFluFacts.com that will ask you to Confirm or Double Optin to receive Daily
email’s From TheSwineFluFacts.com communicating various offers that we think you might like based on the registration
information you provided, and any offers that you selected in this promotion. Users may unsubscribe from this
newsletter at any time by clicking on the automated link provided at the end of the email.
We request a limited amount of personally identifiable information from users who participate in the promotions
on this site. This information includes, but is not limited to the following:
email address, name, address, city, state, zip, phone number
We use this information to communicate with you about the status of your premium and/or any offers you have
selected from our sponsoring companies. We request your address and phone number for shipping purposes.
We use information provided by our users to enhance their experience on this and similar Web sites. We also use
the information provided voluntarily to send out electronic mailings for offers that we think will be of interest to
you, only if you have double opted in to receive such advertisements. At all times, Users have the option to
unsubscribe from such mailings by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided on each mailing and be instantly
unsubscribe to any future emails by TheSwineFluFacts.com.
We create internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns to measure the effectiveness of our
marketing campaigns and promotions, and to report results to our marketing partners. We do not use any
personally identifiable information to compile these reports.
The cost of your cash or gift certificate redemption is absorbed by the sponsoring companies featured on this site;
this is how we can afford to offer such rewards. Users who opt-in to the offerings from these companies may also
elect to receive additional information from these companies. The companies may request additional demographic
and/or personally identifiable information for their use in subsequent marketing and promotion activities, and
their privacy policies, and terms and conditions may differ from TheSwineFluFacts.com’s. It is solely your responsibility to
read our Sponsors privacy policies, and terms and conditions, and to determine whether you agree or disagree.
Some of the third party advertisers that we use have their own privacy policies and may allow you to opt out of
having your information collected as discussed above. How We Collect Information
The Company gathers information in the following ways:
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. The Company uses cookies
only to enable users to be routed properly through our site. We also provide links to external advertisers and
marketing Partner companies; these sites may choose to use cookies to better promote their products and
services. These advertisers and marketing partner companies have their own privacy procedures and policies that
are not controlled by the Company. We encourage our users to be aware of the individual privacy policies of every
Web site that the user contacts.
Clear Gif’s (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
The Company may also use a software technology called clear gif’s (Web Beacons or Web Bugs), that help us
determine what content on our site is most effective. Clear gif’s are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in
function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. We do not tie the information
gathered by clear gif’s to our customers’ personally identifiable information. We also use clear gif’s in our HTML-
based emails so that we know which emails have been opened. We use this information to monitor the
effectiveness of our email campaigns and to validate our results to our marketing partners.
Log Files
Log files are also used to track and monitor traffic patterns on our site. They are not used to track or monitor
personally identifiable information.
Tell-A-Friend
Users may forward the email address of another person who may also be interested in this particular offer. The
information is used only to forward the information to that person and is not retained for any other purpose.
User Feedback/Inquiries
Users may contact the Company with any feedback, questions or comments. The Company uses contact
information only to respond to the feedback.
Other Circumstances
Subsequent to this promotion, the Company may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events for which we
need to collect and retain personally identifiable information. The Company may co-sponsor such events with
other companies. In such cases, no personally identifiable information will be released to such third parties
without the user’s consent. We endeavor at all times to do business only with other companies similarly
committed to our users’ privacy.
Information We Share
This Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on the TheSwineFluFacts.com website. We may use the
personal information that you supply to us and work with other third party businesses to bring selected retail
opportunities to our members via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of
direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and
validation and email marketing. The Company collects minimal demographic and personally identifiable
information from many users. This information is aggregated and analyzed to help us tailor future offers and to
help our marketing partners and advertising agencies understand the demographics of our customers in order to
evaluate the potential effectiveness and profitability of doing business with us. Part of our business model involves
sharing personally identifiable information, such as name and address, with third-party marketing concerns. While
the Company cannot control the practices of our advertisers and third-party marketers, we endeavor at all times to
do business with reputable partners who also follow a best practices model regarding your privacy.
All information provided to the Company by the users of this site may be used to support our suppression,
validation and enhancement services to other marketing companies, advertising agencies, compilers and data
companies.
As an example, opt-out information may be shared with other marketing partners so that those users opting out of
further offers are suppressed from the partner’s mailings or promotions, as well as our own. In addition to
complying with our users’ preferences, it simply makes good business sense to mail only to those customers who
have indicated a desire to receive such mailings.
The Company’s business model includes participating in affiliate network programs and other co-marketing
partnerships to promote our site. We receive and share only that information necessary to analyze site traffic and
patterns so that we can evaluate the effectiveness of such programs. We do not receive or share personally
identifiable information for these purposes, however.
The Company as a rule will not intentionally disclose personally identifiable information about its users to any third
party without first receiving the user’s permission. However, the Company may disclose personally identifiable
information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to
edicts of law of comply with legal processes; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company’s
advertising service, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any user of the
Company’s advertising service.
WE Will Not Sell, Rent or Share Any Identifiable Information provided by you to any 3rd party email list managers,
and/email service providers. In addition, if you elect to register to receive our Daily Email Newsletter, you can
expect to receive at least 1 email advertisement per day which will include a third party promotional offer from
one of TheSwineFluFacts.com’s advertising/marketing partners.
Use of Information
This Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on the TheSwineFluFacts.com website, and or have submitted
their email address through our affiliate network program and other co-marketing partnerships to promote our
site. We may use the personal information that you supply to us and work with other third party businesses to
bring selected retail opportunities to our members via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may
include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data
enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing. Delete/Deactivate Policy
Users at any time may unsubscribe to our electronic mailings by following the instructions that we include at the
end of every mailing. To correct, update or request that we delete information you provided, please contact us via
email, or by writing:
support@TheSwineFluFacts.com
Notification Of Changes To Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our
privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post these policy changes to
our Web site to notify you and provide you with the opportunity to opt out of these new uses. If you are
concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.
General Security Policy
The Company endeavors at all times to meet and exceed standards of online privacy protection. When you submit
information, your information is protected both on-line and off-line in accordance with applicable laws, regulations
and industry standards. For example, without limitation, the company uses a full-time Network Administrator, SSL
servers, pgp and 128-bit encryption to protect the confidentiality of the information you provide.
For additional information or specific questions, please contact us.
TheSwineFluFacts.com is an independent rewards program for consumers and is not affiliated with any of the
listed retailers.
Last Updated: August 16, 2009
