Privacy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to your access and use of the BitsDuJour.com website (the “Website”). For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the term “you” or “your” shall mean you and any entity you register on behalf of to use the Site and the terms “we” and “our” refers to BitsDuJour, LLC, dba “BitsDuJour”. This policy describes the personal information we collect about you in providing our services through the Site and how we use and protect that information.

By using this Website, you signify your acknowledgement of and agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. BitsDuJour is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Any information provided by you to BitsDuJour, by which you can be identified, will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy, unless you provide explicit consent for BitsDuJour to act otherwise. BitsDuJour may amend this Privacy Policy at any time and without notice, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on our site. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting to the Website. It is your responsibility to check this privacy policy periodically to ensure you agree with any changes.

What information we collect

When using the Website, we may require some or all of the following information:

• name
• email address

Additionally, whilst using the Website, some or all of the following information may be collected:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address
• geographical location
• browser type and version
• operating system
• referral source
• date/time/length of visit, page views, website navigation and any other related browsing activity
• search terms you enter into our Search function

What we do with the information we collect

The information you provide to BitsDuJour is required for, but not limited to, the following reasons:

• internal record keeping
• research and development
• access to and usage of the Website
• account management
• confirmation of email address
• sending account-related notices, newsletters, and other relevant communications

Security

We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to BitsDuJour is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

Cookies and IP addresses

BitsDuJour uses small text files, called cookies, to store information in your web browser. The information stored may include preferences, session identification, HTTP information, and IP address.

You can set your browser to not receive cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the Website.

IP addresses of computers used to visit the Website are stored in our database. This includes when first registering for an account, managing your account details, writing a private or public message or performing any other transaction which results in data being transferred to or from your computer and the website in question. Your IP address is not visible to the public at any time.

Web Beacons

The Website also may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our web site and the web sites of selected sponsors or members, your use of special promotions or newsletters, and other activities. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our web site and selected sponsors’ sites; how many people open our emails; and for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our web site or those of our sponsors. BitsDuJour does not link non-personal information from web beacons to personally identifiable information without your permission or unless asked or required to do so by the authorities.

Links to other websites

The Website may contain links to other websites. These websites may or may not be affiliated with BitsDuJour.

BitsDuJour has no control over any external websites therefore clicking any link which results in you visiting an external website will result in this privacy policy no longer applying and BitsDuJour cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites.

Public Areas

Forums and message boards are available to you through the Website. Please understand that any information (including but not limited to digital files and poll responses) you disclose in such public areas becomes public information. In addition, any information (including but not limited to digital files and poll responses) you discuss in private areas becomes accessible by any other person with the appropriate website permissions to view that area. We have no control over its use and encourage you to exercise caution when deciding what information to share.

Email Tracking

We send all new users an email to verify their email address, and a welcome email. We also send the user site and service announcement updates. We may also contact you from time to time to ask you to update your profile details. A user cannot opt out of receiving these communications, which contain important information about the Website.

Promotional e-mails sent to you may contain tracking information which allows us to assess whether the e-mail message meets its objectives. This includes monitoring e-mail open activity and subsequent click-through and further website activity. Information collected via this method is not shared with any third parties unless we are asked by the authorities and/or required to do so by law.

When distributing Third Party Content we may share broad demographic information such as e-mail open and click-through rates with our partners to enable them to assess the effectiveness of their message.

Your Personal Information

We will NOT sell, trade, give away, or be careless with your email address, address, name and personal details. We're every bit as tired of spam and unsolicited contacts as we bet you are.

We will send you our newsletter only from our Daily Bits page or other clearly marked places on the site. If you contact us using any of our forms or comments boards, you will not be added to the Newsletter list unless you also request to be.

Advertisements

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Additionally, we may collect information through Google Analytics features including Demographics and Interest reporting, Remarketing, and GDN Impression Reporting, via Google advertising cookies and/or anonymous identifiers. You can opt out of these features at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Advertisements appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by BitsDuJour and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Children’s Privacy

BitsDuJour is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. BitsDuJour does not intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13, and BitsDuJour does not target its web site to children.

Controlling your personal information

When using the Website, you may choose to limit public viewing of applicable personal information through the settings located in the Settings section of your account. All of your personally identifiable information held by BitsDuJour can be found in the Settings section of your account.

BitsDuJour will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your explicit permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you security information, website updates, or other information pertaining to BitsDuJour, the Website, or your account.

If you discover any of the information BitsDuJour holds for you is incorrect or incomplete, that you are unable to change yourself, please contact us as soon as possible so the necessary changes can be made, by using the “Contact” link at the bottom of this page.

Users may request deletion of any or all of their personal data, by using the “Contact” link at the bottom of this page.

BitsDuJour Facebook app

The BitsDuJour Facebook app allows users to see BitsDuJour deals within Facebook.

If users grand permission, the BitsDuJour Facebook app aallows access to the user's Facebook profile and email for the sole and express perpose of displaying BitsDuJour software promotions to the user.

Users may request deletion of any or all of their personal data connected to the BitsDuJour Facebook app, by using the “Contact” link at the bottom of this page.

Phishing and Identity Theft

We will never send you emails asking you to send personal, financial, or credit card information. We will never send you emails asking you to log in to what looks like a legitimate URL and confirm that kind of information.

If you get an email that looks like it's from us and asks for that kind of info, do NOT respond to it or click on any of its links, no matter how official or convincing it looks. If you get any scam that claims to be sent from us, please send it to us.

Emails like that - from any site - are almost always fraudulent attempts to get your information ("phishing"). We strongly recommend never filling in any information on a web page you've gotten to by clicking an email link, and being very careful in general about clicking email links. If you'd like to learn more about phishing and how to protect yourself, the Anti-Phishing Working Group has some useful information.

Terms of Use

This site contains links to other Internet sites owned by third parties. Your use of each of those sites is subject to the conditions, if any, that each of those sites has posted. We have no control over sites that are not ours, and we are not responsible for any changes to or content on them. Our inclusion on our sites of any third-party content or a link to a third-party site is not a guarantee or endorsement of that content or third-party site.

We do not sell, resell, or license any of the products or the services that we review, list, advertise or feature on our site, and we disclaim any responsibility for or liability related to them. Your correspondence or related activities with third parties, including payment transactions and goods-delivery transactions, are solely between you and that third party. You agree that we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any of your transactions with third parties. Any questions, complaints, or claims related to any product or service should be directed to the appropriate vendor.