Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us.
TheSmarterConsumer.com is located at:
TheSmarterConsumer.com246 Livingston St, Suite #150
Northvale, New Jersey 07647
USA
It is TheSmarterConsumer.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://thesmarterconsumer.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://thesmarterconsumer.com/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, TheSmarterConsumer.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. TheSmarterConsumer.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how TheSmarterConsumer.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, TheSmarterConsumer.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
TheSmarterConsumer.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on thesmarterconsumer.com blog posts. TheSmarterConsumer.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to TheSmarterConsumer.com’s websites choose to interact with TheSmarterConsumer.com in ways that require TheSmarterConsumer.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that TheSmarterConsumer.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at thesmarterconsumer.com to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website 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 TheSmarterConsumer.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
TheSmarterConsumer Uses Google AdWords for Remarketing
Https://thesmarterconsumer.com/ uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
TheSmarterConsumer.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on TheSmarterConsumer.com’s behalf or to provide services available at TheSmarterConsumer.com’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using TheSmarterConsumer.com’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. TheSmarterConsumer.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, TheSmarterConsumer.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when TheSmarterConsumer.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of TheSmarterConsumer.com, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of thesmarterconsumer.com and have supplied your email address, TheSmarterConsumer.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with TheSmarterConsumer.com and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. TheSmarterConsumer.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Aggregated Statistics
TheSmarterConsumer.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. TheSmarterConsumer.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, TheSmarterConsumer.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, TheSmarterConsumer.com uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. TheSmarterConsumer.com uses cookies to help TheSmarterConsumer.com identify and track visitors, their usage of thesmarterconsumer.com, and their website access preferences. TheSmarterConsumer.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using TheSmarterConsumer.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of TheSmarterConsumer.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to TheSmarterConsumer.com’s use of cookies.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with TheSmarterConsumer.com – by purchasing TheSmarterConsumer.com’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, TheSmarterConsumer.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with TheSmarterConsumer.com. TheSmarterConsumer.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Our Collection And Use Of Personal Information
Personal Information is information you provide us that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person, such as your name, email address, phone numbers and tax identification number.
You may be asked to provide Personal Information when you interact with TheSmarterConsumer.com, Online Ads, or one of TheSmarterConsumer.com’s related companies, such as in connection with a completed or abandoned transaction or a request for information from TheSmarterConsumer.com. TheSmarterConsumer.com and its related companies may share your Personal Information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy.
TheSmarterConsumer.com may supplement the Personal Information you provide with Personal Information available from other sources, such as public databases, data aggregators, and other commercially available sources.
Any personal information that you submit at the Website remains your property. However, by submitting that information to us, you grant to us the right to use your personal information for any legal purpose including, without limitation: a) effectuating a purchase from TheSmarterConsumer.com that you make at the Website; b) transferring your personal information to a third party to effectuate a purchase from a third party advertiser at the Website; c) marketing purposes such as sharing your information with third party advertisers, partners, and associates; d) providing promotional offers to you by means of e-mail advertising, telemarketing, text messaging, direct mail marketing, pop-ups, pop-unders and/or online banner advertising. If you would like to be removed from these programs, please follow the opt-out instructions in these programs. Your email address will only be shared with our mailing partner.
By filling out or submitting a registration form or partial registration form you are consenting to receive offers from us and third marketers via email, telemarketing postal mail and or SMS text message wireless or other mobile offering to your cell phone. You understand that your wireless carrier’s standard charges and rates apply to these messages.
For SMS text messages, you may remove our information by replying ‘stop’, ‘end’, or ‘quit’ to the SMS text message you have received and we will remove your personal information within 10 days of receiving such request; e) tracking compliance with our Terms and Conditions; and f) for validation, suppression, content improvement and feedback purposes. You specifically authorize, and provide your express consent to receive, telemarketing calls from us and our third-party marketing partners, including auto-dialed calls, on your landline telephone and/or your cell phone (if number was provided). You understand that wireless carrier standard rates may apply to any calls to your cell phone. You agree that TheSmarterConsumer.com may contact you at any time with updates and/or any other information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in connection with your continued use of the Website.
We also reserve the right to release current or past member information in the event that we believe that this Website is being or has been used to commit unlawful acts, if the information is subpoenaed, if TheSmarterConsumer.com is sold or acquired or when we deem it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when we, in our sole discretion, determine the disclosure to be appropriate, including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, TheSmarterConsumer.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in TheSmarterConsumer.com’s sole discretion. TheSmarterConsumer.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Request For Information
If you have any questions or concerns about TheSmarterConsumer.com’s Privacy Policy, please contact us:
TheSmarterConsumer
info@thesmarterconsumer.com
(786) 540-8815