Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 14, 2011
Section 1. Your Privacy
• 1.1 General. Ricochet Local LLC, Inc. (“Ricochet Local LLC” or
“we”, “our” or “us”) takes very seriously the private nature of
your personally identifying information. The privacy of all
Ricochet Local LLC users is very important. This Privacy Policy
describes how we use the information we obtain when you visit
www.RicochetCoupons.com
and / or
www.RoseCityCoupons.com (the
“Site”) or use the products, services offered through the Site
(collectively, the “Services”). Please read this notice
carefully and do not hesitate to let us know if you have any
questions.
• 1.2 Your Acceptance of this Privacy Policy. By using or
accessing the Site, you are acknowledging and accepting the
practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please note that we
may update this Privacy Policy as we change or develop the Site
or Services. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your
acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy. For this reason,
we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy from time to
time to ensure that you understand and are willing to accept the
current privacy practices of Ricochet Local LLC.
Section 2. How We Use Your Private Information
• 2.1 Email Address. When you sign up for our mailing lists, a
Ricochet Local LLC account, or other service or promotion that
requires registration, you will be required to provide a valid
email address. We will only use this email address to contact
you as part of the transaction process, to send you periodic
emails that you have subscribed to, or for purposes that are
intended to enhance your user experience. We may also
occasionally contact you to obtain feedback on a specific
merchant deal in which you have participated. We will not share
your contact information with third parties, except as provided
in Section 6.1. Ricochet Local LLC will generally ask you to
indicate whether or not you want to receive certain types of
email communication from us, and we will adhere to your
preferences unless we consider a particular communication to be
absolutely necessary. Emails will generally contain a link at
the bottom to be removed from our mailing list.
• 2.2 Facebook. By logging into the Site using your Facebook
credentials, you will be giving Ricochet Local LLC access to
certain general personally identifying information stored in
your Facebook profile. We will not view or store any data
available to us from your Facebook profile without first
obtaining your consent. You will be able to select what
information we obtain from Facebook when registering for your
Ricochet Local LLC account. At various times on Ricochet Local
LLC.com, you will be able to share our content with your
Facebook friends. We do not view or store lists of your friends,
nor do we view or store the specific messages that you send to
your friends. However, we may record the number of times that
particular content has been shared.
Section 3. Sharing functionality
• 3.1 At various times, you will be able to share content on our
site using the share feature. We do not view or store the
specific messages that you send through this feature, but we may
record the number of times that particular content has been
shared.
Section 4. Cookies, GIF Images and Unique URLs
• 4.1 Cookies. Like most sites, Ricochet Local LLC makes use of
browser “cookies.” Cookies are small text files placed on your
computer’s hard disk by our server. They allow us to quickly
check your status as a subscriber and facilitate access to your
preferences. Ricochet Local LLC does not use cookies to retrieve
or track information that is unrelated to the Site or services.
• 4.2 GIF Images. Ricochet Local LLC may also use transparent
GIF images in emails we send to you. We use these images to
track the viewership of emails we send.
• 4.3 Unique URLs. Ricochet Local LLC may also create unique
links in emails that enable us to track on which emails you
click.
Section 5. Your IP Address
• 5.1 We may occasionally collect and store your IP address.
This helps us diagnose problems with our servers, administer our
site, gather non-personally identifying information about our
users, and detect and prevent fraudulent activity.
Section 6. Information sharing
• 6.1 Ricochet Local LLC only shares your personally identifying
information with other companies or individuals outside of
Ricochet Local LLC in limited circumstances.
• 6.1.1 Consent. Except as provided in Section 6.1.2, we require
your consent before we share any of your personally identifying
information.
•6.1.2 Disclosure to Third Parties.
•6.1.2.1 We may provide personally identifying information to
our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted
businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personally
identifying information on our behalf.
•6.1.2.2 We reserve the right to transfer or assign the
personally identifying information we have collected from you in
the event Ricochet Local LLC is acquired by, or mergers into, a
third party, or in the event we undergo any other form of
reorganization. In certain limited circumstances, our business
partners may have a contractual right to obtain a copy of your
contact information and to contact you if Ricochet Local LLC is
unable to fulfill our contractual obligations to those parties.
• 6.1.2.3 We may share your personally identifying information
when we believe in good faith that access, use, preservation or
disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a)
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms
of Service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the
rights, property or safety of Ricochet Local LLC, its users or
the public as required or permitted by law.
Section 7. Usage Information
• 7.1 Ricochet Local LLC may also collect non-personally
identifying, aggregated information about subscribers’ use of
our site. This information is not personally identifiable and
will only be used to find out how visitors to our site use our
service. For example, we may view how much time users spend on
our site, from which other sites users came, and which links to
external sites have been used, among other things. We may share
this data with third parties in an aggregated, non- personally
identifying form. Such information does not identify you
individually.
Section 8. How to access and update
your personal information
• 8.1 Although we take reasonable steps to ensure that all data
we use is accurate, we depend on our users to update or correct
their personally identifying information whenever necessary. We
make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your
personally identifying information and either to correct this
data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request
if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for
legitimate business purposes.
Section 9. Minors
• 9.1 Ricochet Local LLC does not knowingly collect any
information from persons under the age of 18. If we determine
that any content has been uploaded to the Site by someone under
the age of 18, it will be removed. If you are between the ages
of 13 and 18, please ask your parent’s permission before using
the Site and the Service. Some Offers may be subject to further
age limitations.
Section 10. Our Security Precautions
• 10.1 We take the security of your personally indentifying
information seriously. We use secure server software, known as
an SSL certificate, intended to ensure that sensitive personal
and financial information is encrypted. We require all of our
third party partners to use similar technology.
Section 11. Links to other websites
• 11.1 The Site may contain links to other websites. Ricochet
Local LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of third
parties or the content of these websites. If you follow these
links you are responsible for reviewing the privacy policy of
any third party website to determine that your personally
identifying information is protected to your satisfaction.
If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our
website by clicking the “contact us” link.
Ricochet Local LLC, Inc
PO Box 4443
Tualatin, OR 97062
admin@ricochetlocal.com
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