Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us and we take precautions to insure it. We at Make Shopping Count strive to create relationships with advertising and fulfillment partners that believe in and respect your privacy, too. While we do not control the third-party websites of our partners, we do strongly encourage our partners to post Privacy Policies clearly and conspicuously and to protect the information of their users. Individually identifiable information about you is not willfully disclosed to anyone without first receiving your permission, as explained in this Privacy Policy. All the staff at Make Shopping Count, as well as their families and friends, are Make Shopping Count users. Rest assured, your personal information will be protected the same way as we would protect our own or that of the people who are closest to us.

Scope: This privacy policy applies to information, including personal information, collected about you by Make Shopping Count, its websites, its software available from those websites, and its affiliates.

Highlights:

Information Collection – We collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, including:

• When you provide information to us directly.
• When you visit our site or use our products and services.
• Information Uses – We use your personal information to validate your identity, communicate with you, provide you with a customized web experience, and to fulfill legal and regulatory obligations.
• Contact Us - Make Shopping Count encourages you to provide us with feedback regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact info@makeshoppingcount.com or send mail to the following address: MSC Associates LLC, 1712 Pioneer Ave. Suite 864, Cheyenne, WY 82001.

Information Collection: We collect non-personally identifiable information (non-PII) and personally identifying information (PII) from our customers and visitors to our websites and from users of our downloadable applications. We only collect PII when a customer explicitly chooses to provide it, as when registering with Make Shopping Count and emailing Make Shopping Count through our online contact form. If we do combine the non-personally identifiable information with personally identifiable information, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information (PII) under this Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Personal Information (PII): We collect and store Personal Information when you register to become a Make Shopping Count user, ask a question, complete a form, or send us an email. We use your personal information to provide you with a customized web profile, validate your identity, improve our products, notify you of important updates, respond to your requests, and to fulfill legal and regulatory obligations. The products and preferences you have set up in your Make Shopping Count account will be used for internal market research activities as deemed necessary by Make Shopping Count. Your PII information will not be supplemented from any other source. None of your personal information is ever shared with any third party without your permission. We collect PII in the following ways: Contact Us Form: When you use the Contact Us form on learn.makeshoppingcount.com, we collect your email and browser information in order to answer your question appropriately. We do not store this information and only use it to respond to your question or provide you with technical support.

Registration: During the registration process, you have the option to register with Facebook, Apple, and Google or to create your own profile. Registration is essential so the user can track their contributions. It also ensures the revenue generated by each user is distributed to the charities they support.

• Create a Profile: If you elect to create your own account, we ask you to provide your name and email address and to create a password to maintain total transparency.
• You will have the option to opt out of marketing emails, such as promotional deals and discounts from our partner retailers.

Age Restrictions on Make Shopping Count User: In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not allow the use of our products or collect PII from any persons under the age of 18. Additionally, we take measures to remove our content from individuals under the age of 18 and remove any stored information about the person from our database.

Updating Your Personal Information: A user may access their personally identifiable information through a secure login on our website. If your personally identifiable information changes, you may correct or make updates in the “My Profile” section of our website. If you should no longer desire our services, you may delete or deactivate your personally identifiable information by emailing us at info@makeshoppingcount.com or contacting us through the mail at: MSC Associates LLC, 1712 Pioneer Ave. Suite 864, Cheyenne, WY 82001.

Collection and Use of Information by Make Shopping Count Websites (non-PII): Some of the information Make Shopping Count receives about your visit to makeshoppingcount.com, and any white-label branded Make Shopping Count website may be used for our internal research and to help us improve the site and the services Make Shopping Count offers to its customers. In general, the Internet addresses of computers, also known as IP addresses, are logged to track user sessions on an anonymous basis. Make Shopping Count analyzes this data for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of our site users are visiting, how long they spend there, browser type, and server load. The IP address tracking is done in the aggregate form and we do not link this information to personally identifiable information. This information is collected automatically by almost all major web servers.

We may use the non-PII information listed above for the following purposes:

• Fulfill your requests for products and services
• Manage your user account and preferences
• Analyze use of and improve our website, products, and services
• Facilitate use of our website
• Offer promotions and updates from our partners that may be of interest to you
• Customize the content that you see on our website
• Identify and protect against fraudulent transactions and other misuses of our website and
• Ad targeting
• Market research
• Enforce our Terms of Services

Collection of PII from Third Party Affiliates: We engage in business relations with third-party companies and affiliate providers and offer unique services to members of such companies within a private label environment. In turn, some pages of our website may contain both the Make Shopping Count brand and the third-party brand. The Third Party may not use the personalized services to collect any PII and is prohibited from doing so. This Privacy Policy applies to all the pages in the personalized environment.

We reserve the right to share your PII as required by law and when we believe that it is necessary to protect the rights of our company and/or comply with a legal guideline, court mandates, or legal process served on our website.

We also allow users to register for our product using Facebook Connect, Apple, and Google. We treat information obtained from such sources as we would information obtained from a registration form. We will not use the information submitted by the user for any purpose outside of those previously stated in the privacy agreement.

Cookies: When you register on the Make Shopping Count website, we send a small file to your computer that uniquely identifies your preferences. This file is called a cookie. We use this cookie to identify you as a Make Shopping Count user and it facilitates the display of the preferences, settings, and customization options that you have selected for your Make Shopping Count product(s). Your browser is probably set up by default to accept cookies, including Make Shopping Count cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being sent to your computer. You should be aware, however, that some of Make Shopping Count’s features may not function properly if you disable cookies on your computer.

Information Security: To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, Make Shopping Count has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure all personal information that Make Shopping Count collects online. These security measures include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices, and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store your personal data. In addition, we restrict access to personal information only to Make Shopping Count employees and contractors who need to know that information to operate, develop or improve our services. These parties are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution if they fail to meet these obligations. Unfortunately, no security system can be 100% secure. With that said, Make Shopping Count cannot guarantee the security of any information provided to us in connection with the information that we collect through our website.

Links and Recommended Sites Make Shopping Count products contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to Make Shopping Count products and websites. Make Shopping Count makes no representations or warranties about, nor is it responsible for, the privacy practices of other websites. When you enter a linked website (via our products or site), Make Shopping Count encourages you to read the Privacy Policy of that linked website, as its Privacy Policy may differ substantially from that of makeshoppingcount.com.

Changes to Make Shopping Count’s Privacy Policy By using Make Shopping Count products and our website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as we have outlined in this Policy and to Make Shopping Count’s user agreement. Make Shopping Count may decide to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will send you a notification of the material change upon installation of update via email or another obvious method, such as posting the notice to your account dashboard. In addition, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. If you do not wish your information to be used under the new Policy, you can delete your account and all associated data at any time.

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