RateIt.com, Inc. (“RateIt”) values its users' privacy. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") will help you understand how we collect and use personal information from those who visit our websites and their sub-domains, and what we will and will not do with the information we collect. Our Policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with RateIt of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet, but to exceed, most existing privacy standards. We reserve the right to make changes to this Policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page. If at any point in time RateIt decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether to permit the use of their information in this separate manner. This Policy applies to RateIt, its websites, sub-domains, subsidiaries and affiliated websites, and it governs any and all data collection and usage by us. By using www.RateIt.com, you are consenting to the data collection procedures expressed in this Policy. Please note that this Policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that RateIt does not control, nor by individuals not employed or managed by us. If you visit a website that we mention or link to, be sure to review its privacy policy before providing the site with information. It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statements of any website you choose to use or frequent to better understand the way in which websites garner, make use of and share the information collected. Specifically, this Policy will inform you of the following 1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through our website; 2. Why we collect personally identifiable information and the legal basis for such collection; 3. How we use the collected information and with whom it may be shared; 4. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data; and 5. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
It is always up to you whether to disclose personally identifiable information to us, although if you elect not to do so, we reserve the right not to register you as a user or provide you with any products or services. This website collects various types of information, such as:
In addition, RateIt may collect non-personal anonymous demographic information, such as age, gender, birth date, zip code, household income, political affiliation, race and religion, as well as the type of browser you are using, IP address, or type of operating system, which will assist us in providing and maintaining superior quality service. You may be asked to submit non-Personal information with Personal information or separately. RateIt may also deem it necessary, from time to time, to follow websites that our users may frequent to gleam what types of services and products may be the most popular to customers or the general public. RateIt collects personal and non-personal information in two ways: (1) Information you provide; and (2) Information we received from your use of our services.
We collect Personal Information when you:
When you use our services, we may collect certain information for the purpose of improving our products and services, troubleshooting bugs, providing the services, tracking usage and improving the overall performance of the services. Such information may include IP addresses, profile information, aggregate user data, technical session information, information about your computer, hardware, or mobile device, demographic information including gender, zip code, and navigational data including log files, server logs, and other data. If you arrived at our website via a link from another webpage, we may receive aggregate or otherwise anonymous statistical information about your visit to our websites.
When you use RateIt services, we collect certain information by automated or electronic means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags and web beacons, browser analysis tools, and web server logs. As you use our website, your browser communicates with servers operated by us, our business partners and service providers to coordinate and record the interactivity and fill your requests for services and information. The information from cookies and related technology is stored in web server logs and in web cookies kept on your computers, which are then transmitted back to our website by your computers. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
We are collecting your data for several reasons:
The data we collect from you will be stored for no longer than necessary. The length of time we retain said information will be determined based upon the following criteria: the length of time your personal information remains relevant; the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate that we have fulfilled our duties and obligations; any limitation periods within which claims might be made; any retention periods prescribed by law or recommended by regulators, professional bodies or associations; the type of contract we have with you, the existence of your consent, and our legitimate interest in keeping such information as stated in this Policy.
RateIt may collect and may make use of personal information to fulfill requests for RateIt products and services, assist in the operation of our website, to ensure delivery of the services you need and request and track redemption of products or services and perform other analytics. RateIt may send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins, or marketing. At times, we may find it necessary to use personally identifiable information as a means to keep you informed of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from www.RateIt.com. RateIt may collect and make use of personal information to manage our everyday business needs such as website administration, fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms and Conditions or to comply with the law. RateIt may also be in contact with you with regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or potential future services that may be offered. RateIt may provide customers with offers for products and services from RateIt, including offers based on variables such as state and anticipated customer interests. RateIt may use personal information to evaluate eligibility of customers for certain offers, products or services and may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of our other external business partners with regards to a potential new offer which may be of interest to you. If you consent or show interest in presented offers, then, at that time, specific identifiable information, such as name, email address and/or telephone number, may be shared with the third party. RateIt may use aggregate anonymous data from our Services used for benchmarking, to improve the Services and find it beneficial to share specific data with our merchants and trusted business partners in an effort to conduct statistical analysis, provide you with email and/or postal mail, deliver support and/or arrange for deliveries to be made. RateIt may use various third-party social media features including but not limited to and other interactive programs. These may collect your IP address and require cookies to work properly. These services are governed by the privacy policies of the providers and are not within RateIt's control. If you do not want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by sending an email to support@RateIt.com. From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices to our customers regarding material changes to our terms, conditions, and policies or purchased products and services which you may not opt out of receiving if you are a current customer.
RateIt will NOT share, sell, rent or trade Personal Information with third parties for their own promotional purposes, and will only share Personal Information as outlined herein or with your consent. RateIt may not use or disclose the information provided by you except under the following circumstances:
We may disclose your Personal Information to our service providers that provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf and processing payments. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them. We may aggregate and/or anonymize information collected via our services or other means so that the information does not identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated, anonymized, and other non-Personal information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any legal purpose.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect against the unauthorized access, destruction or alteration of your information. Despite our best efforts, however, no security measures are 100% impenetrable. RateIt expressly makes no guaranteed protection of your personal information.
You can access, update and delete your Personal Information, including financial information, by sending us an email at support@RateIt.com.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
When you use or interact with any of our services, you consent to the data processing, sharing, transferring and uses of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. Regardless of the country where you reside, you authorize us to transfer, process, store and use your information in countries other than your own in accordance with this Privacy Policy and to provide you with services. Some of these countries may not have the same data protection safeguards as the country where you reside.
Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:
In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can email or call us or visit our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section. RateIt will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
We do not sell personal information. However, service providers we partner with may use technology that "sells" personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by emailing legal@RateIt.com. Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser you use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use. If you have any questions, concerns or would like to report a complaint regarding a violation of CCPA, you can contact us:
By Phone: 800-296-7104
By Email: legal@RateIt.com
By Mail:
RateIt.com, Inc.
c/o Legal Counsel
21200 W Oxnard St,#429
Woodland Hills, ca 91367
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.
RateIt's operations are located primarily in the United States. If you provide information to us, the information will be transferred out of the European Union (EU) / European Economic Area (EEA) and sent to the United States. (The adequacy decision on the EU-US Privacy became operational on August 1, 2016. This framework protects the fundamental rights of anyone in the EU whose personal data is transferred to the United States for commercial purposes. It allows the free transfer of data to companies that are certified in the US under the Privacy Shield.) By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described in this Policy.
Under the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") of the EU you have certain rights as a Data Subject. These rights are as follows:
In addition to the rights above, please rest assured that we will always aim to encrypt and anonymize your personal information whenever possible. We also have protocols in place in the unlikely event that we suffer a data breach and we will contact you if your personal information is ever at risk. For more details regarding our security protections see the section below or visit our website at www.RateIt.com.
You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible. If you have any questions, concerns or would like to report a complaint regarding a violation of GDPR, you can contact us:
Email: legal@RateIt.com
Telephone: (800) 296-7104
Mailing Address:
RateIt.com, Inc.
6320 Canoga Ave Ste 200
Woodland Hills, California 91367
RateIt greatly respects your privacy. We do maintain and reserve the right to contact you if needed for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes in RateIt products and services). In certain circumstances, we may use our website, newspapers, or other public means to post a notice.
RateIt's website is NOT directed to, and does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from, children under the age of thirteen (13). If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of thirteen (13), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system's database, or in the alternative, that verifiable parental consent is obtained for the use and storage of such information. Anyone under the age of thirteen (13) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website.
All users and visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communications from us by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe from our website please send an email that you wish to unsubscribe to support@RateIt.com. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe or opt-out. RateIt will continue to adhere to this Policy with respect to any personal information previously collected.
Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. RateIt does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.
RateIt takes precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (e.g. credit card information), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the webpage. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers and servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. This is all done to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of the user's personal information under our control.
By using this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the Privacy Policy Agreement. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, then you should refrain from further use of our sites. In addition, your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you agree and acceptance of such changes.
RateIt may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We may notify you about significant changes in the way we treat your information by sending a notice to you, although we are not required to do so, or we may simply place a notice on the Web Site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without any notice whatsoever to you and for whatever reason we deem appropriate under the circumstances. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement related to our website, please feel free to contact us at the following email, telephone number or mailing address.
Email: support@RateIt.com
Telephone: (800) 296-7104
Mailing Address:
RateIt.com, Inc.
6320 Canoga Ave Ste 200
Woodland Hills, California 91367