POINTSKASH PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: September 19, 2022
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how PointsKash, Inc. (“PointsKash,” “us,” “our,” and “we”) collects, uses, and shares information when you interact with us. This Privacy Policy applies to all users of PointsKash’s website as published at www.PointsKash.com (and any other websites with “PointsKash” branding that link to this Privacy Policy), PointsKash’s browser extension, and any mobile-device applications we offer, such as our iOS and Android applications that are branded “PointsKash” and link to, or reference, this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy replaces and supersedes all previous versions of this Privacy Policy for all users (including for those users that registered prior to the Effective Date). If you do not agree to our practices, please do not register, subscribe, create an account, or otherwise interact with the Services. By signing up for, using, or continuing to use the Services, you consent to the privacy practices described in this policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the PointsKash Terms of Use. Capitalized terms that are not defined in the Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Use.
Our Privacy Policy is organized as follows:
We may ask you to provide information when you register, subscribe, or create an account for our Services, link your PointsKash account to a retail loyalty card or loyalty program, contact PointsKash for customer service purposes, or otherwise interact with or use the Services. We may collect certain types of information, including information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, a picture, email address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, state issued ID number, Social Security number, geographic location, mobile device data (as described below), and information that does not identify you personally. We may collect the following types of information:
In many cases, the information we collect using cookies and other tools is used in non-identifiable ways, without any reference to your identity. For example, we use information we collect about users to optimize our Services and understand its traffic and usage patterns. In other cases, we associate the information we collect using cookies and related technologies with information that identifies you. In that case, this Privacy Policy governs how we use that information. Additionally, if you have visited our mobile website, and if the settings on your location-aware device allow us to receive Location Information, we will collect that automatically. If we associate Location Information with other information that identifies you, this Privacy Policy governs how we would use that information, too.
Please review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings if you wish to do so. However, please be aware that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from our Services, you may not be able to utilize the features of our Services to their fullest potential.
Finally, please scroll down to the “Your Choices” section below, under the heading “cookies,” for more information about your cookie-related privacy options.
You use PointsKash as your shopping companion, and we and our partners will use the information we collect from and about you in many ways to help you shop and save money. This includes using the information in creative ways so that you may be provided with shopping-related services, advertising and marketing that may be of particular interest to you. PointsKash and our partners use information to:
Merchants and Business Partners. We work with various partners so they can provide shopping-related services, promotions, advertising, and marketing to you when you use our Services. To facilitate these activities, we may share information about you with our partners. You may be able to adjust how we share information by changing options within the Services (please see “Your Choices” below). We encourage PointsKash’s merchants and business partners to adopt and post their privacy policies. The use of your information by such parties is governed by their privacy policies and is not subject to our control. When you choose to interact with a PointsKash merchant or business partner, we encourage you to read any privacy policy they may have posted.
Other Third Parties. PointsKash shares the following information with other third parties: (i) hashed information, device identifiers, or location information, and (ii) information needed by third party service providers to assist us with internal management of our Services (for example, to detect and prevent fraud). We share such information with third parties to assist us in carrying out the purposes described in Section 2 above. Third parties PointsKash shares information with may engage in Online Behavioral Advertising and the collection of Multi-Site Data as defined by the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may share your information to effect a corporate transaction involving PointsKash, including a merger, acquisition, or otherwise, and to support the sale or transfer of our business assets.
As Required by Law, to Enforce Laws and Similar Disclosures. We may disclose your information, including information that identifies you, to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action; when required or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing and legal compliance functions.
Analytics. We may use third party services (such as Google Analytics, AppsFlyer and Singular) to help us understand how visitors interact with our Services and to help improve our user experience. Google provides additional privacy options regarding cookie use described at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/; AppsFlyer’s privacy options are provided at https://www.appsflyer.com/legal/cookie-policy/; and Singular’s privacy options are described at https://www.singular.net/privacy-policy/. We use other third party services, such as The Trade Desk, to assist with targeted advertising. The Trade Desk provides additional privacy options described at https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/privacy.
Aggregated Data. PointsKash may also disclose information about you that does not identify you personally. For example, we may provide our merchants, business partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated data, statistical data, and/or anonymized data.
Consent. We may also share your information with your consent.
We think that you benefit from a more personalized experience when we know more about you and the kinds of offers you like. However, you can limit the information you provide to PointsKash, and you can limit the communications that PointsKash sends to you. For further information about your specific rights to any personal information that PointsKash collects about you, please refer to Section 9 – Privacy Notice.
Email. You may manage your email preferences by clicking “unsubscribe” on any email communication we send you. You may choose to subscribe to some types of messages, and you may choose to unsubscribe from others.
Cookies. You may manage how your browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting its privacy and security settings. Please note that if you disable cookies, you may be unable to access some customized features of our Services. You can opt-out of being targeted by certain third party advertising companies online at www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. PointsKash honors these ad tracking opt-out requests.
Mobile. Some of the features of the Services may enable PointsKash to access and collect information about your current or past location in order to personalize the Services for you and provide other features of the Services (“Location-based Features”). In order to use Location-based Features, you must give PointsKash permission to use your geo-location through your device. PointsKash may access your geo-location using a variety of means, including GPS, IP address, or cell tower location. You may opt-out of using Location-based Features. Alternatively, you may adjust the settings on your mobile device to prevent the sharing of precise Location-based Information. You may also manage how your mobile device or mobile browser handles cookies and related technologies by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings. If you choose not to allow PointsKash to use your location information or disable PointsKash’s Location-based Features on your device under settings, you will not be able to utilize certain features of the Service.
You may also opt-out of remarketing and third-party advertising campaigns by emailing PointsKash at Admin@pointsKash.com and adding “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” to the subject line.
Web Push Notifications. At any time, you may also opt-out of Web Push Notifications by emailing PointsKash at Admin@pointsKash.com and adding “Do Not Send Web Push Notifications” to the subject line.
PointsKash’s SMS Programs. By providing us with your mobile telephone number, you consent to receive SMS text messages at that number as requested for account verification, authentication and other purposes related to the Services. You may also receive an SMS from PointsKash if you are invited by another user to join PointsKash. You can stop receiving SMS messages at any time by texting “STOP” to messages received from PointsKash. After you send the SMS message “STOP” to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. For more information, please visit our SMS Terms and Conditions.
Opt-out from Cross-App and Cross-Site Interest-Based Advertising. Some of our advertising partners are members of the Networking Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance. Please visit these organizations’ opt-out pages to learn about how you may opt-out of receiving web-based personalized ads from member companies. You can access any settings offered by your mobile operating system to limit ad tracking or install the DAA’s AppChoices app to learn more about how you may opt-out of receiving personalized ads in mobile apps.
Keeping your profile information current helps ensure that we provide you with the best offers available through our merchants and business partners. You may update or correct your profile information and preferences at any time by accessing your Settings through the PointsKash app.
If you want to close your account or have other questions or requests, or if you would like to access or request a correction to any other information that we may have about you, please contact us at privacy@PointsKash.com.
Please note that while your changes are reflected promptly in our active user databases, we may retain all information you submit for as long as needed to fulfill a legitimate business need or as required by law, including for transaction backup and archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, compliance with legal obligations, dispute resolution, enforcing our agreements, and analytics.
We use and upgrade certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards that are designed to improve the integrity and security of your information. However, for example, it is impossible to completely eliminate the possibility of data breaches by hackers using illegal techniques.
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use information from children under 13 years of age (our Terms of Use require that users be at least 18 years old), and no part of the Services are directed to children. If you learn that a child has provided us with their information in violation of this Privacy Policy, please alert us to the concern at privacy@PointsKash.com
The Services are hosted in the United States and Puerto Rico and are intended only for users located within the United States and Puerto Rico. PointsKash’s Terms of Use restrict use of the Services to the United States and Puerto Rico. If you violate the Terms of Use and use the Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing, and by providing your information on the Services you consent to that transfer, storage, and processing.
On January 1, 2020, California’s new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), became effective. The CCPA provides rights to California residents regarding how their data is collected, held, processed, licensed, and sold. This data includes California residents’ “Personal Information,” which the CCPA defines as information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Subject to certain restrictions, residents of California have the right, among others, to know what of their Personal Information is sold or disclosed to third parties, the right to access their Personal Information that businesses have collected, the right to opt-out of the sale of their Personal Information, and the right to delete their Personal Information.
PointsKash takes data collection and privacy seriously. As such, in an effort to be transparent about PointsKash’s data collection practices, and despite the fact that the CCPA only applies to California residents, the rights afforded under the CCPA are rights that any PointsKash user in any state can choose to exercise. Each of these rights can be exercised by requesting in an email to privacy@pointsKash.com.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
PointsKash collects a variety of information that may be considered Personal Information. In particular, PointsKash has collected the following from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION POINTSKASH COLLECTS ON SAVERS:
CATEGORIES OF SOURCES FROM WHICH POINTSKASH COLLECTS PERSONAL INFORMATION:
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION (AGGREGATED OR DEIDENTIFIED) POINTSKASH SELLS TO THIRD PARTIES:
CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES TO WHOM POINTSKASH SELLS PERSONAL INFORMATION (AGGREGATED OR DEIDENTIFIED):
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION (AGGREGATED OR DEIDENTIFIED) DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTIES FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE:
EXERCISING RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA
To exercise any of the rights under the CCPA, please submit a verifiable request to us by emailing privacy@pointsKash.com. Only you, or a person authorized to submit a verifiable request on your behalf pursuant to the law of the State in which you live, may make a verifiable request related to your Personal Information.
DISCLOSURES
RIGHT TO OPT-OUT
You have the right to direct PointsKash to not sell your Personal Information to third parties at any time. This is referred to as the “right to opt out.” As discussed above, PointsKash only sells aggregates or deidentified data to third parties. If you choose to opt-out of the sharing of your anonymized information, PointsKash will no longer send your anonymized and/or de-identified information to third parties. You can choose, at any time, to opt back into the sale of your anonymized and/or de-identified information. To opt-out of (or opt back in to) the sharing of your anonymized and/or deidentified information with third parties, please email PointsKash and request so at privacy@pointskash.com
RIGHT TO KNOW
You have the right to receive information about the types of Personal Information that PointsKash sells or discloses to third parties. This is referred to as the “right to know.” Specifically, this right allows users to ask PointsKash (a) what are the categories of Personal Information that PointsKash collects about me? (b) what are the categories of my Personal Information that PointsKash sells to third parties? (c) what are the categories of third parties that PointsKash sells this information to, and (d) what are the categories of Personal Information that are disclosed to third parties for a business purpose? Each of these four questions must be answered by PointsKash when you exercise your right to know. PointsKash will disclose this information to you within 45 days of you exercising your right to know. If you choose to exercise this right, you will receive both an email confirming PointsKash’s receipt of your request, and a follow-up email with the information addressing these questions. To exercise your right to know, please email PointsKash at privacy@pointskash.com.
RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. If you exercise your rights under the CCPA, PointsKash will not do any of the following: (a) deny you any goods or services; (b) charge you a different price or rate for PointsKash’s goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or by imposing penalties; (c) provide to you a different level or quality of goods or services; or (d) suggest to you that you will receive a different price or rate for PointsKash’s goods or services or a different level or quality of PointsKash’s goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material terms. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (CA Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email PointsKash at privacy@pointskash.com.
RIGHT TO ACCESS
You have the right to request access to all categories of Personal Information that PointsKash has collected about you, and all the specific pieces of Personal Information that PointsKash has collected about you through your use of the PointsKash Services. This is referred to as the “right to access.” If you choose to exercise this right, you will receive both an email confirming PointsKash’s receipt of your request, and a follow-up email with the information addressing these questions. PointsKash must also, whether you exercise your rights or not, disclose to you (a) the categories of Personal Information collected about you, (b) the purposes for which your Personal Information is used, and (c) refrain from collecting or using additional categories of Personal Information about you without proper notice. If you exercise this right, the information that PointsKash provides to you will be in a portable and readily readable format. To exercise your right to access, please email PointsKash at privacy@pointskash.com.
RIGHT TO DELETE
You have the right to request that PointsKash delete all the Personal Information it has collected from you, subject to certain exceptions for business purposes. This is referred to as the “right to deletion.” However, when you do exercise this right, please know that your user experience within the app will look different and any personalization will be lost. PointsKash will not be able to send you targeted offers for items that may be of interest to you and you may not receive personalized recommendations or emails.
Also, when you exercise your right to deletion, any cash back rewards that are pending approval (if any) in your PointsKash account at the time of deletion will be deleted, and you will lose those pending rewards. In addition, your total lifetime earnings will be reset to the amount of Cash Back rewards in your PointsKash account at the time of deletion. For all intents and purposes, when you exercise the right to deletion, you will thereafter be treated as a new PointsKash user; you will, of course, retain in your PointsKash account any Cash Back rewards you previously earned and are not pending approval, but all other personalization within the app up to that date may be irrevocably lost. To exercise your right to deletion, please email PointsKash at privacy@pointskash.com.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
We will post and alert you to any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this page, and the revised version will be effective as described in our Terms of Use.
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