Swagbucks.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Swagbucks.com operates a number of different sites on the Web (each one or all together referred to as "Swagbucks.com Site"). Swagbucks.com is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its user community. The intent of this privacy policy is to detail the information Swagbucks.com might gather about individuals who visit Swagbucks.com. Sites, how that information is used, and our disclosure practices. Please note that this policy applies only to the Swagbucks.com sites, and not to the sites of other companies or organizations to which we provide links.

Anonymous User Information:

Swagbucks.com Sites collects some anonymous information each time you visit so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register with Swagbucks.com before we can collect this anonymous information. The Swagbucks.com Sites do not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or email address, in order for you to use the Swagbucks.com Sites. The Swagbucks.com Sites assign an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that anonymous ID number: the date and time you visited, your search terms, and the links you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. Swagbucks.com analyzes the information to determine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Such aggregated anonymous information is used in our market research surveys, to record statistics behind special offers, our "shop & earn" promotions, electronic recycling and our polls.

Tell-A-Friend

If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about any of our sites, we ask you for your friend's name and email address. Swagbucks.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Swagbucks.com Site. Swagbucks.com does not store the information related to your friends and the one-time email sent pursuant to your input will be our only contact with that person for such input.

Correspondence:

If you contact Swagbucks.com , we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your email address for archival purposes but will not use, transfer or sell your email address.

Third Party Information Gathering:

The Swagbucks.com Sites contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that Swagbucks.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Cookies:

Swagbucks.com may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small data file that a Web site may send to your browser and which may then be stored on your system. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. For the session cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. We use cookie and web beacon technology to track which pages on the Swagbucks.com Sites our visitors view and which Web browsers our visitors use. We may also use cookies to help us provide personalized features and preferences to you within various Swagbucks.com Sites in a way that may be linked to individual user information that you elect to share with us. We also use "action tags" to assist in delivering the cookie. These action tags allow us to compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregate basis, by embedding a random identifying number on each user's browser. We then track where that number shows up on our site.

Cookies help us track your responses to our market research surveys, to record statistics behind special offers, our "shop & earn" promotions, electronic recycling and our polls, however, we will never share such personally identifiable information with third parties except as set forth below under "Sharing."

Sharing:

Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding or administrative legal, a criminal investigation, a court order, or legal process served on our Web site. We may also share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Swagbucks.com or such Swagbucks.com Site's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Mergers; Business Transitions:

In the event Swagbucks.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred, unless such a transfer will violate state or federal law.

Choice/Opt-out:

Our goal is to keep you in control of the personal information you provide to us. Accordingly, you can review, correct, change or remove any personal registration information you provide to Swagbucks.com and that Swagbucks.com controls. In order to "opt-out" and elect not to receive future communications from us, please email us at support@swagbucks.com.

Notification of Changes:

If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post those changes in places deemed appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we would disclose it. If, however, we are going to use Individually Identifiable Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our Web site for at least 30 days.

Special Notification with respect to Children's Privacy (Users under the age of 13):

In response to concerns about protecting children's privacy online, Congress enacted the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), which sets forth rules and procedures governing the ways in which Web sites may collect, use and disclose any personal information for children under the age of 13. In accordance with Swagbucks.com policy and COPPA regulations, we DO NOT:

1. Request or knowingly collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years of age; or
2. Knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years of age with third parties;

It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information given to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately delete the information from our servers
Questions regarding children's privacy should be directed to:

Swagbucks.com

Additional Terms:

You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by these terms and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries).

You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the services by any means other than through the interface that we provide, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with us. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.

You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).
Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with us, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the services for any purpose.

Please note that at any time, we may, in our sole discretion, terminate our legal agreement with you and deny you use of our services if:

(A) you have breached any provision of these terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of these terms); or
(B) we are required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of our services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or
(C) the partner with whom we offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with us or ceased to offer their services to you; or
(D) we is transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service; or
(E) the provision of the Services to you is, in our opinion, no longer commercially viable.

We may make changes to these terms from time to time. When these changes are made, you agree we can provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services. You understand and agree that if you use a Swagbucks Site after the date on which the terms have changed, we will treat your use as acceptance of the updated terms or additional terms.

Sometimes when you use our services, you may use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, these terms do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.

These terms constitute the entire legal agreement between you and our site and govern your use of the services (but excluding any services which we may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between us in relation to the Services.