BondRewards is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the site www.bondrewards.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Yohana Vargas at yvargas@bondrewards.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily address, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php

How we keep your personal information private?

United Consumer Benefits Network, Inc., which operates under the registered trademark BondRewards®, is committed to protecting your privacy and to developing technology that gives you the most powerful personalized and secure online experience. You can travel through most of our site without giving us any personal information about yourself. Sometimes, however, we do need information to provide services that you request, and this statement of privacy explains data collection and use in those situations.

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for BondRewards® The purpose of this BondRewards® Privacy Policy is to inform you, as a welcome visitor to BondRewards®, what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit BondRewards®, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information.

For more information, or if you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please send us an e-mail at service@BondRewards.com or you can send correspondence to the following address:

BondRewards 255 California St, 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111

BondRewards® website and email contain links to various other sites. When you click to one of our partner’s links, you will frequently see a BondRewards frame at the top of the page; this is a tool for navigational purposes, it allows you to easily return to the BondRewards website. BondRewards does not share any information with any other website and we are not aware or 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, BondRewards.com. The privacy practices of other websites and companies are not covered by this policy. .

Information Collection and Use

When you visit BondRewards® or click on one of our links, we may automatically record your IP address, operating system, email address and browser version. We use this information to generate usage statistics and to ensure that our site and emails are accessible to the widest possible audience.

We collect information from our users at several different points on our website. The information we collect will be used to occasionally show you special offer and advertisements that are selected to match your interests and to bring you useful software applications and services that we think might make your internet experience more enjoyable. We determine your interests with surveys and registration questions and by collecting information about where you surf and how you search on the web. Depending on which services and applications you use, as well as your preferences, special offers and advertisements may be displayed using popup windows, in search functionality, on browser pages, web pages, and/or sent to you via electronic mail or postal mail. We are continuously working on improved forms of delivery which are also covered by this Privacy policy including, but not limited to, mobile phone delivery, SMS, Podcasts, PDA, Instant Messenger, BLOGS, RSS Feeds and more.

Registration

In order to use all the features of this website, a user may be asked to complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their basic contact information in order to maintain your account. The minimum level of information necessary to participate as a BondRewards® member is your legal name and zip code. Your email address is also required should you wish to enroll or access your account via the internet.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. BondRewards® uses a cookie on its website during registration and at other times, including surveys. Usage of a cookie is linked to personal information and activities while on our site. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to enter their name and email more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users, to display the most appropriate advertisements, and to enhance the experience on our site. For example, we may track the history of various special offers and advertising delivered by us, and your responses to them, in order to deliver fewer and more favorable offers. We also use cookies to identify the partner that was responsible for introducing you to BondRewards® so that we can pay that partner a fee for introducing you. All secure and confidential information will require you to log in using your password. Features such as rewards redemption will require login for your own protection.

If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from BondRewards®, you will be able to view the text on the screens. However, you will not experience a personalized visit nor will you be able to access some of the service offerings on the site. Please be aware that some of our business partners (e.g. advertisers) may use cookies for the purpose of tracking advertising on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

This Privacy statement covers the use of cookies by BondRewards.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any of our advertisers.

Web Beacons

Web beacons are electronic images (also called a "single-pixel GIF"). This technology tells us how many visitors clicked on key elements of our Web site. We may use this technology to access your personally identifiable information; it is also a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about BondRewards® Web site usage. We may include web beacons on popup windows, in search functionality, on browser pages, web pages, or in email messages in order to count how many recipients have viewed these messages.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are stored on our servers along with personally identifiable information. We may also use IP addresses to track abuse of our system. We use log files to improve your experience while at BondRewards.

Sharing

BondRewards® website is framed and co-branded; when you click to one of our partner’s links, you will frequently see a BondRewards frame at the top of the page; this is a tool for navigational purposes, it allows you to easily return to the BondRewards site. Each of these sites may have separate privacy policy and different data-collection practices from BondRewards and we are not responsible for the actions or practices of these third parties, or for the content on these sites. The privacy practices of other websites are not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of their sites.

We do not rent or sell your personal information to anyone without your express consent. When we do share data with our affiliates is in aggregate form and is designed to ensure you are not identified personally. In the event either we or an affiliate are unable to capture your transaction detail, we may need to provide certain of your personal information to the affiliate to validate your transaction with them to ensure that your account is credited with the correct number of BondRewards.

When you identify yourself as a BondRewards® member to one of our affiliated merchants, you are authorizing the merchant and BondRewards® to share transactional information in order to facilitate your membership rewards accounting. You are also authorizing BondRewards® to share your contact information with the merchant to whom you gave your BondRewards® member number. The merchant and BondRewards® will utilize this information in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

Please be sure to understand the privacy policy for each merchant to whom you give your BondRewards® member number. Contact merchants direct to obtain their most updated privacy policies

When we provide you with links in our emails, they may include a special tracking code, unique to you, which allows us to determine which content and advertisements are most popular. We may share this data in aggregate form or in individual form.

Companies placing advertising on BondRewards® site or to whom you can link from BondRewards' site or participating BondRewards® merchants may collect information about you when you view their advertising or access their site or identify yourself to them as our member. BondRewards® does not control this collection or utilize this information unless expressly stated within merchant's site

We partner with other parties to provide email notification services. When users register at our site, we share name, email and other contact information that is necessary for the third parties to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

We will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on BondRewards® (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BondRewards®(c) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or violations of BondRewards® terms of use;, and, (d) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of BondRewards® sites, or the public.

Optional Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level and other information). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and continuing to provide relevant offers to our users via electronic mail.

Refer-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. BondRewards® stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and to track the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us at service@bondrewards.com to request that we remove their name and email address from from our database.

Rewards Programs

If you belong to another rewards program or a charity program, you can earn money or currency for those programs. But, obviously, we may provide information about you back to the program sponsor for the purpose of paying you or awarding you currency . The information is usually your member number or email address - however you have identified yourself on the rewards' site. If you participate in any of our own reward or incentive programs, we track your activity using your email address and share your email address with the reward sponsor and any third parties involved with fulfillment of the reward.

Contact Pages

We use our Contact pages to collect information about you. In the case of customer support questions, we use the information to help diagnose and address consumer questions. Although we collect this information, we may combine this with any information we have about your preferences or interests to provide you a better user experience

Security

BondRewards® is committed to earning and keeping your trust. This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. Our servers are hosted in a secure location, with firewall protection and controlled access.

All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our technicians and customer service representatives) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

Special Offers and Service Alert emails

We send all new members a welcoming email and occasionally send information on products, services, and special deals from our business partners and third party advertisers. We reserve the right to contact you, however, with non-commercial Service Alert emails in case of critical events such as changes or material changes to this Privacy Policy.

We will also send you a monthly email with your current rewards totals along with promotional announcements from our participating merchants, as well as announcements regarding new merchant partners.

BondRewards.com is a free service, in order to maintain an account in good standing we do require you to receive transactional emails with financial information about your BondRewards.com account. You can opt-out of the promotional emails, newsletters and third party-offers by visiting our unsubscribe page.

Updating Personal Information

If a member's personally identifiable information changes (such as address or email), members may log on to the account management function utilizing personal username and password information and make the appropriate changes. We request that you update your account when any of your contact information changes.

If a user no longer desires our service, we ask them to opt-out of our mailings and to cancel their accounts by contacting service@bondrewards.com , Should you cancel your membership, all accumulated rewards that are not redeemed are forfeited and become the property of BondRewards®. See the Terms and Conditions for more information regarding termination of your membership.

Protection of Children's Personal Information

BondRewards® does not publish content that is targeted to children. We do not specifically collect information about children and believe that children should get their parents' consent before giving out any personal information. Furthermore, we do not knowingly accept registrations from persons under the age of 18. If you are concerned about your children providing BondRewards® any personal information without your consent, please opt-out of our mailings by unsubscribing or by contacting service@bondrewards.com., and prevent your children from accessing or using our Web sites and services. We also recommend that parents who are AOL members use AOL's Parental Controls or, if not, other Web filtering technology to supervise their kids' access to the Web.

Notification of Changes to our Privacy Policy and End User License Agreement

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this privacy page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. If so, we will provide you with notice either by displaying an online pop-up communication or sending an email message. It is possible that in some cases you might be required to actively "accept" the new Privacy Policy in order to continue using BondRewards® We will also continue to prominently publish the current BondRewards® Privacy Policy on our web site. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at service@bondrewards.com or at BondRewards®, Privacy Policy Issues, 255 California St, 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111

The Privacy Policy was last updated on September 05, 2006