Updated: November 14, 2023
The Big Deal respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit The Big Deal website or mobile application and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website or mobile application. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our website or mobile application after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or mobile application or subscribe to our newsletter. When registering on our site or mobile application, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address or zip code. This is known as a form of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) and represents information that can be used to identify or locate a single person. We protect all data but, most notably PII.
We may also collect the following categories of information from you, directly or through our ad server or our other online data partners or vendors:
- Additional identifiers, i.e., username, mobile device ID, Internet Protocol address.
- Age, date of birth, gender.
- Internet or other similar network activity.
- Geolocation data.
- Cookie information, for example your unique browser ID (universal identifier or similar IDs when applicable);
- Technical information about your device, such as browser, operating system, and screen size;
- Pseudonymous ID of audience segmentation (if the website uses this type of system);
- Information about the other identifiers assigned to your device (IDFA, AAID);
- Information about the user’s activity on the device, including web pages and mobile apps visited or used.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site or mobile application.
If you choose to use our mobile application (“app”), data about what you visit in our app and how long you stay there is made available to us. We may or may not use that information but when we do, it will be to improve the experience of all mobile users within the app. We may – in some cases – anonymize and aggregate that data and make it available to third-party providers.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience. Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
- To improve our website or mobile application. We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
- To create a user account, and to optimize ad and content delivery to our website and mobile application users by geographic location.
- To optimize ad and content delivery to The Big Deal website and mobile application users, including by areas of interest and geographic location.
- To determine the country in which you are located for the purpose of General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) compliance and other uses.
- As described in the privacy policy of our ad server, linked in this policy.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We use secure computing practices to safeguard personal information we collect to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure.
Our ethical standards and employee policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information. Our business practices limit employee access to confidential information and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes, and transactions.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables sites or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools to you in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf, except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell or trade your PII without providing you advance notice. We may share your PII data with trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website and mobile application, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or other’s rights, property, or safety. Non-PII visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. In some cases, we may share hashed or obfuscated email addresses to better augment what data is shown to you based on geographical information and other preference patterns. Your email address or any other PII is never shared in its raw form.
Third party links
At our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website or mobile application. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and mobile application and welcome any feedback about these sites.
We also may be compensated in exchange for featured placement of certain sponsored products and services, or your clicking on certain links posted on our website and mobile application.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website or mobile application, and not to information collected offline.
Your consent
By using our site, you consent to our website privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, mobile application, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Opting Out
If you would rather not receive marketing emails from us, please let us know by contacting us as indicated below. You may opt out of specific communications (such as marketing emails) by emailing your request to: chris@thebigdealsf.com
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the email address below: chris@thebigdealsf.com
