At CharitySupporters.com, your privacy is respected.

Protecting your personal information and your privacy is important to us. Since CharitySupporters.com provides services to its members, the collection and use of personal information is fundamental to our business.

Of equal importance is your trust in how CharitySupporters.com handles your personal information. Your trust is earned by CharitySupporters.com's commitment to abide by ten privacy principles which are based on the Canadian federal governments privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

What members should know about CharitySupporters.com's privacy practices.

The information collected by CharitySupporters.com

Personal information is information that refers to the member, specifically.

For any service you obtain as a member, personal information is obtained only for the purposes about which CharitySupporters.com has told you. Such personal information on a member's initial registration may include their email address, name, address, and age in order to help CharitySupporters.com understand a member's interests and what may be appealing to the member.

CharitySupporters.com will use fair and lawful means to collect the member's personal information and will only collect that information which is pertinent and consistent with the purposes for which the information is collected. Such personal information is used to keep track of an individual\s purchases and to credit the correct cause or organization as selected by the member or to better understand the member base as a whole, rather than individually.

When personal information is obtained, or when a member shops or visits one of its merchants, CharitySupporters.com tracks this information to make personalized, relevant offers to its members, based upon the understanding of the buying interests of members. Information supplied to CharitySupporters.com is released only in aggregate or anonymous form.

When a cause registers, personal information is collected and then CharitySupporters.com will follow up to help in their fundraising process. This information is required in order to direct raised funds to the cause.

A member will not be asked for their username, password or other personal information in an unsolicited telephone call, e-mail or letter.

How such information is kept secure.

No credit card information is collected by CharitySupporters.com from you. When a member shops through the CharitySupporters.com website, a member must ensure that the credit card and personal information provided to a CharitySupporters.com merchant is kept strictly secure. A member should always check such merchant's privacy policy to ensure that the member's personal information is being kept secure by such merchant and that such merchant has a secure method of completing your purchase. CharitySupporters.com does not record personal information, such as credit card information or merchant passwords, passed by its members to its merchants

At CharitySupporters.com, access to the members' personal information is restricted to a few selected employees. If disclosure of personal information to one of its merchants by CharitySupporters.com is necessary to enable the provision of their services or products, CharitySupporters.com requires such information to be kept confidential, secure and that use of such information is only for the specific requested services or products. The privacy policies and practices of such merchants are not covered by this privacy policy.

Information that pertains to orders, which may include order numbers and amounts, is the only information which may be shared between CharitySupporters.com and its merchants and may be available to any of CharitySupporters.com, the merchant or third party affiliate program companies for use in accurate donation tracking purposes. Any other request for release of information to others is only made if required by law to protect CharitySupporters.com and its members from losses.

Anti-spamming/e-mail policies

CharitySupporters.com does not support spamming by its members and the member's agreement specifically prohibits same. Incidents of spamming should be reported to CharitySupporters.com for investigation and action at the discretion of CharitySupporters.com.

While CharitySupporters.com does e-mail newsletters or special offers to members on behalf of CharitySupporters.com or its members or other partner organizations, the only other type of email a member may receive will be with respect to the member's account information as to registration or termination of membership. A member can always opt out of any newsletter.

CharitySupporters.com cannot control the offline or online actions of its members or others in respect particularly to e-mail uses. As noted, CharitySupporters.com will use its discretion in the conduct of its investigation into received complaints re spam or other misuse of membership but it will not provide, unless lawfully compelled to provide information about its members and their contact with CharitySupporters.com.

Use of Cookies

Small text files (cookies) are written by a web site to a member's computer. Both session and persistent cookies are used by CharitySupporters.com to identify a member to permit the member to log in to CharitySupporters.com and then to shop without having to log in a second time. These cookies do not retain a member's personal information although they are tied to same. Merchants also use cookies to identify a CharitySupporters.com member but not to identify the member personally.

A member is required to have cookies enabled in order to account for the donations to be given to the cause or organization designated by the member.

Member's responsibilities and choices

CharitySupporters.com may send emails on new offers or special features available through CharitySupporters.com. A member is always offered the choice to unsubscribe from such mailings. A member is free to choose to be an active member or to terminate their membership at any time and may do so by following the directions contained in the emails.

Members are responsible for advising CharitySupporters.com of any changes in addresses of selected causes or organizations. Changes to this privacy policy will be posted at this web site. It is the member's responsibility to check for revisions to this policy or the member's Agreement when the member visits the web site from time to time so that the member is aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.

Managing your settings and preferences

Members can review or update any personal information maintained by CharitySupporters.com by using the posted directions on changing the member's profile or preferences. Once a year a member may receive an e-mail from CharitySupporters.com requesting an update of their information so as to keep their membership current and active.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our Privacy Commitments, you may contact us.