WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

The Great Scavenger Hunt takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
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How The Great Scavenger Hunt Uses Your Personal Information
This policy covers how The Great Scavenger Hunt treats personal information that The Great Scavenger Hunt collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Great Scavenger Hunt products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This privacy policy only applies to The Great Scavenger Hunt
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Great Scavenger Hunt does not own or control, or to people that The Great Scavenger Hunt does not employ or manage.

 

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

General
The Great Scavenger Hunt collects personal information when you register with The Great Scavenger Hunt, when you use The Great Scavenger Hunt products or services, when you visit The Great Scavenger Hunt pages or the pages of certain The Great Scavenger Hunt partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. The Great Scavenger Hunt may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. When you register with The Great Scavenger Hunt and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

The Great Scavenger Hunt collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

The Great Scavenger Hunt automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, The Great Scavenger Hunt cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.

The Great Scavenger Hunt uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

 

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

The Great Scavenger Hunt does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Great Scavenger Hunt under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Great Scavenger Hunt communicate with you about offers from The Great Scavenger Hunt and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information 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 The Great Scavenger Hunt's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if The Great Scavenger Hunt is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Great Scavenger Hunt will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

The Great Scavenger Hunt displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

• The Great Scavenger Hunt does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• The Great Scavenger Hunt advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

The Great Scavenger Hunt works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

COOKIES
The Great Scavenger Hunt may set and access cookies on your computer.
The Great Scavenger Hunt lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to The Great Scavenger Hunt's cookies.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The Great Scavenger Hunt may update this policy without notice or your consent at any time.

  Effective Date: 02/12/10