Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 12, 2011

MadDeal understands your concerns about how your personal information is used. We respect your trust and will use information about you carefully and responsibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting MadDeal, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

What Personal Information About Users Does MadDeal Gather?

The information we learn from users helps us personalize and continually improve your experience using MadDeal. Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We may receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You provide most such information when you register; provide account details; participate in a contest or questionnaire; interact with a merchant from whom you have purchased something through our website; or communicate with customer service. You can choose not to provide certain information, however, you might not be able to take advantage of certain features of our website. We use the information you provide for such purposes as customizing your experience, improving our website, communicating with you, ensuring that purchases that you may make are handled properly, and preventing counterfeiting.
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Examples of the information we may collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information, such as browser type, version and timezone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; pages you viewed; and the telephone number used to call our customer service number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Use of Cookies

MadDeal may store cookies on your computer to facilitate and customize your experience. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide certain features. We use cookies because they save you time while navigating the Site and help us track and target User interests in order to provide a better, more customized experience. Cookies also allow us to collect Automatic Information from you, like which pages you visit and what links you click. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, however, it is possible to change your browser settings so that your browser declines cookies. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the Website of its manufacturer. If you decline to accept cookies it is possible that some parts of the Site may not work properly.

Does MadDeal Share the Information It Receives?

Except with your consent and as set out below, we will not sell, license, trade or rent your personal information to or with others. We facilitate the provision of products or services and offers for products or services by various types of merchants (such as restaurants and other retail merchants). We share some of your personally identifiable information with merchants from whom you have purchased something to allow them to provide the products or services to the correct individuals and to allow them to keep track of what they have provided. Sharing this information will allow these merchants to contact you directly should they choose to do so. We will only share personally identifiable information with a merchant if you purchase something relating to that particular merchant.

We may disclose or share non-personally identifiable information with partners, advertisers, merchants and/or prospective merchants to help explain our business and the effectiveness of our business or for promotional purposes. For example, we may disclose aggregated demographic information which does not include any personally identifiable information.

MadDeal may disclose personal information to third party providers of MadDeal , including third parties engaged to assist us in providing services (including but not limited to software development, website development and hosting, data processing, transaction processing services, document management and office administration) to you or to carry out one or more of the uses described above. These service providers are prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance and are required to protect personal information disclosed by MadDeal and to comply with the general privacy principles describes in this Privacy Policy.

MadDeal reserves the right to disclose personal information to a third party if a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order legally requires or authorizes us to do so.

MadDeal also reserves the right to disclose and / or transfer personal information to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession), lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of MadDeal or of any of the business or assets or shares of MadDeal or a division thereof.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We protect the security of your sensitive information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you enter on certain pages of the Site that handle sensitive information.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and your computer. It is recommended that you do not share your password(s) with anyone and are sure to sign off when you have finished using a shared computer.

Which Information Can I Access?

If you request access to your personal information, subject to certain exceptions, MadDeal will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and will provide you with a summary of that information. If MadDeal determines not to provide you access to your personal information, we will provide an explanation.

You can help us maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us of any changes to this information. You may log into your account and update your personal information or contact MadDeal info@MadDeal.com to request access to or to make a correction or update to your personal information.

If you request access to your personal information, subject to certain exceptions, MadDeal will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and will provide you with a summary of that information. If MadDeal determines not to provide you access to your personal information, we will provide an explanation.

You can help us maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us of any changes to this information. You may log into your account and update your personal information or contact MadDeal info@MadDeal.com to request access to or to make a correction or update to your personal information.

Are Children Allowed to Use MadDeal?

Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use MadDeal in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or guardian. We will never knowingly collect the personal information of minors.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit MadDeal your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the province of Ontario. If you have any concern about privacy at MadDeal, please contact us at info@MadDeal .com, and we'll try to resolve it.

Our business may change or adapt and our Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use will change also. You should check our Site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and such changes will take effect immediately upon being posted to the Site, however, we stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected users.