This website (”poptimal.com”) is operated by Poptimal LLC. Poptimal.com recognizes the importance of maintaining the privacy of our customers (”Customers”), sweepstakes enrollees and other website users (collectively “Users”), and we have posted this privacy policy (”Policy”) to describe our practices regarding the collection and use of information gathered through poptimal.com. This Policy applies only to Users accessing poptimal.com from within the United States. This Policy is effective as of [Insert Date]. We may from time to time update this Policy and invite you to review this page periodically. In the event this Policy changes, we will inform you by posting an updated Policy on this web page. All changes will go into effect on the date that is posted in our Policy. The new Policy will apply to all past and current users of poptimal.com and will replace any prior Policies.

Note: You must be a United States resident 13 years or older or to register as a Member or use poptimal.com.If you are under 18 years old you must be currently enrolled in a high school, college, university, or trade school.

  1. What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use It

Poptimal.com collects personally identifiable information from individuals who provide that information voluntarily and knowingly. This means that we require Users to register or provide information to us in order to view our site.

If you choose enroll in a sweepstakes or contest we may collect the following information about you: name, address, phone number, email address, username, password, birth date. We use the information you supply for the purpose of conducting the sweepstakes. In addition, poptimal.com or its affiliates may from time-to-time contact you via email or regular mail, unless you opt-out as described in this privacy policy.

In certain instances, we may disclose your personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, poptimal.com or others. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires it. In the event of a merger, consolidation or sale or transfer of all or substantially all of our company or its assets, it is possible that all User information collected by poptimal.com will be transferred to the purchaser or the new company.

If a Member wishes to have their account deleted, the Member can send an email requesting the deletion to poptimal.com.

  1. Cookies and Web Beacons

Poptimal.com may use “cookies.” A cookie is a small file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help us determine whether a User has visited poptimal.com before or if they are new User. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but they should also allow you to instruct your browser to prevent the use of cookies. Please note that if you disable cookies certain aspects of poptimal.com may not function properly. The cookie doesn’t track any personal information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and the cookie doesn’t extract any information from your computer. Poptimal.com also tracks users with “web beacons”, a commonly used technology. This allows us to anonymously track purchases and other website information. These web beacons may be used to provide data to third parties for tracking purposes. However, no personal information is collected or transferred using web beacons on poptimal.com.

We also use “web beacons” in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been open by recipients. This allows us to track the effectiveness of certain communications as well as the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please email us at admin@poptimal.com.

  1. Sweepstakes/Promotions

Poptimal.com sometimes includes notices of sweepstakes or other promotions we are conducting, and we may permit you to enter electronically in some cases. If that occurs, we will use the information you provide for the purpose of conducting the promotion (e.g., to contact you if you’re a winner). In addition, we may participate in internet related promotions sponsored by third parties. In these instances, if you are a participant in such promotions, we may provide certain personally identifiable information to these third parties in furtherance of the promotion. These parties have agreed to hold this information in confidence, not use it for any purpose except to carry out the requested service, and honor poptimal.com’s privacy and security policies in the way this information is handled.

  1. Market Research

From time to time, poptimal.com may also conduct questionnaires and surveys and we may contact you via email, postal mail or phone. Survey information is treated like all of the information we collect, and it is used to help us improve the appeal of our products and our site.

  1. User Communication

When you send email or other communication to poptimal.com, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

  1. Affiliated Sites

We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to poptimal.com in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

  1. Links

Poptimal.com may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.

  1. Third Parties Service Providers

Poptimal.com sometimes employs other companies and individuals to perform services for us. For example, we may hire agencies to help administer consumer promotions, to analyze data, and to provide customer service. These parties have agreed to hold this information in confidence, not use it for any purpose except to carry out the requested service, and honor poptimal.com’s privacy and security policies in the way this information is handled. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

  1. Information Security

Poptimal.com takes your privacy and security seriously. For this reason we have established security measures including locked doors and files, electronic security and managerial controls that limit the potential for misuse of information by employees, contractors and other third parties.we take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

  1. Data Integrity

Poptimal.com processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

  1. Accessing and Updating Personal Informaion

When you use poptimal.com services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.

  1. Opting Out

If you would rather not receive marketing emails from us, please email us at admin@poptimal.com. Please note that removal from our postal lists may take up to 6 to 8 weeks to be effective.

  1. Contacting Poptimal.com

If you have any questions about our Policy, you can e-mail us at admin@poptimal.com. We’ll be happy to answer your questions or hear your concerns.