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B$ Privacy Policy:

Effective September 1, 2004

Privacy Notice Table Of Contents:

Our Commitment To Privacy
General
Cookies
Links and Third Parties
Personal Information
Special Circumstances
Opt-Out
Other Uses
Changes To Privacy Policy

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Our Commitment To Privacy

At bargainshare.com, your privacy is important to us. Please take a moment to read over our Privacy Policy, and learn how we safeguard your personal information. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

General

bargainshare.com will not sell your personal information including your email address and name, to any third party for any reason, without proper presentation of a legal warrant or subpoena, except as may be required to protect or defend the interests of bargainshare.com, should that need arise. bargainshare.com will fully comply with all applicable laws, including those which may require us to turn over any or all information in our possession in response to a lawful warrant, lawful subpoena or other law.

Cookies

For the efficient operation of bargainshare.com, your movements and posts on this site may be managed, tracked or otherwise controlled, through the use of a cookie, a session ID, your IP address, or some combination of the above. You may choose to be automatically logged back into bargainshare.com on your next visit through the use of a cookie. If you are using a public computer, or do not wish to use a cookie to automatically be logged into bargainshare.com upon your return for any other reason, an option to opt-out of that feature is available at the main sign-in screen.

Links And Third Parties

From time to time, affiliate links will be posted at bargainshare.com. We appreciate it when members click through these links, as it helps to support the site. Please be advised, however, that clicking through an affiliate link may result in the use of a cookie, a session ID, your IP address, or some combination of the above, by the affiliate site to facilitate your purchase or otherwise manage, control or track your movements on their website or elsewhere. If you are not familiar with the affiliate merchant, you may wish to check the privacy policy of each affiliate merchant before shopping. Each merchant may have its own privacy policy, and once you leave the bargainshare.com website by clicking an affiliate link, any information gathered by the affiliate, including but not limited to that gathered through the use of cookies, a session ID and your IP address, along with any other information you may provide, will be covered by the privacy policy of that merchant, if any, and not that of bargainshare.com.

Personal Information

PLEASE BE AWARE that certain optional "profile" information you may choose to provide during or after signup may be posted in your member profile. This information (should you choose to provide it), may include but is not limited to your date of birth, your website url, your ICQ UIN, your AOL identity, your Yahoo identity, your MSN Messenger identity, your Location and your interests (all trademarks property of their respective owners). If you choose to provide this information, you agree that such information is not covered by bargainshare.com's privacy policy, and will be publicly available for viewing by anyone who visits the site and wishes to view your member profile, including guests who are not registered members. Such publicly posted information, as well as the contents of message posts and user nicknames, may at times also be gathered by automated search engines and redistributed.

Special Circumstances

bargainshare reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to voluntarily release the personal information of any member to a third party for non-commercial reasons, if bargainshare has reason to believe that such member has been targeting another member for harassment, or if in the opinion of bargainshare staff, such release of information becomes necessary or desirable for other reasons. This may include sharing information in order to prevent, investigate or take action regarding illegal activities or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person. All such decisions will be made on a case by case basis, and it is not the intent of bargainshare to release your information to anyone, unless legally required to do so, or unless special circumstances arise.

Opt-Out

Our Site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information from you. Additionally, you are able to opt-out from communications by entering the "My Controls" section of your user account.

Other Uses

bargainshare.com may, from time to time, use information gathered through your use of this website, for purposes related to the internal operations of bargainshare.com, or in conjunction with a promotion, program, or other activity which bargainshare.com may decide is a benefit to its members. This in no way changes the fact that bargainshare.com will not sell or provide your information to a third party unless legally required to do so, or unless it is required to protect or defend the interests of bargainshare.com.

Changes To Privacy Policy

bargainshare.com reserves the right, from time to time, to amend, change, delete, or add to portions of its Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the forums at bargainshare.com, you manifest your agreement to any such changes. If at any point you do not agree with any changes made, please inform a member of bargainshare.com staff, and request that your account be deleted.

A current copy of bargainshare.com's Privacy Policy can always be viewed at this link. You agree by registering that you are responsible for staying up to date on any changes which may be made to our Privacy Policy prior to each use of bargainshare.com.