YouBestow, Inc. is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.youbestow.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact YouBestow Customer Care at [customercare@youbestow.com]. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at
http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=

TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

What information do we collect?
  • We collect personal information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, refer products and services and post reviews.
  • When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter personal information such as: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and upload a photo if you choose to. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. When you register, we will also ask for demographic information such as your gender and birthdate.
  • Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visits to websites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. This data is all collected in the aggregate.
Log Files
  • As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
  • We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. Our third party service providers also use cookies on our site, however the data is only collected in the aggregate.

What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
  • To personalize your experience (Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve our website (We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To improve customer service (Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To process transactions (We forward your information to the merchants when you opt in and signup for a product or service.) Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, rented transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
If you use a bulletin board, blog, or chat room on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  • YouBestow allows friends in your network to see your profile. Your profile may include your personal information, your services and your connections. YouBestow will collect information from your profile to share with merchants, to promote businesses and attract new customers.
  • You are responsible for protecting your account information by not sharing your password, email, or service account numbers with any other person.
  • To send periodic emails (The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.)
Note: You can monitor what information is shown in your profile, delete and edit your personal information stored within your profile, and edit which communications you want to receive, by logging into your account, and edit your options under “user privacy settings.” If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future promotional emails, go to “user account settings“ and manage your email preferences by selecting which emails you would like to receive or not.
However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.

How do we protect your information?
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
  • We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information such as when you log in password, is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our database. This database is only accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
  • We do not sell, trade, rent or share or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties for promotional or marketing purposes.
  • We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
  • occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
  • We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
  • This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We do store this email so you can see who you invited to join. We do not store this information for any other purpose.

Widgets
We have widgets on our site. Widgets support functions that require that you disclose certain personally identifiable information given the user's choice of participation. This information is collected in many different ways such as: forms, surveys, contests, forums, subscribing or unsubscribing to mailings and correcting or updating personally identifiable information and are only used for the purpose in which they were collected. Our widget links to other sites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. Online Privacy Policy Only This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at http://www.youbestow.com.

Your consent
  • By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
  • This policy was last modified December 2009.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
  • If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
  • We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

The YouBestow Team
customercare@youbestow.com
38 Welsford Way, Westampton NJ 08060