Welcome to https://giftfinder.net/ (“GiftFinder.net”). We understand that privacy online is important to users of our site, especially when conducting business.
This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the GiftFinder.net (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the GiftFinder.net and make use of the various services offered by (collectively, “Services”) (“Authorized Customers”).
“Personally Identifiable Information”
refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information.
Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?
We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We collect the following additional information from our Authorized Customers: the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Authorized Customers, the nature and size of the business, and the nature and size of the advertising inventory that the Authorized Customer intends to purchase or sell.
What organizations are collecting the information?
In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect this information from our Visitors and Authorized Customers.
We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Authorized Customers. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.
How does GiftFinder.net use Personally Identifiable Information?
We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize GiftFinder.net, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and selling requests on GiftFinder.net. We may email Visitors and Authorized Customers about research or purchase and selling opportunities on GiftFinder.net or information related to the subject matter of the site.
We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Authorized Customers in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.
With whom may the information may be shared?
Personally Identifiable Information about Authorized Customers may be shared with other Authorized Customers who wish to evaluate potential transactions with other Authorized Customers.
We may share aggregated information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our Visitors and Authorized Customers, with our affiliated agencies and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf.
How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?
Personally Identifiable Information collected by is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of except for use as indicated above.
What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
Visitors and Authorized Customers may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us at 
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.
How giftfinder.net uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising. The cookies we may use on the may be categorized as follows:
- Strictly necessary
- Performance
- Functionality
- Targeting
Some cookies may fulfill more than one of these purposes. ‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies let you move around the GiftFinder.net and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
Identify you as being logged in to the GiftFinder.net and to authenticate you. Make sure you connect to the right service on the GiftFinder.net when we make any changes to the way it works
For security purposes
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using GiftFinder.net, so if you prevent these cookies, we can’t guarantee how the hGiftFinder.net will perform during your visit. ‘Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use the GiftFinder.net e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors.
These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how the GiftFinder.net works, understand the interests of our users, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
We use performance cookies to:
- Carry out web analytics
- Provide statistics on how the GiftFinder.net is used
- Perform affiliate tracking
- Provide feedback to affiliated entities that one of our visitors also visited their site
- Obtain data on the number of users of the GiftFinder.net that have viewed a product or service
- Help us improve the GiftFinder.net by measuring any errors that occur
- Test different designs for the GiftFinder.net Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties
‘Functionality’ cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.
We use ‘Functionality’ cookies for such purposes as:
Remember settings you’ve applied such as layout, text size, preferences and colors, Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey. Remember, if you have engaged with a particular component or list on the GiftFinder.net. Platform so that it won’t repeat.
Show you when you’re logged in to the GiftFinder.net, To provide and show embedded video content, Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.
‘Targeting’ cookies are used to track your visit to the GiftFinder.net, as well other websites, apps and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which allows GiftFinder.net to display targeted ads to you on the GiftFinder.net.
We may use targeting cookies to:
Display targeted ads within the GiftFinder.net. To improve how we deliver personalized ads and content, and to measure the success of ad campaigns on the GiftFinder.net.
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.
What are your choices regarding cookies
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
What partners or service providers have access to Personally Identifiable Information from Visitors and/or Authorized Customers on GiftFinder.net?
GiftFinder.net has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a need to know the basis for evaluating Authorized Customers for service eligibility.
Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to comply with the law. We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information.
We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorized Customers.
How does GiftFinder.net keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?
All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices. The Personally Identifiable Information of our Visitors and Authorized Customers is only accessible to a limited number of qualified employees who are given a password in order to gain access to the information.
We audit our security systems and processes on a regular basis. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, is protected by encryption protocols, in place to protect information sent over the Internet.
While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorized Customers for any such occurrences.
How can Visitors correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifiable Information?
Visitors and Authorized Customers may contact us to update Personally Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at
Can a Visitor delete or deactivate Personally Identifiable Information collected by GiftFinder.net?
We provide Visitors and Authorized Customers with a mechanism to delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from the GiftFinder.net’s database by contacting. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor’s entry without retaining some residual information.
An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.
Your rights
These are summarized rights that you have under data protection law
- The right to access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to object to processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority
- The right to withdraw consent
Links
GiftFinder.net contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
Blog Comments
We encourage and welcome comments on our blog. We would also like to thank everyone who takes their time out in posting comments on .
We generally post all the comments which are useful to all of our readers. However, there are certain instances where we edit or delete the comment(s). This includes:
- Comments that are posted solely for the purpose of promotion.
- Comments that are spam or have a spammy nature.
- Comments which use vulgar language or swear words.
- Comments which attack / harass another person individually.
We recommend everyone to follow our comment policy rules to help you keep the blog a constructive place for discussion. We reserve the right to edit or delete comments submitted to this blog at any time without notice. The comment policy may be changed at any point of time.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service.
This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
What happens if the Privacy Policy Changes?
We will let our Visitors and Authorized Customers know about changes to our privacy policy by posting such changes on GiftFinder.net.
However, if we are changing our privacy policy in a manner that might cause disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information that a Visitor or Authorized Customer has previously requested not be disclosed, we will contact such Visitor or Authorized Customer to allow such Visitor or Authorized Customer to prevent such disclosure.