UW Students Privacy Statement

UW Students knows that you care about how the information you provide us with is used and shared. We understand that this personal information is very important to you and we appreciate your trust in us that we will care for this information to the best of our abilities. Please note that UW Students Inc.(“UW Students”) owns and operates the UW Students (“UW Students”) website.This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) explains how UW Students Inc.  uses personal information and applies to all new users who subscribe and register on our website. Please review this privacy statement carefully to insure that you aware of our privacy policies. If you do not agree to our practices, please do not subscribe, register, create an account, purchase a coupon, or interact with UW Students at http://uwstudents.com/, our partner sites, merchant sites, and other site that we may offer.

Understanding the terms of service is a very important to us so please contact us at uwaterloostudents@gmail.comif you have any questions about this Privacy Policy.

1. How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information that can be used identify, locate, or contact an individual that has subscribed or registered on our website. This information is collected when you register on our site, use a third party application (eg. Facebook login), fill out a form, or purchase a coupon.

We collect information about how you use and interact with the website and in order to do this we use cookies and similar technologies available. This information is tracked on the main website, our blog, the discussion boards, and any other communication or interaction methods that we offer on the website.

2. Types of Personal Information We Collect

Contact Information that allows you to receive communications on behalf of UW Students and this information includes, but is not limited to your e-mail address, name, postal address, telephone contact number, social media website account names, an other addresses that we may be able to contact you with.

Relationship information that allows us to understand who you are and allows us to improve your experience on the website with tailored offers. This type of information involves data pertaining to your lifestyle such as your demographics, location, interests, purchasing interest, information collected from social media interactions, and information from friend referrals.

Financial Information that is needed in order to process payments for the coupons on the UW Students website. This includes your credit card or debit card number, type of card, expiration date, and verification number and will only be obtained with your consent.

Transaction Information that is used to continuously improve our website offerings in order to better your user experience on our website.

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except to:

• Affiliated companies (subsidiaries and other companies owned and controlled by UW Students Inc. who may only use the Personal Information for the same purposes of UW Students.

• Third party providers of UW Students including operators that assist us in providing services including, but not limited to software development, website development and hosting, transaction processing services, document management and office administration. Please Note that our third party service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.

• Merchants, but only to the extent you have purchased or redeemed a coupon offered by the merchant, or participated in an offer, contest or other activity sponsored or offered through UW Students on behalf of the merchant. We may also provide merchants with Personal Information about the individuals who have purchased the merchants’ coupons, to send customized offers, to validate the purchases, to aid and troubleshoot redemption, to combat fraud, as part of legal proceedings affecting UW Students and the merchant, and to facilitate a direct relationship between merchants and customers and enable merchants to communicate electronically with customers who purchased the merchants’ coupons.

• We may provide our merchants, business partners, or other third parties with unidentifiable reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about our users.

4. How We Protect Your Information

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. 

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

5.Use of Cookies

UW Students may storesmall files that our site or our service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables our site or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. These alphanumericidentifiers enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide certain features and save you time. The cookies stored also help us to track interests and trends of users to be able to provide a customized user experience.

6.Access to your Information

If you wish to access your information you may do so when logging into your account or you may request a summary from us. If we wish to not disclose the summary to you we will provide you with a reasonable explanation. In order to help us maintain proper information please update your account if there are any changes. For a request please contact us at uwaterloostudents@gmail.com

7.Children’s Online Privacy

Children that are under the age of 18 are not eligible to use the website unsupervised. If you are under the age of 18 please refrain from submitting any personal information to us. Only if you are under the supervision of a parent or guardian may you use the website. Please note that we will never intentionally collect any information regarding people under the age of 18.

8.Privacy Statement Changes

In order to keep up with changing technologies and standards we may make updates to this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes we will notify you by e-mail and post a notice on the website prior to it becoming affective. We highly encourage all users to periodically check the website Privacy Policy in order to stay informed about our websites practices.