Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
Protonmeds, LLC (“Protonmeds”, "SSG," "we," "us," or "our") owns and operates the SSG web site (simplesavingsguide.com) and the mobile site (collectively, the "Site" or “Sites”) and values the privacy of its users (“User”). This Privacy Policy pertains to our Sites, the services that we offer on our Sites and your interactions with us outside our Sites (collectively, the "Services"). By registering for, accessing, browsing, or using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree, effective as of the date of such action, to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Site’s Terms of Service. Your use of the Service and any personal information you provide through the Service are subject at all times to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.
This privacy policy outlines the type of personal and other information that is collected on our site or service, how that information is used, and what is the process for the user to access, edit, or request deletion of his own personal information
Types of Personal Information SSG Collects from User
User Provided Information and Personally Identifiable Information (PII): SSG will collect the personal information you provide to us, for example when you register, take a survey, sign up for notifications, participate in a sweepstakes, email us or otherwise send us your contact information. Personal information may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing and/or billing address, and other information that identifies you as an individual. You can use some of the Services without providing these types of personal information, but certain features may not be available. If you would like to update these types of personal information that you previously provided to us, you can log into your account or email us at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com.
If you access our Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device. We also collect information about your device’s precise location over time to provide you with more relevant deals, such as offering deals in real time for a store that you are visiting.
If you log in via a third-party service like Facebook or Google, we will collect the information described in the third-party service's request for authorization. This information may include your name, email address, gender, city, and state. You should review your privacy settings with these third-party services to be sure you are only sharing information you wish to share.
Profile Information: Username and password, feedback and survey responses
Technical Data: Each time you use our Services, SSG also collects other, technical information, which may be combined with other information we collect about you. This technical information includes, for example, your browser type, the URL of the previous web site you visited, your Internet Service Provider, your operating system, and your IP address.
Cookies and Web Beacons: SSG (and our third-party service providers) use "cookies," a small data string our server writes to your computer, and other similar technologies to help us manage and analyze your interaction with our Services. These technologies can store information that we collect about you, and can collect information linked to your browser or device that we use for a number of purposes, including improving our Services, keeping count of return visits to our Sites or our advertisers' or partners' websites, collecting and reporting statistical information about our users, saving your password and login information, displaying advertising or content based on your interests (as further described below), and learning about how you interact with email or text messages and advertising content. We may also collect information about your search criteria and results, the date and time of your visit to our Sites, and your connection speed and IP address. Cookies may store information that identifies your device, like a hashed email address, but we do not use cookies to store individual identifiers like your name.
Third parties whose products or services are accessible or advertised via our Services may also use cookies on our Sites, and we encourage you to check their privacy policies for information about their information privacy practices.
You may be able to refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, refusing to receive cookies will not stop all data collection and may prevent you from being able to use the full functionality of our Services.
If you receive email or texts from us, we will analyze related information such as whether you open the email or read the text, and whether you click on an ad or offer in the email or text.
When you provide us with your address, we may use third-party services such as the Google Places API to help complete your address information after you begin to type it. We will combine the address information that we collect through this service with any other information that we collect from or about you, and we will use, retain, and share it as described in this Privacy Policy. Additionally, this address completion service allows Google to collect certain information as described below.
We may obtain additional personal and other information about you from third parties and combine it with the information that we collect from you.
Other System Information Automatically Collected: When you access the Service or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using different types of tracking technology. This “automatically collected” information may include your Internet Protocol address, a unique device or user ID, the version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Service, and the dates and times that you visit the Service.
Response to Do Not Track Signals: Certain web browsers may provide an option by which you may have the browser inform websites or internet services you visit that you do not wish to have information (which may or may not contain PII) about your activities tracked by cookies or other persistent identifiers across time and across third-party Internet websites, online or cloud computing services, online applications, or mobile applications. These are commonly called “do not track” signals. SSGs site requires cookies to maintain active user sessions, and therefore SSG does not act on Do Not Track requests.
Do Third Parties Collect My Information?
We use analytics services provided by third parties such as Google. These companies use cookies and other technologies to collect data about your use of our Sites and other websites over time. This information will be transmitted to and stored by our analytics providers, who will use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, providing SSG with information for customer service and product development purposes, and providing other services relating to activity on our Sites and internet usage. These providers may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. To learn more about how Google collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities, you may visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/.
As noted above, when you provide us with your address, we may use third-party services such as the Google Places API to help complete your address information after you begin to type it. This address completion service allows Google to collect the address information that you input, along with your IP address. To learn more about Google's Privacy Policy, you may visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Please see below for information on how third parties may collect and use information on our Sites for interest-based advertising purposes, and for information on how SSG may share the information that we collect with third parties.
You may be able to access third-party offers, ads, websites, mobile sites and/or apps directly from links on the Services and/or from emails or texts sent by or on behalf of SSG. When you click on these links, SSG may provide information to third parties, third parties may collect information directly, and you may also have opportunities to provide personal information to such third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the information collected by third parties when you click on their links or otherwise access their Sites. We cannot control the privacy practices of third-party Sites, and we are not responsible for such practices. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of any third-party sites you visit or ads that you respond to, before disclosing any information to the providers of such sites.
Our Services may include social media plug-ins that link to and share information with third-party social media websites. If you use these tools to share information about your use of our Services or otherwise interact with any social media features on our Sites, those social media companies may collect information about you and may use and disclose that information in accordance with their own privacy policies and your account settings. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of any social media company before using any social media plug-ins on our website to understand the practices that will apply to any information that you provide to these companies.
How Does SSG Use My Information?
SSG uses the information collected from users to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on the Service, including the following:
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For administrative communications such as notifying you of major Service updates and for customer service purposes
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To customize and personalize the advertising and the content you see.
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To personalize and improve your experience when using our Services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Service;
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To fulfill your requests for our Services.
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To send you email communications and otherwise correspond with you about, products, services and offers that might interest you.
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To alert you to the latest developments and features on our Services.
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To enter you in our sweepstakes when you request that we do so and to award prizes.
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To communicate with you, including responding to your communications with us and other communications regarding your registration or use of our Services.
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For our research, recordkeeping, and reporting purposes.
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To monitor our Services for compliance with our Terms of Service and policies.
When Will SSG Disclose My Information to Third Parties?
We may share your personal information with other companies or individuals. For example:
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We may share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. Please see below for your choices regarding this sharing.
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We may make any information you disclose when you participate in community and social networking features on our Services available to other users. SSG is not responsible for the information you disclose in public forums, and we strongly recommend that you disclose your personal information privately, only to users that you know to be trustworthy.
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We may share your personal information with participating merchants to process your purchases, in which case your information may be used and disclosed by the merchant (including for marketing purposes) subject to its privacy policy.
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We may share your personal information with your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
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We may share information with our agents, contractors, service providers, and partners who are providing services on our behalf and on behalf of our merchants and other partners, such as payment processing, data processing, customer service functions, personalizing deals on the SSG Services, and hosting.
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We may share your information in connection with an actual or potential merger, sale, acquisition, assignment, or transfer of all or part of SSG' assets, affiliates, lines of business, or products, including at bankruptcy.
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We may share your information in order to (i) protect or defend our legal rights or property or the rights/property of our other users, business partners, employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements); (ii) pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; (iii) protect the safety and security of our employees, users, or members of the public; (iv) protect against fraud or for other risk management purposes; or (v) comply with the law or respond to law enforcement requests, subpoenas, legal process or inquiries.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may share information that identifies your browser or device over time (including device identifiers and/or other types of personal information that has been hashed or obfuscated) as well as information about your activities on our Services, with third-party companies for their own purposes including interest-based advertising across different websites, apps, browsers and devices. Please see below for information about opting out of the collection and use of data for interest-based advertising by companies participating in industry self-regulation, and for California residents you can also visit the “California Privacy Rights” section below to learn about our practices and your choices.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may use and share de-identified information and aggregate information with third parties, advertisers and/or business partners for our own business purposes and for third party marketing and other purposes.
Marketing Choices
You may give consent for SSG to send you one or more text messages, such as a message with a link to download our app. These text messages are automated. You can use and purchase our services without consenting to receive our automated text messages. If you agree to receive text messages, message and data rates will apply. You can opt out of recurring text messages at any time by replying "STOP" to any message or you can email us at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com
SSG may send you email offers that we believe will interest you. If you do not want to receive such offers, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in any message. We will continue to send you servicing emails related to your interactions and relationship with us.
We may share personal information about you with third parties for the third party's own marketing purposes, including sending direct marketing materials to you. If you would like to opt out of this kind of sharing, please send us an email simplesavingsguide@gmail.com to inform us of your decision.
Interest-Based Advertising Choices
SSG adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") Self-Regulatory Principles. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you use our Services, including viewing our emails or texts, and to serve ads on our behalf on non-affiliated Sites. These companies may use cookies or other non-cookie technologies to collect information about your visits and activities on our Services, other online sites, and email and text campaigns over time and across different browsers and devices, in order to provide advertisements for us and others about goods and services of interest to you. This type of advertising is called interest-based advertising. The information collected by these third parties may include information about your browser or device including information that identifies your browser or device over time (including device identifiers and/or personal information which has been hashed or obfuscated).
You may visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and https://www.aboutads.info/choices to learn more about interest-based advertising, to opt-out of this form of advertising on your web browser by companies participating in the Network Advertising Initiative and DAA self-regulatory programs, and to learn about the effect of an opt-out choice.
If you wish to opt-out of interest-based advertising in mobile apps on your device by companies that participate in the DAA's AppChoices app, you may download that app onto your device and exercise your choice. AppChoices is available at the links below:
You may also limit data collection and use by third parties for interest-based advertising by using your mobile device settings where available.
Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. Additionally, please note that if you use a different browser or erase cookies from your browser, reset your device's advertising identifier, or use a different mobile device, you should renew your opt-out choices. Also, any settings available in your web browser to block cookies may not block the use of non-cookie technologies as described above.
Data Security
Your Responsibilities: You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
SSG uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to SSG and its Sites, and you do so at your own risk. SSG cannot guarantee that information you provide or that we collect may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If SSG learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. SSG may post a notice on the Service if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach you should notify us using this online contact form.
Third Party “Linked-To” Websites: When you are on our Site, you may be able to visit or link to other sites not operated by us. We do not control such sites and we are not responsible for the information practices of these sites. This Privacy Policy does not address the information practices of those other websites, and we encourage you to read the posted privacy policies of such sites.
International Visitors
SSG does not currently offer its Services in, or support user accounts from, Switzerland, the UK and countries in the European Economic Area. Users from other countries should note that SSG collects, processes and stores information in the United States. By using our Services from locations outside of the United States, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to, and the collection and processing of such personal information in the United States. The laws pertaining to the collection, use, disclosure, and processing of personal information in the United States may vary from those in other countries and may be less stringent than the applicable laws in your state or country.
Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minors under 18 years old, we will take appropriate actions to delete this information.
If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor under 18 years old, and you believe that your child has provided personal information to SSG, you may contact us at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com to request that we delete your child's personal information from our systems.
Nevada Privacy Rights
Under Nevada law, Nevada residents may submit a request directing us not to make certain sales of personal information we maintain about you. SSG does not currently engage in such sales.
To exercise this right, please contact us:
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By email at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com
California Privacy Rights
This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies only to “personal information” that is subject to the CCPA (“CPI”). Consumers with disabilities may access this notice by using a standard screen reader.
CPI We Collect, Disclose for a Business Purpose, and Sell. We collect the categories of CPI about California consumers identified in the chart below. As further set forth in the chart below, in the past 12 months, we have disclosed and sold CPI to third parties for business or commercial purposes.
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Categories of CPI |
Categories of sources from which information is collected: |
Business or commercial purposes for collection, use, and sharing: |
Disclosed for business purposes to the following categories of third parties: |
Sold to the following categories of third parties: |
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Personal and online identifiers, which can be divided into two groups: |
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All purposes listed below. |
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None – this data is not sold |
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All purposes listed below. |
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Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (such as race or gender) |
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All purposes listed below. |
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None |
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Commercial or transactions information (such as records of personal property or products or services purchased, obtained or considered) |
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All purposes listed below. |
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None |
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Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as browsing history, search history, interactions with a website, email, application, or advertisement) |
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All purposes listed below. |
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Geolocation information |
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All purposes listed below. |
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Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences |
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All purposes listed below. |
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Why We Collect, Use, and Share CPI. We use and disclose the CPI we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in this Privacy Policy. These commercial and business purposes include, without limitation:
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Our commercial purposes, including marketing, advertising, sweepstakes, and enabling commercial transactions.
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Our business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which include:
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Auditing related to our interactions with you;
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Legal compliance;
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Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
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Debugging;
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Performing services (by us or our service provider) such as account servicing, processing orders and payments, and analytics;
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Research for our technological and business improvement;
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Internal operations;
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Activities to maintain and improve our services; and
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Other one-time uses.
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Your Rights. California residents have certain rights with respect to the CPI collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding CPI about you, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:
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The right to know the categories and specific pieces of CPI we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you, the categories of sources from which we collected your CPI, our purposes for collecting or selling your CPI, the categories of your CPI that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties with which we have shared CPI.
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The right to request that we delete the CPI we have collected from you or maintain about you.
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The right to opt out of our sale(s) of your CPI. Please note that if you opt out of certain types of sales, we will be unable to provide you with the Services that rely on such sales.
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The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
You may also contact us by email at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com.
Verification. Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled.
Authorized Agent. You may designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf. Please contact us at simplesavingsguide@gmail.comfor details.
Minors. We do not sell the CPI of minors under 18 years of age.
No Class Actions: You and SSG agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.
Does SSG Ever Make Changes to its Privacy Policy?
SSG may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will post an updated Privacy Policy online and link to it from our Sites. We encourage you to regularly review our Privacy Policy so that you are aware of and understand our current privacy practices.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact SSG at simplesavingsguide@gmail.com.