Reviewed on June 1st, 2022
This website is operated by Jerkmate® (“we” “our” or “us”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this policy explaining our practices with regards to online information and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personally identifiable information you submit on our website or through our products or services (“Site” or “Sites”). For certain products or services, there may be additional notices about information practices and choices. Please read those additional privacy disclosures to understand how they apply to you.
We encourage you to contact an attorney of your own choosing and at your own expense in the event that you do not understand any of the terms contained in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with anything contained in this Privacy Policy then please cease and desist from using our Site immediately.
OUR SITE IS AVAILABLE SOLELY TO ADULTS OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18) OR THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH YOU RESIDE. CERTAIN PORTIONS OF OUR SITE MAY CONTAIN CONTENT CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE TO SOME, AND ARE INACCESSIBLE TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18) OR THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH THEY RESIDE. PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18) OR THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH THEY RESIDE SHOULD NOT SUBMIT ANY INFORMATION TO OUR SITE. IF A MINOR HAS PROVIDED US WITH ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF THAT MINOR SHOULD CONTACT US AT MARKETING@MAIL.JERKMATE.COM IMMEDIATELY.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Privacy Policy, we make no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever for information that you publish on the Site, regardless of whether any such information is published voluntarily or involuntarily. Our Site may contain a social networking component and you are utilizing our Site with a full understanding and assumption of risk related to any and all information that you publish.
Registration and account information collected. You can register to order products or services, become a member, read user reviews, enter contests, vote in polls, rate products or services, or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our electronic newsletters, or participate in online forums or communities. In the course of using our Site, we may ask you to create an account or complete an application by providing us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, as well as to administer your account. The types of personally identifiable information that you provide as part of your account may include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number,, and other information that you provide to us.
Information from other sources. We may, on occasion and in our sole and absolute discretion, combine information we receive online with outside records and use such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Social media. You can also engage with our content and other offerings, such as videos, and applications, on or through third-party social media sites, plug-ins and applications. You may also choose to link your account with us to third party social media sites. When you link your account or engage with our content on or through third party social media sites, services, plug-ins, or applications, you may allow us to have ongoing access to certain information from your social media account. We may also receive non-personally identifiable information from your interaction with our content.
When you provide information to this Site from your social media account, it can help enable us to do things like: (i) give you exclusive content, (ii) personalize your online experience with us within and outside our Site, and (iii) contact you through the social media sites or directly with the latest news, special offerings, and rewards. By providing such information, you consent to the use of the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you post information or content, such as photos, comments on a blog, or participation in online forums or communities, or when you interact with our Site through social media sites, plug-ins or other applications, depending on your privacy settings, this information may become public on the Internet. You expressly understand that we cannot prevent further use of this information. You can control what data you share through privacy settings available on some social media sites. For more information about how you can customize your privacy settings and how third party social media sites handle your personally identifiable information, please refer to their privacy guidelines, privacy policies and terms of use. We make no warranties or representations of any kind whatsoever regarding how third party social media sites handle information posted through your account. Additionally, we make no warranties or representations of any kind whatsoever regarding the security of any information or content that you publish on any of these sites.
Providing requested information. In some cases, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products and services, or otherwise participate in the offerings of the Site.
Technical and usage information. We also collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you use our Site such as but not limited to, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider or mobile carrier, IP address, and certain usage information.
Device Information. We may collect information from your devices (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.), including information about how you interact with our Site and those of our third-party partners and information that allows us to recognize and associate your activity across devices and this Site. This information includes device specific identifiers and information such as IP address, cookie information, mobile device and advertising identifiers, browser version, operating system type and version, mobile network information, device settings, and software data. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences and advertising across the devices you use.
Providing our products and services. We use the information we collect about you to fulfill your requests for our products and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, to provide, personalize, and improve our offerings and to offer you other products, programs or services from us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you.
The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.
If you choose to submit content for publication on the Site, we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us on the Site, the Internet, or elsewhere. Any content that you submit on the Site for publication shall immediately and irrevocably become our sole and exclusive property.
Communications. We use information about you to communicate with you, including but not limited to: to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our user agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, to confirm purchases you have made through our Sites, or to contact you about your account. You may also choose to receive push notifications from us on your mobile device.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them invitations, gifts, cards, or other content on your behalf or through our Site. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer products, programs, or services to them.
Mobile Device Data Usage. When you access our Site on a mobile device, we may use the information collected for any purpose whatsoever so long as it complies with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Use of non-personally identifiable information. We use aggregate information about our users and non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design, functionality and content of our Site and to enable us to personalize your experience with our Site and offerings. We use this information to (i) provide, maintain, personalize, protect, improve, and develop our products, programs, and services and to operate our business, (ii) to analyze usage and performance of our Site, and (iii) for us and our affiliates, business partners, and selected third parties to offer you products, programs, or services.
Legal and law enforcement purposes. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, including but not limited to court orders and subpoenas, or in response to a request from a law enforcement agency.. We may also disclose such information to third parties in connection with fraud detection, and prevention activities or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of any of our terms of use or other policies, to protect our rights and the rights of others, and as otherwise required by law.
You understand and agree that we maintain the option, in our sole and absolute discretion, to inform you of any disclosure of your personally identifiable information for legal and law enforcement purposes.
Change of control. We may transfer any information about you in the event of a business transaction, such as if we or one of our business units or our relevant assets are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company.
Our Vendors and service providers. Our agents, employees and contractors may have access to personally identifiable information to help carry out the services they are performing for us.
Affiliates and other third parties. We may disclose personally identifiable information about you to companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We may also work with third-party service providers to prepare or send any communications to you, or to assist us in connection with any of our administrative or business functions, or in the provision of any of our products or services to you (including for example, hosting or operating the website and our databases and site analytics); provided that, where required by applicable law, we enter into written agreements with those third-party service providers requiring them to provide the same level of protection that said applicable law require and limiting their use of the data to the specified services provided on our behalf.
We may also share such information with business partners and third parties, such as other marketers, publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations, that want to market products or services to you.
Linked third-party sites. Our Site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. You should consult the other sites’ privacy policies before submitting any information, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. We make no representations or warranties as to any content located on any linked sites and you hereby assume all risks associated with visiting said linked sites.
Sponsors and co-promotions. We sometimes may offer content or programs that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the activity. We have no control over these third parties’ use of this information.
Advertisement servers. Reputable third parties may present or serve advertisements, provide us with data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, and site analytics, and assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies. The use of these technologies by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Mobile Device. Third parties and ourselves may also obtain information about other applications that you have downloaded to your mobile device, the mobile websites you visit, and other information about you or your device in order to help analyze and serve anonymous targeted advertising on the Site and elsewhere.
Marketing Communications. We provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving certain marketing communications from us. If you ever decide in the future that you would like to update these preferences, (i) you may log into your account if you have created an account with us to adjust your settings, (ii) you may follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in any marketing email you receive from us, or (iii) you may send us an email at marketing@mail.jerkmate.com and we will edit your preferences accordingly or you can unsubscribe directly here. If you previously chose to receive push notifications on your mobile device from us but no longer wish to receive them, you can manage your preferences either through your device or app settings, depending on the type of device.
Cookies. We, and our affiliates, third party service providers, and our business partners may use cookies or similar technologies to store your individual user preferences in order to make your user experience more enjoyable in the future “Cookies” are tiny bits of information stored by your browser on the device you use to access our website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies by default and they are commonly found on many websites throughout the Internet.
Managing cookies. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other Website. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of our Site can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of the content or features of our Site.
Analytics. We have implemented Google Analytics features known as Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings provided by Google. In addition, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. We will use the data provided by Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to further develop and improve our products.
We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures designed to safeguard the information we collect on the Site. Despite the reasonable security measures that we have created, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be used or disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us or for as long as we reasonably require to retain the information for our lawful business purposes (such as for the purposes of exercising our legal rights), or for as long as the law otherwise permits.
To access the personally identifiable information collected about on the pages on which this Privacy Policy is posted, to correct factual errors in such information, or to update your interests, preferences or other portions of your user profile, please log into your account if you have created one or send an email to marketing@mail.jerkmate.com. Subject to legal or contractual requirements or restrictions, you can, at any time, revoke your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of personal information by sending us a reasonable prior notice to marketing@mail.jerkmate.com and we will proceed to erase your personally identifiable information. Even if you withdraw your consent, pursuant to applicable law, we may nevertheless have the right or obligation to continue to retain, use or disclose certain personal information. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access, making corrections or erasing any information.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to receive: a) information identifying any third-party company to whom we may have disclosed, within the past calendar year, personal information pertaining to you for our direct marketing purposes; and b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed. To obtain such information you must make a request in writing. Your request will not be processed if it does not include your name and email address, the URL for the website you visited, and a return address. We will not honor such requests more than once per calendar year. Please email your request to marketing@mail.jerkmate.com.
Our services may be subject to Canadian and provincial law, and in specific in relation to online privacy, to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (S.C. 2000, c. 5). If you believe that we have violated your privacy rights in any way, please contact us immediately at marketing@mail.jerkmate.com.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and post a notice of any substantial changes, if any. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. In any event, we will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most changes will be minor. Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its Last Modified date.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation you may contact us at: marketing@mail.jerkmate.com.