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What This Privacy and Security Policy Covers

This policy covers how TechBudget.com treats personal information that TechBudget.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of TechBudget.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that TechBudget.com does not own or control, or to people that TechBudget.com does not employ or manage. In addition, certain TechBudget.com associated companies such as Paypal have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on the links.

Secure Transactions

TechBudget.com collects your personal and payment information via a secure method. This means that your information will be passed from your computer to our servers via a very secure method that prevents unauthorized groups from snooping in and collecting your information.

Phishing

Techbudget will never email you requesting your password. There has been an alarming increase in such emails (also called phishing emails) throughout the Internet. Luckily, these unscrupulous groups have so far only been targeting the bigger companies and this hasn't happened to us, yet. As a general rule of thumb, if you ever receive email seemingly from us or anyone requesting you to click on a link, you should manually go to our website by typing in "techbudget.com" in your browser's address bar. If you ever receive email from someone perpertating to be Techbudget.com, please let us know immediately.

Information Collection and Use

General

TechBudget.com collects personal information when you register with TechBudget.com, when you use TechBudget.com products or services, when you visit TechBudget.com pages or the pages of certain TechBudget.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. TechBudget.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, and zip code. Once you register with TechBudget.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

TechBudget.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, TechBudget.com cookie information, and the page you request.

TechBudget.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

TechBudget.com does not sell personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide transfer payment information to Authorize.net and/or Paypal, our trusted payment processing centers.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of TechBudget.com’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if TechBudget.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, TechBudget.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

Like most websites, TechBudget.com may set and access TechBudget.com cookies on your computer.

TechBudget.com lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to TechBudget.com’s cookies.

TechBudget.com uses web beacons to access TechBudget.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with TechBudget.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

Protecting Children

Techbuydget.com takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of children. Our web site is a general audience site. Children under the age of 13 should always ask their parents or guardians for permission before providing any personal information to anyone online. We urge parents and guardians to participate in their children's online activities and use parental control or other web filtering technology to supervise children's access to the web.

General

You can edit your TechBudget.com Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the TechBudget.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the TechBudget.com Newsletter, that are considered part of your TechBudget.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

For your added security, we do not store your full credit card number or expiration date on our servers. This information is kepy by our payment processing partners only. our employees will never have this information unless you make an order by phone.

Changes to this Privacy and Security Policy

TechBudget.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your TechBudget.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

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