Privacy Policy

Last modified: August 26, 2024

1. Introduction

DealMerge Inc. (the “DealMerge” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect or that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.dealmerge.com, the DealMerge Service, including the web-based application (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to the information we collect:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Through the DealMerge Service such as web-based applications, including the mobile version, that you use.
Other DealMerge services which include a link to this Policy.

This Policy does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or online through any other means, including on any other website operated by DealMerge or any third party, including our affiliates and subsidiaries; or
Any third party.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates. We will also use commercially reasonable efforts to communicate the updates to you.

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under the age of 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at support@dealmerge.com.

2. Your Personal Data Rights and Controls

Privacy laws give certain rights to individuals over their personal data. The table below explains your rights, when they apply and how to use them. You will not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising any of your privacy rights.

It's your right to:

a. Be Informed

Be informed of the personal data we process about you and how we process it. We inform you:
- Through this Policy
- Through information provided to you as you use the DealMerge Service
- By answering your specific questions when you contact us

b. Know/Access

Request to know and access the personal data we process about you. To request a copy of your personal data, you can contact us.

c. Correction

Request that we amend or update your personal data where it’s inaccurate. You can edit your user data in the DealMerge System or by contacting us.

d. Deletion

Request that we delete certain of your personal data.
Please note there are situations where DealMerge is unable to delete your data, for example when:
- We have an overriding interest in continuing to process the data, such as where we need the data for other DealMerge Service Users;
- We have a legal obligation to keep the data; or
- We need the data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
For any deletion requests, you can contact us.

e. Data Portability

Request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service. See Know/Access section above.

f. Withdrawal of Consent

Withdrawal your consent to us collecting or using personal data. To withdraw your consent, please contact us.

g. Not be subject to automated decision-making

Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision-making (decisions without human involvement), including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect. DealMerge does not carry out this type of automated decision-making in the DealMerge Service.

3. Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to the DealMerge Service, advertising material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website.

You may also provide information that can be transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we provide limitations to how other users may access your User Contributions, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

4. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically should only be statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see the How We Use and Disclose Your Information section.

Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

PostHog Analytics. We use the PostHog analysis service to analyze and check the use of our Website. We use the statistics obtained to improve our Website and the DealMerge Service. We may use cookies or cookieless tracking with PostHog services. No PostHog cookies are stored on the user’s computer for web analysis purposes. The IP address and information such as time stamp, clicks and your language settings are recorded for the analysis of software use. For information regarding PostHog’s privacy practices, please visit the PostHog Privacy Policy at https://posthog.com/privacy for more details.

Microsoft Clarity. We improve our Website and advertising by using Microsoft Clarity to see how you use our marketing website. This does not apply to our app, if one is available. By using our Website, you agree that we and Microsoft can collect and use this data. We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Our Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of product/services and online activities. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement at https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications that our Website uses or incorporates are served by third-parties, including payment processors, networks, services, content providers and application providers. These third-parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

5. How We Use and Disclose Your Information

In general, the categories of personal information we may disclose include:

User Data.
Usage Data.
Payment and Purchase Data.
Survey and Research Data.

How We Use

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account and subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

6. Data Retention

We keep your personal data (the “Data”) only as long as necessary to provide you with the DealMerge Service and for DealMerge’s legitimate and essential business purposes. For example:

Improving and maintaining the performance of the DealMerge Service.
Developing new features.
Complying with our legal obligations.
Resolving disputes.

We have broken down the retention periods and how we determine them:

Data Retained Until You Remove It

It’s your right to request that we delete certain of your Data. You can also delete certain Data directly from the DealMerge Service. We keep some of the information for as long as the user chooses unless one of the limited purposes described below applies.

Data Retained When Your Account Is Deleted

We keep some Data when your account is deleted, for example, your username and profile information. We have set a certain retention period so that some of your Data, including certain data that you uploaded to DealMerge Service, is retained for a specific period of time which allows us to restore the Data in the event that you wish to come back to us at a later date.

Data Expires After Your Account Is Deleted

After your account is deleted and not restored after a certain period of time, your Data will be permanently deleted from our database.

Data Retained for Extended Time Periods for Limited Purposes

After your account is permanently deleted, we may keep some of your Data for a longer time period but for very limited purposes. We may be subject to legal obligations that require us to retain the Data. For example, we may be required by government order to preserve Data relevant to an investigation or Data kept for the purposes of litigation.

7. Data Security

We’re committed to protecting our users’ personal data. We put in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to help protect the security of your personal data. However, be aware that no system is ever completely secure. We have put various safeguards in place to guard against unauthorized access and unnecessary retention of personal data in our systems. These include pseudonymization, encryption, access, and retention policies.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

8. Changes to this Policy

We may occasionally make changes to this Policy. When we make material changes to this Policy, we will provide you with prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances. For example, we may communicate the updates via popup messages or send you an email or notification.

9. Contact Information

To ask questions about this Policy and our privacy practices:

Write to us at: 228 Park Avenue S, #484683, New York, NY 10003
Email us at: privacy@dealmerge.com
Call us at: (800) 467-4402