Houstondesies.com is committed to protecting the privacy of our site visitors and customers. The Houston Desies team members are customers themselves of other Internet sites and fully appreciate and respect the importance of privacy on the Internet. We will not disclose information about our customers to third parties except where it is part of providing a service to you – e.g. arranging for a product to be sent to you, carrying out credit and other security checks and for customer research and profiling or where we have your express permission to do so.

Your Consent
When you register to Houstondesies.com you will be providing a limited amount of information which we will store in a secure environment. The data that we hold for each customer is used in order to serve better content to each customer. Below is a list detailing what kind of information we store:

Name and contact details
Transaction history
Communications record
Profile: age, gender, profession, income, hobbies
Spending habits

All credit/debit card details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.

We will not sell your name, address, e-mail address, credit/debit card information, or personal information to any third party without your permission, but we cannot be responsible or held liable for the actions of third-party sites from which you may have linked or been directed to the Houston Desies website.

Communication & Marketing
If you have registered on Houston Desies we will update you on our daily deals, news and special offers via e-mail, post or telephone.

We may share your information with Houston Desies Merchants. From time to time, we provide offers from particular merchants (referred to as “Houston Desies Merchants”) who, as part of the offer, request information on Houston Desies customers who purchased the offer to aid redemption. In those cases, we share some of your Personally Identifiable Information with Houston Desies Merchants. Sharing this Information may allow a Houston Desies Merchant to market directly to you should they choose to do so. However, we will only share Personally Identifiable Information with a COBONE Merchant if you engage in an Identification Activity, and then only with the COBONE Merchant involved in that Identification Activity. We specifically disclaim any responsibility or liability for the actions of such COBONE Merchant. While we inform them that they are only permitted to communicate with you for the specific promotion with Houston Desies, we do not have any responsibility for the actions of the COBONE Merchant, and the actions of the COBONE Merchant are not in our control.

Opt-out
All Houston Desies members have the option to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us and/or selected third parties. If you do not wish to continue to receive marketing from us and/or selected third parties you should click on the link located at the bottom of the email and follow the instructions to be removed from all future mailing. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting ‘My Data’ in ‘Your Account’ on the Houston Desies website. You can access ‘Your Account’ once you are logged in to your Houston Desies account.

Cookies
A cookie is a small information file that is sent to your computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website and it will recognise your device on future visits. These types of files do several different jobs such as remembering your preferences and chosen items, assisting you to improve your site experience as well as trying to ensure that the adverts or offers you see online are more relevant to you. These “cookies” can be divided into 4 types each of which is outlined below.

Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable the site to provide services you have asked for such as remembering your shopping bag items.

Category 2: Performance Cookies
This type collect anonymous information on how people use the site and the data is merged with other users to enable us to improve how the site operates. For example we utilise Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at our site, browse or use our site and highlight areas where we can improve areas such as navigation, shopping experience and marketing campaigns. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your identity can be established.

Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These remember choices you make such as language, deal interests or currency. These can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate with your selections and make the visits more tailored and pleasant. The information is also merged with other users on an anonymous basis to enable us to improve how the site operates.

Category 4: Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. They remember the websites you have visited and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers. For example we use 3rd party companies such as iKoo to provide you with more personalised adverts when visiting other websites.

You can change the settings on your browser to prevent cookies being stored on your computer or mobile device without your explicit consent. Your browser “help” section will normally provide details on how to manage the cookie settings.

Protecting your security
We may use personal information provided by you to conduct appropriate anti-fraud checks. Personal information that you provide may be disclosed to a credit reference or fraud prevention agency, which may keep a record of that information. This is done only to confirm your identity.

Transfers of your Information
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your data, but cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Disclosures of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our group of companies. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
if Houston Desies sells or buys any business or assets;
if Houston Desies or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data which we hold about our customers may be one of the transferred assets; or
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Houston Desies , our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Third party sites
Our site may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Checking your Details
If you wish to verify the details you have submitted to Houston Desies you may do so by contacting us via the e-mail address or address given below. Our security procedures mean that we may request proof of identity before we reveal information. This proof of identity will take the form of your e-mail address and password submitted upon registration. You must therefore keep this information safe as you will be responsible for any action which we take in response to a request from someone using your e-mail and password. We would strongly recommend that you do not use the browser’s password memory function as that would permit other people using your terminal to access your personal information.

Contacting us
We are always pleased to hear from our customers (even if it is a complaint!). We are always grateful for any time you spend providing us with the knowledge we need to ensure our customers are completely satisfied – we want you to return to the site and to recommend us to your friends and family. If you have any questions or feedback about this statement, or if you would like us to stop processing your information, please do not hesitate to contact a customer service member of the Houston Desies team, who will be delighted to answer any questions you may have.

You can contact our customer care team at cs@houstondesies.com