Updated February 22, 2022
We Respect Your Privacy
Shopping 101 is committed to respecting your privacy if you visit this site. This page outlines our privacy policy.
It is optional for you to share any personal information with us. You are free to read this site without telling us who you are.
Any information you share with us will not be revealed to outside parties or used for any other purpose unless you grant specific permission, or legal authorities require us to disclose it.
Shopping101.com may share general information with partners and advertisers (example: how many visitors, what they seem to be interested in). This will not be linked to personally identifiable information that could identify individual visitors.
Email Addresses
We'll need your email address if you wish to create an account or join our newsletter.
Each newsletter will tell you how to unsubscribe if you want to stop getting our mailings or need to change your email address.
We will not share your email address with outside parties, period, unless required by legal authorities.
Links
Our web pages and emails contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or business practices of other sites.
If you visit other sites, we encourage you to check their privacy policy before you share any personal information with them.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files ("a few bytes") stored on your hard drive. Shopping 101 uses cookies to make some functions operate better. We do not use cookies to store personally identifiable information.
Some of our advertisers or other partners may use cookies. We have no access to or control over cookies created by other sites.
Log Files and Analytics
We examine our log files and analytics to see where visitors go in the site, analyze trends, and gather general information for aggregate use. This helps us improve the site to meet your interests, and promote it more effectively. We use Matomo for analytics, not Google.
We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information.
Surveys
We may occasionally invite visitors to share information or opinions with us. It's optional to participate, and if we share the results of surveys with anyone outside our own staff we'll tell you that before we collect your comments. You can share comments without sharing personal information.
Survey information and user comments help us improve this site.
Notification of Changes
If we make substantive changes to our privacy policy, we will update this page and notify existing newsletter subscribers by email. They can choose whether to remove their information from our files (unsubscribe).
This privacy policy statement will always be accessible from the home page. We will keep this page up to date so visitors are always able to learn what information we collect, how we use it, and when, if ever, we disclose it to outside parties.
Security
We take every precaution to protect the information that our visitors share with us and keep it private. No one will be granted access to personally identifiable information unless it is needed to perform specific jobs.
Everyone at Shopping g 101 is instructed about the importance of our visitors' trust, the value we place on privacy, and what they are expected to do to ensure our visitors' information is protected.