Last Modified Date: March 12, 2021
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) addresses the manner in which Great American Savings LLC (“Great American Savings,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses and discloses information in connection with your use of https://www.greatamericansavings.net (the “Website”), participation in the Great American Savings Program sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) or third party offers as detailed in this Policy. References in this Policy to “you” or “your” means you, the individual visitor to our Website. If you have any questions or concerns about our Policy, please contact us using the information provided below under the heading “Contact Us.”
What Information Does Great American Savings Collect?
The information that we collect from you depends upon your interactions with us over the phone or through the Website. The information we collect is described below:
- If you choose to provide your information to us through an online web form on our Website, we will collect your first and last name, email address, mailing address, and your phone number.
- Should you choose to send us an email at help@greatamericansavings.net , we will collect your email address, name, and any other pertinent details that you choose to provide us with in connection with your communication.
- If you send us correspondence via U.S. mail or contact us by telephone at 888-750-8683 , we will collect name, address, telephone number and any other pertinent details that you choose to provide us in your communication.
- If you call us to participate in the Great American Savings Program offers, we will provide you with an opportunity to listen to offers for products and services provided by third parties. If you choose to participate in a particular offer, we will collect your name, telephone number, email address, mailing address and any other information that is pertinent to that offer (“Offer Information”).
- If you choose to participate in the Great American Savings Program Sweepstakes, we will collect your first and last name, phone number, and any additional information that is required for the specific Sweepstakes that you have chosen to enter, as provided in the applicable Sweepstakes rules (collectively, “Sweepstakes Entry Information”).
- If you happen to win a Sweepstakes, we will provide you with an affidavit to complete and sign. We will collect your name, social security number, residential address and telephone number from the affidavit in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes (collectively, “Sweepstakes Award Information”)
- Our Website utilizes internet cookies. For more information about internet cookies and the information that we collect, please consult the section of this Policy entitled “Internet Cookies.”
How Does Great American Savings Use the Information It Collects?
Great American Savings uses the information we collect from the Website or in your other communications with us in the following ways:
- We will use the information that we collect from our online web form on our Website to enable us to contact you by telephone, text message, and email, to the extent you provide us with authorization to do so about product and service offerings that may be of interest to you.
- If you send us an email, we will use your name, email address, the content of your communications and any other information that you provide us in order to respond to your inquiry.
- If you contact us via U.S. mail or by telephone, we will use your name and any other information that you provide to us to respond to your specific question.
- If you call us to participate in the Great American Savings Program and choose to listen to offers for goods and services that are provided by third parties, we will use your Offer Information to provide it to the third party provider responsible for administering the offer so that you can participate. We will use your Offer Information to contact you via telephone, text message, or email with additional offers, which you may opt-out of at any time by following the instructions provided with such communications. We will also sell your Offer Information to third parties, unless you choose to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by following the instructions provided in those communications.
- In the event that you choose to participate in a Great American Savings Program Sweepstakes, we will use your Sweepstakes Entry Information to complete your registration. We will use your Sweepstakes Entry Information to contact you via telephone, text message, or email with promotional offers, which you may opt-out of at any time by following the instructions provided with such communications. We will also sell your Sweepstakes Entry Information to third parties, unless you choose to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by following the instructions provided in those communications.
- If you win a Sweepstakes and the prize exceeds $600, we will use your Sweepstakes Award Information for purposes of preparing and issuing you an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) 1099-MISC form, which is a federal tax requirement in the United States.
Internet Cookies
Our Website utilizes internet cookies, which are small data files that are transmitted from a web server to your computing device through your internet web browser. Internet cookies collect certain information about you, including your computing device type, the name of your internet web browser, the domain of your internet service provider, your browser language preference, internet browsing history, the date and time of your visit to the Website and the duration of your browsing session on the Website.
We use the information we collect from internet cookies to keep track of the content and web pages that are most popular among visitors to the Website, to detect, identify and troubleshoot performance issues on the Website, and to combat against fraud, malicious and criminal activities. The statistical information that we receive is used to determine what web browsers and computing devices are most popular among our visitors, which we use to help optimize and improve the user experience.
Options for Internet Cookies
Depending upon your internet browser and computing device, you may have the option to toggle your settings regarding how your device and internet browser handles cookies. Some internet browsers include the capability to block, disable, or reject internet cookies. For more information about the options that your computing device or internet browser may have in connection with cookies, please consult the applicable help file. Please be advised that should you choose to disable cookies, that certain webpages or functions on the Website may not display or work properly for you.
Does Great American Savings Share the Information It Collects?
We share your information as set forth below:
Third Party Offers
If you choose to participate in an offer from a third party provider, we will share the Offer Information with the third party that is responsible for the specific offer that you are interested in participating in.
Third Party Service Providers
In connection with offering you with access to our Website and services, we utilize a number of third party service providers, who provide us with services including website design, data hosting, cloud storage, and telecommunication services. In each case, we prohibit our third party service providers from using any of your personal information, such as your name, telephone number, mailing address, social security number, or email address for any other purposes except for rendering their services to us.
Compliance with Legal Obligations
We reserve the right to disclose any information that you have made available to us if its disclosure is necessary, as determined in our sole discretion, to comply with legal obligations imposed on us, including without limitation, in response to a subpoena, legal process, or a judicial or governmental request. We also reserve the right to disclose your information in order to protect our rights or, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Great American Savings, our customers, and other parties.
Sale of the Company
If Great American Savings, or substantially all of Great American Savings’ assets, are sold, or we reorganize or merge into another company, then your information, including your personal information, is likely to be among one of the transferred assets included in the transaction.
Sale of your Sweepstakes Entry Information and Offer Information
In connection with your participation in the Great American Savings Program third party offers and/or registration in a Sweepstakes, we will sell your Offer Information and Sweepstakes Entry Information, as applicable, to third party marketing and advertising companies, unless you choose to opt-out as described in this Policy.
How does the Website handle “Do Not Track” or DNT requests?
Our Website does not respond to or otherwise acknowledge Do Not Track requests or signals from Internet web browsers.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not knowingly solicit information from or otherwise market to children under the age of 13. Visitors to our Website and uses of our services must be at least 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age or otherwise classified as a minor under applicable law, you should not provide any information to us. If someone under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information, the child’s parent or guardian should contact us using the information provided below to have us delete such information from our records.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Great American Savings reserves the right to make changes to this Policy from time to time as we may determine in our sole discretion. In the event that we decide to make a change to this Policy, we will post those changes on this page and we will update the “Last Modified Date” provided at the top of this page. It is your responsibility to regularly review this Policy as any changes will become effective upon posting and are legally binding upon you. To the extent we make a material change to this Policy, as it concerns are collection or use of information, we will provide notice on the main web page of the Website or if required by applicable law, we will request your consent to a particular change.
California Privacy Disclosures and Californian’s Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) requires we provide certain disclosures to consumers as detailed in this section.
Notice of Collection Practices
The following table outlines the categories of personal information that have been collected about consumers during the preceding 12-month period, the reasons for collection and the category of sources of the information:
| Category of Personal Information Collected | Types of Information Collected | Business or Commercial Purpose for Collection | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Real name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and where applicable, social security number. | We collect real name and email address for a business purpose in connection with providing the Great American Savings Program third party offers and Sweepstakes. When you win a Sweepstakes, we will collect your social security number for a business purpose in preparing and issuing the appropriate IRS tax form. We also collect the Offer Information and Sweepstakes Entry Information for a commercial purpose in selling such information to third party marketing and advertising services, except where you opt-out. | We collect all the identifiers from the individuals who contact us. |
| Categories of personal information as described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e) | Telephone number, and postal address | We collect your telephone number for a business purpose in connection with providing Offer Information to the third party provider who is responsible for the product or service offering. We also collect Offer Information and Sweepstakes Entry Information for a commercial purpose in selling such information to third party marketing and advertising services, unless you opt-out. | We collect telephone number and postal address directly from the individual. |
| Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Commercial Information | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Biometric Information | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Internet or other network activity | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable. |
| Geolocation Data | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information | We collect audio recordings of telephone calls into Great American Savings LLC | We collect recordings of telephone calls into Great American Savings LLC for a business purpose in connection with ensuring our telephone operators maintain our quality expectations. | We record the telephone calls directly through our interaction with the consumer. |
| Professional or employment related information | Information concerning your occupation | We collect information about your occupation for a business purpose in connection with providing Offer Information to the third party provider who is responsible for the product or service offering. We also collect information regarding your occupation for a commercial purpose in selling such information to third party marketing and advertising services, unless you opt-out. | We collect all such information from the individuals who contact us. |
| Education information defined as information not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | Information concerning your highest level of education | We collect information about your highest level of education for a business purpose in connection with providing Offer Information to the third party provider who is responsible for the product or service offering. We also collect information regarding your highest level of education for a commercial purpose in selling such information to third party marketing and advertising services, unless you opt-out. | We collect all such information from the individuals who contact us. |
| Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this column, which is used to create a profile reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes | We collect information regarding the consumer’s preferences for particular goods or services based on a particular Sweepstakes. | We collect information regarding the consumer’s preferences for a business purpose in connection with marketing products and services to consumers based upon their preferences. We also collect information regarding the consumer’s preferences for a commercial purposes in connection with any third party offer that a consumer may have chosen to participate in. | We collect information about the consumer’s preferences directly from the consumer. |
Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose
During the preceding 12-month period, we have disclosed identifiers, such as first and last name, mailing address and email address for a business purpose in connection with the Great American Savings Program and any third party offer that you may have chosen to participate in. As it pertains to Sweepstakes under the Great American Savings Program, we have disclosed identifiers such as your first and last name, mailing address, and email address to our affiliates in connection with administering such Sweepstakes. We have also disclosed personal information, including identifiers and categories of personal information as described in Cal. Civil Code § 1798.80(e) for a business purpose, including our third party service providers for purposes of those third parties rendering their services to us as detailed in this Policy.
Categories of Personal Information Sold for a Commercial Purpose
As of the Last Modified Date of this Policy, we plan to begin selling personal information, including your Offer Information and Sweepstakes Entry Information to third parties, such as marketing and advertising companies.
We have no knowledge of having any personal information of consumers that are under age 18 and have no intention to sell such information if we had it. It is an express requirement that visitors to our Website and participants in our Sweepstakes be at least 18 years of age.
Data Rights under the CCPA
Right to Access
The CCPA affords California consumers the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose certain information to that consumer including the categories of personal information that the business has collected, the categories of sources it has collected personal information from, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information, the categories of third parties the business shares the personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information it has collected about the consumer. While that information is listed in this Policy, you may separately request this information as it specifically relates to you by clicking here or calling us toll-free at 888-750-8683 to complete and submit a request. Our verification process is detailed below.
Notice of Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information
A California consumer enjoys the right under the CCPA to opt-out of the sale of the consumer’s personal information by a business to a third party. To complete an opt-our request online, please click here to complete a web form where you can complete and submit such a request. Please be sure to note in your communication that you wish to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Alternatively, you may also submit a request to opt-out by calling us toll-free at 888-758-7774. Once the request is processed, we will remove your personal information from the data that is eligible for sale as described in this Policy.
Right to Deletion
The CCPA grants California consumers with the right to request the deletion of the consumer’s personal information that has been collected and maintained by the business. You may submit a deletion request by clicking here to complete the appropriate web form and submit your request. Please be sure to note that you want us to delete your personal information, since if you do, you will also be automatically opted out of the Program. You may also contact us to request deletion of your personal information by telephone by calling us toll-free at 888-758-7775. Once again, Please be sure to note that you want us to delete your personal information, since if you do, you will also be automatically opted out of the Program. We will seek confirmation of your request as detailed in the section below concerning our verification process.
Non-discrimination Rights
The CCPA prohibits us from discriminating against a California consumer who chooses to exercise that consumer’s privacy rights as detailed in this Policy.
For more information about the CCPA and your data rights, please use the contact details under the heading “Contact Us” for more information.
Verification Procedure
In connection with verifying a request to exercise data rights under the CCPA, we will verify the contact information we collect from you with information contained in our database. We will also generate a confirmation email to any email address that we have on file to help confirm the authenticity of a request. Where we are unable to verify the information provided to us, we will notify the submitter of the request that we are unable to process their request.
If you are the authorized agent making a request under the CCPA, you will be asked to indicate that you are making your request on behalf of another individual and the information that you provide must match all of the information that we have in our system for the person whom you are submitting such a request.
For all failed requests, we will provide you with instructions on how to properly submit a data request to us in accordance with the CCPA.
Your Options Regarding your Information
In the event that you would like to review, correct, update, or delete any of the personal information that you have provided to us, such as your first and last name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, or any other information that you have provided to us, please contact us at the contact details provided under the heading “Contact Us.” Please clearly describe your request and include sufficient information in the request to enable us to locate your information, or in the alternative, to contact you (to the extent not prohibited by applicable law) to verify your request or to obtain additional information as necessary to carry out your request. You may also contact us to opt-out of the sale of your personal information just as California consumers are entitled to do. In connection with a Great American Savings Program Sweepstakes or third party offer, you will also have the option to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by telephone, text message, or email based upon the preferred method of communication that you have provided to us.
Contact Us
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the information below:
Address: Great American Savings, LLC, PO Box 1045 Jackson, WY 83001
Telephone: 888-750-8683
Email: help@greatamericansavings.net
Website: www.greatamericansavings.net