Minty's Privacy Policy: How We Protect You

Before we let the lawyers loose, we want to tell you in simple terms how we collect, use, and protect personal data

We collect data while you shop that helps us find the best offers for you.
We collect other data - like name and address, and email and phone number, so that we can communicate with you and as part of redeeming Minty Cashback.‍
You can go to your Privacy Preferences page anytime you want to request your data or ask that it be deleted. You also have control over how we communicate with you at any time, at your Notifications page.

Questions? Email privacy@addshoppers.com. Now let’s get to the lawyer’s part….

Effective Date: February 1, 2025.
Last Updated: February 1, 2025.

Minty is a division of AddShoppers, Inc. This Privacy Policy will refer to “Minty” or “us” for Minty and the rest of AddShoppers, and “You” for you. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected through all of Minty’s services (“Services”), including our messaging service (“Messages”), our website Minty.com (the “Site”), our mobile applications for Android and iOS devices (our “Apps”), and our browser extension (our “Extension”), or by contacting our customer service or otherwise engaging with us. ‍

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, and share personal information, as well as the choices you have to manage your personal information with us. We use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Policy to describe information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual, household, or device. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been aggregated and/or otherwise de-identified such that it does not identify a specific individual, household or device.

If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us as described below.

Some states require disclosures to use specific types of language and to include specific pieces of information. While we give everyone the same options, please note the specific disclosures below for your state if applicable.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we generally process personal information. There are some special circumstances where how we collect and use information are somewhat different, like with our business partners or job applicants. If you think one of these circumstances may apply to you, please review AddShoppers privacy policy

Table of Contents

1. Personal Information We Collect and How
2. How We Use Personal Information
3. How We Share Personal Information
4. “Do Not Track” Requests; Third-Party Tracking
5. Your Choices
6. Third-Party Services
7. Security
8. Data Retention
9. Children
10. Notice to Residents Outside the United States
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
12. Contact Us
13. Notice to California Residents

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1. Personal Information We Collect and How.We collect personal information in several ways: 1) directly from you, when you sign up for an account, update your account, or provide it to us in correspondence; 2) from third parties like the brands you love and the websites you visit, as well as other sources; and 3) automatically through the technologies that enable our Services.

The information we collect directly from you includes name, email address, street address, telephone numbers, payment information for receipt of Minty Cashback, as well as your communication and consumer preferences.

If you contact us through one of our forms on our Site, we collect your name, email address, and other details about your question or issue. Providing your email address is required for us to respond, and we may eventually need to speak to you by phone, in which case we may request you provide your phone number.

To the extent we combine personal information with other information which in the aggregate would be identifying to an individual, we will treat the information as personal information under this Privacy Policy. Where we’ve aggregated or otherwise de-identified personal information such that it is no longer identifying, linked or identified to an individual, we will not treat that information as personal.

We collect individuals’ email addresses provided to us through the Website, and as part of our business through widgets, cookies and other technologies on our customers’ and partners’ websites.

We and our third party service providers also may automatically collect technical personal information from users of the Services, including:

Information about the device(s) you use to access the Website or the Services, which may include IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, device type, and device identifiers;
Information about your visits to the Website and to other websites provided by or controlled by third parties, including the full URL clickstream to, through, and from pages on the websites (including date and time);
Information we need and use to facilitate your use of the Services (including to provide access to third party websites and services), such as URL requests, destination IP addresses, email addresses, or device configuration details;
Pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

The technologies used for automatic data collection include “cookies” (small data files, including cookies, pixel tags, and/or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications) on your computer, browser, mobile phone, or other devices. We may use both session cookies, which expire and no longer have any effect when you log out of your account or close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your device until you erase them or they expire. We also provide cookies to third party websites that facilitate our understanding of your interaction with those websites. We encode our cookies so that we or our third party service providers can interpret the information stored in them. You are free to decline cookies if permitted by your computer, browser, mobile phone, or other devices, although doing so may interfere with your use of some Services.

In order to get the best understanding of your interests, we may obtain personal information from third parties as well. Our customers may provide us with the email addresses of their customers or prospective customers. We may obtain personal information from advertising networks, data analytics providers, social networks, and consumer data resellers.

If someone chooses to use our referral service to tell a friend about our Website or one of our customer’s products or services, we will ask for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Website. Minty stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

2. How We Use Personal Information.We use the information we collect to understand you and your preferences better so that we can bring you the offers that are the most interesting to you, and to process cashback awards to you. We also use information we gather for analytics and product improvement.

More particularly, we may use any personal information we collect for any one or more of the business or commercial purposes below:

Operate the Services, including administration, internal operations, troubleshooting, debugging, fraud prevention, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
Manage access to the Services;
Send information to use or in connection with the Services;
Facilitate payments for the redemption of Minty Cashback;
Maintain the security of the Services, our assets and technologies;
Improve, test, personalize, develop and improve the Services, including training machine learning and artificial intelligence systems and creating new analytics, algorithms, or other tools;
Advertise and market our products and services, and the products and services of our business partners, including by presenting tailored content and advertisements through our Website, third-party sites, or email; ;
Measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to users, customers, and others, and to deliver relevant advertising;
Provide information about goods or services that may interest our audience;
Send emails about updates, information, or alerts regarding the Services;
Evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our Website in addition to other endorsements. With the testimonial giver’s consent, we may post their testimonial along with their name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at any time.

3. How We Share Personal Information.We may share personal information with third parties as follows:

Service Providers. We engage with select service providers who provide services to support our operations such as analytics, web hosting, app development, anti-fraud, security, advertising, and marketing vendors, and other service providers. Such service providers will be limited to using your Personal Information to provide their services to Minty, or as otherwise permitted by law.

Other Parties. We may share your information when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements or to comply with laws, regulations and legal processes, such as to comply with a subpoena, bankruptcy proceedings, or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

Successor Entities. We reserve the right to sell, disclose or transfer your personal information to a successor entity as part of a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate changes respecting Minty

The Website may offer publicly accessible reviews, blogs or community forums. Users should be aware that any personal information provided in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request the removal of your personal information from our reviews, blog or community forum, contact us at privacy@addshoppers.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

“Selling” and “Sharing” information. As set out in greater detail below, California law defines “selling” and “sharing” information in a way that is broader than the typical definition. We do not sell information in exchange for cash payments. We may use third-party services whose use of your information may constitute “selling” or “sharing” your information under California law. Regardless of your state of residence, you may opt-out of this “selling” and “sharing” of your information here.

4. Do-Not-Track Requests; Third-Party Tracking.

‍Over time, various technologies have been created or proposed for browsers to automatically convey privacy preferences to websites. One of these settings is a “do not track” flag. We do not presently have the capability to omit you from usage analytics to the extent your browser sends us a “do not track” message.

Global Privacy Control. We are able to and do respond to a newer technology known as the Global Privacy Control or GPC, but if you activate the GPC in your browser or through a browser extention the functionality of Minty is severely limited, including our ability to locate and credit cashback offers.

Third parties, other than our vendors assisting with making the Website available, do not have authorization from us to track your uses of the Website or track what other activities you may have engaged in before or after using the Website (for example, using a different website). That said, we cannot control all third-party tracking and there may be some third-party tracking that occurs without our knowledge or consent.

We partner with third parties to display advertising on our website and to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. You can opt out of our use of these cookies by opting out of the sale of information.You can manage such cookies more generally here:

Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)’s self-regulatory opt-out page (http://optout.aboutads.info/) and mobile application-based "AppChoices" download page (https://youradchoices.com/appchoices) and Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)’s self-regulatory opt-out page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/).

Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

5. Your Choices.

‍You have certain choices to control the collection and use of information about you by us. If you have an account, you can make choices about how we use your information and communicate with you, and update and correct any of your information with us at your Manage Privacy Preference page. If you do not have an account, you can limit the information we collect and share with third parties by opting out of the sale of information. You may opt-out of marketing emails from us at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email, but please note that will not affect our ability to email you about our business relationship or Services you have requested.

6. Third-Party Services. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services provided by Minty, not to any third-party services.

The Services may contain links to the websites of our business partners, advertisers, social media sites, and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies, and that Minty does not accept any responsibility or liability for such third party privacy policies or practices. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to or through any linked third party website.

Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to/from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our Website. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to us in such instances. Our Website may include social media features, such as the Facebook® button and widgets or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website with third party content. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

7. Security. Minty maintains administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the user's personal information and other information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. For example, we and/or our service providers use commercially reasonable security measures such as encryption, firewalls, and Secure Socket Layer software (SSL) or hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) to protect Personal Information.

Although we take reasonable steps designed to protect your personal information, please be advised that no security system or means of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure (including without limitation with respect to computer viruses, malicious software and hacker attacks). We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of your personal information or any information you disclose or transmit to us. We are not responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access, and we are not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such incidents to the fullest extent permitted by law. Where required under law, we will notify you of any such loss, misuse or alteration of personal information that may affect you so that you can take the appropriate actions.

For your own privacy protection, we urge you to keep all passwords confidential. We also recommend that you do not include sensitive information such as passwords, social security numbers or payment information, in any emails that you send to us. If you become aware of any breach of the terms of this Privacy Policy or of the security of the Services,please notify us by email.

‍8. Data Retention. We will retain personal information for as long as an individual user’s account with us is active or as needed to provide the Services or fulfill our business and commercial purposes. If you request deletion of your information, after verifying your identity we will delete your information except information necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will retain and use personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements for our standard retention periods. After expiry of the applicable retention periods, your personal information will be deleted. If there is any data that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete entirely from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further use of such data.

9. Children. The Sites and Services are not designed or intended to be used by anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly or intentionally gather personal information about children who are under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18 (or a minor in the jurisdiction in which you are accessing our Sites or Services), do not use the Services, or make purchases via the Services, use any interactive features of the Services, or post any personal information to our Sites or submit any personal information via the Services. If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 18, please contact us. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 18, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible and cease the use of that information in accordance with applicable law.

‍10. International Transfers. We have centralized some of our data processing activities in accordance with applicable laws, and as a result, we may, directly or indirectly through our organization and affiliates, and through third-party entities around the world, process, store, and transfer your personal information in jurisdictions that may be different from your domicile, as described in this Privacy Policy. Specifically, the information and Personal Information that we collect may be transferred to, processed in, and stored at, locations in the United States and Canada. The jurisdiction where your personal information will be processed may or may not have laws that seek to preserve the privacy of personal information. Your personal information may also be processed by staff operating outside of your jurisdiction who work for us or for one of the organizations outlined in this Privacy Policy in connection with the activities outlined in this Privacy Policy. By submitting your personal information using the Sites, you agree to this transfer, storing, and processing. We have put in place commercially reasonable technical and organizational procedures to safeguard the information and personal information we collect on the Sites.

‍11. Changes to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and may apply changes to previously collected information, as permitted by applicable law. You acknowledge and agree that we may notify you about any material changes in the way we treat Personal Information by placing a notice on the Website. Your continued use of the Services after any such posting shall constitute your acceptance of such changes. If you do not agree with any such changes, please stop using the Services.

12. Contact Us.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our information practices, please contact us by email at privacy@minty.com or our contact form. California residents may also use the contact information shown below under “NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS.”

Toll-free: (877) 266-3548

https://www.minty.com/contact

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

13. Notice to California Residents.

‍California requires certain disclosures regarding personal information be disclosed using specific language and terms. We apply the same privacy processes to all Minty customers and visitors to our website, regardless of jurisdiction. The information included in this section applies to residents of California. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, including anything in this section for California residents, or would like a printed copy of this Privacy Policy, please contact us at (877) 266-3548 or by email to privacy@addshoppers.com. If you would like to print a copy of this Privacy Policy, please select the “Print” button in your web browser.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

For details on the Personal Information we collected about California residents in the last 12 months, the sources of that information, our business or commercial purposes for collecting that information, and the third parties with whom we shared that information, please refer to the corresponding sections of this Privacy Policy as follows:

See chart below for categories of Personal Information we collected. See PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW above in this Privacy Policy for sources from which the information was collected
See HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION above in this Privacy Policy for our business or commercial purposes for collecting personal information
See HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION above in this Privacy Policy for third parties with whom we share personal information

In particular, as part of the Services, we have collected the following categories of personal information of California residents within the last twelve (12) months. Please note that the examples used to describe each category are specified by California law, and are not necessarily collected or used by AddShoppers. For example, we do not collect Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers, listed as examples in the first category “Identifiers,” but we do collect names and mailing addresses, which are also “Identifiers.”

Category	Examples	Collected
Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.	YES
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	A name, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.	YES
Protected Classifications	Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.	NO
Commercial information	Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	YES
Biometric	imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information	NO
Internet activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	YES
Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements.	YES
Sensory information	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
Work Information	Professional or employment-related information.	NO*
Education Information	Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99)	NO*
Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.	YES
Sensitive Personal Information	Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number. Account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account. Precise geolocation. Racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership. The contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication. A consumer’s genetic data.	NO

* Minty collects and processes email addresses, which in some cases may imply a relationship with a workplace or education institution. We do not collect such information as employment or education information, however.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

We shared these categories of personal information with the following categories of third parties:

Service providers and other third parties we use to support our business, including:

billing	administering sweepstakes and surveys
credit card processing	advertising and marketing
customer support services	analytics
customer relationship management	email and mailing services
accounting and auditing	data storage
processing insurance claims	security

Law enforcement and legal authorities, as required by law.

YOUR CCPA RIGHTS AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM

‍If you are a California resident, you have certain rights, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CCPA”). These CCPA rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. Where an exemption may apply, we will inform you if we’re unable to fulfill your request. Please see the information below for a summary of your rights, how to exercise your rights and the information we require in order to respond to your requests. Please note that we are required to verify the request in accordance with applicable law and may ask for certain information to verify your identity.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale. While we do not sell information in the traditional sense, we do share information with third parties for marketing and analytical purposes that falls under the definition of “sell” or “share” under the CCPA. You can opt out of such selling and sharing on our Do Not Sell page.

Right to Know. You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose and/or sell about you. To exercise your right to know, please visit your Privacy Preferences page to submit your request. You will be required to provide certain information which we will use to verify your request.

Right to Delete. You have the right to delete personal information that we collect or maintain about you. To request deletion of your information, please visit your Privacy Preferences page to submit your request. You will be required to provide certain information which we will use to verify your request. Please note that certain exceptions apply to this right, such as when we must retain your information to comply with law. We will notify you of any such exceptions as applicable to your request.

Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any of your CCPA rights. However, we may offer certain financial incentives, charge reasonable fees related to your requests, or deny your right to know, right to request deletion, or right to opt-out of sale in accordance with applicable law.

You can exercise your CCPA rights yourself or you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. Your authorized agent must be able to demonstrate authority to act on your behalf as further instructed when submitting a verifiable request.

THIRD-PARTY MARKETING DISCLOSURE

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents with whom we have a business relationship can request certain information regarding what types of personal information, if any, we shared with third parties for the direct marketing purposes of the third parties and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information in the immediately preceding 12 months. You may request this information by contacting us using the contact information at the top of this “NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS” section or under the Contact Us section.

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