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Please carefully read these Rakuten Browser Extension Terms before installing or using the Rakuten Browser Extension (referred to herein as our “Browser Extension”). These Rakuten Browser Extension Terms, together with the Rakuten.com Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, which are hereby incorporated by reference, form a legally binding agreement (collectively, the “Agreement”) that governs your use of the Browser Extension provided by Ebates Performance Marketing, Inc. dba Rakuten Rewards (“Rakuten,” “we,” or “us”).

1. Data Collection and Usage. When you are interacting with the Browser Extension, we will collect information about the coupons, deals, merchants, products, and offers you click on. In addition, the Browser Extension may alert you of a deal or offer available that you had previously selected but had not purchased at an Affiliate Store site. The Browser Extension may also collect information about your shopping behavior within your browser session for internal testing purposes. Information collected by the Browser Extension for these purposes will include date and time of use, browser type, browser version, device type, URLs of web pages visited, general information about the visited web page, product searches, product search results, information about products added to cart, and other product information. Rakuten may collect this information from certain merchants and not all Affiliate Stores. The Browser Extension will also collect and use data, such as the order contents and order total, from order confirmation pages so we may confirm your Cash Back faster and more reliably (“Instant Cash Back”). Instant Cash Back may not be available at all Affiliate Stores. We do not intentionally collect nor use other types of information that may be included on an Affiliate Store’s order confirmation page, such as your address or partial payment information, although this information may be incidentally captured to the limited extent it is displayed by the Affiliate Store. Any data collected by the Browser Extension will be used, stored, and/or disclosed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can also stop all collection of information by the Rakuten Application by uninstalling it.

2. Cash Back Shopping with the Browser Extension. The Browser Extension is made available to enhance your shopping experience with www.rakuten.com by providing you with relevant offers and references displayed on your browser. If you elect to install the Browser Extension, the Browser Extension will display Cash Back shopping opportunities. The Browser Extension will prompt you to start your Cash Back shopping session via www.rakuten.com. The Browser Extension will alert you of coupon opportunities and will also alert you of a deal or offer available through www.rakuten.com with respect to a product or brand appearing in your search results or on other pages you visit across the web, and prompt you to start a shopping session at one of our Affiliate Stores. If you start a shopping session using the Browser Extension, it will set a cookie (or other similar tracking technologies) on your device through our affiliate network for the purpose of tracking your shopping session and crediting your Cash Back reward — just as if you had begun your shopping experience via any of our links to Affiliate Store sites on www.rakuten.com. Please note, however, that if cookies or other similar tracking devices from other affiliate marketing companies related to that Affiliate Store are already present on your computer, the Browser Extension will not automatically overwrite those cookies or shopping session but may still offer you the ability to start a Cash Back shopping session when you arrive at an Affiliate Store’s website.

3. Browser Extension Features. The Browser Extension also has some functionality that does not depend upon your interaction with it. By installing the Browser Extension, you enable Rakuten to automatically collect information on the pages you visit on your browser so that we can surface relevant offers, such as when coupons are available at a merchant or when Cash Back and/or coupons are available with our Affiliate Stores. The Browser Extension will also collect information on the results pages of any searches you make so it can surface offers and deals where they are relevant (for example, the Browser Extension will display a Cash Back offer within a search engine results page that is related to those search results or a dining offer on a restaurant review website).

4. Your Choices with the Browser Extension. You may turn off certain features of the Browser Extension by updating the options within the Settings of the Browser Extension or device or browser settings.

5. Updates to the Browser Extension. We may update the Browser Extension when a new version is released or when new features are added. An update to the Browser Extension may require us to make reasonable changes to the Rakuten Application Terms. These updates occur automatically, but we will update these Rakuten Application Terms in the event of a material change in the information being collected or a new use for collected information that is materially different from the uses described herein. We reserve the right to modify or add features or functions to the Browser Extension but have no obligation to make available to you any subsequent versions or new features that may be included in some versions of the Browser Extension.

If you do not agree to any modification to the Rakuten Application Terms, you can close your Account at any time by accessing your Account’s Privacy Preferences. The most current version of the Rakuten Application Terms will be available on our website (available at: https://www.rakuten.com/help/article/rakuten-cash-back-button-privacy-notice-360052819794) and supersedes previous versions.

6. Third Party Components of the Browser Extension. Attribution notices for third party software that may be contained in portions of the Browser Extension are available here.

Updated: August 14, 2024