Welcome to One Dollar Shop ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our promotional raffle website OneDollarShop.us (the "Website"), including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected to the Website.
We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Website.
This Privacy Policy applies to all users of our Website, including those who participate in our promotional raffles through either token purchases or free essay submissions.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("Personal Information"). We have collected the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
Account Registration Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address, and by extension your confirmation of being over the age of 18 years old to verify your age eligibility.
Payment Information: When you purchase tokens, we collect payment information, including your credit card number, expiration date, CVV code, and billing address. This information is processed by our third-party payment processors, and we do not store complete credit card information on our servers.
Communication Information: When you communicate with us through our Website, customer service, or other channels, we collect the information you provide in such communications.
Essay Submissions: When you submit an essay as a free method of entry, we collect your essay content and any personal information contained within it.
Delivery Information: If you win a prize, we collect your delivery address and any other information necessary to fulfill the prize.
Tax Information: For prizes valued at $600 or more, we collect your Social Security Number or Tax ID for tax reporting purposes as required by law.
We collect information from you through various channels, including:
Direct Interactions: When you create an account, purchase tokens, submit essays, communicate with us, or participate in our promotional raffles.
Automated Technologies: As you navigate through our Website, we may use automated data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website and information about your computer and internet connection.
Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third parties, including business partners, analytics providers, and social media platforms if you connect to our Website through such platforms or share our content on these platforms.
We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
• To create and maintain your account
• To process your token purchases and manage your account balance
• To conduct promotional raffles and notify winners
• To fulfill prize delivery and related obligations
• To improve our Website, products, and services
• To develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To personalize your experience on our Website
• To respond to your inquiries, comments, and requests
• To provide customer support and troubleshoot problems
• To send administrative messages, such as confirmation emails, technical notices, updates, and security alerts
• To send you promotional messages about our services, special offers, and events (if you have opted in to receive such communications)
• To notify you about changes to our Website, policies, or terms
• To communicate with you about your account, token balance, entries, and prizes
• To protect the security and integrity of our Website and business
• To verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity
• To enforce our Terms and Conditions and other agreements
• To comply with legal obligations, including tax reporting requirements
• To investigate and address violations of our policies
• To understand how users interact with our Website and services
• To monitor and analyze usage and trends
• To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns
• To develop aggregate insights about our user base and services
We may share or disclose your information in the following circumstances:
We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These service providers have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
We may share your information with third-party vendors, shipping companies, and logistics providers to fulfill prize delivery. This may include your name, address, and contact information necessary for delivering your prize.
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency). This may include tax reporting requirements for prizes valued at $600 or more.
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website of any change in ownership or uses of your information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your information.
We may disclose your information 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.
We may share your information with third parties when you have given us your consent to do so.
We may share aggregate or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you with third parties for marketing, advertising, research, or similar purposes.
We and our third-party service providers use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your activity, browser, and device.
A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your device when you visit our Website. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them or they expire). Cookies help us recognize you when you return to our Website, remember your preferences, and provide you with a more personalized experience.
Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly and cannot be turned off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable the Website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may impact your overall user experience. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Our Website currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals.
We retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us)
• Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them)
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations)
Even if you delete your account, we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include:
You have the right to request access to the personal information we have collected about you. We will provide this information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you. You can update your account information directly through your account settings.
You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions. For example, we may need to retain certain information for legal, compliance, or security purposes.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information or request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each marketing email, adjusting your notification preferences in your account settings, or contacting us directly.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14 of this Privacy Policy. We may require specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving sensitive information (such as payment details). All payment transactions are processed through secure payment gateway providers and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
We regularly review and update our security measures to ensure they remain effective and appropriate for the sensitivity of the information we hold.
Our Website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14.
The information we collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing our Website from outside the United States, please be aware that information collected through the Website may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the United States and other jurisdictions. Your use of our Website or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer, processing, storage, and use of your information in the United States and other jurisdictions, where privacy laws may be less comprehensive than those in your country of residence.
Where applicable law requires a lawful basis for these transfers, we rely on necessary contractual performance, legitimate interests, and consent as the lawful bases.
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites, services, or applications that are not owned or controlled by us. This Privacy Policy applies only to our Website and not to any third-party websites, services, or applications, even if they are accessible through our Website.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every website you visit. We shall not be liable for any damages or losses arising from your interactions with such third parties.
When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website, including those that have a link on our Website, are subject to that third party's own rules and policies.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide notice through our Website or by other means, such as email, prior to the changes becoming effective.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of our Website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us through our contact page.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) provide you with specific rights regarding your personal information. This section describes your CCPA/CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure, and sale of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
• The categories of personal information we collected about you
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- Sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased
- Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
If we sell or share your personal information, you have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. Unless permitted by the law, we will not:
• Deny you goods or services
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us through our contact form.
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.
Nevada residents have the right to opt out of the sale of certain "covered information" collected by operators of websites or online services. We currently do not sell covered information, as "sale" is defined by Nevada law, and we don't have plans to do so. If you have any questions, please contact us as provided below.
Residents of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah have certain rights regarding their personal information under their respective state laws (the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act, and Utah Consumer Privacy Act). These rights may include:
• The right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data
• The right to access your personal data
• The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
• The right to delete your personal data
• The right to obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable and usable format
• The right to opt out of processing for purposes of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by the applicable law.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under applicable data protection laws regarding the processing of your personal information. In particular, if the processing of your personal information is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or similar applicable laws, you have the following rights:
• Access: You have the right to request information about how we process your personal information and to obtain a copy of that personal information.
• Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you.
• Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
• Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that information to another controller.
• Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
• Lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
We process personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, based on the following legal grounds:
• Contractual Necessity: To perform the contract we have with you, such as managing your account and fulfilling prizes you may win.
• Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate interests, such as providing and improving our services, marketing, and communicating with users about our services, provided that such processing does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
• Compliance with Legal Obligations: To comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal obligations.
• Consent: Based on your consent to process your personal information for specific purposes, which you may withdraw at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our DPO using the contact form.
We are committed to ensuring that our communications, including this Privacy Policy, are accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you encounter any difficulty accessing this Privacy Policy or need to receive it in an alternative format, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 14.
This document was last updated on March 12, 2025.