Consumer Utopia Privacy Statement


At consumerutopia.com, we value our Visitors and our Partnered Vendors; therefore, we pledge to respect your right to privacy. We do not engage in SPAM, nor do we share the personal contact information of our vendors, visitors, or their associates with third parties. Below you will find more specific information concerning our privacy polices.

I. Use and Collection of Store and Site Visitor Information

consumerutopia.com only collects personal information that is voluntarily submitted by our Visitors through email correspondence and opt-in email newsletters.
The other information collected by consumerutopia.com includes site usage statistics and click-through information that is collected electronically as a result of actions taken by our Visitors. consumerutopia.com personnel are fully educated about the policies and practices of consumerutopia.com concerning the protection of voluntarily submitted personal information from outside access, and take every measure possible to prevent unauthorized use or disclosure.
Because the nature of consumerutopia.com is to provide shopping information and guidance to our Visitors we do not engage in customer-to-store transactions. Therefore consumerutopia.com does not collect or use personal credit card information from our Visitors.

All other personally identifiable information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, received by consumerutopia.com from our Visitors is exclusively and voluntarily submitted on the part of the visitor via email or an opt-in email newsletter. Personally identifiable information provided in such correspondence is not stored at our website, is only used for responding to the respective query, and is otherwise not used for other marketing promotions, SPAM or any other purpose. Site Visitors who do not want their personally identifiable information made available to consumerutopia.com should not submit such information.

II. Site Usage, Searches and Click-Throughs

Statistics concerning site usage, searches and click-throughs gathered by consumerutopia.com are collected in an aggregate format only. This information is used to assess traffic to the website, and to report search and click-through information to individual Vendors.

III. Cookies and Log Files

Cookies are not placed on the systems of Visitors to consumerutopia.com.
Log file entries are generated when a Visitor requests a search at consumerutopia.com. These entries are generated anonymously, and enable consumerutopia.com to assess overall site activity, track interest in advertised sales, and troubleshoot technical concerns. Log files are used internally only, and are not associated with any particular user, computer or browser.

IV. Protection of Site Visitor Information

Once consumerutopia.com receives email submitted voluntarily by our Visitors, the information is kept strictly confidential. Access to this information is restricted to consumerutopia.com administrators, and personally identifiable information contained in the email is only used to respond to the respective query. consumerutopia.com does not rent, sell or exchange the email addresses of our Visitors, or of their associates to any third party, including its partnered Vendors. Further, consumerutopia.com does not use these email addresses to engage in SPAM activities. Email voluntarily submitted by Site Visitors is removed from our records following its review.

consumerutopia.com gives its Partnered Vendors information about aggregate searches and click-throughs on their products only. consumerutopia.com does not report the data of one vendor to any other vendor.
Aggregate statistics about general site usage is collected anonymously. Site Visitors are not personally tracked in any way.

V. Notification of Privacy Policies

This policy statement informs the visitors of consumerutopia.com that consumerutopia.com will keep their personally identifiable information confidential.

VI. Opt-Out / Removal of Information

consumerutopia.com only collects personally identifying information with your specific knowledge and consent. We do not share such information with any outside party. If for any reason you wish to stop receiving email from consumerutopia.com simple send us an email at, info@consumerutopia.com we will honor your request in a timely manner.

VII. Newsletters

The consumerutopia.com newsletter is an opt-in only newsletter. This means that we only send you email if you first request us to do so. By opting into the consumerutopia.com newsletter, you also agree to receive email newsletters from our sister site galashoes.com. We generally send our newsletter on a monthly basis; however, we reserve the right to send more frequent newsletters and announcements. If for any reason you wish to stop receiving the consumerutopia.com Newsletter simple send us an email at, info@consumerutopia.com we will honor your request in a timely manner. Likewise, if for any reason you wish to stop receiving the galashoes.com Newsletter simple send us an email at, info@galashoes.com we will honor your request in a timely manner.

VIII. Use of Site by Minors

consumerutopia.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
Moreover, consumerutopia.com does not in any way promote, condone or endorse the dissemination of information, or sale of products and services to minors when prohibited by law; including the dissemination or sale of pornographic materials to minors; and the sale of firearms, tobacco and alcohol to minors.

IX. Site Visitor Interaction with Stores

consumerutopia.com includes numerous links to third-party Vendor websites. consumerutopia.com has no control over the privacy practices of these websites, or of our Partner Vendors. Once a consumerutopia.com Visitor has linked from consumerutopia.com to a third-party website, the visitor is responsible for obtaining Privacy Policy information from the third-party site.
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy for consumerutopia.com, please contact us at info@consumerutopia.com