Privacy
Policy ...
Privacy
Policy of Georgia Association of Internet Business
Owners (GAIBO)
This
Privacy Policy explains our policy regarding the
collection, use and disclosure of your personal
information. As we update and expand our services,
this policy may change, so please refer back to
it periodically. By accessing our Web site or
using our services, you consent to our information
practices.
Collection
and Use of Information
Personal information means information that can
be used to identify and contact you, specifically
your name, postal delivery address, e-mail address,
payment method (e.g., credit card or debit card)
and telephone number, as well as other information
when such information is combined with your personal
information.
When
you purchase, register or re-register at our Web
site, we ask you to supply us with personal information
so that we can provide, enhance and personalize
our services and marketing efforts.
For
similar reasons, we may supplement the personal
information you provide with publicly available
information about you. We use this personal information
to process your registration, your orders and
your payments, and to communicate with you on
these and other topics. We also use your e-mail
address to send you newsletters, as well as messages
about GAIBO's special offers, promotional announcements
and consumer surveys.
Occasionally,
we may send these materials to you via postal
mail, using the shipping address provided. Our
mailers that contain the products you ordered
may also contain promotional items or advertisements.
If you no longer want to receive the newsletters,
other announcements, simply access the Email Subscriptions
link at the bottom of the email you receive from
us and click the link to unsubscribe. Please note
that you cannot unsubscribe from certain correspondence
from us, including messages relating to your account
transactions.
Links
to Other Sites
The GAIBO Web site contains links to sites operated
by third parties whose policies regarding the
handling of personal information may differ from
ours. While we endeavor to associate with reputable
sites, GAIBO cannot be responsible for the information
handling practices of these other sites.
Children
You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase
from the GAIBO Web site. While individuals under
the age of 18 may utilize the site, they may do
so only with the involvement of a parent or legal
guardian and subject to our Terms
of Use.
Cookies
and Other Technology
As you browse the GAIBO Web site, cookies are
placed on your computer's hard drive. (Cookies
are small pieces of data that are sent to your
browser from a Web server and stored on your hard
drive for record keeping purposes.) In general,
cookies can make the Web more useful by storing
information about your preferences on a particular
site. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally
identify users, although they do identify a user's
computer. If your browser is set to not accept
cookies, you may not be able to use the GAIBO
site or service.
In
addition to cookies, we use other technologies,
including pixel tags, to gather information on
how our users interact with our site and to otherwise
help us efficiently operate and monitor our site
and service. These technologies, show us, for
example, popular pages, conversion rates, click-throughs
and other information that can be used to improve,
operate and monitor our site and our service.
Third parties, including consultants we engage
and online advertisers, may also use this technology
to perform similar services for us as well as
to assess their own advertising or services.
Disclosure
of Personal Information
Except as otherwise disclosed to you, we will
not sell, rent or disclose your personal information
to third parties without notifying you of our
intent to share the personal information in advance
and giving you an opportunity to prevent your
personal information from being shared.
We
use other companies, agents or contractors to
perform services on our behalf. For example, we
have partnered with other companies to personalize
and optimize our Web pages, process credit card
transactions, analyze and enhance data, including
customers' interaction with our site, and process
consumer surveys. We also provide postal addresses
to the U.S. Post Office for delivery purposes.
In the course of providing such services, these
other companies may have access to your personal
information. These companies are not permitted
to use your personal information except for the
purpose of providing the services we request of
them.
From
time to time, we may partner with companies whose
products we believe will interest our users. In
conjunction with these partners, we may send promotional
announcements and/or serve web-based advertisements
to our customers on their behalf.
GAIBO
also reserves the right to disclose personal information
when we reasonably believe disclosure is required
by law, if we reasonably believe disclosure is
necessary to establish or exercise legal rights,
or in situations involving potential threats to
physical safety. In the event that GAIBO is acquired
by or merged with a third party, we reserve the
right, to sell or otherwise transfer the personal
information we have collected as part of that
transaction provided that such third party continues
to honor our privacy policy.
Security
GAIBO takes information security very seriously
and uses reasonable administrative, technical
and managerial measures to protect your personal
information from unauthorized access. For example,
we utilize Secure Sockets Layering, an industry-standard
protocol for certain of your transmissions to
us, in order to encrypt the personal information
that you send to us through the registration and
sign up process. We store your email address and
payment method information in an encrypted form.
You
are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of your account information and for restricting
access to your computer or mobile device through
which you access your GAIBO account. Users of
public or shared computers or unprotected mobile
devices should log out at the completion of each
visit to the GAIBO Web site.
Unfortunately,
no security system can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security
of your personal information and cannot assume
liability for improper access to it. By using
this Web site, or providing personal information
to us through any means, you agree that we can
communicate with you electronically regarding
security, privacy, and administrative issues relating
to your use of this site.
Changes
to This Policy
As we update and expand our services, we may make
changes to this policy. You should check back
for updates to this policy from time to time.
If the changes result in materially less protection
for your personal information than that provided
in this policy, we will make reasonable efforts
to contact you and obtain your consent to the
changes. Like our Terms of
Use, of which this policy is a part, your
use of the GAIBO Web site or continued use of
our service after our efforts to contact you means
that you agree to be bound by such changes.
Contact
If you have questions concerning your account,
please contact Customer Service. If you have questions
concerning this privacy policy, please e-mail
info AT gaiboinc.org. Our address is 650
Henderson Drive, suite 45, Cartersville, GA 30120.
Last
updated: Septemeber 2007
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