Overview
We value your opinion. Should you have any comments and/ or questions regarding
our privacy policy, please send us an email or call us.
1. Covered Sites
This Privacy Statement applies to all Gr8-Shopping.com -owned websites and
domains, as well as our wholly owned subsidiaries (Gr8-Shopping.com websites).
Links to non-Gr8-Shopping.com websites
Gr8-Shopping.com websites may provide links to third-party websites. Once you
access these links, you leave the Gr8-Shopping.com has absolutely no control
over such sites and/ or their privacy practices. Please note that these privacy
practices may differ vastly from those of Gr8-Shopping.com and that any personal
data you may choose to reveal on such sites is not covered by the Gener8info
Privacy Statement. We urge and encourage you to carefully review the Privacy
Policy of any Company before submitting any personal information.
2. Collecting of information
Children’s privacy
Gr8-Shopping.com is committed to the protection of children and primarily of
their privacy needs. We do not knowingly or willingly gather information from
children under the age of thirteen and no Gener8info websites target children
under thirteen.
Types of information
This Privacy Statement covers personal information, non-personal data collection
and aggregate reporting.
Personal information
is information directly associated with your name or personal identity. Should
you choose to provide us with any personal information, you may be assured that
such information will only be utilised to support your customer relationship
with Gr8-Shopping.com. Your personal information will never be sold, rented or
leased to other parties by us.
Various Gr8-Shopping.com websites offer you the opportunity to order products or
services, request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials,
register yourself or even to apply for a career opportunity at Gr8-Shopping.com.
Any and all information you provide us on these pages will be used solely for
the specifically related subject.
In our ongoing quest to improve our products and services, and in order to
personalise the same as well as communications, we may on occasion request that
you provide us with information regarding your personal or professional
interests, demographics and experiences with and opinion of our products.
Providing such additional information is entirely optional.
Non-personal information
is data about usage and service operation that is not associated in any way with
a specific personal identity. Gr8-Shopping.com accumulates and analyses
non-personal information in order to evaluate the method in which visitors make
use of the Gr8-Shopping.com websites.
Non-personal data that we gather may include such information as pages and
unique URLs* visited on the Gr8-Shopping.com websites, browser type and
IP-Adresse**. Most non-personal data is collected via cookies or other analysis
technologies. Gener8info Web pages make use of cookies and other technologies
for data analysis and personalization services. Gr8-Shopping.com also places ads
on other websites that may make the use of cookies.
3. What Gr8-Shopping.com does with your private information
Gr8-Shopping.com utilizes your personal information to provide you with improved
services as well as to assist us in better understanding your requirements and
interests. More specifically, information is used to aid you with the completion
of a transaction or order, to communicate with you, to present you with superior
service and support, to update you on services and benefits available. Also,
such information is utilised to personalise promotional offers and some
Gener8info websites. On occasion, we may also make use of your information in
order to contact you for market research regarding Gener8info products or
services.
Credit card information is used solely for payment processing and fraud
prevention. Sensitive personal information is gathered purely to facilitate our
financial service providers’ credit decisions and will be shared with them
exclusively and only with your permission. Credit card information and sensitive
personal data are not used for any other purpose by our financial services
providers or Gener8info and will not be filed or kept for any longer than is
absolutely necessary for providing the services. The only exception to this
would be should you yourself specifically request that we retain your credit
card information for future purchases.
Any personal data collected online may also be combined with information you
provide Gr8-Shopping.com through other sources such as product registration,
call centres or public events such as trade shows or seminars. Personal data
given to Gener8info may be transferred across state and country borders for the
purposes of data consolidation, storage and simplified customer information
management.
Non-personal data is aggregated for reporting about Gener8info website
usability, performance and effectiveness. It is utilised to enhance and improve
the customer experience, usability and site content.
With whom we share information
Gr8-Shopping.com will never sell, rent or lease any of your personal information
to others. Gr8-Shopping.com will not provide your personal information to third
parties except in response to a request from you for specific products or
services. Upon submitting of any such personal information, your permission will
always be requested. Gr8-Shopping.com does however share customer information
across Gener8info -owned business entities and companies working on our behalf,
but only as described above in What Gener8info does with your private
information.
All suppliers and service providers are obligated to keep entirely confidential
any information received on behalf of Gener8infoand may not make use of it for
any other purpose but to carry out the services that are being performed on
behalf of Gener8info . These service providers may vary or Gener8info may
contract with additional service providers in order to better accommodate our
clients. Gener8info will never share personal information with any other third
party without your permission, unless so required by law enforcement actions,
subpoena, or local law.
Gr8-Shopping.com or it’s related entities could merge with or be acquired by
another business entity or some or all of their respective assets could be
acquired. Should such a combination or acquisition occur, Gr8-Shopping.com will
make every reasonable effort to notify you in the event that we share with the
merging or acquiring entity some or all of your personal information with a view
to continuing being in a position to provide you with service.
Non-subscription services
Gr8-Shopping.com never make use of your personal information for any other
purpose than that stated when you provide such data. Examples of such unrelated
uses include sending communications regarding special offers, product
information and/ or marketing messages. You may however choose to receive this
type of non-subscription communications by following the instructions below.
Specify your privacy preferences by sending us an email or call us. Please be
sure to provide your full name, e-mail address and postal address in all
correspondence.
Subscription services
In order to cancel the receipt of any communications you may have previously
requested (such as e-mail newsletters, software updates, etc.), the following
methods are available:
Select the e-mail "opt-out" or "unsubscibe", or follow the opt-out instructions
included in each subscription communication.
Return to the web page(s) where you originally registered your preferences and
follow the opt-out instructions.
Contact us either by email or call us. Always be sure to provide your name,
e-mail and postal address, and relevant information about your Gr8-Shopping.com
subscriptions and registrations.
4. Gr8-Shopping.com method of keeping your information secure
Access to your data
Gr8-Shopping.com will ensure that you have easy access to your information,
including online access and the facility and opportunity to alter your
information should you choose to do so. In order to protect your privacy and
security, we will always take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as
a password and user ID, before granting access to your data. Certain areas of
Gr8-Shopping.com websites may limit access to specific individuals through the
use of passwords and other personal identifiers.
The most rapid and effective manner in which to view and alter your personal
information is to return to the web page where you originally submitted such
data and to follow the instructions on that web page.
Security
Gr8-Shopping.com is committed to protecting any information you may provide to
us. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy and
to ensure the appropriate use of information, Gener8info in place appropriate
physical and managerial procedures to safeguard any information provided to us.
We make use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting or
transferring sensitive data such as Credit Card information. SSL encryption is
designed to make the information inaccessible and unreadable by anyone but
ourselves. One method by which you may notice that this system is active, is by
a symbol of either an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser)
at the bottom of your browser window.
Credit card numbers are used solely for processing payment and not for any other
purpose whatsoever. As part of real-time payment processing, Gr8-Shopping.com
subscribes to a fraud management service. This service provides both you and
Gr8-Shopping.com with an extra level of security to guard against credit card
fraud and to protect your financial data.
5. Changes
Any and all updates to the terms of Gr8-Shopping.com's Online Privacy Statement
will be posted in this document and revision dates will likewise be updated. In
this manner, you will always be aware of what information we accumulate online
and what use we make of it, as well as what choices are available to you. For
material changes to this statement, Gr8-Shopping.com will provide notification
to affected clientele.
Rev. October 2006
* A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the global address of documents and other
resources on the World Wide Web. For example,
http://www.Gr8-Shopping.com is the URL
for Gr8-Shopping.com international home page.
** An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network, such as the World Wide Web.
Networks use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of
the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers
to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order
for users to communicate on the Internet. |
