WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated November 25th 2020
INTRODUCTION
GSS Global Security Solutions respects the privacy of our
users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use,
disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://gss-portal.com/ , including any other media form,
media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected
thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy
carefully. If you do not agree with the
terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy
at any time and for any reason. We will
alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy
Policy. Any changes or modifications
will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the
Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or
modification.
You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy
Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware
of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any
revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such
revised Privacy Policy is posted.
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The
information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personally identifiable information,
such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and
demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests,
that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related
to the Site , such as online chat and message
boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of
any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain
features of the Site.
Information our servers automatically
collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type,
your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed
directly before and after accessing the Site.
Financial information, such as data
related to your payment method (e.g. valid credit card number, card brand,
expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return,
exchange, or request information about our services from the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information
that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment
processor, Google Checkout, Paypal,, and you are encouraged to
review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your
questions.
The Site may by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email,
gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other
information that you choose to make public. We may also request access to other
permissions related to your account, such as friends, checkins, and likes, and
you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual permission. For
more information regarding Facebook permissions, refer to the Facebook Permissions
Reference page.
User information from social networking
sites, such as Apple’s Game Center, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest,
Twitter, including your name, your social network username, location, gender,
birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if
you connect your account to such social networks.
Device information, such as your mobile
device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your
device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.
Information from third parties, such
as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the
third party and grant the Site
permission to access this information.
Personal and other information you
may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.
Having accurate information about you
permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information
collected about you via the Site to:
● Administer sweepstakes, promotions,
and contests.
● Assist law enforcement and respond to
subpoena.
● Compile anonymous statistical data
and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
● Create and manage your account.
● Deliver targeted advertising,
coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
● Email you regarding your account or
order.
● Enable user-to-user communications.
● Fulfill and manage purchases, orders,
payments, and other transactions related to the Site.
● Generate a personal profile about you
to make future visits to the Site more
personalized.
● Increase the efficiency and operation
of the Site .
● Monitor and analyze usage and trends
to improve your experience with the Site .
● Notify you of updates to the Site.
● Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
● Perform other business activities as
needed.
● Prevent fraudulent transactions,
monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
● Process payments and refunds.
● Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site
● Resolve disputes and troubleshoot
problems.
● Respond to product and customer
service requests.
● Send you a newsletter.
● Solicit support for the Site.
We may share information we have
collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as
follows:
If we believe the release of
information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate
or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights,
property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or
required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other
entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We may share your information with
third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment
processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service,
and marketing assistance.
With your consent, or with an
opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with
third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If you interact with other users of
the Site, those users may see your name, profile
photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to
other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, following blogs.
When you post comments, contributions
or other content to the Site your posts may be
viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Sitein perpetuity.
We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit the Site.
These companies may use information about your visits to the Siteand other websites that are contained in web cookies in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
We may share your information with
our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this
Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries,
joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under
common control with us.
We may share your information with
our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
We may share your information with
advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business
analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for
marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If we reorganize or sell all or a
portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we
may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy,
your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third
party. You acknowledge that such
transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline honor commitments we
made in this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the
actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we
have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence,
emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for
contacting the third party directly.
We may use cookies, web beacons,
tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and
improve your experience. When you access the Site ,
your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking
technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove
or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability
and functionality of the Site . You may not decline web beacons. However, they can be
rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web
browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, permitting you
to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
We may use cookies, web beacons,
tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and
improve your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please
refer to our Cookie Policy posted on the Site, which is incorporated into this
Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Cookie Policy.
Additionally, we may use third-party
software to serve ads on the Site , implement email
marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or
similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience
with us. For more information about
opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
We may also partner with selected
third-party vendors[, such as [Adobe Analytics,] [Clicktale,] [Clicky,] [Cloudfare,] [Crazy Egg,] [Flurry Analytics,] [Google Analytics,] [Heap Analytics,] [Inspectlet,] [Kissmetrics,] [Mixpanel,] [Piwik,] and others], to allow tracking
technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other
things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site ,
determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online
activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the
collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are
encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact
them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer
personal information to these third-party vendors. However,
if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking
technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
You should be aware that getting a
new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or
erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear
certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest,
including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with
us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site , any information you provide to these third parties is not covered
by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your
information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party
websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if
any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those
steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your
information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security
practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or
applications that may be linked to or from the Site .
We use administrative, technical, and
physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to
secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite
our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of
data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of
misuse. Any information disclosed online
is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we
cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.
We do not knowingly solicit information
from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data
we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the
contact information provided below.
Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for
recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted
that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a
revised version of this Privacy Policy./Most web browsers and some mobile
operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”)
feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to
have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. If you
set the DNT signal on your browser, we will respond to such DNT browser
signals.
You may at any time review or change
the information in your account or terminate your account by:
● Logging into your account settings
and updating your account
● Contacting us using the contact information
provided below
Upon your request to terminate your
account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our
active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to
prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce
our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
If you no longer wish to receive
correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
● Noting your preferences at the time
you register your account with the Site
● Logging into your account settings
and updating your preferences.
● Contacting us using the contact
information provided below
If you no longer wish to receive
correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are
responsible for contacting the third party directly.
California Civil Code Section
1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California
residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge,
information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to
third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all
third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately
preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to
make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the
contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age,
reside in California, and have a registered account with the Site , you have the right to request removal of unwanted data
that you publicly post on the Site . To request removal
of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below,
and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that
you reside in California. We will make
sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Site , but please be aware that the data may not be completely or
comprehensively removed from our systems.
If you have questions or comments
about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: office at gss-portal.com
GSS Global Security Solutions
364 E Main Street
Suite 1004
Middletown, DE 19709
Phone: +13158981263