The GizmoGrind Inc Privacy Policy explains how
personal information about you is collected, used and disclosed by GizmoGrind
Inc, (doing business as GizmoGrind Inc) ("GizmoGrind Inc",
"we" or "us") when you access and use GizmoGrind Inc's
websites, applications and services that link to this Privacy Policy
(collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy applies to any
other kiosks, websites or other online or mobile services or applications of GizmoGrind
Inc, or its subsidiaries.
Personal
Information Collection
Information
You Provide to Us.
We collect information you provide directly to us. For
example, when you transact with us (e.g., offer to sell, donate, ship, or
purchase a device) or register to open an account with GizmoGrind Inc, we ask
for information about yourself, such as your name, email address, and zip code,
which we collect and use as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We may also
collect additional information directly from you when you engage in certain
activities on the Services, such as: (a) when you sign up for special offers;
(b) when you contact us for help or customer support; (c) when you complete a
survey; (d) when you post content or provide us with feedback; or (e) when you
enter promotions or sweepstakes.
Providing information is purely optional on your part;
however, not all features and services (such as, responding to your inquiries)
would be available to you if you elect not to provide information. If you
choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and
storage of that information by us.
Information
We Collect Automatically.
We automatically collect information about you when
you use our Services. For example, we may collect:
• Transactional Data: When you sell,
donate, ship, purchase, or otherwise transact using the Services, we collect
information about the transaction including device specifications, purchase
price, and date and location of the transaction.
• Device Information: We collect
information about the device you use to access our Services, including the
hardware model, operating system and version, and unique device identifiers.
• Location Information: We may derive
the approximate location of your device from your IP address.
• Log and Usage Information: We automatically
receive and collect information on our server logs from your browser, including
your IP address, the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just
came from, which URL you next go to, browser type, browser language, date and
time of your query, GizmoGrind Inc cookie information, and the pages you
request.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Similar
Tracking Technologies: We (and our service providers) use different
technologies to collect information, including cookies and web beacons. For
more information about cookies and how to disable them, see “Cookies and Other
Tracking Technologies” below.
Information We Collect From Other Sources. For
example, we may collect information about you from third parties, including but
not limited to credit bureaus and publicly available sources. Additionally, if
you create or log into your account through a social media site, we will have
access to certain information from that site, such as your name, account
information, and friends lists, in accordance with the authorization procedures
determined by such social media site.
Information We Derive. We may derive information or
draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we
may make inferences about your location based on your IP address.
Use
of Personal Information
We primarily will use your personal information to
provide the Services to you. We also use your personal information to: (a) send
you marketing messages and to customize, measure, and analyze the advertising
and content you see; (b) fulfill any transactions, including your requests for
products and services; (c) improve our Services and offerings to you; (d)
conduct research (for example, we may contact you for feedback about our
products); (e) provide you with support; (f) provide you with updates and
notices about the Services, our Privacy Policy and terms and conditions; (g)
communicate with you regarding the Services; (h) provide you with offers from
us, our affiliates and from third parties that may be of interest to you; (i) facilitate contests, sweepstakes, and promotions and
process and deliver entries and rewards; (j) investigate fraud and for security
purposes, and where necessary to protect ourselves and third parties; (k)
comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; (l) diagnose problems with
our servers and software; and (m) with your consent or at your direction.
Cookies
and Other Tracking Technologies
We use various technologies to collect information,
and this may include placing cookies on your computer. A "cookie" is
a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer
and stored on your hard drive when you visit a website; many major Web services
use them to provide useful features for their users. Each web site can send its
own cookie to your browser. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a
cookie is being sent; however if you reject cookies, you will not be able to
sign in to the Services or take full advantage of our Services. GizmoGrind Inc
uses cookies for the following general purposes: (a) to provide you with your
personalized content; (b) to display the most appropriate advertisements, based
on your interests and activity on our web site; and (c) and to help us analyze
and estimate our traffic and use of features on the Services.
We may also use "pixel tags," which are
small graphic files that can collect information such as the IP address of the
computer that downloaded the page on which the tag appears; the URL of the page
on which the pixel tag appears; the time (and length of time) the page
containing the pixel tag was viewed; the type of browser that retrieved the
pixel tag; and the identification number of any cookie previously placed by
that server on your computer. We may use pixel tags, either provided by us or
by our third party advertisers and ad networks, to collect information about
your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions
taken in connection with our sites and Services and use them in combination
with our cookies to provide offers and information of interest to you.
We also may allow certain analytic services and
providers of applications used on the Services (e.g. sharing buttons) to
collect information by placing cookies on the Services that will track certain
performance of our Services, such as, web traffic, click-throughs, etc., in
order to assist us and our service providers in better understanding the
interests of our users and to better serve those interests.
Third-Party
Advertising and Analytics
We may use other companies under agreements with us to
serve advertisements on our behalf and to provide analytics services. These
companies may collect and use information about your visits to the Services and
other Web sites (including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent
on pages, links clicked and conversion information) in order to, among other
things, provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater
interest to you and to better understand your online activities. These
companies typically use a cookie, a third party web beacon and/or pixel tags to
collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising
practice in general and the options that you have, including your option or to
opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.aboutads.info/choices.
We may also work with third parties to serve ads to
you as part of a customized campaign on third-party platforms (such as Facebook
or Instagram). As part of these ad campaigns, we or third-party platforms may
convert information about you, such as your email address and phone number,
into a unique value that can be matched with a user account on these platforms
to allow us to learn about your interests and to serve you advertising that is
customized to your interests. Note that the third-party platforms may offer you
choices about whether you see these types of customized ads.
Personal
Information Sharing and Disclosure
GizmoGrind Inc does not rent, sell, or share personal
information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to
provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or
under the following circumstances:
• To vendors, service providers, and consultants who
work on behalf of GizmoGrind Inc and perform services for us under
confidentiality agreements, including payment processing, assisting with
promotions, and providing technical services;
• In response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal
process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal
claims;
• When we believe it is necessary to share information
in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety
of any person, violations of GizmoGrind Inc's terms of use, or as otherwise
required by law; and
• We may transfer information about you if GizmoGrind
Inc is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, GizmoGrind
Inc will post a notice on its website before information about you is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified
information that cannot reasonably be used by third parties to identify you.
Links
to Third Party Sites
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by
the Services are developed by people over whom GizmoGrind Inc exercises no
control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect
data or solicit personal information. GizmoGrind Inc may present links in a
format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use
this information to understand and improve the quality of GizmoGrind Inc's
search technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users
are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to
later results.
Social
Media Plug-ins
Social media plug-ins of social networks such as
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Windows and Google plus (among others) are
integrated on GizmoGrind Inc's website. Where GizmoGrind Inc sites contain a
plug-in to a social network, these are clearly marked (e.g. with a Facebook
button). If you chose to click on one of these buttons or links, your browser
connects directly to the servers of the relevant social network. The social
network directly transmits the content of the plugin to your browser. If you
are registered on the relevant social network and logged into your respective
account the social network receives the information that the web page was used
by you. If you interact with a social network plug-in (e.g. you press the
Facebook "Like" feature, the Twitter "Tweet this" feature
and Google plus "1+" button or equivalent) or drop a comment on the
appropriate web page, the corresponding information is directly transmitted to
the relevant social network from your browser. If you are not registered with
the social network or you are logged out before you visit GizmoGrind Inc's
website, there is the possibility that at least your IP address will be
submitted to and stored by the social network. If you interact with us through
a social media platform, plug-in etc. then you may be permitting us to have
on-going access to some limited information from your social network profile
(such as name, email address, photo, gender, location, the people/sites you
follow etc.). If you do not want the social network to collect the information
about you described above, or to share it with GizmoGrind Inc and other third
parties, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social network and/or
log out of the relevant social network before you visit GizmoGrind Inc's site.
As with other sites, you may be able delete any existing cookies placed on your
computer by the social network via your browser.
Your
Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
Registered users can edit their GizmoGrind Inc account
information, including contact preferences, at any time from their "My
Account" account management page which you can find at www.GizmoGrind.com.
We may, from time to time, send you e-mails regarding our products and services
and third party products and services that may be of interest to you. You will
have the opportunity to opt out of any further mailings at any time; provided,
however, that we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating
to the Services, such as (a) communications related to fulfilling a
transaction, (b) service announcements, (c) notices regarding GizmoGrind Inc's
legal terms and this Privacy Policy; and (d) administrative messages, which are
considered part of your GizmoGrind Inc account. You will not have the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving such notices. You can delete your GizmoGrind
Inc registered account by requesting an account deletion via email to info@GizmoGrind.com.
You must provide us with the email address of the registered account. After we
have confirmed your request via email, we will remove access to your personal
information from our user database.
Confidentiality
and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to
our employees and agents who we believe reasonably need to come into contact
with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do
their jobs. Your information is stored on our servers located in the United
States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use many tools
(encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect your personal
information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, third parties
may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and
other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect
from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or
private communications will always remain private. Because email and instant
messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not
send private information to us by email or instant messaging services.
Third
Parties
This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and
disclosure of information we collect from you. This policy does not apply to
the practices of companies that GizmoGrind Inc does not own or control or to
people that GizmoGrind Inc does not employ or manage. The Services may include
applications, content and/or ads from third parties that may perform user
activity tracking in addition to that described herein; GizmoGrind Inc accepts
no responsibility for said activities. GizmoGrind Inc does not control the
privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies
of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions
before you disclose your personal information to others. For more information
about each such third party, please refer to the third party's privacy policy.
Changes
to this Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by
posting the amended terms on this site. In addition, we will notify you about
significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a
notice to the primary email address specified in your GizmoGrind Inc account or
by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Children
GizmoGrind Inc is intended for general audiences. GizmoGrind
Inc does not knowingly collect or maintain information from users under 13, and
no part of the GizmoGrind Inc Services are targeted to attract anyone under 13.
Your
California Privacy Rights
Consumers residing in California are afforded certain
additional rights with respect to their personal information under the
California Consumer Privacy Act (California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq.
(“CCPA”). If you are a California resident, this section applies to you.
Collection of Personal Information. In the last 12
months, we collected the following categories of personal information:
identifiers (such as name, contact information, and government-issued
identification number), commercial information (such as time, date and location
of a transaction), location information, internet or other electronic network
activity information (such as browsing behavior), demographic information (such
as data gathered from credit bureaus), audio, electronic, visual or similar
information (such as customer support calls), and inferences we make. For more
details about the personal information we collect, including the categories of
sources, please see “Personal Information Collection” above. Use and Disclosure
of Personal Information. We collect the categories of personal information
listed above for the business and commercial purposes described in “Use of
Personal Information.” We share this information with the categories of third
parties described in “Personal Information Sharing and Disclosure” above.
Sales of Personal Information. California law
requires that we provide transparency about personal information we “sell,”
which for purposes of the CCPA broadly means scenarios in which we have shared
personal information with third parties in exchange for valuable consideration.
We do not, and will not, sell your identifying information (such as your name,
email address, phone number, or postal address); however, as described above in
“Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” and “Third-Party Advertising and
Analytics,” we do allow our advertising partners to use cookies and other
technologies to collect personal information about you in order to show you
advertisements that are targeted to your interests. In order to opt out of
disclosures to these third parties for targeted advertising, please follow the
opt out instructions in the “Third-Party Advertising and Analytics” section
above.
Your Consumer Rights: Subject to certain
limitations, the CCPA provides California consumers the right to request to
know more details about the categories and specific pieces of personal
information we collect, to delete their personal information, to opt out of any
“sales” that may be occurring, and to not be discriminated against for
exercising these rights. California consumers may make a rights request by
calling 1-800-897-1859 or emailing info@gizmogrind.com. We will verify your
request by asking you to provide identifying information and information
related to your recent interactions with us. If you would like to use an
authorized agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise
your rights, we may request evidence that you have provided such agent with
power of attorney or that the agent otherwise has valid written authority to
submit requests on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you if you
exercise your rights under the CCPA.
Notice
to Nevada Residents
We do not currently sell your covered information as
those terms are defined under applicable Nevada law. You may still submit an
opt-out request and we will honor that request as required by Nevada law if we
were to engage in such a sale in the future. If you are a Nevada resident and
would like to opt-out of the sale of your covered information, please submit
your request by calling 1-800-897-1859 or visiting this page info@gizmogrind.com. You may also be
required to take reasonable steps as we determine from time to time in order to
verify your identity and/or the authenticity of the request.
Request
for Information
If you have questions, concerns or suggestions, please
feel free to send an email to info@GizmoGrind.com. Last Update: February/1/2021