By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User
Agreement, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure
of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this
Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and
subject to the terms of the FollowGB User Agreement.
FollowGB strongly recommends that as you read this Privacy
Policy, you click on such links to obtain further important
details about the Privacy Policy, as they may contain further
terms and conditions, which apply to you as a FollowGB
member.
Please note that your Information will be stored and processed
on our computers in the UK. FollowGB will hold and transmit
your Information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.
FollowGB will never sell or rent your personal information
to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy.
If you object to your Information being transferred or used
in this way please do not register.
Overview
Your Privacy is very important to us. Our privacy practices
are held to high standards. As part of the normal operation
of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose
information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information
we collect about you and what may happen to that information.
Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed
policy because we believe you should know as much as possible
about FollowGB practices so that you can make informed
decisions.
The privacy practices of this statement apply to the http://www.gpswholesale.co.uk
website (the "Site"). All other FollowGB companies
operate under similar privacy practices as described in this
Privacy Policy and, subject to the requirements of applicable
local law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy
practices throughout the global FollowGB trading community
As described below, some of your personally identifiable information
is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties.
By accepting the Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to
our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information.
1. A Special
Note About E-mail Alerts.
Where a Registered User seeks consent to locate a 3rd party
(and that 3rd party having already given consent to be located
by other Registered Users), then an e-mail will be sent to
the other Registered Users to advise them that a new Registered
User has asked for consent to locate the 3rd party. This e-mail
will disclose the names and telephone numbers of all those
Registered Users authorised to locate the 3rd party including
your details whether you are the new Registered User or existing
Registered User. The e-mail will also disclose the name and
the number of the 3rd party. This will mean that your name
and number will be disclosed to other Registered Users where
both you and the at least one other Registered User seek to
locate a 3rd party when using the service. If you are not
happy for your details to be released in line with this security
feature then please do not register for the FollowGB
service.
2. Information
We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customised experience.
This allows us to provide services and features that most
likely meet your needs, and to customise our service to make
your experience easier. Under some circumstances we may require
some additional financial information, such as, but not limited
to credit card details if you are registering using an email
account at a free email service, or registering to buy on
our site. We use this financial information, including to
verify your name, address, and other information, as well
as to bill you for your use of our services.
If you send us personal correspondence over and above the
information supplied on registration, such as emails or letters,
or if other users or third parties send us correspondence
about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect
such information into a file specific to you. If you register
for FollowGB on another web site or use a web site providing
a service for FollowGB or a web site that helps facilitate
your activity on FollowGB, that web site may provide
personal information about you and your transactions back
to FollowGB.
3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use information in the files we maintain about you, and
other information we obtain from your current and past activities
on the Site, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and
enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple
users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular
we may examine your information to identify users using multiple
User IDs or aliases, which are strictly prohibited within
this site. Please note that your personally identifiable information
will be stored and processed on our computers in the UK. FollowGB will hold and transmit your personal information
in a safe, confidential and secure environment.
You agree that we may use personally identifiable information
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts,
to analyse site usage, improve our content and product offerings,
and customise our site's content, layout, and services. These
uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that we may use your information to contact you
and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted
to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements,
administrative notices, product offerings, and communications
relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the Privacy
Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If
you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage
you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on
the notification preferences page. You may make changes to
your notification preferences at any time.
4. Our
Disclosure of Your Information.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure
that all of your private communications and other personally
identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not
otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example
(without limiting the foregoing), we may be requested or forced
to disclose information to the government, law enforcement
agencies or third parties under certain circumstances, third
parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or
private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your
information that they collect from our Site. Therefore, although
we aim to use industry standard practices to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that
your personally identifiable information or private communications
would always remain private. As a matter of policy, we do
not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about
you or your location to any third party. However, the following
describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed. Advertisers. We aggregate (gather
up data across all user accounts) personally identifiable
information and disclose such information in a non-personally
identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties
for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in
these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any
information that could be used to identify you personally.
Certain information, such as your name, address, email address,
password, or other personal information ARE NEVER disclosed
to marketing advertisers.
FollowGB
Community
External Service Providers. There are a number of services
offered by external service providers that help you use our
Site (e.g., co-branded sites, listing agents, escrow, authentication,
credit card payments). If you use these services, and in the
course of doing so, disclose information to the external service
providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information
about you, then their use of your information is governed
by their privacy policy. We may, for your convenience, provide
some of your personally identifiable information to the external
service provider offering such services. However, before we
disclose your personally identifiable information to an external
service provider, you will see what data is about to be sent
and have the ability to approve the disclosure. To prevent
our disclosure of your personally identifiable information
to an external service provider, you can decline such disclosures
or simply not use their services. Because we do not control
the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate
their practices before deciding to use their services. Internal
Service Providers. We may use internal service providers to
facilitate our services (e.g., search, discussion boards,
surveys) and therefore we may provide some of your personally
identifiable information directly to them. In some instances,
the internal service provider may collect information directly
from you (such as the situation where we ask a internal service
provider to conduct a survey for us). In these cases, you
will be notified of the involvement of the internal service
provider, and all information disclosures you make will be
strictly optional. In all cases, these internal service providers'
use of information we supply them is restricted by confidentiality
agreements. If you provide additional information to an internal
service provider directly, then their use of your information
is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
Other Corporate Entities
We share much of our data, including personally identifiable
information about you, with our parent, external affiliate
resellers, subsidiaries and joint ventures that are committed
to serving your online needs and related services, throughout
the world. To the extent that these entities have access to
your information, they will treat it at least as protectively
as they treat information they obtain from their other users.
Our parent, external affiliate resellers, subsidiaries and
joint ventures follow privacy practices no less protective
of all users than our practices described in this document,
to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that
FollowGB, its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any
combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another
business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should
expect that FollowGB would share some or all of your
information in order to continue to provide the service. You
will receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs)
we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices
disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests. FollowGB co-operates with law enforcement
inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws,
such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights.
We can (and you authorise us to) disclose any information
about you to law enforcement or other government officials
as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate,
in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual
property infringements, or other activity that is illegal
or may expose us or you to legal liability. Further, we disclose
your User ID, name, street address, county, postcode, country,
phone number, email, and company name to government authorities,
court or lawyers pursuant to an action including any additional
information we may store as we believe necessary or appropriate
in connection with any investigation of unlawful activity.
5. Your
Use of Other Users' Information.
By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect
to other users' personally identifiable information that you
obtain through the Site or through a FollowGB-related
communication. FollowGB hereby grants to you a license
to use such information only for using services offered through
FollowGB.
6. Control of Your Password.
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID
and password, including fees. Therefore, we do authorise you
to disclose your FollowGB password to any third parties
without our written consent - Please see Clause 2 of our User
Agreement. If you disclosure your User ID and password or
your information with third parties, then you are responsible
for all actions taken with your User ID and password and therefore
you should review that third party's privacy policy. If you
lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control
over your personally identifiable information and may be subject
to illegally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore,
if your password has been compromised for any reason, you
should immediately change your password. This functionality
is available at the location page of the FollowGB website
post login.
7. Other
Information Collectors.
Since FollowGB does not control the privacy policies
of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies
of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before
you disclose your personal information to others.
8. Security.
FollowGB aims to use industry standard practices to safeguard
the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information,
including "firewalls". FollowGB treats data
as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised
access. We employ different security techniques to protect
such data from unauthorised access by users inside the company.
However, "perfect security" does not exist on the
Internet.
9. Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based
on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data
collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy
are effective after thirty (30) days' from posting any revised
Terms and Conditions on the FollowGB website.
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