Last updated: 8/31/2023
GoCamp AL, LLC (“We” or “GoCamp”) is committed to doing our part to protect the of all individuals with whom we interact. We provide the website accessible at https://gocamp.com/ (the “Website”) for your convenience and in order to do business with you. This Privacy Policy is designed to answer your questions about the information we collect, how we collect such information, how we use that information, with whom we may share that information, the rights you have with regard to the information we collect, and how you can exercise your rights regarding the information.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information we collect on, through or as a result of your use of the Website, and any other websites or mobile applications provided by GoCamp that incorporate this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect offline or through any other means, including websites or mobile applications that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy or third parties that may link to our be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand the information we collect, how we will treat it, and your rights with respect to it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to us collecting and processing your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see <<Updates to This Privacy Policy>>). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
All information we collect is either <<personal information>> or<<non-identifying information>>. We may use the personal information and the non-identifying information to create <<aggregated information>>. Each of these terms are defined in the <<DEFINITIONS>> section of this Privacy Policy.
We collect information:
We collect information:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties, such as information about yourself to be provided to a campervan/RV owner when you make a reservation or to be provided to a renter when you offer reservations of your campervan/RV (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Please see << ONLINE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVERTISING>> for information on how you can opt out of online or behavioral tracking see <<EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS>>, and for more information on how we respond to web browser signals and mechanisms to automatically collect information see <<ONLINE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVERTISING>>.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Information We Collect Using Analytics Tools.Analytics tools are a specific type of automatic data collection tools. We use analytics tools in conjunction with our Website. These analytics tools collect information, including but not limited to site usage and engagement and origination point, when you visit our Website, or when you use our services, or access our Website from third party sites or platforms. For more information on our analytics tools, see: <<Online Tracking Technologies and Advertising>>.
Information We Collect from Third Parties. We supplement or update the information you provide to us or that we collect automatically, using information provided to us by third parties. For example, we may use a third party service to verify and/or update your postal addresses when we are shipping something to you.
During this time, we have collected the following types of information about users of our Website:
Category | Examples | Collected |
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Identifiers | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers | YES |
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. (Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.) | YES |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information) | YES |
Commercial information | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies | YES |
Biometric information | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data | NO |
Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement | YES |
Geolocation data | Physical location or movements | YES |
Sensory data | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | NO |
Professional or employment-related information | Current or past job history or performance evaluations | NO |
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records | NO |
Inferences drawn from other personal information | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes | NO |
Consistent with applicable law and the choices and controls that you select<<Exercising Your Rights>>, we may use your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including, but not limited to:
To learn more about how we use your information for personalization and tracking, please see <<Online Tracking Technologies and Advertising>>.
Processing data enabling us to get in touch with you, data related to your account with us, data related to transactions you enter into with GoCamp, data you communicate to us;
Processing data about your use of our Website and our services;
Our legal basis for: | Is: |
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Processing data enabling us to get in touch with you | Our legitimate interests, namely, the proper administration of our business or the performance of a contract between you and us. |
Processing your personal data for the purposes of operating our Website, the processing and fulfilment of orders, providing our services, supplying our goods, generating invoices, bills and other payment related documentation, and credit control | Our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our Website, services and business, or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
Processing your personal information for the purposes of publishing your information on our Website and elsewhere through our services in accordance with your express instructions | Your consent or our legitimate interests, namely the publication of content in the ordinary course of our operations, or the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract. |
Processing your contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post, fax and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling | Our legitimate interests, namely, communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business, or performance of a contract between you and us. |
Processing usage data and/or transaction data for the purposes of researching and analyzing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analyzing other interactions with our business | Consent; or Our legitimate interests, namely, monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally. |
Processing your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally | Our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this notice |
Processing your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity | Our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others |
Processing your personal data where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice | Our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks |
Processing your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure | Our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others |
Processing your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person | Our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks |
Personal Information: We may share your information in the following situations:
Aggregated or Non-Identifying Information: We may disclose aggregated information or non- identifying information, for any reason without restriction.
We do not sell personal information. For the avoidance of doubt, we do not sell the personal information about individuals we know are under age 16. For more information on the personal information of children, please see <<Privacy Rights of Children>>.
At this time, we may disclose personal information for a business purpose to the categories of third parties indicated in the chart below.
Personal Information Category | Category of Third-Party Recipients | |
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Business Purpose Disclosures | Sales | |
Identifiers | Affiliates, Service Providers, Business Partners, Government Entity | None |
California Customer Records personal information categories | Affiliates, Service Providers, Business Partners, Government Entity | None |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Affiliates, Service Providers, Business Partners, Government Entity | None |
Commercial information | Affiliates, Service Providers, Business Partners, Government Entity | None |
Biometric information | None | None |
Internet or other similar network activity | None | None |
Geolocation data | None | None |
Sensory data | None | None |
Professional or employment- related information | None | None |
Non-public education information | None | None |
Inferences drawn from other personal information | None | None |
We provide you the ability to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use and sharing of your information. In accordance with applicable law, your controls and choices may include:
You have the right to know what personal information we have collected about you. Upon receipt of your request, and confirmation of your identity, we will disclose to you:
In most cases, you may request this information up to two times each year.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we have about you. We will provide it in a format that we select, that you can reasonably transfer to a third-party.
You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. We may deny your request to correct for certain reasons.
In addition, you can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information, subject to applicable legal exceptions. If you submit a request for your personal information to be deleted, we will review your request and attempt to confirm your identity. If we confirm your identity, we will review the request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. If no exception applies, we will delete your personal information and direct our service providers to do the same.
We may deny your deletion request, for example, if retaining the personal information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
You have the right to “opt out” of the “sale” or “sharing” of your “personal information” to or with “third parties” (as those terms are defined by applicable law).
“Sharing” may be defined as “renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration, including transactions between a business and a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising for the benefit of a business in which no money is exchanged.”
We do not sell personal information and do not share your personal information for cross- context behavioral advertising. Therefore, if you exercise the Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information, there is no sale or sharing of your personal information to opt out from.
We are required to share personal information with some third parties, including but not limited to governmental entities such as the Department of Motor Vehicles; however, providing personal information to governmental entities is not considered “sharing” under applicable privacy laws.
You may also use an authorized agent to submit a request to opt out on your behalf if you provide the authorized agent signed written permission to do so.
To opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, you or your authorized representative should:
You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will use personal information provided in an opt-out request only to review and comply with the request.
As stated above, however, we do not sell personal information and do not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Therefore, if you exercise the Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal InformationRight to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information through an authorized agent, there is no sale or sharing of your personal information to opt out from.
To exercise any of your rights, submit a request by:
When submitting a request, you must:
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request regarding your personal information. A parent or guardian with legal custody may make a request on behalf of a minor child. An authorized agent must have your signed permission to submit a request on your behalf or provide proof that they have power of attorney in accordance with applicable law. Before completing requests from authorized agents, we may contact you directly to confirm you’ve given your permission and/or to verify your identity.
We cannot, and will not, respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or your authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
While you are not required to submit the request through your account with us, we do consider request through your password protected account to be verified, without further requirements, as long as the request is for information associated with that account.
We will not use personal information provided in the request for any purpose other than to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
We will endeavor to confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please contact us atletsgo@gocamp.com.
We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
We will deliver our written response by e-mail.
The information in our response will cover only the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. If we cannot comply with your request or any portion of your request, our response will explain the reasons we cannot comply. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your data protection rights, and specifically we will not:
However, we may offer certain financial incentives permitted by applicable Privacy Laws that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
We do not currently provide any financial incentives.
Please be aware that if you do not allow us to collect personal information from you, we may not be able to deliver certain experiences, products, and services to you, and some of our products/services may not be able to take account of your interests and preferences. If collection of personal information is mandatory for successful provision of products/services, we will make that clear at the point of collection so that you can make an informed decision whether to participate.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our<<Terms of Use>>.
Our Website is not intended for individuals under 16 years of age, and no one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register for an account, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us atletsgo@gocamp.com. Please note that you will not be able to participate in our services unless you are 21 years of age or older.
The security, integrity, and confidentiality of your information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures that are designed to protect guest information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification. We regularly review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
We operate in the United States and store and process your personal information in the United States for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. GoCamp has its headquarters in the United States, and the servers on which we store data are located in the United States.
Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. These steps may include implementing standard contractual clauses where recognized by law, obtaining your consent, or other lawful means of transferring personal information. By using our Website, or our services, you acknowledge that your personal information will be stored or processed in the United States.
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy to accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements or for other purposes. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted to this page, with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.
If you have a comment or question about this privacy policy, please contact us at:
AGGREGATE INFORMATION – Information about groups or categories of data subjects or individuals, which does not identify and cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual.
NON-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION – Information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, an individual.
APPLICATION / APP – A program or service operated by us (or on our behalf) that may be displayed on various online, mobile, or other platforms and environments, including those operated by third parties, which permits us to interact directly with you.
CHILDREN – Individuals who we have identified are not of legal age to consent to the collection and processing of their personal information, and in the United States, includes all individuals under 13 years of age.
DATA CONTROLLER – The company that is responsible for the personal information collected and used within the scope of this Privacy Policy from our Website.
DATA PROCESSOR – A person or entity that processes personal information on behalf of a data controller (or data controllers) and is permitted to perform data processing only as directed by the data controller(s).
IP ADDRESS – An IP address is associated with the access point through which you enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which you visit various parts of our Website, and we may combine IP addresses with personal information.
PARENTS – a parent or legal guardian.
PERSONAL INFORMATION – Information that identifies (whether directly or indirectly) a particular individual, such as the individual’s name, postal address, email address, and telephone number. When anonymous information is directly or indirectly associated with personal information, the resulting information also is treated as personal information.
PUBLIC FORUMS – Our Website may offer message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience. If you provide personal information when you use any of these features, that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party.
California residents have the following rights:
Right to Access You have the right to request, up to two times each year, access to categories and specific pieces of personal information about you that we collect, use, disclose, sell, and share. <<Right to Know/Right to Access>>.
Right to Delete You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we collect from you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Delete/Right to Erasure>>.
Right to Correct You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Correct/Right to Rectification>>.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information You have the right to “opt out” of the “sale” or “sharing” of your “personal information” to or with “third parties” (as those terms are defined by applicable law). However, we do not sell personal information. <<Right to Opt-Out/Right to Opt-In>>
For information on how to exercise these rights, See: <<Exercising Your Rights>>.
California’s Mandatory Disclosures See<<Information We Collect>>, <<How We Share Information>> and<<How We Use Your Information >> for our mandatory disclosures.
Shine the Light Act If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by GoCamp to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We take great pride in the relationship of trust we have built with our customers over many years and we are dedicated to treating your personal information with care and respect. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83(c)(2), we do not share guests’ personal information with third parties for those parties’ direct marketing use, unless you elect that we do so.
California Privacy Right Metrics: Such California Privacy Metrics will be provided when a full year of data has been collected.
See <<Contact Us>> for information on how to contact us regarding questions about our privacy policies.
Virginia residents have the following rights:
Right to Access You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and to access your personal data.<<Right to Know/Right to Access>>.
Right to Delete You have the right to request that we delete personal information you provided or that was collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Delete/Right to Erasure>>.
Right to Correct You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes of the processing. <<Right to Correct/Right to Rectification>>.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information You have the right to “opt out” of targeted advertising (as defined under Virginia law). You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your data (as defined under Virginia law). However, we do not sell personal information. <<Right to Opt-Out/Right to Opt-In>>
Right to Portability You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that you provided to us. <<Right to Portability>>
For information on how to exercise these rights, See: <<Exercising Your Rights>>.
Virginia’s Mandatory Disclosures See<<Information We Collect>>, <<How We Share Information>> and<<How We Use Your Information >> for our mandatory disclosures.
Right to Access You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and to access your personal data.<<Right to Know/Right to Access>>.
Right to Delete You have the right to request that we delete personal information you provided or that was collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Delete/Right to Erasure>>.
Right to Correct You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes of the processing. <<Right to Correct/Right to Rectification>>.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information You have the right to “opt out” of targeted advertising (as defined under Colorado law). You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your data (as defined under Colorado law). However, we do not sell personal information. <<Right to Opt-Out/Right to Opt- In>>
Right to Portability You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that you provided to us. <<Right to Portability>>
For information on how to exercise these rights, See: <<Exercising Your Rights>>.
Right to Access You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and to access your personal data.<<Right to Know/Right to Access>>.
Right to Delete You have the right to request that we delete personal information you provided or that was collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Delete/Right to Erasure>>.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information You have the right to “opt out” of targeted advertising (as defined under Utah law). You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your data (as defined under Utah law). However, we do not sell personal information.<<Right to Opt-Out/Right to Opt-In>>
Right to Portability You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that you provided to us. <<Right to Portability>>
For information on how to exercise these rights, See: <<Exercising Your Rights>>.
Right to Access You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and to access your personal data.<<Right to Know/Right to Access>>.
Right to Delete You have the right to request that we delete personal information you provided or that was collected about you, subject to applicable legal exceptions. <<Right to Delete/Right to Erasure>>.
Right to Correct You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes of the processing. <<Right to Correct/Right to Rectification>>.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information You have the right to “opt out” of targeted advertising (as defined under Connecticut law). You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your data (as defined under Connecticut law). However, we do not sell personal information. <<Right to Opt-Out/Right to Opt- In>>
Right to Portability You have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that you provided to us. <<Right to Portability>>
For information on how to exercise these rights, See: <<Exercising Your Rights>>.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may do so as provided for in <<Exercising Your Rights>>. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
See <<YOUR INFORMATION/YOUR CHOICES>>. For information on how to exercise your choices, see <<EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS>>.
You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Supervisory Authority or with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public.
The rights under the GDPR UK are the same as those under the GDPR EEA. See<<European Economic Area (GDPR – EEA)>>.
See <<YOUR INFORMATION/YOUR CHOICES>>. For information on how to exercise your choices, see <<EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS>>.
We and certain service providers operating on our behalf collect information about your activity, or activity on devices associated with you, on our Website using tracking technologies such as cookies, flash cookies, pixels, tags, software development kits, application program interfaces, and web beacons. Definitions for some of the tracking technologies listed, as well as information about your choices with respect to them, are available below. This tracking data may be used for many purposes including, for example, to:
We may collect information whether or not you are logged in or registered, and may associate this tracking data with your registration account (if you have one). If this information is associated with your registration account, we will treat it as personal information. Service providers that collect tracking data on our behalf may provide an opportunity for you to choose not to be tracked online.
Advertisers and third parties also may collect information about your activity on our Website, on devices associated with you, and on third-party sites and applications using tracking technologies. Tracking data collected by these advertisers and third parties is used to decide which ads you see both on our Website and on third-party sites and applications.
Some states provide residents or, in some cases, their authorized agents, with the right to opt out of the “selling” or “sharing” of their “personal information”, or of “targeted advertising” based on their “personal information.” For information on how to opt-out see <<Right to Opt- Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information >> If you clear your cookies on your browser or use another browser or device, you may need to opt out again because we use a single cookie to track your opt-out preference.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the <<NAI’s website>>.
You may have additional rights regarding your personal information based on the state in which you reside. Please see <<Jurisdictional Privacy Rights>>for more information.
You or your authorized agent may choose to enable online, where available, a universal tool that automatically communicates your opt-out preferences, such as the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). We will process the GPC signal as a request to opt out.
We use the following cookies for the purposes stated:
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our Website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our Website. You can find out more about Google’s use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including ours. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
COMPANIES NEED TO BE AWARE OF ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS REGARDING COOKIES ACCESSIBLE IN THE EU
Under EU law, there are two additional requirements in relation to the use of cookies and similar technologies, which apply over-and-above the rules regulating the processing of personal data: a consent requirement and an information disclosure requirement.
“Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.”
Regulation 6 states: “(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a person shall not store or gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user unless the requirements of paragraph (2) are met. (2) The requirements are that the subscriber or user of that terminal equipment - (a) is provided with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and (b) has given his or her consent. (3) Where an electronic communications network is used by the same person to store or access information in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user on more than one occasion, it is sufficient for the purposes of this regulation that the requirements of paragraph (2) are met in respect of the initial use. (3A) For the purposes of paragraph (2), consent may be signified by a subscriber who amends or sets controls on the internet browser which the subscriber uses or by using another application or program to signify consent. (4) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the technical storage of, or access to, information - (a) for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network; or (b) where such storage or access is strictly necessary for the provision of an information society service requested by the subscriber or user.” In their original form, these Regulations can be found on the legislation.gov.uk website.