PRIVACY POLICY
GPS
Sales & Marketing LLC (“GPS”), owner of a platform known as PowerFuel,
operated through a website located at GPSPowerFuel.com (“the Site”), takes your
privacy rights as a User very seriously.
This Privacy Policy sets forth GPS’ position and practices with respect
to safeguarding the privacy of its Users’ information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, in
addition to the Terms of Use Agreement, a link to which appears on the bottom
of the Site’s homepage. The Terms of Use
Agreement also governs your use of this Site and incorporates this Privacy
Policy by reference. Your use of the
Site indicates that you have read and accept GPS’ privacy practices, as
outlined below.
Application
This
Privacy Policy governs the collection and use of information obtained from you through
the Site. It does not apply to information
you may provide to GPS offline or through any means other than the Site, other than as specifically identified
below.
Information
Collected
A. Personally
Identifying Information (“PII”).
GPS will
obtain certain personally identifying information about you when you use the
Site. Such information includes your
name, address, email address, gender, date of birth, and phone number. This information is collected via secure
transmission and is stored using the strongest and safest methods available to
GPS. For example, PII may be collected
from Users to allow GPS’ software to work with other software, such as online
calendaring and video conferencing tools, and to enhance Users’
experience. This PII is used only to
deliver services to you and is never sold or provided to third-party
advertisers.
Through the Site, GPS collects and securely transmits your credit
card information to its payment processing company; however, once this data is
transmitted to said company, GPS does not retain or store any of your credit
card information. GPS relies on its
payment processor to securely store this financial information on GPS’ behalf
and to use only a randomly generated identifier to enable future or recurring
payments.
Any PII will never be sold or otherwise transferred to
unaffiliated third parties without your express approval at the time of
collection. Absent your approval, your PII
may only be disclosed in the limited circumstances outlined above. GPS
only collects and stores as much personal information about you as is necessary
or appropriate to fulfill your intended use of the Site, uphold the Site’s
security protocols, and maintain its internal data tracking systems. GPS may periodically share with third parties
or publish User data in the aggregate, but only to the extent that such
publication does not reveal any PII about any particular User, and only as set
forth below.
By
submitting any PII, you certify that you are at least 18 years of age and you
consent to the submission of such information.
B. Non-Personally
Identifying Information
1. Cookies. Like many website operators, GPS sometimes
makes use of browser “cookies.” A
“cookie” is a small piece of information that is used to assign each visitor’s
computer a unique, random numerical identification code that resides in a
designated file on your computer. The
cookies used by GPS do not automatically collect PII. GPS may use information collected from
cookies to recognize your browser when you visit the Site, to facilitate easy
login, to attempt to personalize your experience on the Site, to track page
usage and paths, or to facilitate your ability to efficiently navigate the
Site. GPS may link a cookie to PII you
submit or other information collected from you.
However, GPS does not specifically request any cookie data from Users,
and it does not examine or collect any cookie information stored by other user
sites.
2. Log
Files. Like most websites, the Site uses tracking
programs that collect information about log files, including browser types, Internet
Service Providers (ISP’s), domain names, referring website addresses,
referring/exit pages, platform types, date/time stamps, number of clicks, and
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP
address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you access the Internet and is used by web servers to identify where to send
the information your computer requests. GPS may use IP addresses for a number of
purposes, such as system administration; tracking of aggregate location,
demographic, or usage data and patterns; maintenance of quality assurance; or
auditing of the use of the Site. GPS may
disclose such non-personally identifying information, such as aggregated
statistics, to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing GPS’
services through the Site, marketing, and improving the experiences of visitors
to the Site. The information that GPS collects
regarding log files is not linked to any PII.
How Information is
Collected and Used; Opting Out
A. Offers
and Information; Fulfillment of User Services.
PII
that you
voluntarily submit may be used for the purposes authorized at the time of
submission. For example, if you submit PII to request services or content,
the information that you submit may be used to fulfill your request. GPS, and any third parties selected by GPS,
may send you special offers and information, including by email, if you have
not opted out of receiving such information and offers. If you do not wish to receive such special
offers and information over email, you may follow the instructions for
unsubscribing included within any emails containing such offers or information.
B. Administrative
Purposes. GPS may use PII you submit to contact you for internal administrative
purposes such as site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce
transactions, tracking your use of the Site,
or notifying you of changes to the Site
or to the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
C. Service
Providers and Third Parties.
PII may be shared with third parties as
disclosed in this Privacy Policy, or at the time you provide your information. Third parties that provide support for the
operation of the Site or
features thereof may also have access to such information. GPS may also share PII about Users of the Site
with third parties so that they can email you information and special offers,
unless you choose to opt out from such sharing by clicking on the “unsubscribe”
link included in such emails. GPS may
also share your PII with third parties to accomplish the
purposes for which it was submitted. In
all cases, GPS will use the information only as permitted by law.
D. Facilitating
Use of the Site and Customizing Content. GPS may use information collected
from cookies and other tracking technology to recognize your browser when you
visit the Site, to attempt to
personalize the Site for each User,
and to track page usage and paths. You
can configure your browser to refuse or disable all cookies, or so indicate
when a cookie is being set, by choosing this option in the preferences or menu
option in your browser. However, if you
disable cookies, you may not be able to use certain optional features or
functions of the Site.
E. Statistical
Analysis. GPS may use collected information to create
aggregate statistics about activity on and visitors to the Site, including the number of return
visits to the Site or
advertisers’ websites, the number of unique visitors that have viewed or
“clicked” a particular ad or visited a particular web page, and how much time
is spent on each page of the Site.
GPS may also create aggregate
demographic statistics, which may be used by GPS to measure interest in various
areas of the Site, to optimize
the design of the Site, and to
improve GPS’ marketing strategy and product offerings. GPS may share the aggregate statistical
information with third parties.
F. Disclosures
Required by Law. GPS
may disclose collected information in the good faith belief that it is required
to do so by law, or when doing so is reasonably necessary to: (1) comply with any
law or legal process, or respond to a government or law enforcement investigation;
(2) respond to any claim; (3) protect and defend the rights, property, or
personal safety of GPS or its
affiliates, customers, Users, or the public; or (4) protect against misuse or
unauthorized use of the Site. In addition, collected information may be
disclosed as part of any bankruptcy, merger, sale, transfer of company assets,
or acquisition of GPS.
Credit
Card Purchases
Information provided in connection with your payment of
subscription or service fees through the Site (including billing name, billing
address, and telephone number) will not be shared with or sold to anyone
outside of GPS, nor to any third party.
Payment information (including credit card numbers and expiration dates)
is treated confidentially and will not be shared with anyone except the
financial institutions used to process payments. While such financial institutions use
encryption software or similar security measures to protect and safeguard your
payment and billing information, you acknowledge that GPS is not responsible
for any failure of any security measure utilized by third-party payment
processing entities.
Protecting Your
Information
GPS has
implemented security measures deemed reasonable and appropriate to protect
against the loss, theft, misuse, and alteration of the information under GPS’
control. Please be advised, however,
that while GPS strives to protect your personally identifiable information and
privacy, GPS cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
disclose or transmit to GPS online and is not responsible for the theft,
destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your PII. In the unfortunate event that your PII is
compromised, GPS may notify you by email (at its sole and absolute discretion) to
the last email address you have provided to GPS in the most expedient time
frame reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, that delays in
notification may occur while GPS takes necessary measures to determine the
scope of the breach, to restore reasonable integrity to the system, and to
cooperate with the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would
impede a criminal investigation. From
time to time, GPS evaluates new technologies for protecting information, and,
when appropriate, GPS upgrades its information security systems.
As
effective as GPS’ security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. Moreover, GPS cannot guarantee that
information that you supply will not be intercepted or compromised while being
transmitted to GPS. PII may also be
stored on computers of third parties that provide technical support for the
operation of the Site or who
otherwise have access to your PII as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. GPS does not control, and has no
responsibility for, the security measures used by such third parties.
Changes to this
Privacy Policy
GPS reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time
in its sole discretion, and any such change will be posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after changes
to the Privacy Policy have been posted constitutes your unconditional
acceptance of said changes.
Questions
If you
have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email GPS at support@GPSPowerFuel.com.