This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for the B1selfshop.com & Global Village Concerns, Inc. ("GVC") websites. At GVC protecting the privacy and security of your information is of utmost importance to us. We value the trust you place in GVC, and maintain strict privacy policies. We are committed to providing our customers and users with a secure environment and state of the art technologies to safeguard your information. In the event that you terminate you customer relationship with us, or become an inactive customer, GVC will continue to adhere to the policies and practices described in this notice. We will not sell ANY of your personal information to anyone outside of our organization.
When you visit our Web site, and as your trusted notification institution, we collect, retain and use non-public personal information about our potential, current and former customers. We are likely to record the following information:
GVC will not sell Personal Information to any third party. We will disclose personally identifiable information to government officials and law enforcement agencies when it is required by law (e.g., in compliance with a subpoena or court order) or if we believe in good faith that such action is appropriate and necessary to protect and defend the rights of GVC, or to protect the safety of GVC users and the general public.
The protection of your non public personal information is of utmost importance to us. We maintain strict practices and procedures to safeguard your privacy in accordance with this privacy policy. We restrict employee access to customer information to only those who have a business reason to know such information, and we educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy.
Personal Information. When you provide us with your Personal Information, we use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, we are not insurers of the security of your Personal Information. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond our reasonable control.
Disclosure to Successors. We may disclose your Personal Information to any successor-in-interest of ours, such as a company that acquires us. In the event Global Village Concerns goes through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by or with another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or by a notice on our Website of any such change in ownership or control of your Personal Information. Global Village Concerns does not share, rent or trade your Personal Information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
If you become a GVC customer, you can access and update your personally identifiable information by logging into GVC's Aware system using the username and password provided and updating your Profile.
It is possible that Electronic Communications may be accessed by unauthorized third parties when communicated between you and GVC using the Internet, other network communications facilities, telephone or any other electronic means. All transfer of personal information on B1selfshop.com, is secured by encrypted user names and passwords, and the industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL prohibits other Web users from gaining access to your personal information, and to help protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Under Thirteen. B1selfshop.com website is intended for users ages 13 and older only. Accordingly, we will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from children that we know to be under the age of 13, unless parental permission has been granted. In addition, we will delete any information in our database that we know originates from a child under the age of 13, if parental permission has been approved.
Thirteen to Seventeen. Prospective users between the ages of 13 and 17 can only use the B1selfshop.com website upon school approval. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, you, your parent, or your legal guardian may request that we deactivate any of your Personal Information in our database and/or opt-out from receiving communications from us.
We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy. When we make any such changes, you will find a message on our Home Page and a link to this page. If there are material changes to B1selfshop.com and Global Village Concerns privacy practices, you will be sent a notice via email, and it will be posted as a message on our home page and linked in the privacy policy.
B1selfShop.com and Global Village Concerns Web site contains links to various other Web sites. Please be aware that these other sites may have privacy policies that differ from Global Village Concerns not monitor these sites and is not responsible for either the content that appears on linked sites, or your privacy once you have linked to other sites.
We provide you the opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Information used for certain purposes. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on onto following email communication we may send you by clicking on the Unsubscribe link.
If you need assistance you may contact us at legal@go2gvc.com or via mail to:
Global Village Concerns & B1selfshop.com
4350 Executive Drive, Suite 201
San Diego, CA 92121.
Global Village Concerns is committed to resolving any dispute you may have regarding our privacy policy quickly and efficiently.
BY ACCESSING OR USING ANY PART OF THE GVC WEBSITE YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
