The GS Supply LLC Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, GS Supply LLC (herein also referred to interchangeably as Gulf States Supply) provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, Gulf States Supply makes a link to it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information Gulf States Supply Collects
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Gulf States Supply web site. All information marked with an asterisk (*) is required for a particular service.
Our forums require you to register before being able to post. All of the information collected during forum registration is available to all forum members and the staff and volunteers of Gulf States Supply The information collected for the forum is:
Your
Name*
Email address*
A Username*
a web site address,
other contact methods, location, etc are all optional.
Your IP address may also be logged. IP addresses may be used in fraud prevention and/or to prosecute perpetrators of fraud or other abuses.
On some pages, you may order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The information collected for these sections is strictly confidential and only shared with shippers, payment processors and/or selected partners as needed in order to fulfill the services you have selected to engage with us. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Your
Name*
Billing and Shipping Address(es)*
Email
address*
Phone number*
possibly Credit Card number or other
payment information. If a credit card number is collected it is only
securely transmitted to a 3rd-party payment gateway and your credit
card number is never stored on our servers.
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address. The information collected for these sections is strictly confidential and only shared with shippers as needed. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
Recipient's
Name*
Recipient's Address*
Phone Number*
Newsletters
You may optionally choose to sign up for a newsletter by entering your email address in the appropriate place on our support website. When you do so, that information is stored securely by a third-party service whom we use specifically for managing our newsletter sending and subscribership. You can always opt-out of the newsletter at any time. The only information stored about you is the information you provide, such as your email address.
The Way Gulf States Supply Uses Information
Gulf States Supply uses the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
Gulf States Supply uses the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
Gulf States Supply uses return email addresses to answer Gulf States Supply the email Gulf States Supply receives. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties except to facilitate this exchange of email.
You can register with the Gulf States Supply web site if you would like to use our forum, receive newsletters, list your site in the showcase, and/or other services. Information you submit on the Gulf States Supply web site may be shared with selected partners.
Gulf States Supply may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design the Gulf States Supply web site and to share with advertisers. For example, Gulf States Supply may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Gulf States Supply web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but Gulf States Supply would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, Gulf States Supply never uses or shares the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Cookies
We
use cookies on the Gulf States Supply support site to track user
activity and to provide certain functionality. These cookies are not
used by GS Supply Inc for any advertising purposes.
The Gulf States Supply Commitment To Data Security:
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Gulf States Supply has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information Gulf States Supply collects online.
The Gulf States Supply Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, Gulf States Supply never collects or maintains information at our Gulf States Supply web site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our Gulf States Supply web site is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information:
You can access all your personally identifiable information that Gulf States Supply collects online and maintains by logging in and clicking on 'My Controls' or 'My Account' in the menu. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.