Privacy and Policy
Privacy
Policy
Introduction
This privacy policy
(“Policy”) describes how GMCoin (“Company,” “we,” and
“our”) processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this
website https://gmc.gm-informatics.com (the “Website”). Please read the following
information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data
and how we will process data.
Purposes of Processing
What is personal data?
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal data.
As used in this Policy, “personal data” is as defined in the General Data
Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in
combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an
individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address
and telephone number.
Why do we need your
personal data?
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data
protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide
you with access to the website. If you registered with us, you will have been
asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our
services, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us
with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You
maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to
our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please do not use our
website.
Collecting Your Personal Data
We collect information
about you in the following ways:
Information You Give Us. This includes:
the personal data you provide when you register to use our website,
including your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username,
password and demographic information (such as your gender);
the personal data that may be contained in any video, comment or other
submission you upload or post to the website;
the personal data you provide in connection with our rewards program and
other promotions we run on the website;
the personal data you provide when you report a problem with our website or
when we provide you with customer support;
the personal data you provide when you make a purchase through our
website; and
the personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone, email
or otherwise.
Information from
Social Networking Websites.
Our website includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social
networking sites (each a “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS through our website,
you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed on the
SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, use
and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our
access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the
appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
Information
Automatically Collected.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device
when you access our website. For example, when visiting our website, we log
your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer
and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you
visited before browsing to our website, pages you viewed, how long you spent on
a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our
website. We collect this information about you using cookies.
Automated Decision
Making and Profiling.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making.
However, we may do so in order to fulfil obligations imposed by law, in which
case we will inform you of any such processing and provide you with an
opportunity to object.
Cookies
What are cookies?
We may collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored
on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website. We may use
both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and
persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you
delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on
our website.
We use two broad
categories of cookies:
(1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your
computer or mobile device, which is used only by us to recognize your computer
or mobile device when it revisits our website; and
(2) third party cookies,
which are served by service providers on our website, and can be used by such
service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits
other websites.
Cookies we use
Our website uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
Type of cookie |
Purpose |
Essential
Cookies |
These
cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our
website and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they
allow you to log in to secure areas of our website and help the content of
the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services
that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to
provide you with those services. |
Functionality
Cookies |
These
cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use our
website, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your
login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our
website which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide
you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your
preferences every time you visit our website. |
Analytics
and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect
information about traffic to our website and how users use our website. The
information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes
the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our
website, the pages they visited on our website, what time of day they visited
our website, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar
information. We use this information to help operate our website more
efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level
of activity on our website. We use Google Analytics for this
purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve
how our website works. You can find out more information about Google
Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies You can find out more about how
Google protects your data here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can
prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our website by
downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB |
Targeted
and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing
habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest
to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group
you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information,
and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable
them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while
you are on third party websites. You can
disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at
you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see
adverts but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove
cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that
serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may
still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not
listed. |
Social
Media Cookies |
These
cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing
button or “like” button on our website or you link your account or engage
with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook,
Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
Disabling cookies
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order
to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located
within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility). Many browsers are
set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept
our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our website.
For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and
you may need to log in every time you visit our website.
Advertising
We may use other
companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the
website. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser
type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during
your visits to the website and other websites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These
companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information.
Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own
privacy policies.
Using Your Personal Data
We may use your
personal data as follows:
to operate, maintain, and improve our website, products, and services;
to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your
account, if you have an account on our website;
to operate and administer our rewards program and other promotions you
participate in on our website;
to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
to send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts,
and support and administrative messages;
with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming promotions,
and other news, including information about products and services offered by us
and our affiliates. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time:
such marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” Please note, even if you opt-out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails.
Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if you have
one) and our business dealings with you;
to process payments you make via our website;
as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws;
(b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to
requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and
(d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or
others;
for analysis and study services; and
as described in the “Sharing of your Personal Data” section below.
Sharing Your Personal Data
We may share your
personal data as follows:
Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your personal data with
third parties where you have provided your consent to do so.
Our Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your personal data
with our third-party service providers who provide services such as data
analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure
provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar
services.
Third-Party Sites
Our website may
contain links to third-party websites and features. This Policy does not
cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties
have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or
liability for their websites, features or policies. Please read their privacy
policies before you submit any data to them.
User-Generated Content
You may share personal
data with us when you submit user-generated content to our website, including
via our rewards program, forums, message boards and Websites on our website.
Please note that any information you post or disclose on our website will
become public information, and will be available to other users of our website
and to the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to
disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our website. Such
personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it
is published on our website.
If you provide
feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our website, provided
we do not associate such feedback with your personal data. If you have provided
your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your
feedback on our website. We will collect any information contained in such
feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
International Data Transfer
Your information, including
personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at and
processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection
and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other
parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure
that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
Security
We seek to use
reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect
personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or
storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of
information via the Internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to
believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you
feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been
compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
Retention
We will only retain
your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the website until
you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention
period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Policy on Children
Our website is/are not
directed to children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that
his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or
she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon
as reasonably practicable.
Your Rights
Opt-out. You may contact us anytime to opt-out of:
(i) direct
marketing communications;
(ii) automated decision-making and/or profiling;
(iii) our collection of sensitive personal data;
(iv) any new processing of
your personal data that we may carry out beyond the original purpose; or
(v)
the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. Please note that your use
of some of the website may be ineffective upon opt-out.
Access. You may access the information we hold about you at any time
via your profile/account or by contacting us directly.
Amend. You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies
in your personal data.
Move. Your personal data is portable – i.e. you to have the flexibility
to move your data to other service providers as you wish.
Erase and forget. In certain situations, for example when the
information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can
request that we erase your data.
If you wish to exercise
any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear:
(i) what personal data is concerned; and
(ii) which of the above
rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only
implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the
particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need
to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply
with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within
one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain
information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that
you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.
Complaints
We are committed to
resolve any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If
you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in
relation to your personal data, please contact us through the information
listed on our website. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in
any event, within 30 business days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our
attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately
resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection
supervisory authority
Contact Information
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.