At GISNuts.com, your privacy is very important to us. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website (
www.GISNuts.com).
GISNuts.com Store
The following information applies to our store.
Information Collection and Use
We collect information from our customers to process orders and better serve you with pertinent information, such as order confirmations and order status updates. Information collected includes your name, shipping address, billing address, telephone number(s), e-mail address, and payment information.
During the order process, you will have to provide financial information such as your credit card number and expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfill your order. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this contact information to get in touch with you. To properly process your credit card information, we must share your personal and financial information with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This process is protected by an enhanced security system, and your credit card information is processed by a secure payment gateway. We do not store your credit card information on our servers. See the Security section below for more details on security measures and procedures.
We do not share your personal and financial information with any third parties except as needed for order processing, see the Sharing section below.
You do not have to register for an account to place an order with us. If you place an order without creating an account, your address, e-mail, and order information will be stored on our servers while your order is being processed. This information will be deleted once you have received your order. Information needed for our records will be retained on an offline, secured computer system.
If you choose to create an account with us, we will maintain your address, e-mail, and order information on our servers. Creating an account will enable you to view your order status and order history from our website. You will be able to place a new order without re-entering this information. We do not store your credit card information, so this information will have to be re-entered with each new order. To safeguard that your user name and password remain confidential, DO NOT share this information with anyone. You may contact us at
service@GISNuts.com or call our toll free number (877)387-2546 to request that your information be deleted from our database. For future transactions, you will be required to re-enter your information.
We will contact you only in regards to an order or to notify you of a change to our privacy policy, see Notification of Changes section below.
We will not send out a newsletter or any type of promotional materials or e-mails that do not concern a current order.
Cookies
Our store uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and to store current session information. We customize certain Web page content based on your browser-type or other information provided by our cookie. If you reject the cookie, you will still be able to browse our site; however, you will be unable to use our shopping cart and purchase items. This is because cookies are required by the shopping cart to retain the necessary information to process your order. If you disable cookies, GISNuts.com will be unable to accept your order online. We do not share any personally identifiable information provided by this cookie with any third party. Cookies are used only for the purpose of providing you with a personal experience at GISNuts.com.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and we do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.
GISNuts.com Forums
The following information applies to our forums.
Public Forums
This site provides a question and answer forum to its members. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Cookies
Our forums use cookies to keep track of your member session. We customize certain web page content based on your browser-type or other information provided by our cookie. We use cookies to save your forum password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. If you reject the cookie, you will still be able to browse our site, but forum pages may not function properly. We do not share any personally identifiable information provided by this cookie with any third party. Cookies are used only for the purpose of providing you with a personal experience at GISNuts.com.
Use of IP Address
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in preventing the posting of any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, or sexually-oriented material. We do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.
Forum Registration
Our site's registration form requires members to give us contact information (like their name and e-mail address). The member's contact information is used to contact the member when necessary.
We will not send out a newsletter or any type of promotional materials or e-mails.
Forum Contests
We run contests on our site in which we ask members for contact information (like their e-mail address) and demographic information (like their address and phone number). If the member is a contest winner, we will send the member an email to notify them of their winnings. To retrieve their winnings, members may respond to the following e-mail address,
prizes@GISNuts.com.
GISNuts.com Website
The following information applies to our entire website.
Sharing
We may employ third party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions are related to order fulfillment and prize delivery. They may include package delivery, postal and e-mail delivery, and credit processing. The third parties we contract for these purposes have limited access to your personal information and may not use it for other purposes.
In the interests of creating a safer marketplace, GISNuts.com will disclose its users' personally identifiable information to law enforcement or third party fraud protection companies whenever such disclosure is required by state or federal law.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that GISNuts.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Security
GISNuts.com takes precautions to protect its users' information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
When our registration/order form asks you to enter sensitive information (such as your credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software currently available in the industry - SSL. GISNuts.com is secured by Thawte and is 128-bit encryption enabled. To learn more about SSL, follow this link
www.thawte.com.
If you have any questions about GISNuts.com's security practices, you can send us an e-mail at
service@GISNuts.com.
Notification of Changes
If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users can then choose to allow or to not allow GISNuts.com to use their information in this different manner. Unless GISNuts.com provides a notification of this kind and receives your permission, GISNuts.com will only use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
