Privacy Policy for www.GBMWORLDWIDE.com

Privacy Policy for www.GBMWORLDWIDE.com (also referred to in this Privacy Policy as “this site” GBM / Gruppo Brand Management).

This site is owned by GBM WORLDWIDE / Gruppo Brand Management, LLC. (referred to in this Privacy Policy as “GBM”). Please direct all inquiries concerning our Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy below to legal@gbmworlwide.com. PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

Your privacy and experience on the internet is of the foremost importance to GBM. This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for this site (“this site”) – what information we gather, how we use it and how to correct or change it. Because we gather certain types of information about the users of this site, we feel it is imperative for our users to acknowledge and understand the terms and conditions surrounding the gathering and use of that information. This privacy policy only addresses our activities from our servers. Other sites (including those to which this site links and third party sites or services with which GBM may or may not have relationships) may have their own privacy policies and practices, which we do not control, and we are not responsible for nor do we endorse such practices or policies.

General Privacy Information

By visiting this site you agree that the Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law, and that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy (below) shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in New York County, Manhattan, New York. This site may contains links to partners, advertisers and third party internet sites and services who may collect data in connection with; promotions, e-commerce, etc. They each have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of this site and GBM has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. We reserve the right to post, from time to time, additional rules that apply to certain portions of the Service, or the Service as a whole. Such additional rules will be posted in the relevant portions of the Service, and are hereby incorporated into the Agreement by this reference. Your continued access, visitation and/or use of the Service constitutes your agreement to comply with these additional rules.

The rules, restrictions, limitations, terms and conditions that apply to the Service, whether listed in this User Agreement and Privacy Policy, posted at various points in the Service, or otherwise communicated to you, constitutes the Agreement and entire understanding between the parties, and supersedes prior agreements between the parties, whether oral or written, with respect to the subject matter hereof. Unless explicitly stated in writing by us, any new or additional features, functionality, or Content that augment or enhance the Service, including the release of updates, upgrades, new products and/or services, shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Any delay or failure by us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. No waiver by us shall have effect unless such waiver is set forth in writing, signed by us; nor shall any such waiver of any breach or default constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach or default.

GBM cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. It is your solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information while online. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return that have not significant relations to GBM. Further, while we take reasonable steps to protect your personal information using the security and other measures set forth herein. Please acknowledge that whenever you voluntarily and publicly disclose personal information on any online service or website – for example through email – that information can be collected and used by others.

Registration

Any Financial information that is collected may be used to bill the user for any products and/or services purchased from GBM. Anyone who participates in any interactive activities offered on this site may be asked to register for a guest ID and password or to complete certain subscription registration for an ID and password to be allocated. We use this contact information from this registration form to send the registrant information about GBM and GBM affiliates, as well as, GBM events and clients, and promotional material from some of our clients, sponsors, advertisers and business partners. Users may always choose to defer from receiving any such information either by responding to the relevant communication as directed or by contacting this site (please see Contacting the Site and Changing Your Personal Information below). The registrant’s contact information may also be used to contact the user who has purchased good from this site when necessary for customer service reasons.

Collection and Use of Information

GBM may use personal information collected through cookies and registration pages to target e-commerce promotions and telemarketing activities for products and services related to GBM and/or its sponsors, advertisers and business partners. In addition, some of your personal information may be shared with third parties who assist GBM in producing its site or provide a service to this site’s users. This site collects information about you both from what you tell us, and what we collect through the use of cookies (see Cookies below). Information collected about you is used in two different ways. Information is “aggregated” — meaning that the information from many users is grouped together in a way that does not disclose the personal information of any particular user. We may use this aggregated information to determine user traffic statistics for this site (including without limitation to determine browser usage, duration of stay, the referring URL, IP address geographical location, etc.) and to evaluate which products and services are successful and which ones are not, and in order to evaluate which new services we should make available on this site. We may use only the anonymous click stream data to help our advertisers deliver better-targeted advertisements.

Children Under 13

This website is a general audience website. On this website, we do not currently knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen. If, in the future, we collect personally identifiable information from children on the Website, we will do so in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) including, without limitation, obtaining necessary parental consent. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13 we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you’ve visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. This random number lets us keep track of “how many” times customers are doing specific things – like visiting our site each month – without really knowing who those customers are. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your member ID. Additionally, after you’ve entered your member ID and password during a session on our service, we save that information so you don’t have to reenter it repeatedly during that session. Users should be aware that this site cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information placed by advertisers or third parties hosting data for this site. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, users should note that cookies maybe necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on this site.

Security

This site utilizes a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. All user contact information is contained behind a “firewall” and only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special access rights to production systems. All sensitive information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted in this site’s databases as stated above. GBM’s security policies are reviewed periodically and revised as required.

We may offer newsletters to share content information about this site with interested users. We use contact data from our newsletter subscriptions to send users the newsletter. On occasion we will email customers promotional material from some of our sponsors, advertisers or business partners. Users may cancel their free email subscriptions and other communications by following the simple instructions at the bottom of each newsletter or email, or by contacting this site (see Contacting the Site and Changing Your Personal Information below).

This site’s technology department conducts frequent security audits of this site and employs a third party audit company to perform additional site security audits. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site with respect to personal information or your dealings with this site, or wish to access or change the personal information we have about you, you can contact us at legal@gbmworlwide.com

Last Updated on Dec 01, 2011