Welcome Gift Card Internet Specialist, LLC (“GCIS”) is a leading provider of web-based Gift and personalized Greeting Cards - we understand your need for privacy and security when using the Internet for your purchases. With this in mind, we have developed our website ("Website") to provide you with a friendly, convenient, and secure Internet methodology to make your purchases and store your personal information. This privacy policy discloses GCIS practices with respect to the collection, use of, and disclosure of user information collected through the Gift Card Internet Specialist website (“Website”) and through your use of our services (“Services”).
Policies 1. NOTICE. To accomplish business with you, we will ask you to provide us with both personal and non-personal information. Personal information identifies you to some degree, such as your name or address, and which allows us to do business with you and contact you as needed for that business ("Personal Information"), while non-personal information ("Anonymous Information") is more generic (such as male or female). We use this information when you use, among other things, one of our Services, make a request for information, or use promotions (“Primary Services”) through the Website. This information is necessary to the operation of the undertaking you have chosen. We will use the Personal Information which you provide us in these circumstances to operate the Website, to provision, deliver, and collect for Services you order, as well as provide information which you request from us through the Website back to you.
* WE NEVER KEEP OR STORE YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER. OTHER SITES MAY DO SO - READ THEIR PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. * WE DO NOT STORE PERSONAL INFORMATION, unless you provide specific permission to do so.
While the above policy may limit our ability to provide you with the best post-transaction customer support, we firmly believe it to be the finest policy for you, as our customer. In contrast, we strongly recommend you step carefully with other websites which allow the automatic or required taking, storage, and unlimited use of your Personal Information. The GCIS name and logo is owned and belongs to GCIS, all other names and logos to their respective owners. All rights are reserved.
2. CHOICE. With us, it is your choice! If you provide permission to do so, GCIS may also use the Personal Information which you provide us to contact you regarding special offers, promotions, discounts, additional or new services and features offered by GCIS, or important information regarding GCIS ("Secondary Use"). We recommend you take advantage of this service. We will not provide your Personal Information to other companies which are not directly related to GCIS or the GCIS Site ("Third Party Secondary Use"). You may stop the delivery of informational or promotional mail from us by following the instructions included in the informational or promotional mail itself.
3. USE of INFORMATION. To complete your business transaction we must provide some of your Personal Information to affiliated and non-affiliated third parties, such as credit card processing companies,card providers,and fulfillment centers. GCIS may use the Personal Information which we collect, as described above, for the following purposes: * To provide you with the products and services you obtain from us; * Track your orders and notify you of status. * Assist us with providing you with the goods and/or services you request or to fulfill the orders you place including without limitation, third parties which provide customer support, card issuance, and credit card processing services; * Assisting us in protecting against or preventing actual or potential fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims or other liabilities, or to investigate potential fraudulent or questionable activities; * Financial service providers, such as banks, card issuers, and other insurers; * Perform marketing services on our behalf, including without limitation, evaluating market trends, study customer behavior or evaluating business relationships; * Working with us under a joint marketing agreement * Authorized to issue subpoenas or make other legal or regulatory demands for information or documentation; * Government entities, government agencies, consumer reporting agencies, or credit bureaus; * Acquiring all or part of GCIS as part of a sale, reorganization, consolidation, or merger of our business, * Able to receive the information collected as otherwise permitted by law.
To improve our Services to our Customers, GCIS may use non-personal information you provide us for the following purposes: * To track information such as purchasing habits, payment methodology habits, page visits, views, unique visits, conversion rates, and page drop off rates; and * For customer service reasons.
4. ACCESS. When you use any of the services offered by GCIS, we will try to send you a confirmation of your registration showing the Personal Information which we obtained from your registration. This step requires that you are registered with us to do so. Also, whenever possible, we will take reasonable steps to give you the opportunity to confirm and/or modify your Personal Information. This site and its contents are provided "as is"; GCIS makes no representation or warranty of any kind, whether expressed or implied, regarding this site or any site accessible through this site. GCIS expressly disclaims all explicit or implied warranties including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fiscal benefits, fitness, title, and non-infringement.
5. SECURITY. The Personal Information which we collect is used in secure operating environments which are not available to the general public. We have installed reasonable security measures which are maintained, however GCIS does not guarantee or warranty the security of Personal Information.
6. COMPLAINTS. If, at any time, you believe that we have violated any of these Policies, please notify us by email at Support@GiftCardIS.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly investigate and remedy the problem.
7. DISCLOSURE FOR LEGAL PURPOSES. We may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary: (a) to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, (b) to protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users, (c) to act immediately to protect the personal safety of our users or the public, or (d) in connection with a merger, consolidation or sale of substantial assets of GCIS. As we continue to develop our business, we might buy or sell assets related to our business. In such transactions Personal Information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that GCIS or substantially all of its assets are acquired, Personal Information will be one of the transferred assets.
8. ANONYMOUS INFORMATION. Please understand that, in addition to collecting Personal Information, GCIS may also gather information that does not personally identify you regarding your use of the GCIS Site ("Anonymous Information"). The Anonymous Information that we collect regarding your use of the GCIS Site may be used by us to measure the effectiveness of marketing efforts on the GCIS Site, for improving the services we offer to you, or to share with third parties for other purposes. For example, we might use this Anonymous Information to inform our advertisers how many users visited a particular advertisement, and for how long, so they can measure whether the advertisement was effective. Generally, you will not be aware when such Anonymous Information is being collected about you - it may be collected in various ways, such as through traffic data or direct surveys of our customers and may entail the use of, among other things, cookies, IP addresses, or other numeric codes used to identify a computer by which a user accesses our site or used to identify other devices by which a user may access our services.
9. COOKIES. Cookies are pieces of information which a Web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences for a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of the functionality of the GCIS Site or services if you do so.
10. VENTURING OFF THE GCIS SITE. The GCIS website may contain ad banners and hyperlinks which can take you to Websites run by other third parties ("Third-Party Sites") off of this site which are not owned or operated by GCIS. GCIS has no control over how such Third-Party Sites will treat your Personal Information, and the terms of the privacy policies of such Third-Party Sites may differ from the terms of this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, GCIS strongly recommends that you review the terms of the privacy policy at each Third-Party Site that you choose to visit before providing any Personal Information to that site. No judgment, endorsement or warranty is made with respect to other sites, their security, their content, or their policies, and GCIS takes no responsibility for them. Any use you make of the information provided on this site, or any other website or service linked by this site, is at your own risk. Remember, this Privacy Policy only applies to the GCIS site. When you are no longer on the GCIS site, you may encounter different privacy and security practices and you should familiarize yourself with those practices each time you visit a new site.
