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GVG (“GVG”), a registered trademark of GVG Lifestyle, LLC d/b/a Good Vibe Gangsta (the “Company”), and the goodvibegangsta.com website (the “Site”) care about your privacy. This privacy policy tells you what information we collect at the Site and how we use it. If you choose to visit the Site, your visit is subject to this privacy policy, and you agree to the terms of it.

WHAT INFORMATION GVG COLLECTS

There are many places on the Site where you can share your personal information with us, and where you can communicate with others.

This policy applies to information we collect through any medium, including, but not limited to, information:

On this Site;

In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Site;

Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Site, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Site;

When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

GVG offline or through any other means, including on any other Site operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or

Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link or be accessible from or on the Site.

REGISTRATION

The Site may give you the opportunity to register with us, and sometimes registration is required before certain Site features can be used. Our registration forms may request your contact information (such as your name, email address, mailing address, etc.), demographic information (such as your country, gender, etc.), and profile data (such as your music preferences, entertainment practices, etc). You may be assigned a Site username and/or password. For our internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with you and provide the services you have requested, and to provide a more personalized experience on the Site. For example, your registration may allow you to use and post to the Site message boards, create Site profiles, etc. We use aggregate demographic and profile information about our audience to improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others.

NEWSLETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS FROM GVG

Our registered users and customers may receive newsletters, email communications, or communications through other channels for, among other purposes, the promotion and marketing of a product or service from the Site. When there is a separate sign-up for newsletters, we ask for contact information such as name and email address, and, sometimes, demographic and profile information. By visiting the Site, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data. We use this information in the same manner as we use the contact information in the Registration process described above. We may offer our users the choice of whether to receive mailings from others that we think will be of interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions that may appear at the end of email communications. Note that to keep our registered users informed about the operation of our services, we may send emails and announcements that are needed for the proper functioning and administration of the Site and service.

COMMUNICATIONS WITH GVG

We have features through which you can submit information to us (such as when contacting us with a question or feedback). We may retain your emails and other information you submit to us for our internal purposes, and to help us to serve you better.

COMMUNICATIONS WITH FRIENDS

We may offer features where you can send information to others, such as e-cards or “Tell A Friend“ features. We will use the contact information you enter for your friends to send the email or e-card.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

INTERACTIVE AND COMMUNITY FEATURES

The Site may offer interactive and community features, such as message boards, chat, email accounts, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, profiles, personal homepages, etc. All information posted or sent through these features may be publicly available, and you should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., username, email address, phone number) through these features, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited communications from other people. By accessing these features and disclosing personal information, you affirmatively consent to the distribution of your personal information as described above. Users’ posts may be publicly and/or internally associated with their profiles/screennames. Users are solely responsible for the content of messages they post or send on public forums.

CONTESTS, SWEEPSTAKES AND SURVEYS

We may also have contests, sweepstakes and surveys at the Site. When you enter or participate in them, we request contact information from you (such as your full name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number) and may also request demographic or profile information. We will use the information you provide for the purpose of conducting the promotion (for example, to contact you if you have won). We may also use the information to send you newsletters and other information we think may be of interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions that may appear at the end of the email communication. Any personal information we collect may be associated with registration information. We may share aggregate information with others. We may sometimes partner with sponsors in offering contests, sweepstakes or surveys, and may share (provide and receive) information with them. By entering or participating in such contests, sweepstakes, and surveys, you affirmatively consent to the collection and use of your data by GVG and the publishing of your name and hometown in association with the promotion of the contest.

AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION

The Site has features that automatically collect information from users to assist us in creating a Site that honors our users’ preferences and serves their interests and needs. The Site uses cookies, which are small data files containing information about the user that are stored on the user’s hard drive. Some cookies are used to make login to our Site easier (such as by remembering usernames and passwords). If users reject cookies, they may be limited in using some areas of the Site. Cookies can also enable us to track users’ movements and target their interests to enhance their experience at the Site. We may also collect click stream data and assign unique identifiers to our users for the same purposes. Information obtained with these technologies may be associated with your personal information. A third-party advertisement server or we may also use cookies in connection with targeting advertisements or promotions to users. Our advertisers and other third parties whose products or services are promoted on the Site may also use cookies or other technology, and we advise you to check their privacy policies for information about their privacy practices. We may also gather information such as the date, time, browser type, navigation history, and IP address of all visitors to the Site. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis, and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base. We may associate this information with your personal information. By visiting the Site, you affirmatively consent to our collection, use, and distribution of your data.

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual. One of the cookies in use on our site is for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

Shopping on the Site is easy, secure and worry-free. We have taken several measures to guarantee that your order and your credit card information are safe and secure. Our servers use Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (EV SSL), an advanced encryption technology that works with the following browsers: AOL (5 and higher), Google Chrome (all versions), Firefox (all versions), Internet Explorer (5.01 and higher), Konqueror (all versions), Mozilla (all versions), Netscape (4.7 and higher), Opera browser (7.5 and higher) and Safari (Mac OS 10.3.4 and higher). In addition to the following devices: ACCESS NetFront (3.3 and higher), Android (all versions), AT&T WAP Gateways (all AT&T phones that use WAP version 1.X), BlackBerry (4.1 and higher), iPhone (all versions), iPad (all versions), Kindle (all versions), Motorola phones (manufactured in 2009 and later), Nokia devices (manufactured in 2007 and later), Nook (all color and tablet versions), Palm OS (6.1 and higher – also Treo 650), Sprint devices (manufactured in 2010 and later), Sony PlayStation Portable (2.5 and higher), Sun Java Runtime JRE (1.4.2_07 and higher and 1.5.0_02 and higher) and Windows Mobile (2005 AKU 2 and higher). The Site’s security has been tested & verified with a 99% total browser ubiquity.

EV SSL surpasses the industry standard protection and is among the leading software available to encrypt online transactions. Your personal information including your name, credit card number and address is encrypted so that it cannot be read as it is transmitted over the Internet. Regardless of these efforts, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, any information you transmit to us is sent at your own risk.

WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED

We may share your information with other third parties with whom we have business relationships, and, in some cases, we cannot control or know their privacy practices. By visiting the Site, you affirmatively consent to our collection, use, and distribution of your data. Other than as set forth in this policy, we do not share your personally identifiable information with other companies, apart from those acting as our agents in providing our service to you, and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information secure and confidential. Also, please be aware that our parent company, GVG Lifestyle, LLC d/b/a Good Vibe Gangsta, including all its business units, subsidiaries, affiliates and Sites, entities into which our companies may be merged, or entities to which any of our assets, products, Sites or operations may be transferred, may obtain from us and be able to use your personal information. We will also disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property. You should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, might have the authority under certain circumstances to permit your information to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission. We may share (provide and receive) aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include demographic data such as the gender and/or geographic location of groups of users, but it will not include personal information (such as your name or email address). We use aggregate demographic information about our audience to improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others.

CHOICE

By accepting this privacy policy, you expressly choose to receive certain communications from third parties and us and you expressly agree to the privacy practices described herein. The Site may also provide you with additional specific opportunities to select communications you wish to receive. You may change your privacy preferences, e.g. choose to cease receiving certain communications, by informing us of your new preferences. We will be able to honor your new preferences most effectively if you inform us of them by following the appropriate instructions in any communication you receive from us. Please be aware that messages you receive from us through SMS and instant messaging systems (and other systems apart from email) may not include an option to cease receiving communications; to change your privacy preferences with respect to those communications, please go to the profile page at the Site where you provided your personal information or direct your instructions to the Contact identified at the end of this policy.

ACCESS

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code), we endeavor to provide a way to correct or update that user’s personal data. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding making changes to your data at [email protected].

DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN

The Site intends only persons who are 18 years or older to use the Site. Personal registration information submitted by a person under the age of 18 will not be accepted. Any General Information provided by a person under the age of 18 and gathered (for example, through the use of cookies) during his or her visit may be used as indicated in this Policy. GVG is committed to protecting the privacy of children and has no intention of collecting personal data from children under the age of 18. We strongly encourage parents and guardians of children under 18 to regularly check and monitor their children’s use of e-mail and other activities online.

We strive to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from U.S. children under 13 without appropriate parental notice and consent. Sites that are directed to children where personal information is collected should have a Children’s Privacy Policy setting forth our COPPA–compliant practices. At the Site, we actively screen–out children from data collection and/or use of interactive or community features. We are committed to protecting children’s privacy. For information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children’s privacy online visit: http://ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens.html

LINKS

We may provide links to non–GVG sites. We are not responsible for those other sites, their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users, and we advise you to check their privacy policies.

ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

We are committed to providing a website that’s accessible to the widest possible audience of users 18 years or older, regardless of technology or ability. As part of this commitment, we have retained an accessibility consultant to implement and maintain compliance with the relevant portions of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Level AA (WCAG 2.0 AA), and we are continually improving our website to make it more accessible. If you encounter any difficulty using our website, have suggestions about improving the usability or accessibility of the website, or would like to know more about our commitment to accessibility, please contact us at [email protected].

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy policy at any time, so we encourage you to review this policy from time to time. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted and your continued use of the Site after posting will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.

EU CITIZENS; GDPR ADDENDUM

Citizens of the European Union who are subject to the General Data Protection Regulations can find more information by visiting the GDPR Page.

CONTACT

We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about the Privacy Policy. Please send us all feedback pertaining to the Privacy Policy or any other issue to: [email protected].

LAST UPDATE: August 1, 2024