At General Germ, your privacy is important to us. We are personally committed to taking reasonable measures to protect the privacy of visitors to our site. The following policy describes our privacy practices.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Most of the services on our site are available without our collection of any personally identifiable information from you. However, some information may be automatically collected by our web servers as you browse our site. Our web server automatically collects information known as “clickstream data,” such as the domain name of the site providing you with Internet access, the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your browser type and version, operating system and platform, the average time spent on our site, pages viewed, information searched for, access times and other relevant statistics. We use this information in the aggregate to measure the use of our site and to administer and improve our site.
We also use cookies to provide visitors a personalized experience on our site. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to the hard drive of a visitor's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies to allow visitors to use the site without logging on upon returning and to make improvements and to better tailor our site to our visitors' needs. We also use this information to verify that visitors meet the criteria required to process their requests. Most browsers used by visitors have options that allow the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent, but setting a browser to reject cookies will limit the range of features available to the visitor on our site.
We may request personal information from visitors such as name, home address, e-mail address, age, income, interests and gender for purposes such as newsletters, online forums, contest and promotion registrations, and for participation in other interactive online activities. Additionally, some of our third party service providers (such as the companies that run the email and online store features of the website) may collect data from you and share some of the data with us. On these parts of the website, you will see additional information about the privacy practices of the companies who actually collect the data, including information on how to opt out of having these companies use your data for purposes unrelated to providing you the services that you are requesting from this website.
General Germ uses pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These files enable us to recognize a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. The cookie was placed by us, or by another advertiser who works with us. With cookies and other technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
At present, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, and our site is not intended to be used by children under the age of 13.
USE OF INFORMATION
General Germ uses personally identifiable information in a limited number of ways. We use the information to complete transactions, to respond to your requests, and to identify persons participating in the interactive portions of our site, such as online forums. We use information collected to notify you if you've won a game or contest. Information we collect is used to send you e-mail updates and newsletters about our sites. We share data with our affiliates. We also use the information you provide to send you e-mail promotions and special offers from our third-party sponsors.
When we collect personally identifiable information, we may extract some of the information and combine it with other information, such as clickstream data. This combined information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. None of this combined information is reviewed at an individual level.
While most of our visitors appreciate the services our data collection allows us to perform, we respect the right of each visitor to control how his or her contact data is used. If you do not want us to provide your data to our affiliates, or if you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us or our partners, you can opt out when the data is collected. Additionally, you can opt out of receiving information from us at any time by emailing us at privacy@generalgerm.com. If you would like more information on our data sharing practices or the choices you have with regard to your data, please email privacy@generalgerm.com.
To the extent required or permitted by law, we may also collect, use and disclose personal information in connection with security related or law enforcement investigations or in the course of cooperating with authorities or complying with legal requirements. We may also use your information as permitted by law to perform credit checks, report or collect debts owed, or protect the rights or property of BigCorp Inc., our website, or its users.
SECURITY
We take commercially reasonable precautions to keep all information obtained from our online visitors secure against unauthorized access and use and we periodically review our security measures.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our site contains links to other web sites. These sites are not covered by this privacy statement, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites.
CHANGES TO THE POLICY
By using our site you consent to our collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described in this policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement and related business practices at any time by posting updated text on this site, and your continued use constitutes acceptance of those changes. Thank you for visiting our site, and for taking the time to read this policy.