Thank you for visiting and shopping with www.gunnorth.com. For several years, Gun North™ has been building relationships with our customers based on respect and integrity. We appreciate the trust and confidence you place in us when you visit our web site and when you do business with us. We wish to make your online experience pleasant, convenient and safe.
Please note that the practices of Gun North™ with respect to personal information, are now governed by this Privacy Policy and may be amended from time to time. We encourage visitors to and users of our site to regularly review our Privacy Policy.
Gun North™ is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This Privacy Policy covers the web site, www.gunnorth.com (the “web site”). Because the web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact support@gunnorth.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed within 30 days of your first correspondence, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with Gun North™ to resolve your concerns.
Changes in Privacy Policy
All “Personal Information” (“Personal Information” is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. Gun North™ reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice on the home page of the web site when we make material changes to this Privacy Policy. If as the result of such changes, you want to alter the ways in which Gun North™ is allowed to use your Personal Information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled “Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences.”
You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, any material changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: If at the time you provide Personal Information to Gun North™ you are given the opportunity (as you currently are) to limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by Gun North™ or by third parties, Gun North™ will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if Gun North™ is acquired by or merged with another entity, Gun North™ may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without your consent, but Gun North™ will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this web site.
Entities Collecting Personal Information
Personal Information on this Site is collected by Gun Noth™, Inc., 13610 SE 180TH Street Renton, WA 98058-6811// 425-333-7600
Updating Your Personal Information and Privacy Preferences
You have the right to access and correct your Personal Information and privacy preferences at any time. This may be accomplished by clicking on the link, “My Account”, where you can view and make changes to most of your Personal Information immediately. For security purposes certain Personal Information can only be changed by contacting support by email at support@gunnorth.com
Collection of Personal Information
As a visitor to the web site, you can engage in many activities without providing any Personal Information.
However, when you order products or services as a Gun North™ subscriber, we may collect the following Personal Information from you:
- Contact information such as your name, phone and fax numbers, address and email address; and
- Billing information such as the number, expiration date, card type and billing address of your credit card; and
- Demographic information such as your job title, job description and company name and company type.
If you submit content to Gun North™, you may be asked to provide the following information:
- Contact information such as your name, phone number, primary address, and email address.
- Gun North™ will verify this information by asking you to either: a) upload a scan of a government issued ID (which will be stored on our servers); or b) provide a credit card number. Your credit card number will be used solely for the purpose of verifying your name and address. The credit card number will not be stored.
- Payment and contributor information including, but not limited to, payout method, payout email, desired display name, skill level, content focus, etc.
Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
As is true of most web sites, when you use the web site, Gun North™ or third parties authorized by Gun North™ may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the web site and its services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. We use these environmental variables to facilitate and track your use of the web site and its services. Gun North™ also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the web site. To better understand the needs of our visitors to the web site we may occasionally match such information with your Personal Information.
In order to reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users, and prevent abuse of our system, we may on occasion supplement the Personal Information you submit to us with information from third-party sources. For example, we may supplement your contact information with address information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our database.
Information Sharing with Service Providers / Agents
Gun North™ uses one or more outside credit card processing companies to bill you for our goods and services. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
We also share Personal Information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf. We only share the Personal Information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for Gun North™.
We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.
How Your Personal Information Is Used
We do not sell, rent or share your personally identifiable information to or with third parties in any way other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. Gun North™ collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. Gun North™ or one of our trusted partners may use this information to:
- Process your financial transactions.
- Send you order / renewal confirmations.
- Ship from third party wholesalers.
- Register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users.
- Respond to customer service requests, questions and concerns.
- Administer your account.
- Send you requested product or service information.
- Keep you informed about special offers and services of Gun North™ and selected third parties.
- Investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities and/or violations of our Terms of Service.
- Meet our research and product/service development needs and to improve our Site, services and offerings; and
- Customize your experience, including targeting our services and offerings to you.
We may store information that we collect through cookies, log files, transparent images, and/or third party sources to create a summary of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and/or your membership usage history, to information in the summary, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers, to improve the content of the site for you and/or to determine your preferences.
We further reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information as required by law (e.g., to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process served on Gun North™ and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, avoid litigation, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, and/or respond to a government request. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at support@gunnorthcom we will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Choice / Opt Out
You may “opt out” of receiving Gun North(tm) email updates, newsletters and/or partner emails by clicking on the “My Account” link on the web site and making the appropriate selections. The choice to opt out of such communications is also generally available during the sign-up process. Gun North™ will still contact you when there are changes to the Terms of Service or Submitter Terms & Conditions, as applicable. In addition, we will still send you service-related announcements including, but not limited to, a registration email, benefit notification emails, emails automatically triggered by actions you took on the web site and bill related notices. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you wish not to receive them, you have the option of deactivating your account
Protection of Your Personal Information
The Personal Information that you provide in connection with the use of the web site is protected in several ways.
- Access by you to your account profile is available through a password and unique customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. You should strive to use a strong, alpha-numeric password which you should not divulge to anyone.
- Your Personal Information resides on a secure server that only selected Gun North™ personnel and authorized contractors have access to via password.
- Your Personal Information is encrypted whenever it is transmitted to Gun North™
- When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, our third party vendors encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
- We strive to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once
We strive to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. While we use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our web site, you can send email to us at support@gunnorth.com
Tracking Technologies
The web site may automatically collect information as you browse, such as Internet Service Provider, browser type and version, operating system and device type, average time spent on our site(s), pages viewed, information accessed, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other relevant statistics. Such information is sometimes referred to as web analytics and/or clickstream data.
We and our partners may use cookies and action tags to keep track of your visits, preferences and profile information.
- A cookie is a small, unique text file that a web site can send to your computer when you visit a site. We may use session cookies, which terminate when a user closes his or her browser, and/or persistent cookies, which remain on the user’s computer until manually deleted. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you do not want us to deploy cookies to your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. Rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use the web site.
- An action tag is similar to a cookie. Action tags help us identify and track the performance of web pages on the web site, allowing us to measure the performance and quality of the Site and to manage web site content. In addition, we may use action tags in emails. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns by showing, for example, how many emails have been opened.
Electronic tracking technologies are used to enhance your experience on the web site, including allowing you to remain logged in on the Site. Cookies and pixel tags may also be used to collect general usage and aggregated statistical information that does not identify you personally. However, we and our third party partners may use cookies to store some of your preferences (including limited Personal Information) or to display relevant content based upon what you view on our site.
Online Community
We enable you to create a profile for accessing blogs or online communities for sharing information such as messages, photos and videos. Please note that we cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Any information you post to a public bulletin board or chat room, such as the Forum For Contributors (the “Forums”), is available to all persons accessing that location.
Your email address will not automatically be posted on the Forums unless you modify the default setting to permit that. Your email address will then be available to all persons accessing the Forums. In addition, any information that you choose to include in your profile can be viewed by all visitors to the Forums. You can change your profile here.
Children
We do not intend to solicit or collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not enter information on this site or engage our services. If you believe a child of yours under the age of 18 has entered Personal Information please contact
support @gunnorth.com to have the data removed.
Privacy Complaints
Gun North™ takes its users’ privacy concerns seriously. If you believe that Gun North™ has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, you may contact the Privacy Officer at Gun North™, Inc., 13610 SE 180th St Renton, WA 98058 USA. In your letter please describe in as much detail as possible the ways in which you believe that the Gun North™Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your complaint promptly. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your complaint or your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe through the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution Process. TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with this web site to resolve your concerns.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this web site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact our Customer Care in any of these three ways.
- Email us at support@gunnorth.com
- Call us at (800) xxx-xxxx
- Write us at Gun North
13610 SE 180th St
Renton, WA 98058