Privacy Policy

We at GEM Corp are committed to protecting your privacy.  This Privacy Policy applies to GEM Corp as a controller, including the information collected on our website or through other channels.  This Privacy Notice describes how we collect, receive, store, transfer and process your personal information for marketing purposes.  It also describes your choices regarding use and gives you the option to unsubscribe from future communications.

We periodically update this Privacy Policy.  We will promptly post any changes to the policy on this page, and if it is a material change, we will notify you via email. 

While we will always notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy, we encourage you to review this policy periodically.  We will also keep prior versions of this policy in our archive for your review.

1. What Information We Collect About You

When You Visit Our Website

You are free to explore our website without providing any personal information about yourself.  When you visit our website, or access our e-book and other materials, we request that you provide personal information about yourself, and we collect navigational information.

Personal Information

This refers to any information that you voluntarily submit which identifies you personally, including contact information (such as name, email and phone number) and any other information about yourself or your business.  Personal information can include information for free and paid transactions you enter into on our website, and information that is available about you from social media, the Internet and any other service providers.

Personal Information includes navigation information or payment information where such information can directly or indirectly identify an individual.

Navigational information includes information about your computer and your site visits, such as your IP address, location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed.  Please see the “Use of Navigation Information” section below.

Payment information includes information we collect and process from you when you enter into a transaction with us, including credit card numbers and billing information, using third party PCI-compliant service providers.  Except for this, we do not collect other sensitive information from you.

Sensitive Information

This includes credit or debit card numbers, personal financial information, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver’s license numbers or similar personal identifiers, such as racial or ethnic origin, physical or mental health condition, or employment information.

Log Files

When you view content provided by us, we automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software.  This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), files viewed on our site (HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, clickstream data, access times and referring website addresses.  GEM Corp uses this information for general statistical purposes.  For these purposes, we do link this data to other personal information such as name, email address, address and phone number.

Information We Collect from Third Parties

From time to time, we may receive Personal Information about you from third party sources including partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities, and sources such as social media websites.

Information About Children

Our website is not targeted to children under 16, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information about children under 16.  If you believe that we have collected such information, please contact us here so that we may delete the information.

2. How We Use Information We Collect

Compliance with Our Privacy Policy

We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. Customers who subscribe to our services are obligated through our agreements with them to comply with this Privacy Policy.

We Never Sell Your Personal Information

We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party.

Use of Personal Information

In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your Personal Information to:

• improve your browsing experience by personalizing our website
• send information or GEM Corp content to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our business;
• promote use of our services to you and share promotional and information content with you in accordance with your communication preferences;
• provide other companies with statistical information about our users — but this information will not be used to identify any individual user and will only be shared on an aggregate and de-identified basis;
• contact you about billing, account management, and other administrative matters;
• send information to you regarding changes to our Customer Terms of Service, Privacy Policy (including the Cookie Policy), or other legal agreements;
• investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse; and
• meet legal requirements.

We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, we do not transfer your Personal Information to the third party.

Use of Navigational Information

We use Navigational Information to operate and improve the Websites and to provide you with a better experience when you interact with GEM Corp. We may also use Navigational Information alone or in combination with Personal Information to provide you with personalized information about GEM Corp. Navigational Information, such as IP address, is used to approximate your location. For example, we may use your approximate location to provide content that has been translated or send emails at certain times using your local time zone.  

You may disable the collection and use of your location data through browser-, operating system- or device-level settings.  Consent concerning location data may be withdrawn at any time here.

Customer Testimonials and Comments

We post customer testimonials and comments on our website, which may contain Personal Information. We obtain each customer’s consent via email prior to posting the customer’s name and testimonial.

Use of Payment Information

If you give us Payment information, we use it solely as authorized by you in accordance with this Privacy Policy in order for you to use our services, including to check your financial qualifications and collect payment from you. We use a third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. This service provider is not permitted to store, retain, or use information you provide except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on our behalf.

Security of Your Personal Information

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We secure the Personal Information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. All Personal Information is protected using appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures. 

External Websites

Our Websites provide links to other websites of third parties. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners, or their practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.

Retention of Personal Information

How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, as described in further detail below.  After such time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible. 

We retain Personal Information that you provide to us where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we securely delete the information or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will delete this information at an earlier date if you so request, as described in the “How to Access & Control Your Personal Data” below.

If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our content, products, or services, such as when you last opened an email from us.  We retain information derived from cookies and other tracking technologies for a reasonable period of time from the date such information was created.

3. How We Share Information We Collect

Service Providers

We employ other third-party service providers to provide services on our behalf to visitors to our Websites and our customers, and we may need to share your information with them to provide information, products or services to you. Examples may include removing repetitive information from prospect lists, analyzing data or performing statistical analysis, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, supplementing the information you provide us in order to provide you with better service, and providing customer service or support. These service providers are prohibited from using your Personal Information except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. In all cases where we share your information with such agents, we explicitly require the agent to acknowledge and adhere to our privacy and customer data handling policies.

Corporate Events

If we (or our assets) are acquired by another company, whether by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or otherwise, that company would receive all information gathered by GEM Corp on the website. In this event, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, of any change in ownership, uses of your Personal Information, and choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.

Compelled Disclosure

We reserve the right to use or disclose your Personal Information if required by law or if we reasonably believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies

GEM Corp and our partners use cookies or similar technologies (such as web beacons and JavaScript) to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

Navigational Information Collected by Our Customers

Our customers can use the tools we provide, as well as tools provided by third parties, to collect Navigational Information when you visit their webpages. HubSpot does not control our customers’ use of these tools, nor do we control the information they collect or how they use it.  

5. How to Access and Control Your Personal Data

Reviewing, Correcting and Removing Your Personal Information

• You can request access, correction, updates or deletion of your personal information.
• You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
• If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
• You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information.

To Unsubscribe from Our Communications

You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our e-mails, updating your communication preferences, or by contacting us here.

To Unsubscribe from Our Customers’ Communications

Our customers are solely responsible for their own marketing emails and other communications; we cannot unsubscribe you from their communications. You can unsubscribe from our customers’ marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of their emails, or by contacting them directly.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you have a disability and need to access this notice in a different format, please contact us here or by phone at (866) GEM-CORP.