Privacy Policy
Welcome to GIBNOW.COM the person to person lost and found notification service for coordinating the return of lost or stolen items. We take your privacy seriously; therefore, below we provide you with our privacy policy, where we intend to be transparent about any information we collect, how we intend to use it to your benefit, and what choices you have when you register with us and use GIBNOW.COM.
Here are our commitments to you:
- Your privacy remains strictly under your control.
- You can cancel your GIBNOW.COM account at any time.
- We won't disclose your personally-identifiable information to any third party for marketing purposes unless you expressly tell us to.
- You can decide whether you want to receive any offers from us that may be of interest to you.
Information Practices
When you register with us or use the GIBNOW.COM service, you provide information to us. In the following three sections, we explain what information is collected, how it is used to your benefit, and the choices that you have with your information.
Information Collected by GIBNOW.COM, Inc
Your membership with us is optional. Depending on how you interact with GIBNOW.COM, you provide us with information, which may include: (a) your name, address, city, state, zip code, country, confirmed email address, cell phone number, password and other registration information; (b) your interaction with GIBNOW.COM features and advertisements; (c) transaction-related information, such as, when you make purchases, respond to any offers; and (d) information you provide us when you contact us for help. If we offer a personal interest and profile area on GIBNOW.COM, you may choose to submit additional information such as age, hobbies, and interests and other content, such as photos.
We also collect other non-personally identifiable data, which may include your IP address and what browser you are using so that we can improve GIBNOW.COM services to you.
Use of Information
We will use your name and address to mail via USPS our labels to you. We will use your email address and cell phone number to send you messages generated by an individual who entered your GIBNOW ID into the website. We will use your email address for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are when signing up initially for our service. You agree that we may always contact you to provide you with important information or required notices required by GIBNOW.COM.
We will not disclose any personally-identifiable information such as, name, physical address or email address to any advertiser.
We may use your information (a) to deliver the GIBNOW.COM services and features desired by you (including any customization features requested by you), (b) to improve our services to you, (c) to respond to your inquiries, and (d) to fulfill your request for products or services.
We may use the non-personally identifiable information, like your IP address, to analyze statistically site usage and to customize our site's content, layout and services. The resulting information will allow us to improve our services and better understand and serve our users.
We do not sell customer lists. We will not share any information that identifies you personally with any third party for marketing purposes. We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect our rights and property or the rights and property of the public. We may also cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency in doing so.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are a standard Internet technology, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features for their members. We use cookies with GIBNOW.COM to allow us to improve the quality of our service, store user preferences, store and retrieve login information on a user's system, and to personalize content and offers of interest to our users. We also allow our service providers to collect non-personally identifiable information by placing cookies on GIBNOW.COM that will track certain performance of our services, such as, web site traffic, click-throughs, etc., in order to assist us and our service providers in better understanding the interests of GIBNOW.COM users and to better serve those interests. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of GIBNOW.COM if you do so.
Advertising
Advertisements that appear on GIBNOW.COM are delivered to users by our advertisers. We and our advertisers may from time-to-time use advertising network providers, including our own network services and third party networks, to help present advertisements on GIBNOW.COM and other Web sites. These advertisers and ad networks use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies on your browser to help present offers, better target and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements by using data gathered on an anonymous basis over time and across their network of Web pages to determine the preference of their audiences. These cookies and web beacons do not collect any personal information from your computer, such as your e-mail address. The use of cookies and web beacons by advertisers and ad networks is subject to their own privacy policies.
Links and Other Sites
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising. This Privacy Policy applies to web sites, services and applications that are owned and provided by us and we are not responsible for the privacy policies, practices or contents of any third party websites. Please refer to the privacy policies of such third party websites for information on what kinds of personally identifiable information such websites collect and their respective privacy practices, terms, and conditions.
Acquisition
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of GIBNOW.COM, Inc., such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.
Security
We take steps to help protect your personal information. Any credit card information that you supply is safeguarded by our use of 256-bit SSL security. Secure Socket Layer (SSL). We require password protection physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you. We limit access to personal information about you to employees and authorized parties who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. Please remember that no technological environment is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted or posted on GIBNOW.COM or any other website over the Internet. If you have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us at privacy@gibnow.com.
Changes in Privacy Policy
From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy and will post a notice of any significant changes on our website. You should visit this page periodically to review any such changes to the privacy policy. Your continued use of this website or our service and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.
Cancelling Your Account
You always have the choice and option to cancel your account with us at any time. Simply sign in to the site then select deactivate account and follow the simple instructions. You may request to have your registration account information removed by submitting a request to cancel@gibnow.com. We will act on your request as promptly as possible.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about the GIBNOW.COM Privacy Policy or its implementation, or if you believe there are inaccuracies in your account information you may contact us as follows: By email or USPS mail:
GIBNOW.COM, Attn: Policy Team, 1299 Commons Drive, San Diego, CA 92127
Changes
GIBNOW.COM may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to GIBNOW.COM information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from GIBNOW.COM, as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.