COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Gilyard Group, Inc. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Gilyardgroup.com., we want to make your online experience satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION Gilyardgroup.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information Gilyardgroup.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help us better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Gilyardgroup.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Gilyardgroup.com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
- Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Gilyardgroup.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration. - Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they need not register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. - "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose. - Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Gilyardgroup.com may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users. - Surveys
Gilyardgroup.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party. - Online Store
We collect contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address), and when appropriate, financial information (your credit card number) to process your request or purchase. Contact information from an order form is used to fulfill orders, and to provide information about our company to you if requested. The contact information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary regarding your order. Financial information that is collected is used to process your request for products and services, and will not be shared with third parties who are not involved with the transaction. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. - Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. - Usage tracking
Gilyardgroup.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Gilyardgroup.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). - Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Gilyardgroup.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our internal banner advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
Gilyardgroup.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Gilyardgroup.com only shares newsletter mailing lists with its subsidiaries, owned wholly, or in part.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Gilyardgroup.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our internal advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our content interesting, and pertinent to our users. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Gilyardgroup.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
This Web site contains hyperlinks to Web sites operated by parties other than Gilyard Group, Inc. or its subsidiaries. For example, clicking on any link within our site may bring you to a site operated by a party independent of Gilyard Group, Inc. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only.
Gilyardgroup.com does not control such Web sites, and is not responsible for their contents. Gilyardgroup.com’s inclusion of hyperlinks to such Web sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such Web sites or any association with their operators, and you access and use such sites, including information, material, products and services therein, solely at your own risk.
Furthermore, our privacy policy is applicable only when you are on our Web site. Once you leave our Web site and visit another Web site, you should read that site's Privacy Policy before disclosing any personal information.
LINKING POLICY
When linking to the Gilyardgroup.com Web site, Web managers should be aware that Gilyard Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries’ trademarks and service marks are not available for posting or replication on third party Web sites without a written agreement with Gilyard Group, Inc. For more information, please send a written permission request to linkrequest@Gilyardgroup.com.
PERMISSION TO USE MATERIAL FROM THIS WEB SITE / REPRINTS / COPYRIGHT/ LOGOS/ GRAPHICS/PHOTOGRAPHS
Using any of the material, logos, graphics, photographs, trademarks and service marks of Gilyard Group, Inc. or its subsidiaries, owned wholly or in part, without Gilyard Group, Inc.'s prior consent is strictly prohibited. Please send written permission requests describing intended use and duration to copyright@Gilyardgroup.com.
PRESS RELEASES
Reprint of Gilyardgroup.com’s news content or references to Gilyardgroup.com information in an organization’s press release must be approved by Gilyard Group, Inc.'s Corporate Communications department. Please send queries to media@Gilyardgroup.com
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Gilyard Group, Inc. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
In no event will Gilyardgroup.com be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages for use of this site or any other hyperlinked web sites including, without limitation, lost profits or revenues, costs of replacement, business interruptions, loss of data or damages resulting from use of or reliance on the information present, even if Gilyardgroup.com is expressly advised about the possibility of such damages. in some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. in such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitations on liability may not apply to you.
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