Privacy Statement for
http://www.gtc-music1.com/forum
Last Modified May 18, 2009
The following discloses our
information gathering, use and dissemination practices for this website. Please
take a moment to review the terms of this privacy statement. By using this
site, you agree to accept the terms of our privacy statement. If you do not
agree to the terms of our privacy statement, please do not use this site.
Unless stated otherwise, this privacy statement applies only to information
collected on this site and does not apply to information that we may collect by
other means.
Personal Information
Information We May Collect
You are not required to
provide any personal information in order to obtain general access to this
site. However, in order to access certain information, products, services or
features contained on this site, we may require you to provide personal
information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone
number.
If you choose to post
messages in our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave
feedback for other users, we may collect such information about you as you
choose to disclose in such forums. Likewise, if other users or third parties
send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our message boards
or other areas of this site, we may collect such information into a file
specific to you. gtc-music1 may keep a log of inactive
account information for an indefinite period of time, in gtc-music1 discretion.
How We May Use Your Information
Please note that we will not
share your personal information (whether collected online or offline) with any
third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Finally, we reserve the
right to disclose visitor information in special cases when we have reason to
believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or
bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference
with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other
visitors, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. This includes
our right to exchange information with other organizations in order to protect
against fraud and to reduce credit risk. We also reserve the right to disclose
visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
Message Boards and Other Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms,
forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please keep
in mind that whenever you give out personal information on a message board or
other "public" forum, that information can be collected and used by
people you don't know. If you choose to voluntarily disclose information on a
message board, chat room or other public forum on this site, this privacy
statement will not cover such disclosure of information. We urge you to use
caution when disclosing any personal information on these venues. For
additional terms and rules regarding the use of our message boards, please see
our message boards Terms of Membership.
Links to Other Sites
The message boards and other
areas of this site contain links to other sites that take you outside this
site. These outside sites are beyond our control. They may send their own
cookies to visitors, collect data or solicit personal
information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly
different from our privacy statement. We will not notify you when you are
leaving our site and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or
content of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your
personal information collected there.
Aggregate Information
From time to time, we may
collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of this
site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on this site, how long
they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on.
We collect this information through the use of technologies such as
"cookies" and "IP addresses", which are discussed in
greater detail below. We collect this information in order to determine which
areas of this site are most popular and to enhance this site for visitors. We
may also group this and other information into aggregate visitor data in order
to describe the use of this site to our existing or potential business
partners, sponsors, advertisers or other third parties, or in response to a
government request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in
no way personally identify you or any other visitors to this site.
IP Addresses and Cookies
In the course of using our
site, we automatically track certain information about you. This information
includes the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or
not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what
browser you are using, and your IP address (which is a number that's
automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web). Many
sites automatically collect this information. We use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our site. Your IP address
is used to help identify you and your shopping cart. We reserve the right to
use IP addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with this site's policies or to protect our service or customers,
this site, or others.
Like most websites, our site
does use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to
an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. In some cases the
cookies are linked to your personally identifiable information. Cookies are
used to simplify functions on our website for our users. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
please be aware that some features of this site may not function properly or
may be slower if you refuse cookies. You may occasionally get cookies from our
advertisers or other third parties with links on this site. We do not control
these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is
standard in the Internet industry.
Children Under 13
We do not knowingly collect
information from children under the age of 13 on this site. If you are under
the age of 13, please do not provide any personal information to us.
Changes to These Terms
The terms of this privacy
statement may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material
changes to this privacy statement by posting a notice on the homepage of this
site, for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made, that this
privacy statement has been updated, and by changing the "Last
Modified" date at the top of this privacy statement. We encourage you to
check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of this site
following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those
changes.
Security
This site has security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control.
Reviewing and Updating Your Information
If you
register for an account on the Site (other than a message boards account), you
may review and update your account information by logging in to your account
with your username and password at https://www.pcgs.com/membership/login.html
or http://www.psacard.com/Membership/login.html. If you join our message boards, you may review and
update your message board profile information by first logging in to our
message boards and then going to http://forums.collectors.com/profile.cfm.