GRIT BY DESIGN, LLC. is committed to protecting your privacy at all times. It is our goal to bring you information that is tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy. This Privacy Statement does not cover information collected elsewhere, including offline and on sites linked to or from our site. By using the Grit By Design website, you consent to data practices described in this statement.
In addition to reviewing this Privacy Policy, please read our Terms of Use. Your use of our site constitutes agreement to its terms and conditions as well.
This Privacy Statement may be modified from time to time. Any change, update or modification we make will be effective immediately upon posting on our site.
Collection of Personal Information
In general, you may visit our site without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.
As you browse our site, we collect log file, IP address of your computer, and other standard tracking data we use to evaluate site traffic and usage patterns. Such information is aggregated with tracking data from all site visitors. We will use the information to personalize our site according to your preferences based on the aggregated information. We also use the aggregated information to evaluate products and services we may offer to you.
Portions of our sites may allow you to give us personally identifiable information, such as your name, job title, company, physical mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers and, if applicable, financial information such as your credit card information, for, among other purposes:
If you communicate with us by e-mail, or otherwise complete online forms, or surveys, any information provided in such communications may be collected as personal information. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most our site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.
If you elect to provide us personal information, we use it primarily to deliver the service you requested.
If you submit financial information, we use that information primarily to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases, orders, registrations, etc.
Use of Your Personnel Information
We may share your personal information with our affiliates and with our partners, including our exhibitors, sponsors and advertisers for marketing, advertising, and/or product/service offering purposes, and with others who are licensed to access your personal information by any of the foregoing. We do not rent e-mail lists compiled from e-mail addresses gathered from our sites. While we will seek to require all such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, Grit By Design does not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties.
If you do not wish to have your personally identifying information shared, or if you do not wish to receive future commercial communications from us by e-mail, you may unsubscribe or opt-out.
We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as development services, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services.
In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, and to otherwise administer our sites, or if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Grit By Design or to protect and defend the rights or property of Grit By Design, or to enforce our terms of service.
Grit By Design does not use or disclose sensitive personal information such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Third Party and Affiliated Links
Our site may from time to time contain external links to other websites, including suppliers, advertisers and affiliates. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of, or information gathered by, these other websites. We do not endorse any of these websites or the products or services associated with such websites merely because they are linked to any of our sites. In addition, users of our site should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer's hard drive which identify you when you enter. The ability to select samples on our site is not cookie-driven. We may use session cookies to provide a seamless experience on the site and to combine with our log files so that we can understand our site traffic and analyze our demographic information in aggregate form. If you have set your browser to reject cookies, our site will not identify you when you enter. If you chose to decline cookies, you may not be able fully experience our interactive features when you visit.
Opt-Out Option
Visitors to our site can decide if they want to receive targeted information from Grit By Design or targeted promotional information sponsored by our marketing partners. On the visitor registration pages, prospective visitors can choose to request that we not e-mail them advertising and promotional information from Grit By Design or our partners.
If you choose to remove yourself from our lists by opting-out, we will make every reasonable effort to forward your opt-out request (including your e-mail address) to the specific third-party marketer whose offer you received from us prompting your opt-out or unsubscribe request, so that it can include your e-mail address on its own do-not-email list; however, Grit By Design does not bear any responsibility for ensuring that any third party complies with your opt-out or unsubscribe request vis-à-vis its own lists.
Security and Encryption
We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption, “firewalls” and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.
Contact information
We welcome your comments regarding this statement of privacy. If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by letter at the address below, or by e-mail at webinfo@gritbydesign.com.
