Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
GFNY, INC. (“G|FASHION” or “Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.gfashion.com (the “Website”) or any mobile or desktop app we may offer (the “Apps”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
On this Website or the Apps
In email, text, and other electronic messages sent by you using this Website or the Apps.
When you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and applications, if the advertising includes links to this policy.
It does not apply to information that is:
collected by or provided to us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
collected by or provided to any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website or our Apps, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website or our Apps after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. However, if we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by means of a conspicuous notice on the Website homepage or direct communication to you via the App or your email address, if possible.
PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US OR OUR VENDORS
You do not have to provide personally-identifiable information to access or use the Website or the Apps. However, to take full advantage of the Website or Apps, you may choose to furnish us with personally-identifiable information through the Website or Apps. For example, if you contact us through the website “Contact us” form or create an account, you will be asked to provide your contact information (such as name, email address, and phone number). In order to complete a purchase, you will be asked to provide your mailing address.
We will only collect such personal information through the Website or Apps when you provide it to us voluntarily. The personal information we collect on or through our Website or App may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or in our App. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or App, creating an account, applying for a membership, subscribing to our communications, making a purchase, posting material, contacting us, or requesting further services. Categories of such voluntarily provided information may include:
identifying information (such as name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address, photograph, contact information, and billing information)
commercial information (such as products and services purchased from us)
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you Use the Website or App to contact us or communicate with other users
Your search queries on the Website or App
Other information you choose to provide to use when using the Website or App.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed or otherwise “posted” on public areas of the Website or App, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages/you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. We cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED TECHNICAL AND USAGE DATA
As you navigate through and interact with our Website or Apps, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website or Apps, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer or device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and App and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, however, we may associate this information with personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website or Apps may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the personal information that we collect about you or that you provide for legitimate business purposes, including:
To provide you with our Website and App, their contents, and any other information, products or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account/membership.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website, Apps, or about any products or services we offer or provide though them.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website and Apps.
To verify the identity of account holders.
To resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use your personally-identifiable information, alone or in combination with your IP address and other automatically-collected information, for purposes of protecting the security and proper functioning of the Website, fraud detection and prevention, and similar purposes.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you can opt-out of receiving these communications by managing your preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and technical or usage information that does not identify any individual without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this privacy policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, such as payment processors, who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you unless you have opted out of receiving these communications. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our TERMS OF USE and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
In the preceding twelve months, We have not sold personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
We may use one or more companies to place interest based advertisements for our products and services on third-party sites. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. If the third party is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), you can always opt-out of this activity by visiting the opt-out page on the NAI’s website.
If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional or marketing purposes, you can opt-out by logging into your account through the Website or Apps and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, clicking the link on the Website home page named DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION, or by sending us an email with your request to privacy@gfashion.com.
If you do not wish to have your email address or contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@gfashion.com or by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of a promotional email sent to you.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at privacy@gfashion.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website or App, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our TERMS OF USE
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA: YOUR CHOICES
If you are a California resident, the CCPA provides you with certain rights and options regarding your personal information.
RIGHT TO KNOW
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
To rights described above, you may submit a verifiable consumer request to us using one of the following methods:
Emailing us at privacy@gfashion.com.
RIGHT TO DELETION
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and verify a request from you or your authorized agent, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our, and their records, unless an exception applies. If we determine that an exception applies, we will inform you of the reason for denying the deletion request.
To exercise rights described above, you may submit a verifiable consumer request to us using one of the following methods:
Emailing us at privacy@gfashion.com.
RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
Deny you goods or services.
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time. We do not currently provide financial incentives.
RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THE SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties.
To exercise rights described above, you may submit a verifiable consumer request to us using one of the following methods:
Emailing us at privacy@gfashion.com.
VERIFICATION OF REQUESTS
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
SHINE THE LIGHT REQUEST
California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits residents of California to request a notice disclosing: (1) the categories of personal information we have shared with third parties, if any, for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, during the preceding calendar year, and (2) the names and addresses of those third parties. To make such a request, please contact us at: privacy@gfashion.com
RESIDENTS OF NEVADA: YOUR CHOICES.
If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of covered data, as defined under the NPICICA. To submit an opt-out request, contact privacy@gfashion.com.
INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: YOUR CHOICES
If you are a resident of the European Union or provide personal information through this Website or the Apps while located in the European Union, we offer you certain choices in connection with the personal information we collect from you on this Website or the Apps.
Users in the European Union may request, in writing:
to be provided with a copy of your personal data held by us;
the rectification or erasure of your personal data held by us;
that we cease processing your personal data;
that we restrict the processing of your personal data (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example);
that your personal data be transferred to you or a third party.
Consistent with our legal obligations, if any, we will comply with your requests. Our legal obligations to cease or restricting processing of, or erase your personal data may be limited to the extent that there is an ongoing legitimate business purpose for our continued use of your personal data.
We may use your data for marketing purposes or disclose your information to any third party for such purposes with your consent, that you may provide by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You may object to receiving further marketing at any time without detriment. We will inform you prior to collecting or using your personal information for any purpose not set forth in this Privacy Policy or previously consented to.
To update your preferences and consents, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists or submit a request, please contact us at privacy@gfashion.com. By using the Website or the Apps to provide Us with personal information or data you acknowledge that We will process the data pursuant to your request for which you provided the information.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and personal information will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Apps, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website or Apps like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website or App. We cannot be responsible for unauthorized access to accounts gained through use of user names and passwords obtained from the authorized user. If you suspect that your password has been compromised, you must contact us immediately, and in no event more than twenty-four (24) hours following your discovery of such incident.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through the Website or Apps. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or Apps.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO OTHER COUNTRIES
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which you originally provided it, including transferring it outside of the U.S. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you provided the information. When we transfer your information to recipients in other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Notice and will comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information to recipients in countries other than the one in which you provided the information.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy@gfashion.com.
Last Updated: October 15, 2020