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GoShip.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from goship.com (the "Site") owned and operated by GoShip.com (“GoShip.com”, “we”, “our”, “us”). By visiting this website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use or access our site.

Your privacy is very important to all of us at GoShip.com. We have established this privacy policy to explain to you how your personal information is protected, collected, and used. It also describes your choices regarding the use, access, and correction of your personal information. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, phone number, and email address that is not otherwise publicly available.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

-If you choose to list, quote, or match on the Site, we collect information about your activity and behavior

-If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

Details of personal information we collect:

  • Company Name
  • Job Title
  • Contact Phone Numbers
  • First and Last Names
  • Email Address
  • Phone number
  • Fax number
  • Other personal information as necessary

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

  • Communicate with you;
  • Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
  • When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services;
  • Marketing efforts;
  • We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns); and
  • We may use third-party advertising companies and/or media partners to serve ads on our Website and/or on the sites on which we advertise. Please note that these companies may use Usage Information about your visit to the applicable site in accordance with the policies on the site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. In addition, we may use web beacons provided by third-party advertising companies to help manage our online advertising. These web beacons enable us to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this Website to learn which advertisements bring users to our Website. To learn more about third-party advertising companies, cookies, and how to "opt-out" of this type of advertising, please go to http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
  • We use the Device Information for remarketing purposes utilizing Google display advertisements. By using Device Information, Google remarketing will show our ads on other websites you visit. You may opt out of Google’s use of Device Information by visiting http://www.google.com/settings/ads or http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

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INCLUDE OPT-OUT LINKS FROM WHICHEVER SERVICES BEING USED.

COMMON LINKS INCLUDE:

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

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Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

SPECIAL NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL USERS

The Site is hosted in the United States. If you are attempting to access the Website from a physical location within the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that your use of the Website is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Use. To the extent you provide Personal Information through the Website, you are transferring your Personal Information to the United States, and you consent to:

  • such transfer;
  • the application of the laws of the United States and/or the State of Pennsylvania with respect to any dispute arising from or related to the Privacy Policy and/or your use of the Site, other than such rules, regulations, case law, and/or international treaties that would result in the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or the State of Pennsylvania, and;
  • the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Butler County, Pennsylvania, and the federal courts sitting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Any claim or dispute between you and us that arises from your use of the Site or in connection with the Privacy Policy shall be decided exclusively by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

SECURITY PROCEDURES

We take commercially reasonable precautions and have implemented commercially reasonable technical measures to protect against the risks of unauthorized access to, erroneous disclosure of, and unlawful interception of personal information submitted via the website or otherwise collected or possessed by Go-Ship. However, your email transmissions and/or other communications containing personal information may be unlawfully intercepted or accessed by third parties, and/or the website may be subject to hostile network attacks or administrative errors. We do not guarantee the security of any information transmitted over the Internet. Once we receive your personal information, we take

commercially reasonable steps to limit access to your personal information to only those employees and service providers whom we determine need access to the personal information to provide the requested products, services, offers, or opportunities that may be of interest to you. However, even after we receive your personal information, we cannot guarantee that this information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed as a result of a breach of our commercially reasonable efforts or as a result of any other event beyond our reasonable control. Accordingly, we cannot and do not guarantee that your personal information is completely secure and safe from such risks. For the avoidance of doubt, WE expressly disclaim any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, with respect to ensuring, guaranteeing, or otherwise offering any definitive promise of security in connection with your Personal Information or Device Information.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at customer_service@goship.com or by mail using the details provided below:

2000 Westinghouse Drive, Suite 201, Cranberry Twp., PENNSYLVANIA, 16066, United States