GICDirect.com Privacy Policy

GICdirect.com will never share information about you without your permission.

GICdirect.com believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. To this end, unless you designate otherwise, the information you enter here will be known to only two parties: you and GICdirect.com.

We pledge that GICdirect.com will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent - period.

You may change the status of whether you wish to receive GICdirect.com offers and communications at any time.

When we do present information to our advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise, it is in the form of aggregate statistics compiled among all of our visitors' answers to survey questions as well as grouped on-site behavior.

1. What information does GICdirect.com gather/track and how is it used?

Use of traffic data
Each time a visitor comes to a GICdirect.com Web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. At GICdirect.com sites, we collect the visitor's domain name (e.g., whether the user is logged on from sympatico.ca or rogers.ca), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a GICdirect.com Web site), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

GICdirect.com's web site also logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes. IP addresses are logged to track a user's session. This gives GICdirect.com an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a users session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous.

Use of Cookies
GICdirect.com does not use "cookies" in the delivery of our web site.

Use of email addresses collected from GICdirect.com newsletter subscriptions
After signing up to receive a GICdirect.com newsletter by email, users will start receiving a GICdirect.com content newsletter delivered on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, as well as occasional product-related announcements. On GICdirect.com Web sites that offer newsletters, we collect subscribers' email addresses in order to distribute those newsletters and product-related announcements.

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2. With whom does GICdirect.com share the information it gathers/tracks?

Demographic Information
When we do present information to our advertisers, it is in the form of grouped statistics compiled from all our participating users' answers to survey questions and on-site behavior. GICdirect.com will not disclose the contact or demographic information of any individual user to advertisers or any other outside organization.

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3. What is GICdirect.com's unsubscribe and data-removal policy?

Unsubscribing from Promotional Announcements
If you are a member of GICdirect.com and would like to change your communications status so as not to receive any email updates or email marketing communications you may unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions found at the bottom of each email communication.

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4. What is GICdirect.com's policy on deleting or deactivating my name from its database?

If you are a member of GICdirect.com you can ask to be deleted from all mailing lists by emailing us at info@gicdirect.com, or by calling us at (250) 592-7707.

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5. Who can I ask if I have any additional questions?

You can direct all questions regarding customer support to info@gicdirect.com, or by calling us at (250) 592-7707.

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