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Last modified: 1/1/2025
1. Introduction
Gear Box (“Company” or “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (our “Privacy Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit www.gearboxsports.com (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
· on our Website; and
· in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
· us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third-party;
· us or any of our affiliates or subsidiaries related to your or any other individual’s employment or potential employment with us; or
· any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2. Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information directly from a child under 18, please contact us at info@gearboxsports.com.
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Throughout this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device. However, Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated information.
Generally
We collect Personal Data from various sources, including:
· directly from you when you provide it to us; and
· automatically as you navigate through the Website.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect the following types of Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Website: real name, postal address, email address, telephone number, account name, credit or debit card number, age, gender, veteran or military status, records of goods and services purchased, obtained, or considered to be purchased or obtained, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. In addition, we also collect other types of information that you may provide when you fill out a form or through your correspondence with us.
The Personal Data we collect on or through our Website include:
· information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us and when you report a problem with our Website;
· records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
· your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes;
· details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website; and
· your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website 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, 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. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Personal Data about your interaction with our Website, including information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns:
· details of your visits to our Website. This includes: browsing history, search history, traffic data, location data, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit to our Website, error information, clickstream data, and other communication data and the resources that you access, use, or otherwise interact with on the Website;
· your physical location and movements;
· other information necessary to provide us with our products and services; and
· information about your computer and internet connection, i.e., your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Data, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:
· estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
· store information about your preferences;
· customize our Website according to your individual interests;
· speed up your searches; and
· 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. Our Website may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on 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. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://youronlinechoices.eu.
· Session Cookies. Our use of cookies also includes “session cookies.” Each time you access the Website, a session cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier is placed on your browser. These session cookies allow us to uniquely identify you when you use the Website and track which pages of the Website you access. Session cookies are required to use the Website.
· Web Beacons. Pages of our 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 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).
4. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:
· to provide and personalize our Website and its content to you;
· to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
· to support, develop, troubleshoot, and debug our Website, products, and services;
· to create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us;
· to process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud;
· to provide you with notices about your account;
· to provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
· to personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law);
· to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business;
· for internal testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, and to develop, improve, or demonstrate our products and services;
· detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
· debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
· 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 or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
· to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website;
· in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
· to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
· for any other purpose with your consent.
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 Data 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.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Policy. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or 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. These entities provide IT and infrastructure support services, and payment processing services. Our payment processor’s privacy policy may be found at https://usa.visa.com/legal/global-privacy-notice.html;
· to a potential or actual buyer or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Company about our Website’s users is among the assets transferred;
· to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
· for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
· with your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Data:
· 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; and
· if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others.
6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We do not control the collection and use of your information collected by third parties described above in Disclosure of Your Information. When possible, these organizations are under contractual obligations to use this data only for providing the services to us and to maintain this information strictly confidential. These third parties may, however, aggregate the information they collect with information from their other customers for their own purposes.
In addition, we strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your Personal Data:
· Promotional Offers from Company. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our own products and services, you can opt-out by checking ] the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your Personal Data or otherwise seek such consent. If you wish to change your choice, you may do so at any time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to info@gearboxsports.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may click the unsubscribe link in the body of that email to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
· Targeted Advertising. We will only use information that we collect or you provide to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences with your express consent. If you wish to consent to such use, you can check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your Personal Data or otherwise seek such consent. If you wish to change your choice, you may do so at any time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to info@gearboxsports.com.
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. You can learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info).
7. Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Data
We cannot delete your Personal Data 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, 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.
8. Do Not Track Signals
We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.
9. Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, but 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, 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. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures deployed on the Website.
10. Consent to Processing of Personal Data in the United States
In order to provide our Website, products, and services to you, we may send and store your Personal Data outside of the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide an equivalent level of protection for your Personal Data. Your Personal Data may be processed and stored in the United States and federal, state, and local governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies in the United States may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through the laws of the United States.
Your Personal Data is transferred by Company to another country only if it is required or permitted under applicable data protection law and provided that there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your Personal Data.
11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page, and to notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website’s home page. The date this 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.
YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR WEBSITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO SUCH CHANGES.
12. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy or the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact” page on our Website.
Gear Box
PO Box 9192
San Diego, CA 92169
(877)443-2726
info@gearboxsports.com
