October 22, 2005
At GunMonster we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies
to all of the products and services offered by GunMonster.com.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact
us through our website or write to us at GunMonster.com, PO Box 214,
Pulaski, New York 13142.
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of activities that do not require you to register for
an account or provide any personal information to us, such as browsing
or searching for items. In order to provide our full range of services,
we may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide
When you sign up for a GunMonster Account, service or promotion that requires
registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name,
email address and an account password). For certain services, such as
our selling accounts, we also request credit card or other payment account
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We
may combine the information you submit under your account with information
from other GunMonster services or third parties in order to provide you
with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. This
combining of information does not include sharing or selling of it to
third parties.
GunMonster cookies
When you visit GunMonster, we send one or more cookies (a small file containing
a string of characters) to your computer that uniquely identifies your
browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing
user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. However, some GunMonster features and services may not function
properly if your cookies are disabled.
Log information
When you use GunMonster services, our servers automatically record information
that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs
may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address,
browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and
one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications
When you send email or other communication to GunMonster, we may retain
those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
Affiliated sites
We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal
information that you provide to those sites may be sent to GunMonster
in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance
with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices
and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
Links
GunMonster may present links in a format that enables us to keep track
of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to
improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
Other sites
This Privacy Policy does not apply to other web sites and services that
are owned and operated by our parent company, Sporting Conversions Inc.
We do not exercise control over sites that display search results relating
to GunMonster. These other sites may place their own cookies or other
files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from
you.
GunMonster only processes personal information for the purposes described
in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services.
In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the display
of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and
improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration,
we ask you to provide personal information. We will not use this information
in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected unless
specific prior consent is granted. You can decline to submit personal
information to any of our services, in which case GunMonster may not be
able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
GunMonster does not share personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of GunMonster except in the following limited circumstances:
- Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request
- Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential
violations thereof
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or
- Protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of
GunMonster, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If GunMonster becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form
of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular
term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about
the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing
practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures
to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal
data.
We restrict access to personal information to GunMonster employees, contractors
and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop
or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and
criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
GunMonster processes personal information only for the purposes for which
it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage
and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process
the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We
take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process
is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update
or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use GunMonster services, we make good faith efforts to provide
you with access to your personal information and either to correct this
data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it
is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business
purposes.
We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested
to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests,
and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive
or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the
privacy of others, would be extremely impractical, or for which access
is not otherwise required.
Enforcement
GunMonster regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please
feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
GunMonster's treatment of personal information by contacting us through
our website or at GunMonster.com, PO Box 214, Pulaski, New York 13142.
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is GunMonster's
policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We
will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent,
and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post
any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we
will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services,
email notification of Policy changes).
Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page
by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy
Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please
feel free to contact us any time through
our website or at GunMonster.com, PO Box 214, Pulaski, New York 13142.
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