Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information. By visiting gocitygirl.com (“the Website”) and providing any personal information to us, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. In formal terms, GO City Girl, 19 Catherine place London SW1E 6DX (“GO City Girl”), acting itself and through its subsidiaries, is the 'data controller' of your personal information. This policy is effective on 1st May 2009.
Collection
We collect, use and share personal information to help the Website work and to keep it safe.
You can decide what personal information you provide to us. We will only collect personal information either that you choose to provide to us and/or that we receive from certain other sources (see below). Where possible, we will enable you to select how we will use this information. You may choose to provide us with personal information if, for example, you: contact us with an enquiry; register on the Website, fill out a survey or other form with your personal information included; request us to provide you with information; enter a competition; post information to public areas of the Website or participate in a promotion.
We may also receive personal information from other sources such as updated delivery and address information from our carriers or third parties, account information from some merchants with which we may operate co-branded businesses, or credit history information from credit agencies.
The type of personal information which we may collect and store includes: email address, physical contact information, and sometimes (depending on the service used) financial information. Some of the information we collect and store is generated automatically and includes the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version; operating system and platform statistics on page views, traffic to and from the Website and ad data. We use “cookies” to obtain some of the information mentioned above - you can take steps to disable the cookies on your browser although this is likely to affect your ability to use the Website.
Use
“Use” includes the disclosure of your personal information to third parties.
We use users' personal information to:
- provide our services;
- resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems;
- encourage safe trading and enforce our policies;
- customize users' experience, measure interest in our services, and inform users about services and updates;
- communicate marketing and promotional offers to you;
- do other things for users as described when we collect the information.
More specifically we use our users’ personal information for the following purposes:
Marketing purposes: We may use information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends amongst our consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our Websites. We may also use your personal information in order to communicate with you about our products and services and those of our subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent companies and any of their related businesses. However, you will be able to choose whether or not to receive such communications when you first provide personal information to us.
Transactional purposes: We may use your personal information in order to respond to your queries and requests and to manage transactions such as credit card payments for any goods that you order from us or any of our agents, or for the fulfilment of such transactions (e.g. delivery). The personal information you provide may be used by an authorised third party service provider employed by us to perform certain functions on our behalf. They may have access to your personal information in order to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the UK's Data Protection Act.
Third party offers: We may arrange for carefully selected organisations to send you marketing and promotional information that may be of interest to you. In such circumstances your personal information may be disclosed to these organisations who will agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will obtain your permission before we send you any such communications.
Public (or Interactive) Areas of the Site: Information that you post on or through the public areas of the Website (e.g., chat rooms, bulletin boards and discussion groups) are generally accessible to, and may be collected and used by, others and may result in unsolicited messages or other contact from others. Users of the Website are encouraged to exercise caution when providing personal information about themselves in public areas of the Website.
Sale and Transfer: In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganisation or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us.
Administration and Data Management: We may transfer your personal information to third parties under confidentiality obligations when the performance of any service in relation to administration and data management is sub-contracted (e.g. the administration of a marketing campaign).
Legal purposes: We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a posting or other content violates other’s rights, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety (for example, if you submit false contact details or impersonate another person, we may pass your personal information to any aggrieved third party, their agent or to any law enforcement agency).
Other than set out above, you will receive notice when personal information about you may go to third parties and you will have an opportunity not to share that information.
Any transfer of personal information to other countries or territories shall be done in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable laws on data protection.
Third party advertisers and links to other Websites
Our Website may include third party advertising and links or references to other websites. We may share non-personal information with others, such as advertisers, in aggregate anonymous form, which means that the information will not contain any personally identifiable information about you.
We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these third party advertisers or websites. However, you may encounter cookies or other technologies from these third parties advertisers and websites on certain pages of the Website that we do not control.
We have no responsibility or liability for any tracking, data collection or other activities of such third parties and our Privacy Policy does not apply to these third parties. We encourage you to contact these third parties directly for more information about their privacy policies.
Using Information from GO City Girl
You may use personal information gathered from the Website only to follow up with another user about a specific posting and not to send spam or collect personal information from someone who hasn't agreed to that.
Communications and email tools
You agree to receive marketing communications from us unless you tell us that you prefer not to receive such communications. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference by following the directions provided with the communication.
You may not use the Website or communication tools to harvest addresses, send spam or otherwise breach our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy. We may automatically scan and manually filter messages sent via our communication tools for malicious activity or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store such messages. If you use our tools to send content to a friend, we don’t permanently store your friends’ addresses or use or disclose them for marketing purposes. To report spam from other users, please contact us at info@gocitygirl.com
Access, Modification, and Deletion
You can see, modify or erase your personal information by reviewing your posting or account status page. Contact us here to review any personal information we store that is not available on the Website. There may be a charge associated with such requests but these will not exceed the amounts permitted by law. We delete personal information when we no longer need it. We retain personal information as permitted by law to resolve disputes and enforce our policies.
How we protect your information
We take security seriously and we take precautions to keep your personal information secure. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. However, due to the open communication nature of the Internet GO City Girl cannot guarantee that communications between you and GO City Girl, or information stored on GO City Girl’s servers, will be free from unauthorised access by third parties. It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Always sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
General
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time and we recommend that you regularly check this page to ensure that you have read the most recent version. If we or our corporate affiliates are involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, but this Policy will continue to apply. If you have any questions about this policy please contact us at info@gocitygirl.com
By providing your personal details to us you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not provide your personal details to us. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Terms and Conditions, which govern your use of the Website in general. You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe whenever we communicate with you. To unsubscribe from the Website, send an email to info@gocitygirl.com with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject box.
Your details and contacting us
You can check what personal information we hold about you, update your information, ask us to remove your information, correct any inaccuracies in such personal information or ask us questions about our Privacy Policy, by contacting us at info@gocitygirl.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request in a timely manner.