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At GE - Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance protecting your privacy is very
important to us. Our goal is to treat information you furnish us with the utmost
respect, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This GE Privacy Policy is
currently applicable only to our United States customers and visitors to our
website.
Note: This site is not intended for persons under 13 years of age.
Please read on for more details on our practices for handling and securing
your information.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? HOW DO WE USE IT?
1. Anonymous Browsing
2. Information Collection
3. Cookies
4. SHARING OF
INFORMATION AND CHOICE
5. E-MAIL
COMMUNICATION AND ONLINE SURVEYS
6.
HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION SECURED AND PROTECTED?
7. WHAT IF WE
CHANGE OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
8. WEBSITE LINKS
1. Anonymous Browsing
You can visit GE on the World Wide Web
without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself or
your company. In those cases, our web servers collect the name of the domain you
used to access the Internet (such as "aol.com") and the website you came from
and visit next. This information is used by us and our business partners to
measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other
statistics about visitors to our website. We also use this data to monitor site
performance and to make the site easier and more convenient to use.
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2. Information Collection
There are times when we may ask you or
you may choose to provide information about you and your company to assist us in
meeting your various needs, including:
- Providing products or services you have requested;
- Servicing your account;
- Improving our services;
- Developing and/or informing you of additional products or services that we
hope will be of interest to you; or
- Answering questions you may have.
Information collected to provide these products or services may include,
among other things, your name, physical address, zip code, e-mail address, phone
number, and social security number. Also, you may elect to fill out an
information request for one of our products or services, which may require us to
gather additional information to determine your eligibility.
Please note that we do not knowingly solicit information from children and we
do not knowingly market our products or services to children.
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3. Cookies
If you are browsing GE's website, we use a technology called "cookies" to
help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other
statistics relating to our website. If you decide to register online with one of
GE's business units, we may collect additional information to provide tailored
offerings or content to you. In this case, we use "cookies" to recognize you on
subsequent visits and make your online experience more convenient. "Cookies" are
small pieces of data that can be sent to your computer, which then may be stored
by your browser on your computer's hard drive. They cannot be used to get data
from your hard drive, get your e-mail address or personally identifying
information about you. Most web browsers have features that can notify you when
you receive a "cookie" or prevent "cookies" from being sent. Please note,
however, that by not accepting cookies, you will limit the functionality we can
provide you when you visit our site.
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4. SHARING OF INFORMATION AND CHOICE
From time to time, we may share information you provide to us with our
affiliates and other third parties for the purpose of meeting your needs as well
as offering you other products and services that may be of interest to you. You
may contact GE customer service at 1.800.474.2704 to correct or delete
information we have gathered from you. If you do not want GE to share your
information, please contact customer service at the above number to delete your
information. We may also aggregate statistics we gather about our customers,
sales, traffic patterns, and services, and provide these statistics to third
parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personally
identifying information.
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5. E-MAIL COMMUNICATION AND ONLINE SURVEYS
Occasionally, we may send e-mail communications with information, which may
be useful to you, including information about our products and services or about
offerings from affiliates or third parties.
At times, we may conduct
online surveys to better understand the needs, profiles, and experience of our
visitors.
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6. HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION SECURED AND PROTECTED?
GE uses encryption tools to protect your personal information when it is
submitted by use of this site to GE. E-mails you send us are not necessarily
secure when they are transmitted to us. If your communication is very sensitive,
you may want to send it by regular mail instead.
We instruct our
employees with access to your information that it is to be used only in
adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and laws
applicable to GE and its business units. Employees who misuse customer
information may be subject to disciplinary action.
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7. WHAT IF WE CHANGE OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
We reserve the right to
modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any
material change, we will post a notice on our home page with a link to the
updated policy statement. Please read any such notice and the new policy
statement. Your continued use of this site after we post such notice will
constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of
this website and the information disclosed for such use, including information
previously furnished us, as if they were the initial terms.
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8. WEBSITE LINKS
We reserve the right to modify or supplement this
Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any material change, we will
post a notice on our home page with a link to the updated policy statement.
Please read any such notice and the new policy statement. Your continued use of
this site after we post such notice will constitute your acceptance of the new
terms and their application to your use of this website and the information
disclosed for such use, including information previously furnished us, as if
they were the initial terms.
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