| GEELECTRONICSWEB.COM ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT
Please read this Online Privacy Statement ("Statement")
carefully before using GEElectronicsweb.com ("Site").
GE Capital Solutions, Global Electronics Services, Inc. (“GES”)
is the commercial operator of this Site, although software,
hosting and other functions and content may be provided by GES’s
service providers ("Service Providers") or
other companies affiliated with GES ("Affiliates")
or merely in a business relationship with GES ("Business
Partners"). This Site is not directed to or intended
for individuals under 18 years of age.
This Statement describes the types of information GES and its
Affiliates, Business Partners and Service Providers collect
from visitors to the Site, what we do with this information,
and how visitors can update and control the use of information
they provide on the Site. This Statement applies solely to information
that visitors provide through our Site. This Statement does
not apply to other data we collect, including data collected
on other sites, such as separate sites operated by our Affiliates
or Business Partners, or information visitors may provide to
us through e-mail or other means.
At GEElectronicsweb.com, protecting your privacy is very important
to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you furnish
to us through this Site with respect and in accordance with
this Statement. This Statement is applicable only to our United
States visitors.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
You can visit our Site without revealing any personal information
about yourself. You may choose, however, to provide certain
personal information through this Site. If you choose to do
so, we use the information to:
- Providing you with products or services you have requested
- Improving our services
- Developing or informing you about other products or services
To provide these services, we may ask you for information such
as your name, , physical address, zip code, e-mail address,
phone number. You also may elect to request products or services
through our Site, which may require us to gather additional
information to determine your eligibility for such products
or services.
Please note that we do not knowingly solicit information from
children under 18 years of age and we do not knowingly market
our products or services to such children.
Information We Collect by Automated Means
When you visit our Site, our Web servers collect the name of
the domain you used to access the Internet (such as aol.com),
which pages on our Site you visited and when they were visited,
your Internet browser type and platform, the link that brought
you to our Site and any links clicked within our Site. This
information may be used by us, our Service Providers, Affiliates
and Business Partners to measure the number of visits, average
time spent, page views and other statistics about visitors to
our Site. We also use these data to monitor Site performance
and make the Site easier and more convenient to use.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your Internet browser
on your computer's hard drive. If you visit our Site, a cookie
is used to help us measure the number of visits, average time
spent, page views and other statistics relating to our Site.
This cookie by itself does not tell us your e-mail address or
who you are. If you decide to register online or request information,
products or services from us, we may collect additional information
to provide tailored offerings or content to you or to deliver
such products and services. In this case, we use cookies to
allow us to recognize you on subsequent visits, enhance your
online experience and make our provision of products and services
more efficient.
Our cookies are not used to get data from your hard drive or
get your e-mail address. You may set your Internet browser to
notify you when you receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from
being sent. Please note, however, that by not accepting cookies,
you may limit the functionality we can provide you when you
visit our Site and your ability to access certain products and
services we offer.
Some of our Affiliates and Business Partners may use cookies
on our Site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no
access to or control over these cookies once we have given permission
for these third parties to set cookies for advertising. This
Statement covers the use of cookies by GES only and does not
cover the use of cookies by our Affiliates or Business Partners.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
When you provide information to us through our Site, we may
share your information with Service Providers we have retained
to perform services on our behalf. These Service Providers are
not authorized by us to use or disclose the information except
as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with
legal requirements. We also may share your information with
our Affiliates and Business Partners to fulfill your requests,
service your account, improve our services, and develop, inform
you about and offer you other products and services. You hereby
acknowledge and provide your consent to the GES to transfer
and store your personal information across national boundaries
for purposes described in this Statement. We also may disclose
your information (i) if we are required or permitted to do so
by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities,
or (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate
to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection
with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.
We also may aggregate statistics that we gather about our customers,
sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics
to our Service Providers, Affiliates and Business Partners in
aggregate form. These statistics do not contain any personal
information.
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about
you in the event that all or part of GES or all or part of its
assets are acquired by, merged with, sold to, or otherwise disposed
of to one or more third parties (including, without limitation,
in the event of bankruptcy).
YOUR CHOICES
If you submit information to us during your visit to GEElectronicsweb.com,
you can direct us not to share this information with our Business
Partners (except as necessary to fulfill your requests, or as
described in the preceding section) by e-mailing us at electronics@ge.com
(use the subject line "DISCLOSURE OPT-OUT" and include
your name, physical address and e-mail address) or by calling
1-408-980-7700, if you so choose.
If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain
from sharing your personal information (whether collected online
or offline) with our Affiliates (if the Affiliates are separate
legal entities) or Business Partners for their own marketing
purposes. Please tell us your preference by e-mailing us at
electronics@ge.com (use
the subject line "CALIFORNIA DISCLOSURE OPT-OUT" and
include your name, physical address and e-mail address) or by
calling 1-408-980-7700, if you so chose.
E-MAIL COMMUNICATION AND ONLINE SURVEYS
Occasionally, we will send you e-mail communications with information
about our products and services or about offerings from our Affiliates
or Business Partners.We will include instructions in our e-mail
messages on how to unsubscribe if you later decide you do not
want to receive any future marketing communications from us or
from our Affiliates or Business Partners.
At times, we conduct online surveys to better understand the needs,
profiles and experience of our visitors. You will be given the
option of not participating in such surveys.[Is this true??]
ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
If you register on our Site or otherwise provide us with personal
information through the Site you may request that we modify such
information by e-mailing us at electronics@ge.com
(use the subject line "MODIFY PERSONAL DATA" and include
the information you wish to modify) or by calling 1-408-980-7700.
HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
At GEElectronicsweb.com, our goal is to protect your personal
information submitted to us through this Site. We maintain reasonable
administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against
loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or
destruction of the information you provide on our Site. We instruct
our employees with access to your personal information that it
must be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in
this Statement and applicable laws. Employees who misuse customer
information are subject to disciplinary action.
Please note that information you send us electronically is not
necessarily secure when it is transmitted to us. We suggest that
you do not use unsecured electronic methods to communicate with
us if your communication is very sensitive or includes highly
confidential information such as a Social Security Number (“SSN”)
or a credit card number.
OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTORS
This Statement only applies to the use and disclosure of information
we collect from visitors online through this Site. Our Site may
include links to the sites of our Affiliates, Business Partners
or others. The privacy practices or policies of those sites may
be different from ours. Information you disclose to other parties
or through such sites is subject to the privacy practices and
policies of those parties or sites. We are not responsible for
the content, privacy practices or your use of these linked sites.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
This is a United States-based Site that is subject to United
States law. This Site is controlled, operated and administered
by GES from its offices within the United States of America.
This Statement is provided in accordance with and subject to
applicable U.S. law. If you are located outside the United States
and you decide to continue to access this Site from your location
outside the United States, you hereby agree that your use of
this Site is subject to this Statement.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify or supplement this Statement at
any time. If we make any material change to the Statement, we
will update our Site to include such changes. We recommend that
you review this Statement regularly for changes.
Last updated October 2009.
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