By accessing or using the Gouda Inc. Web site, you agree to
the terms of the Gouda Inc. Online Privacy Policy, as outlined
below. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access
or use this site. Gouda Inc. reserves the right to change the
Online Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole and
unfettered discretion. Your use of this Site will be subject to
the most current version of the Online Privacy Policy at the
time of such use.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
When you engage in certain activities on this site, such as
ordering or registering products, downloading software, and the
like, Gouda Inc. may ask you to provide certain information
about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It
is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If
you elect to engage in these activities, however, Gouda Inc. may
ask that you provide us personal information, such as your first
and last name, mailing address (including zip code), e-mail
address, employer, job title and department, telephone and
facsimile numbers, and other personal identifying information.
When ordering products or services on the site, you may be asked
to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity,
some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified
as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the
mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will
not be able to engage in that activity.
When you submit personal information to Gouda Inc. on this site,
you understand and agree that this information may be
transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and
processed in any of the countries in which Gouda Inc. and its
affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including without
limitation, the United States, Canada, Panama and India. You
also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to
certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage and
processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted
vendors of Gouda Inc..
Gouda Inc. will not knowingly disclose your personal information
to third parties without your consent. Gouda Inc. may disclose
user information in special cases when we have reason to believe
that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally) Gouda Inc. rights or property, Gouda Inc. web
site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such
activities. Gouda Inc. may disclose user information when we
believe in good faith that the law requires it.
Gouda Inc. may share aggregate information about our Web site
users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other
third parties. For example, we will say www.goudagroup.com's
audience is x percent female and y percent male. This data is
used to customize the Gouda Inc. Web site content and
advertising to deliver a better experience for our users.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION:
The personal information that you provide in connection with
registering yourself as an Gouda Inc. user or registering an
Gouda Inc. product is classified as Registration Information.
Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by
you to your Registration Information may be available through a
password and unique customer username. This password is
encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to
anyone. In addition, your Registration Information resides on a
secure server that only selected Gouda Inc. personnel and
contractors have access to via password. Gouda Inc. encrypts
your personal information and thereby prevents unauthorized
parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to
Gouda Inc..
Personal information that you provide that is not Registration
Information also resides on a secure server and is only
accessible via password. Since this information is not
accessible from outside Gouda Inc., you will not be asked to
select a password in order to view or modify such information.
Please note that any information you post to a public bulletin
board or guestbook is available to all persons accessing that
site.
OPTING OUT:
Information provided at the time of Product Purchase, Product
Registration or submission of Contact or Support forms may be
used for marketing and promotional purposes by Gouda Inc., our
affiliates, resellers or companies associated with Gouda Inc..
To keep you in control of your personal information and the
communications directed to you, we allow you to opt out of the
following services: sharing your information in our client list,
receiving communications from Gouda Inc. about new features,
products, services or specials, and receiving communications
about offers from third-party companies that offer a product or
service that we think would be of value to you. If a site
visitor objects to such use for any reason, he or she may stop
that use by e-mail request to info@goudagroup.com.
Information provided when purchasing products from any of our
online stores may be used for marketing and promotional purposes
and is subject to the opt-out processes described on, or linked
to, each form.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES:
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you log onto the Web. Web servers -- the
big computers that "serve up" Web pages -- automatically
identify your computer by its IP address.
Gouda Inc. collects IP addresses for the purposes of system
administration, to report aggregate information to our
advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When site
visitors request pages from the Web site, our servers log the
visitor's IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to
anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's
session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We
can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it
is necessary to enforce compliance with our or Terms of Use or
to protect our service, site, customers, or others.
Please review each service prior to use and only use those that
disclose information you are comfortable with sharing.
USE OF COOKIES:
When you visit www.goudagroup.com, you can surf the site
anonymously and access important information without revealing
your identity. In order to improve our site visitors'
experience, we use "cookies" to track your visit. A cookie is
small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a
Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to
you. It functions as your identification card, recording your
preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set
your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you
the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web
pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional.
Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able
to access those pages.)
While Gouda Inc. uses cookies to track your visit to
www.goudagroup.com, and our Web servers automatically log the
IP/Internet address of your computer, this information does not
identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have
otherwise provided Gouda Inc. with personal information.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the Online Privacy
Policy, you may contact the corporation in writing at the
following address:
Gouda Inc.
7167 Danton Promenade
Mississauga, Ontario L5N 5P3
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