Effective: June 20, 2018
Last revised: July 1, 2024
SERVICES SUMMARY
Great American Publishing dba Great American Media Services (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”, including our subsidiaries) is multimedia business-to-business publisher that helps connect buyers and manufacturers across various platforms, including online, in person, and via social media and an event company serving the retail, sports, agriculture, and horticulture industries.
We collect personal information you choose to share with us and our partners for a number of reasons, the primary ones of which are so we can provide you with a more customized experience and so we can determine products and services that you might be interested in and bring those to your attention.
This Privacy Policy supplements our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy. All provisions of our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy likewise apply to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Agreement”). By continuing to use our Services, you are expressly consenting to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We know our users care how their information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and disclose Information when you use any of our Services, including but not limited to:
– www.fruitgrowersnews.com
– www.vegetablegrowersnews.com
– www.spudman.com
– www.produceprocessing.net
– www.nationalnutgrower.com
– www.organicgrower.info
– www.gpnmag.com
– www.lgrmag.com
– www.giftshopmag.com
– www.stationerytrends.com
– www.coachad.com
– www.training-conditioning.com
– www.tacticaltrainingandconditioning.com
– www.gpnmag.media
– www.lgrmag.media
– www.fruitgrowersnews.media
– www.vegetablegrowersnews.media
– www.spudman.media
– www.produceprocessing.media
– www.nationalnutgrower.media
– www.organicgrower.media
– www.stationerytrends.media
– www.giftshopmag.media
– www.coachad.media
– www.tacticaltrainingandconditioning.media
– www.training-conditioning.media
By visiting or using the Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Agreement.
You must be 18 or older to use our Services. Minors under 18 and at least 13 years of age are only permitted to use our Services through an account owned by a parent or legal guardian with their appropriate permission and under their direct supervision. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Service.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Services. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
By visiting or using the Services, you will be providing us or allowing us to collect Information and also personally consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information You Provide to Us
You don’t have to create an account to use some of our Services. However, by visiting or using the Services or by attending one of our events, we may collect a variety of information from you for that Service based on what you provide to us, such as: name, birth date or age range, gender, and email or physical address. If you are paying for the Service, standard payment and billing information is required. We do not require users to provide their race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual orientation or criminal record in their account. Please do not post or add personal data to your account that you would not want to be publicly available.
Depending on which Services you choose to use, additional information may be collected and stored, if necessary in order for us to provide a particular Service. Such information includes:
(i) biographical and professional information, association affiliation, demographic data, and financial information;
(ii) information responsive to polls or surveys, disclosed in applications for employment, or requested in order to provide information about our business, employment, products or services;
(iii) transactional information based on your activities on the Website;
(iv) shipping, ordering, billing and other similar information you provide to purchase or ship an item or service;
(v) community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through the Website, and correspondence sent to us;
(vi) computer sign-on data, time and date data, statistics on page views, your IP address, your GPS location, the type of computing environment you use, and traffic to and from the Website (including data about you whenever you interact with the Website, such as when you search, click on links, send messages, make comments, replies or queries, and select best replies);
(vii) other technical information or data collected from Website traffic, including IP address and standard web log information and information gathered from cookies, beacons and other mechanisms;
(viii) supplemental or additional information we may request from you in the event previous information you’ve provided cannot be verified;
(ix) your content and any other information that you choose to make available via the Website or that other users of the Website share about you;
(x) information about what publication(s) you subscribe to or otherwise have requested to receive;
(xi) information that you opened or otherwise interacted with an email and what email you opened or otherwise interacted with; and
(xii) other information that you voluntarily provide to us.
Information Collected Automatically By Us
Whenever you interact with our Service, we automatically receive and record technical information such as your device, IP address, “cookie” information (as described in our Cookie Policy), the version of your operating system (“OS”), and the page you requested. When you use the Service on a mobile platform, we may also collect and record your unique device ID (persistent / non-persistent), hardware type, media access control (“MAC”) address, international mobile equipment identity (“IMEI”), your device name, and your location (based on your IP address). We may also collect information regarding your activity on the Service (both individually and on an aggregate basis) and your interactions with other users of the Service.
Information from Third Parties and Advertisers
We work with third party advertisers, networks, and service providers who assist us in managing or providing the Service (e.g., payment processors) and who collect some of the information described above. These third parties also help us understand how users interact with our content or offerings. We may also collect contextual or demographic data about our users from third parties, in order to more effectively deliver the Service or content in which we think you would be interested. Unless you have been notified otherwise, all information collected through our authorized third party service providers remains governed by security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Using Other Sites to Login to our Websites or Services
Some users may choose to connect to our Websites or Services using third-party account credentials (for example, your Facebook login or YouTube account). If you choose to connect your account using a third-party account, you understand some of your Information may be shared with us or the respective third-party platform. Your information may also be subject to separate policies of such third-party platform. You should review those policies before providing consent. Connecting your account to third-party applications or services is optional. You can revoke this permission anytime in your account settings.
Advertisements
Some of our Services allow advertisers and their networks to collect and use certain anonymous Information about you (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) in order to provide advertisements of interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixel tags, or other device identifiers) to store login information and recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off, and across different Services and devices. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools.
Other
Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we use your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
How we use your Information will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. The primary reason we collect Information is to provide and improve our Services, to allow us to work with our partners who contract with us to provide marketing services for their products and services, and to provide you with a more customized experience on our Services.
The following is a summary of more specific ways we may use your personal information:
We also use Information as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, permitted by law, or as we may notify you.
4.1 Sharing by you
Certain Services offered are social by their very nature, so your participation in such a Service will allow others to see your name and/or username, profile picture, social profile, and any other content you upload or disclose through that profile.
4.2 Sharing by us
We share your Information with third parties as listed below and as otherwise described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy:
Partners / Sponsors
One aspect of our business is to provide our partners / sponsors information about individuals who might be interested in their products, services or events so they can market directly to those individuals. If you wish to receive a white paper or research report, you will enter Information in order to receive those papers or reports. Similarly, if you register to attend an event, whether it be on-line or in person, you will enter Information in order to attend that event. We share that Information with our partners / sponsors who are offering those events, white papers and/or research reports so our partner / sponsor, or us on our partner’s / sponsor’s behalf, may reach out to you about your interest in the partner’s / sponsor’s products, services or events or related products, services or events. We also sell or rent information about the magazines/publications you subscribe, receive, request, or have otherwise indicated to us an interest to third-party entities, including advertisers, for marketing purposes so that they can market items, events, or other things that they believe might be of interest to you based on your subscription, magazine event preferences. Unless we tell you differently or you consent otherwise, our partners / sponsors do not have any right to use your Information beyond what is necessary to market services, products or events to you. Any uses of your Information by our partners / sponsors will remain governed by security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Service Providers
We employ and allow third parties to perform tasks on our behalf, such as payment processing, data management and analytics, marketing, advertising, communication and IT services, and we need to share your Information with them in order for them to provide such products and services. Unless we tell you differently or you consent otherwise, these third parties do not have any right to use your Information beyond what is necessary to assist us in providing such products and services. Any uses of your Information by these third parties will remain governed by security and confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Company Affiliates
Subject to applicable laws, we may share your Information with companies with whom the Company is affiliated or related to (e.g., parent company or subsidiaries), and will require such affiliated or related companies to use the Information solely in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Business Transfers
We may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer Information is typically one of the business assets that would be transferred. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired or merged, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Information would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.
Protection of Company and Others
We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any Information that we reasonably believe is necessary to comply with law or court order; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, interests, or safety of our Company, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Aggregated and Anonymized Information
We also may share (within our affiliated entities or with third parties) aggregated or anonymized information that does not explicitly identify you or any individual user of our Services. From time to time, the Company may provide demographic and statistical information to prospective partners for the purposes of securing advertising and/or for general promotion of the Service. This disclosure will not share any personal information of individual users but is intended to give a broad overview of the Service’s membership.
The security of your Information is important to us. We take commercially reasonable security measures, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect your Information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Information by selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism appropriately. To help protect your Information, you should not share your account information or password, reuse your password on other sites, or use a password you have used on other sites.
We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other Information we hold in our records, but we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
In order to provide the Service, the Information that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside of your country and the European Economic Area (“EEA”), and, in particular, the United States. It may also be processed by any service providers appointed by us who operate outside of the EEA and their staff. By submitting your Information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing outside of the EEA or your country and acknowledge that not all countries guarantee the same level of protection for your Information as the one in which you reside. Data transferred will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
We will only collect and process Information about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent); via contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g. to deliver the Services you have requested)); to protect vital interest; and when we have “legitimate interests”, which includes direct marketing.
Where we process Information based on consent you may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal.
Where we rely on contract, we will ask that you agree to the processing of personal data that is necessary for entering into or performance of your contract with us. We provide a voluntary service; you can choose whether or not you want to use the Services. However, if you want to use the Services, you need to agree to our Terms of Use, which set out the contract between the Company and you. As we operate in countries worldwide (including the US) and use technical infrastructure in the US to deliver the Services to you, in accordance with the contract between us, we may need to transfer your Information to the US and to other jurisdictions as necessary to provide the Services.
Where we rely on legitimate interests as a basis for Information processing, you have the right to object. We may process your Information, including personal data, for the purposes of our legitimate interests or for the legitimate interests of third parties including our partners, provided that such processing shall not outweigh your rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal Information to:
If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your Information, please contact our legal department at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
8.1 Right to Access and Control Your Information
We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your Information.
Individuals located in certain states and countries, including California, Nevada, Texas, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area, have certain rights related to their personal Information. Please see the relevant sections below regarding these rights.
8.2 What Choices You Have
You can always opt not to disclose Information or to disable certain tools on your browser or device. However, this may limit your ability to fully utilize the Service.
You may be able to add, update, or delete Information as explained above. When you update Information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised Information in our records. Please note that some Information may remain in our records for legitimate business reasons even after your deletion of such Information, such as our analyzing aggregated data regarding past usage of the Service (but not in a manner that would identify you personally). Additionally, through Google’s security settings page, you may revoke consent to the use of API Data related to you that was accessed or stored by the Service pursuant to such consent. Company shall delete all such API Data no later than thirty (30) calendar days following such revocation.
If you don’t want to receive e-mail or other communications from us, you can adjust your email preferences from your account, or opt-out by clicking on the link provided in the emails.
To learn more about choices regarding cookies set through the Service, see our Cookie Policy.
8.3 Right to Opt Out of Certain Communications
We may contact you via tele-call, email, text/SMS, or other forms of communication for transactions purposes, such as to confirm your subscription, provide details about your order/subscription, regarding change of information, delivery/shipping, allow for renewal, cancelations, etc. You may receive such communication when you become a customer or otherwise create an account with us. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy you give us explicit permission to do so. Irrespective of the fact if you have also registered yourself under DND or DNC or NCPR service, you still authorize us to give you a call for the above-mentioned purposes. Marketing opt-out requests will only remove you from our list and the list of any service provider performing services on our behalf, not from the list of any third party.
You may be able to opt-out of receiving certain email communications from us or sent on our behalf by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any email communication from us or by emailing us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
Please note that with Text/SMS communications, standard text messaging rates may apply. You may opt-out or otherwise stop receiving text/SMS communications from us by texting back “Stop” or “Opt-Out” to any message received or by emailing us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
We generally retain your Information as long as reasonably necessary to provide you the Services or to comply with applicable law. However, even after you deactivate your account, we can retain copies of Information about you and any transactions or Services in which you may have participated for a period of time that is consistent with applicable law, applicable statute of limitations or as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, to detect or prevent fraud, to collect fees owed, to resolve disputes, to address problems with our Services, to assist with investigations, to enforce our Terms of Use or other applicable agreements or policies, or to take any other actions consistent with applicable law.
Information you have shared with others (e.g. through comments or other posts) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own account, and we do not control data that other users copied out of our Services.
We may modify this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use and our Cookie Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through the Service, the Website, via email or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes, you may close your account or discontinue use of the Services. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Policy, please send us a detailed message at the address below, and we will try to resolve your concerns.
Email: admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
This section provides additional disclosures to California, Nevada, and Texas residents under their respective state privacy laws, including further information on their rights under such laws.
In this section, when we use the term “personal information” we mean it (or similar term, such as “personal data”) as it is defined under those laws.
Verification. We’ll need enough detail to understand and respond to your request. We may need to verify your identity to process your requests and may also need to confirm your state residency. To verify your identity, we may require a combination of government identification, or other information. We may also require you to login from a verified valid device or verify that the device you’re logging in from is valid.
Authorized Agents. You can have an authorized agent make a request on your behalf, but we’ll need to verify your agent’s identity. We would also need a copy of a valid power of attorney, or a written and signed permission to exercise your privacy rights on your behalf. We may still need to verify your identity and may ask you to directly confirm that you provided your authorized agent permission to submit the request on your behalf.
Sensitive Information. We do not process “sensitive personal information” (or similar term, such as “sensitive data”).
Profiling. We do not undertake any “profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects” on our creators.
Retention. The duration of how long we retain personal information is generally based on how long we need it for the purposes for which it was collected, which includes complying with our legal obligations.
Your Privacy Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information under the state consumer privacy laws listed above, subject to certain exceptions under such applicable law. Here, we provide a summary of your rights relating to personal information and how to exercise them. You are entitled to exercise these rights free from discrimination.
Opting out of “sales,” “sharing,” and processing for “targeted advertising” purposes.
Like many companies, we work with advertising partners and intermediaries (e.g., ad networks, retargeters, sell-side or demand-side platforms, ad servers, clean rooms, identity resolution providers, measurement providers, publishers such as social media platforms or digital/print content providers, advertisers, agencies) to help deliver targeted ads to you on our Website or other properties based on your activity across unrelated properties (e.g., your activity on our Website and social media networks or other digital properties) and to measure the effectiveness of such ads.
Through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies, we make personal information (e.g., device data tied to online activity data, identity data such as email addresses or phone numbers) available to such partners or intermediaries for such purposes. We may also upload information (e.g., email address, phone number) about our creators to these partners or intermediaries to facilitate such purposes. In either case, under certain state consumer privacy laws, these disclosures of personal information may be considered a “sale” or “share” (or processing for “targeted advertising” more generally) unless certain exceptions apply (e.g., disclosing personal information to a “service provider” or “processor,” where applicable).
If we know that you’re 13-15 years of age, we won’t “sell” or “share” your information unless we get your consent to do so.
Opting out of “Sales,” “Shares,” and “Targeted Advertising” Involving Cookies or Other Tracking Technologies
To opt-out of “sales/shares” or processing for “targeted advertising” that do not rely on third-party advertising partners or intermediaries’ tracking technologies on our Website (e.g., upload of users’ email addresses to other social media platforms to target them with ads), you must also opt out by following the instructions in the Exercise Your Privacy Rights section below.
Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To exercise any of your data subject rights, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com subject line “Exercise of U.S. Data Privacy Rights” and provide us information about how we might be able to locate you in our records/system to effect your request and also identify the data subject rights you wish to exercise. You may also contact us at 1-877-323-4290.
We will respond to your request without undue delay, and, in any event, within 45 days of the request, unless less time is required by law. That period may be extended by 45 days (for a total of 90 days) where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests we receive. If we take an extension, we shall inform you within one month of our receipt of the original request, together with the reasons for delay. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response electronically. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data disclosure requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request and, to the extent necessary, to identify the browser/device that is the subject of the request.
There may be a number of reasons for denying your request, including that we may not be a covered business under the data privacy law that may apply to you.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
| CCPA category of Personal Information (PI) | Examples of PI we collect in this category | Source of PI | Business and commercial purposes for collection | Categories of recipients to whom we “Disclose” PI for a business purpose | Categories of third parties to whom we sell or share PI for interest-based advertising |
| Identifiers | Account data, profile data, data about others, our communications with you, identifiers, data about others | You or Third party sources | Delivering our Services, Communication with you, Improving our Services, Marketing, and Compliance and protection
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Affiliates, Service Providers, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees | N/A
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| California Customer Records (as defined in California Civil Code section 1798.80) | Account data, profile data, our communications with you, feedback, payment and transactional data, your content, data about others | You | Delivering our Services, Communication with you, Improving our Services, Marketing, and Compliance and protection
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Service Providers, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees
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N/A |
| Commercial Information | Payment and transactional data, order information, shipping information, billing information, marketing data, feedback, online activity data | You or Automatic collection | Delivering our Services, Communication with you, Improving our Services, Marketing, and Compliance and protection
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Service Providers, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees
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N/A |
| Online Identifiers | Profile data, device data | You or Automatic collection | Delivering our Services, Research and development, Marketing, and Compliance and protection | Service Providers, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, Business transferees | N/A |
| Internet or Network Information | Marketing data, device data, and online activity | You or Automatic collection | Delivering our Services, Research and development, Marketing, and Compliance and protection | Service Providers, Professional advisors, Authorities and others, and Business transferees | N/A |
| Inferences | We do not use information for this purpose | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Protected Classification Characteristics | We do not intentionally collect this information. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Sensory Information | We do not intentionally collect this information. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Sensitive Personal Information | We do not intentionally collect this information. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Note: You might voluntarily provide additional information to us, which may contain other categories of personal information not mentioned in this table. | |||||
If you are located in the United Kingdom or European Economic Area or are otherwise afforded the protections of the GDPR and UK GDPR please click here regarding your rights and other information under the GDPR.
Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Web browser “do not track” settings or signals. As described in our Cookie Policy, we deploy cookies and other technologies on our Service to collect information about you and your browsing activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.
To protect your privacy related to which videos you may choose to view on our Website, we will not disclose your video viewing information to third parties except as required or permitted by the Video Privacy Protection Act, which includes:
It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you, (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (4) protect the security or integrity of our Service (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of the Company, our users, personnel, or others. We attempt to notify users about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com