PRIVACY POLICY
Effective: June 20, 2018
Last revised: March 1, 2025
SERVICES SUMMARY
Great American Publishing, Inc. dba Great American Media Services (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”, including our subsidiaries) is multimedia business-to-business publisher that helps connect buyers, growers, 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 (the “Services”).
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.
INTRODUCTION TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND SCOPE
Our Privacy Policy details how we collect, use, and disclose the personal and non-personal data we collect from and about you when you access or use our online and/or mobile websites, applications, services, webinars, and software, interactions with us on the phone or in person, or, where permitted by applicable law and in line with this Privacy Policy, that we obtain from publicly available sources, cookies and similar tracking technologies or third-party sources.
Our websites (collectively the “Sites” or “Site” when referring to an individual Company website) covered by this Privacy Policy include the affiliated online and/or mobile websites, applications, services, and software, including but not limited to:
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 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.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
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:
| What we collect | Identifiers/Contact Information: Name, address, email address, phone number, biographical information, and other unique identifiers that identify you as a natural person. This may also include account management data, such as log-in credentials, permissions and associated account actions (such as when your account is created, when you log-in, add information, request a service, and any changes to your account). If provide din the context of seeking employment, to contact you or otherwise conduct interviews. |
| How we collect it | From you directly by providing it to us when signing up to receive our products and services, in communicating with us about our products and services, etc. We also collect contact information when you register to attend webinars and other events. |
| How we use it | We collective, process, and store your contact information. |
| Why we process it | To interact with you, to communicate with you, to create and maintain an account at your direction, to process orders/requests at your request. To help us find products and services relevant to your preferences. To send you marketing and transaction emails/ communications, and to send you reminders. To contact you to verify your identity/account. We share your contact information with third-party affiliate Lightspeed, to allow them to contact you about our Services and products you might be interested. |
| Legal basis | Transactional emails are sent as part of performance of a contract.
At account creation, marketing emails are sent on the basis of the legitimate interest of promoting and improving our services.
We rely on our legitimate interest in detecting and preventing fraudulent activities on our Sites for verification.
Reminders of upcoming interviews and events are consent-based.
Account creation and interviewing are done on the basis of performance of a contract.
In certain markets, we might rely on your consent in order to contact you and provide services related to sponsored campaigns.
Contacting you, including by post are done on the basis of legitimate interest and, in some cases, performance of a contract.
We list points of contact for employers in our legitimate interest to help our applicant-employer communications. |
| What we collect | Account Management Data: Log-in credentials, username, permissions and associated account actions (such as when your account is created, when you log-in, add information, request a service, and any changes to your account). |
| How we collect it | From you directly by providing it to us when signing up to receive our products and services, in communicating with us about our products and services, etc. |
| How we use it | To verify your identity/account, to collect, analyze, process, and store account information data. |
| Why we process it | To interact with you, to communicate with you, to create and maintain an account at your direction, to process orders/requests at your request. |
| Legal basis | Account management data is processed as part of performance of a contract. |
| What we collect | Customer Records: Information like signatures, purchase histories, shipping, ordering, billing and other similar information, which may include information about publications you have purchased, subscribed or otherwise opted/requested to receive. |
| How we collect it | From you in response to your request for our products or Services and from third-party partners that work with us in ensuring our products and Services are properly billed, delivered, or otherwise maintained. |
| How we use it | To process your orders and to monitor and track the delivery and providing of Services to you. To communicate with you about an order, including responding to a complaint. |
| Why we process it | To process your order and address any ancillary or related issues. |
| Legal basis | Customer records are processed as part of performance of a contract. |
| What we collect | Commercial Information: Records of products and services purchased, considered or owned, including pricing information, date of purchase, and products and services purchased or otherwise obtained. This also includes information you provided to us when you interact or otherwise respond to or answer our polls or surveys, or as otherwise provided to communication with you about our products and services. |
| How we collect it | From you in response to your request for our products or Services and from third-party partners that work with us in ensuring our products and Services are properly billed, delivered, or otherwise maintained. |
| How we use it | To process your orders and to monitor and track the delivery and providing of Services to you. To communicate with you about an order, including responding to a complaint. |
| Why we process it | To help us find products and services relevant to your preferences. |
| Legal basis | Commercial information is processed as part of performance of a contract. |
| What we collect | Communication/Discussion Information: Information obtained through community discussion boards, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence, messages sent/received, comments, replies, interactions with or through our Sites. Please note that your relationship with third-party services (such as those from Facebook or Google) or any other third-party website is governed solely by your agreement with third-party operators of those platforms. |
| How we collect it | From you directly as you interact with our Sites and Services and communicate with us. |
| How we use it | We collect, analyze, process, profile, including via automated means, and store your communication/discussion information. |
| Why we process it | To send you relevant marketing emails and to improve our Sites and Services. For data analysis, quality control, enforcement of the Sites’ rules and other Company policies, content moderation, and to improve the Sites or our product or Services, and ensuring you are provided with personally relevant product features and communications, and preventing fraud and spam. |
| Legal basis | We rely on our legitimate interests in providing a valid and relevant service to our users and to continue to improve our products and Services. We provide an opt-out so you can object to marketing messages.
Under the limited circumstances where we call you and where the call is recorded, we may rely on your consent.
Messaging data cannot be malicious, spam, or fraudulent and is monitored as part of performance of a contract.
Depending on the applicable law, we may rely on your consent. |
| What we collect | Internet Activity: Browsing history, search history, online interactions, computer sign-on data, time and date data, statistics on page views, location information, traffic to and from the Sites, search terms, web logs, links clicked, and other technical information or data collected from traffic to/from the Sites. |
| How we collect it | From cookies and similar technologies and third-party tracking mechanisms. |
| How we use it | We collect, analyze, process, and store internet activity data including through automated means, and in some cases recorded in real-time. |
| Why we process it | For fraud prevention and security purposes. To improve our Sites and Services. To help us find products and services relevant to your preferences. |
| Legal basis | We rely on our legitimate interests in understanding how users interact with and use our Sites, and keeping our Sites and Services safe and secure. Internet data is monitored to prevent malicious and fraudulent activity, or Spam on our Services as part of performance of a contract. |
| What we collect | Device Information: 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). |
| How we collect it | From cookies and similar technologies and third-party tracking mechanisms. |
| How we use it | We collect, analyze, process, and store device information including through automated means, and in some cases recorded in real-time. |
| Why we process it | For fraud prevention and security purposes. To improve our Sites and Services. To help us find products and services relevant to your preferences. |
| Legal basis | We rely on our legitimate interests in understanding how users interact with and use our Sites, and keeping our Sites and Services safe and secure. Internet data is monitored to prevent malicious and fraudulent activity, or Spam on our Services as part of performance of a contract. |
| What we collect | Professional/Employment-Related Information and Application Data: Your resume/CV, and other material shared when you apply to a job with the Company, your activity in relation to that application, as well as scheduling of / participating in an interview. |
| How we collect it | From you as you provided it to us. |
| How we use it | We process your application data and, in some cases, store it, including as part of your personnel file or under our legal requirements to retain applicant information. |
| Why we process it | To process and facilitate your application for employment. |
| Legal basis | Performance of a contract as these data are essential to help you find jobs.
We rely on our legitimate interests in providing a valid and relevant service to our users. |
| What we collect | Financial Information: Credit/debit card information and bank account information necessary to process products or services ordered through our Sites. |
| How we collect it | From you directly by providing it to us at the point of purchase and/or allowing us to store it, including for purposes of re-occurring or subscription purchases. |
| How we use it | When you use chargeable services, we collect information to facilitate payment and verify your account. We never store your full card number. |
| Why we process it | To effect payment for a chargeable service.
To facilitate due process and provide information in response to a valid legal process, such as subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims. |
| Legal basis | To comply with our legal obligations with respect to financial reporting and valid legal information requests.
In our legitimate interest to ensure we are in contact with the correct person. |
| What we collect | Demographic Information: Age, race & ethnicity and gender information. |
| How we use it | Under limited circumstances, we collect and process special category data. We only collect and process this data in certain markets where permissible by law. We analyze it for specific purposes in line with applicable data protection regulations.
The provision of this information is entirely voluntary and will not be used in any determination of your job application. |
| Why we process it | To aid in our understanding of who is using the Sites and Services. To help us find products and services relevant to your preferences. For evaluating our algorithmic fairness. To improve products that address employment barriers. |
| Legal basis | We collect this data with your consent. |
Additional Purposes and Disclosures of Information
We perform automated processing of personal information to evaluate specific aspects relating to a user and to analyze and predict a user’s preferences and interests. Where we perform this processing, we do so either on the basis of user consent or performance of a contract, whereby such processing is necessary for us to provide our Services, including those to applicants. Such processing is subject to the safeguards detailed in this Privacy Policy to protect the privacy of our users. You may contact admin@greatamericanpublish.com to exercise your rights or contest any decision generated by said automated processing.
We have contracts with clients whereby we provide our clients your contact information for purposes of them marketing to you.
Site Activity Recording and What We Do With the Data
We collect, record, process, analyze, and store any and all activities you take on the Sites, and any and all interactions and communications you have with, on, or through the Sites. We may also use third parties to collect and process this data on our behalf, in connection with our operations to improve the Sites, protect our users, and optimize our services as described further in this Privacy Policy. This activity data includes: which areas of the Sites you visit (including URLs), which content you view, which information you input, whether and where you click, scroll, hover-over, mouseover, or otherwise interact with or communicate with or through the Sites, the timing of each activity, and time spent on each activity. We collect this data from everyone using the Sites and affiliated sites, including users of private browsing mode, “incognito mode,” or similar modes. We use vendors as an extension of the Sites to collect, record, process, analyze, and store this data.
We process your activity on the Sites to help us better understand how you use them. This helps us improve and inform the products and services we offer. All of which allows us to help you find jobs.
Because it’s critical to how our Sites operate, if you do not want your actions to be collected, recorded, processed, analyzed, or shared in this way, you may need to cease using our Sites.
Other Uses for Your Information
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, to provide you with a more customized experience on our Services, and as identified in the charts above. However, the following is a summary of more specific ways we may use information about you:
We also use Information as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, permitted by law, or as we may notify you.
Using Other Sites to Login to our Sites or Services
Some users may choose to connect to our Sites 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 YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
Sharing by you
Certain Services offered are social by their very nature, so your participation in such Services 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.
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 and Other Third Parties
We use third parties to perform services in connection with our operations, to improve the Sites and our services, products, and features, to protect our users and better understand their needs, and to optimize our services and our users’ experiences, 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.
By using our Sites, you acknowledge our use of such third-parties, including, but not limited to, for the purpose of collecting, processing, analyzing, and recording your activity on, interaction with, and communications with, or through our Sites. This includes: which areas of the Site you visit (including URLs), which content you view, which information you input, whether and where you click, scroll, hover-over, mouseover, or otherwise interact with or communicate with or through the Site, the timing of each activity, and time spent on each activity. Our third parties collect this data from everyone using the Site, including users of private browsing mode, “incognito mode,” or similar modes.
We process your activity on the Sites directly or through third parties to help us better understand how you use them. This helps us improve and inform the products and services we offer. All of which allows us to help you find jobs.
We disclose or otherwise share information to service providers for the following reasons:
| Purpose of Sharing | Explanation of Sharing | Legal Basis |
| Providing personalized experience | To provide relevant features, services, and preferences through your engagement on our Sites | Legitimate interest to provide Services |
| Improve our Services, products, and features | To continuously maintain a high standard of services, products, and features | Legitimate interest to improve our services |
| Protecting users | To prevent or investigate possible fraud or other security and safety violations | Legitimate interest in preventing fraud and security violations |
| Facilitating payments | To check credit, effect payment, and service your account | Performance of a contract |
| As part of the employment application process | Limited personal information such as IP address and event data is shared with the platform from which you download the app to: Facilitate log-in through third-party accounts; provide you with services and attribution of ads; | Legitimate interest to provide services and attribution of ads |
| Storage | Cloud service providers that host and store our data | Performance of a contract |
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 Services. This disclosure will not share any personal information of individual users but is intended to give a broad overview of the Services’ membership.
THE SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
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.
WHERE YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE HELD
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.
LAWFUL BASES FOR PROCESSING
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.
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Right to Access and Control Your Information
We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your Information.
Our privacy practices may vary among the countries in which we operate to reflect local practices and legal requirements, and specific privacy notices apply in certain countries or regions. Please visit specific country or region to learn more about our privacy practices in relation to that country or region.
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.
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.
How Long We Retain your Information
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.
U.S. STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
Some U.S. states have privacy laws providing privacy rights to their residents. These laws include the; Texas Data Privacy Security Act (TDPSA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act, Nebraska Data Privacy Act, New Hampshire Privacy Act, New Jersey Data Protection Act, Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. However, these rights are available to all users located in the U.S.
Your Privacy Rights
While states may provide different rights to their residents and use different termination, we strive to live up to the law, and what you want to do as it pertains to your information. Here is a summary of the rights per state with a summary of what those rights entail directly below.
| Privacy Rights by State | CA[1] | CO[2] | CT[3] | DE[4] | IA[5] | MT[6] | OR[7] | TX[8] | NE[9] | NH[10] | NJ[11] | UT[12] | VA[13] |
| Access and Portability | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Correct Inaccuracies | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | |
| Delete | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Opt Out of Processing for the Purpose of Sale and Targeted Advertising | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑[14] | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Opt out of profiling | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ||
| Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Data | ☑ | ||||||||||||
| Non-Discrimination | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Designate an Authorized Agent | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
Access and Portability
You have the right to access a copy of your personal information, which you can do by following the instructions in the Exercise Your Privacy Rights below.
Correct Inaccuracies
You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we have collected about you. You can do so by submitting following the instructions in the Exercise Your Privacy Rights below.
Delete
You have the right to request deletion of the personal information that we have collected from you, which you can do by following the instructions in the Exercise Your Privacy Rights below. But if we delete your personal information, we might not be able to provide any or all of our Services.
Opt-Out of Process for the Purpose of “Sale” and Targeted Advertising (“Share”)
Under U.S. privacy laws, personal data is “sold” when provided to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, which is a fairly broad term. We share your personal data with third parties for a variety of reasons, including helping our clients optimizing their advertising efforts by finding individuals who may be interested in their specific products. These third parties include our clients, affiliates and/or marketers. While this list is not meant to be exclusive, some activities may fall under the definition of “sell” or targeted advertising (“share” as defined by the CCPA):
In this section, when we use the term “personal information” or “personal data” we mean it (or similar term, such as “personal data”) as it is defined under those laws.
Categories of Personal Data Shared with Third Parties
| Categories of Personal Information | Categories of Third Parties | Business Purpose |
| Identifiers, such as name, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, and email address | – Marketers
– Clients – With Affiliates and Subsidiaries – Service Providers – Government Authorities as Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect our Rights |
– Optimize advertising |
| Commercial information, including products
or Services used |
– Marketers
– Clients – With Affiliates and Subsidiaries – Service Providers
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– Optimize advertising |
| Internet activity, such as site usage data | – Government Authorities as Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect our Rights | – Optimize advertising |
| Geolocation data, including zip code and city, but not precise geolocation data | – Marketers
– Clients – With Affiliates and Subsidiaries – Service Providers – Government Authorities as Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect our Rights |
– Optimize advertising |
For more information about how your information is used, please refer to the WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT section above.
Opt Out of “Selling” or Target Advertising (“Sharing” Under CCPA”)
U.S. privacy laws provide the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of the sale of your personal data and the processing of your personal data for purposes of targeted advertising (“share” under CCPA). As explained above, we share your personal data with marketers and clients for a variety of reasons. This includes being contacted by our clients, one of our affiliates on our behalf. If you wish to opt out of non-affiliate third parties, you can do so by opting-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or by calling us at 1-877-323-4290.
Verification
In order to process a data subject request, we will 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 users.
Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To exercise any of your data subject rights, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com subject line “Exercise My 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.
Appeals
If you are a Colorado resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been a Colorado consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Colorado Privacy Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Colorado Attorney General.
If you are an Iowa resident, if within 90 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been an Iowa consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Iowa Attorney General.
If you are a Delaware resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been a Delaware consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Delaware consumer privacy law. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Department of Justice to subject a complaint via following the link here: https://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/fraud/cmu/complaint/.
If you are a Montana resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been an Iowa consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Montana Consumer Data Protection Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Montana Attorney General.
If you are a New Hampshire Montana resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been an Iowa consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the New Hampshire Consumer Data Protection Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the New Hampshire Attorney General.
If you are a New Jersey resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request, we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been a New Jersey consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the New Jersey Data Protection Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to subject a complaint via following the link here: https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/Pages/Consumer-Complaints.aspx.
If you are an Oregon resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been an Iowa consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Oregon Consumer Data Protection Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Oregon Attorney General.
If you are a Texas resident, if within 45 days of a valid and verifiable data subject request we do not take any action on the request, we will let you know why, which is usually because we cannot verify your identity or we have verified your identity but identified that you are not and have not been an Iowa consumer in the relevant time period and not able to exercise rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. We will provide information about how you may appeal this decision / non-action in that communication. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Texas Attorney General.
Your Shine the Light California Rights (CA Civil Code § 1798.83)
Residents of California who use the Sites primarily for personal, family or household purposes may request a list of third parties to which certain personal information (as defined by applicable California law) obtained through the Site was disclosed by us during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us via email at admin@greatamericanpublish.com. For such requests, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. In your request, you need to attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please note that we will not accept requests via the telephone or by facsimile, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.
GDPR PRIVACY RIGHTS
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.
We commit to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy notice or practices, you should first contact us.
If we fall short of your expectations in processing your personal information or you wish to make a complaint about our privacy practices, please tell us because it gives us an opportunity to fix the problem. To assist us in responding to your request, please give full details of the issue. We attempt to review and respond to all complaints within a reasonable time.
If your complaint cannot be resolved through the above channels, under certain conditions you may invoke binding arbitration for some residual claims not resolved by other redress mechanisms. See https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/G-Arbitration-Procedures-dpf?tabset-35584=2.
In the UK, unresolved complaints can be sent to the Information Commissioner’s Office by calling 0303 123 1113 or by visiting: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.
EU residents have the option of filing complaints directly with their local DPA, which will work with the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and resolve complaints. In the event your complaint is unresolved by all other available mechanisms, you may have the right to invoke binding arbitration before a Privacy Shield Panel, in accordance with procedures designated by the Department of Commerce and the European Commission.
CANADIAN USERS – OPT OUT
If you are a Canadian resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with certain of our affiliates and other third parties for their marketing purposes by contacting us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com subject line “Exercise My 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 fill out and submit this form contact us at 1-877-323-4290.
Canadian residents have the option of filing a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by contacting:
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Place de Ville
112 Kent Street, 3rd floor Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 1H3 Canada 1-800-282-1376
DO NOT TRACK
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.
MOBILE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Our mobile message service (the “Mobile Services”) is operated by us or by a third party on our behalf. Lightspeed may be used to enhance communication efforts with your through text/SMS/MMS messaging, emails, and other forms of digital communication.
If you provide us with your mobile phone number, it must be your own and may not be anyone else’s as, by doing so, you are proving affirmative consent (i.e., opting in) to receive recurring advertising and other text messages from us and on our behalf, including by a via an automatic telephone dialing system to the mobile phone number you provide. Your consent to receiving such messages is not a condition of purchasing any products or Services.
We may modify or cancel the Mobile Service or any of its features without notice. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may also modify these Mobile Terms at any time and your continued use of the Mobile Service following the effective date of any such changes shall constitute your acceptance of such changes.
By consenting to our Mobile Service, you agree to receive recurring SMS/MMS text messages from us and on our behalf through your wireless provider to the mobile number you provided, even if your mobile number is registered on any state or federal Do Not Call list. Text/SMS/MMS messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system or other technology. Mobile Service-related messages may include updates, alerts, and information (e.g., order updates, account alerts, etc.). Promotional messages may include promotions, specials, and other marketing offers (e.g., cart reminders).
You understand that you do not have to sign up for text/SMSMMS in order to make any purchases, and your consent is not a condition of any purchase with us. Your participation in this program is completely voluntary.
We do not charge for the Mobile Service, but you are responsible for all charges and fees associated with text messaging imposed by your wireless provider. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Check your mobile plan and contact your wireless provider for details. You are solely responsible for all charges related to text/SMS/MMS text messages, including charges from your wireless provider.
You may opt-out of the Mobile Service at any time. Text the single keyword command STOP or click the unsubscribe link (where available) in any text message to cancel. You’ll receive a one-time opt-out confirmation text message. No further messages will be sent to your mobile device, unless initiated by you. If you have subscribed to other Tirefax mobile message programs and wish to cancel, except where applicable law requires otherwise, you will need to opt out separately from those programs by following the instructions provided in their respective mobile terms.
We may change any short code or telephone number we use to operate the Mobile Service at any time. You acknowledge that any messages, including any STOP or HELP requests, you send to a short code or telephone number we have changed may not be received and we will not be responsible for honoring requests made in such messages.
The wireless carriers supported by the Mobile Service are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You agree to provide us with a valid mobile number. If you get a new mobile number, you will need to sign up for the program with your new number.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable for failed, delayed, or misdirected delivery of any information sent through the Mobile Service, any errors in such information, and/or any action you may or may not take in reliance on the information or Mobile Service.
CONSENT TO RECEIVE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS
Electronic communication is the most effective and timely way to provide the users of the Sites and Services with any optional or required notifications and disclosures. In some circumstances, however, applicable laws may require us to send you disclosures or communications in paper format unless you have affirmatively consented to receiving electronic notifications only in advance of the notification. Through this Privacy Policy, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 7001, you hereby affirmatively consent to receive electronic notifications and disclosures from us only (without requiring a paper copy) and you represent that, to date, you have not withdrawn such consent. You have the right to change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time. If you would like to withdraw your consent to receive electronic notifications and/or would like to request paper copies of any required notifications you receive electronically, you may contact us. To receive electronic records, you will need access to a smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer with internet access and an email account.
In the event you receive marketing email communications from us and no longer wish to, you can click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any marketing email to opt out of further marketing communications. Please note that this opting out is only effective for marketing communications as we will still communicate with you via email regarding transactional issues, such as to confirm a purchase or to provide you information about a purchase.
COMPLIANCE WITH THE VIDEO PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
To protect your privacy related to which videos you may choose to view on our Sites, we will not disclose your video viewing information to third parties except as required or permitted by the Video Privacy Protection Act, which includes:
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.
LEGAL DISCLOSURES
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.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
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 Sites, 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.
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
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.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
[1] California Consumer Privacy Act
[3] Connecticut Data Privacy Act
[4] Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act
[5] Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act
[6] Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act
[7] Oregon Consumer Privacy Act
[8] Texas Data Privacy And Security Act
[10] New Hampshire Privacy Act
[11] New Jersey Data Protection Act
[12] Utah Consumer Privacy Act
[13] Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
[14] Sale only
We at Great American Publishing dba Great American Media Publishing (“Great American”, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”, including our subsidiaries) believe in being transparent about how we collect and use data. This Cookie Policy provides information about how and when we use cookies for these purposes. Capitalized terms used in this Cookie Policy but not defined have the meaning set forth in our Privacy Policy, which also includes additional details about how we collect and use information.
Visiting or using our Website or Services with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies to provide you with the Services. If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions provided below.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
“Cookies” are text files transferred to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, recognize your browser or device, improve your user experience, customize features and advertising, and provide reporting information about the Services.
You can configure your desktop or mobile browser’s settings to reflect your preference to accept or reject cookies, including how to handle third-party cookies (see How Can I Manage Cookies? below).
You can find out more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
In addition to cookies, there are other similar technologies used by us and elsewhere on the web or in mobile sites or applications. Web beacons, browser storage and plugins and other technologies often work in conjunction with cookies, and may store small amounts of data on your device.
HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
The Services offered by the Company may use cookies and other technologies that work in conjunction with cookies (such as SDKs, pixels, tags, or web beacons) to collect and store the Information we automatically collect about our users’ device and use of the Services. Cookies may be served directly by us to your device (a first party cookie) or may be served by one of our service providers on our behalf (a third party cookie). Cookies can be used to recognize you when you visit our Services, remember your preferences, and give you a more personalized experience. Cookies can also make your interactions with the Services faster and more secure.
While specific types of cookies and technologies may change from time to time as we improve and update the Services, cookies used by the Services generally fall into the categories below:
PARTNER EMAIL CAMPAIGNS
We automatically place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent on behalf of our partners. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us and our users to recognize when the email has been opened, certain links embedded therein clicked on, or the email otherwise engaged. These technologies record each subscribers email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. We use this data to create reports for our users about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.
Product retargeting emails: Our product retargeting emails feature allows our partners to promote new services or items to you. When you click a link within a product retargeting email, a cookie gets placed on your device that allows our partner to attribution rates and browser activity and provide reporting to the partner regarding the success of their product retargeting emails. These third-party vendors, which include Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to our website. To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can I manage cookies?”
HOW CAN I MANAGE COOKIES?
You can choose whether or not to accept cookies and other technologies, as explained below. However, you should be aware that disabling cookies may prevent you from enjoying the full functionality of the Services.
Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. The “Options” or “Preferences” menu of most browsers detail how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Your browser’s settings may also allow you to disable or delete similar technologies and data used by browser add-ons (such as Flash cookies), for instance by changing the add-on’s settings or clearing browser storage. Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below for more information:
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
If you only want to limit third party advertising cookies, you can turn off most of these cookies by visiting the following links (but be aware that not all of the companies listed on these sites drop cookies via our Services):
Network Advertising Initiative
You can also exercise your Website cookie preferences by visiting the TRUSTe preference center by clicking this link: http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Websites though your access to some functionality and areas of our Websites may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Disabling Most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=ENor http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions through the Digital Advertising Alliance’s YourAdChoices. In addition, on your iPhone, iPad or Android, you can change your device settings to control whether you see online interest-based ads. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.
For Google Analytics, you can opt-out through Google Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (e.g. the NAI’s consumer opt-out listed above). Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out plug-in for the web.
Please note that even if you opt-out and limit cookies or these third party tracking technologies, they may still collect data and you may still see ads, but they will not be targeted based on information collected through these technologies.
WHAT IS DO NOT TRACK?
Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. Some Internet browsers – like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. Since uniform standards for “DNT” signals have not been adopted, we do not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals. As described in this 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.
CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
We may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time. Use of Information we collect now is subject to the Cookie Policy in effect at the time such Information is used. If we make material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by posting an announcement through the applicable Services. We encourage you to regularly review this page for any updates to our Cookie Policy as well as our Privacy Policy.
QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Cookie Policy, please send us a detailed message at the address below, and we will try to resolve your concerns.
Email: admin@greatamericanpublish.com
Effective: Feb. 28, 2023
Great American Publishing d/b/a Great American Media Services, including its subsidiaries (collectively, “Great American”, the “Company”, “we”, “us,” or “our”, including its 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.
1.1 Agreement
You agree that by registering, accessing or using our Services (as defined below), you are entering a legally binding agreement with Great American. If you do not agree to the following terms, you may not access or otherwise use any of our Services.
The terms of this agreement include these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Cookie Policy (collectively, the “Agreement”).
THESE TERMS OF USE ALSO INCLUDE A PROVISION FOR RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION INSTEAD OF IN COURT.
1.2 Services
The “Services” means use of or access to our websites, purchase and/or use of our products, and/or access to, purchase of or use of our other offerings we provide, including but not limited to:
– www.fruitgrowersnews.com
– www.vegetablegrowersnews.com
– www.spudman.com
– www.produceprocessing.net
– www.gpnmag.com
– www.lgrmag.com
– www.giftshopmag.com
– www.stationerytrends.com
– www.partyandhalloween.com
– www.museumsandmore.com
– www.coachad.com
– www.winninghoops.com
– www.gpnmag.media
– www.lgrmag.media
– www.fruitgrowersnews.media
– www.vegetablegrowersnews.media
– www.spudman.media
– www.produceprocessing.media
– www.stationerytrends.media
– www.museumsandmore.media
– www.giftshopmag.media
– www.partyandhalloween.media
– www.coachad.media
– www.winninghoops.media
– www.training-conditioning.com
– www.cannaproductnews.com
– www.training-conditioning.media
– www.tacticaltrainingandconditioning.com
– www.tacticaltrainingandconditioning.meda
– www.cannaproductnews.media
– www.giftshop-pets.com
– www.celebrationsmag.com
– www.greatamericanmediaservices.com
– www.smartsolutions.media
By using our Services, you are a “User” for purposes of this Agreement. By using or accessing the Services in any manner, you or the entity you represent (“you,” or “your”) agree that you have read and agree to be bound by this Agreement to the exclusion of all other terms. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement (and third party terms where applicable), you have no right to use and should not use the Services.
1.3 Modifications to this Agreement
We may modify this Agreement from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you with the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. 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.
2.1 Access to the Services
The Services are owned and operated by the Company. We may change, suspend or discontinue the Services at any time, including the availability of any feature, database, or Content (as defined below). We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability.
Depending on which Services you use, you may be subject to additional terms set forth in Section 4 below (“Additional Terms”). The Additional Terms will control in the event of any conflict with the rest of this Agreement.
2.2 Service Eligibility
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. Children under 13 are not permitted to use the Services. Engaging with us using false information or using the Services using any false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 13. This Agreement is void where prohibited by law, and the right to access the Services is revoked in such jurisdictions.
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, 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 we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
You may also not be based in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or any other country that is subject to a U.S. government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. government as a “terrorist-supporting” country.
2.3 Notices and Messages
You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1) within the applicable Service or Website, or (2) sent to the contact information you provided us (e.g. email, phone number, physical address). You agree to keep your contact information up to date. This may include messages on behalf of our partners for purposes of marketing products, services and events to you. For the purposes of marketing messages and/or text/SMS messages that may be sent via auto dialer, by providing your text message/SMS device information, you consent to being contacted for marketing purposes by us, or by our third party providers on our behalf understanding your right to opt-out or otherwise discontinue receiving such marketing messages as any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link accompanying and marketing emails and by text “STOP” in response to any marketing text/SMS message. Please review your applicable settings and/or email preferences to control and limit messages you receive from us.
The Website, the Services, and their Content (as defined below) are intended solely for use by Users of the Services and may only be used in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. All materials displayed or performed on the Website or through the Services (including, but not limited to videos, text, graphics, articles, photographs, images, and illustrations (collectively, the “Content”) are protected by copyright, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws. You shall abide by all copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and restrictions contained therein, and shall not use, copy, reproduce, link to, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell or otherwise exploit any of the foregoing for any purposes whatsoever: (i) without the express prior written consent of the respective owners, and (ii) in any way that violates any third party right.
The Company reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Website and Services. Using the Website and Services does not give you any ownership therein. Trademarks and logos used on and in connection with the Website and Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. Other Company trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used for our Website and Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Company.
3.1 Your Information
We may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings). You also agree that information you provide to use with be truthful.
3.2 Other Users’ Content
You understand that all information publicly posted or privately transmitted through the Services is the sole responsibility of the User from which such Content originated and that Company will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any Content. You understand that Company cannot guarantee the identity of any other Users with whom you may interact in the course of using the Services. Additionally, Company cannot guarantee the authenticity of any data that Users or merchants may provide about themselves. You acknowledge that all Content accessed by you using the Services is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to any party resulting therefrom.
Under no circumstances will Company be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred in connection with use of or exposure to any Content posted, emailed, accessed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Services.
3.3 Automated Processing
We will use the information and data that you provide and that we have about Users to make recommendations for content, products, events, and features that may be useful to you. Keeping your account accurate and up-to-date helps us to make these recommendations more accurate and relevant.
3.4 Availability; Access
We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services.
You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any Content or information that you or other Users provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.
The Company reserves the right to limit your use of the Services and to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if the Company believes that you may be in breach of this Agreement or law or are misusing the Services (e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts).
3.5 Third Party Services
The Website or Services may link to, allow access to, from or otherwise incorporate websites, products or services offered by third parties not owned or controlled by Company or User Sites, as applicable (“Third Party Services”). Some of these Third Party Services include, but may not be limited to, iContact, Uberflip, WordPresss, Survey Monkey, CVent, ReadyTalk, bambooHR, Shopify, Authorize.net, AdButler, ARGI/iPacesetters, Expression Engine, Magazine Manager, and FileMaker, all of which are incorporated and included in the term Third Party Services. When you access Third Party Services, you do so at your own risk and should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before using such Third Party Service or conducting any transactions thereon. You hereby represent and warrant that you have read and agree to be bound by all applicable policies of any Third Party Services relating to your use of the Services (“Third Party Policies”) and that you will act in accordance with those policies, in addition to your obligations under this Agreement. To the extent there is a conflict between any term in the Third Party Policies and this Agreement, the term in the Third Party Policies shall take precedence. Company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, services, accuracy, privacy policies, or practices of or opinions expressed in any Third Party Services. In addition, Company will not and cannot monitor, verify, censor or edit the content of any Third Party Services. Company may modify or discontinue your use of, or access to, the Third Party Services, or any content or services available thereunder, at any time in its sole absolute discretion with or without notice to you. By using the Services, you expressly relieve and hold harmless Company from any and all liability arising from your use of any Third Party Services, including without limitation any damages or losses incurred as a result of any transactions thereon.
You warrant, represent and agree that you will not contribute any Content or otherwise use the Services in a manner that (i) infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or proprietary rights, rights of publicity or privacy, or other rights of any third party; (ii) violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation; (iii) is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or otherwise objectionable; (iv) involves commercial activities and/or sales without Company’s prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes; (v) impersonates any person or entity, including without limitation any employee or representative of Company; or (vi) contains a virus, trojan horse, worm, time bomb, or other harmful computer code, file, or program. Company reserves the right to remove any Content from the Services at any time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content or if Company is concerned that you may have breached the immediately preceding sentence), or for no reason at all. You, not Company, remain solely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise disseminate using, or in connection with, the Services, and you warrant that you possess all rights necessary to provide such content to Company and to grant Company the rights to use such information in connection with the Services and as otherwise provided herein.
You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Services. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your right to access or use the Services. You may not post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any other user of the Services. Use of the Services to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store illegal material (including material that may be considered threatening or obscene), or engage in any kind of illegal activity is expressly prohibited. You will not run Maillist, Listserv, any form of auto-responder, or “spam” on the Services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged on to the Website, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of or place an unreasonable load on the Services’ infrastructure. Further, the use of manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to “crawl,” “scrape,” or “spider” any page of the Website is strictly prohibited. You will not decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the Services. You will be responsible for withholding, filing, and reporting all taxes, duties and other governmental assessments associated with your activity in connection with the Services.
Company has no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to you. You acknowledge that Company has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which users gain access to the Services; what Content you access via the Services; what effects the Content may have on you; how you may interpret or use the Content; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. You release Company from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. The Services may contain, or direct you to websites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. Company makes no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Services, and Company will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Services. Company makes no representations or warranties regarding suggestions or recommendations of services or products offered or purchased through the Services. THE SERVICES, CONTENT, WEBSITE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE, AND ANY SOFTWARE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.
For information regarding Company’s treatment of personally identifiable information, please review Company’s current Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference; your acceptance of this Agreement constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by our Privacy Policy.
You will indemnify and hold Company, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, suppliers, licensors, and employees harmless (including, without limitation, from all damages, liabilities, settlements, costs and attorneys’ fees) from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your access to the Services, use of the Services, your violation of this Agreement, or the infringement by you or any third party using your account of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY OR ITS SUPPLIERS, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES OR THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY (I) FOR ANY AMOUNT IN THE AGGREGATE IN EXCESS OF THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE FEES PAID BY YOU THEREFOR DURING THE 12-MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE APPLICABLE CLAIM; (II) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER; (III) FOR DATA LOSS OR COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; OR (IV) FOR ANY MATTER BEYOND COMPANY’S REASONABLE CONTROL.
We aren’t responsible for the behavior of any third parties, linked websites, or other partners.
If you have a dispute with one or more Users of the Services or any Third Party Services, you agree that the Company is under no obligation to become involved and you hereby release the Company, its officers, employees, agents, affiliates, representatives and successors from claims, demands and damages (actual, direct and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, foreseeable or unforeseeable, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor.”
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. You may terminate your use of the Services at any time. Company may terminate or suspend your access to the Services at any time, for any reason, and without warning, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information. Company may also terminate or suspend any and all Services and access to the Website immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement. Upon termination of your account, your right to use the Services, access the Website, and any Content will immediately cease. All provisions of this Agreement, survive termination, including, without limitation, those relating to payment obligations, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, and limitations of liability.
The failure of either party to exercise, in any respect, any right provided for herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. Company shall not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations hereunder where such failure results from any cause beyond Company’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, mechanical, electronic or communications failure or degradation (including “line-noise” interference). If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. This Agreement is not assignable, transferable or sublicensable by you except with Company’s prior written consent. Company may transfer, assign or delegate this Agreement and its rights and obligations without consent. Both parties agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement (provided that if a separate written agreement with respect to Company products or services exists between you and Company, the terms and conditions of that written agreement shall take precedence over this Agreement in the event of any conflict), and that all modifications must be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind Company in any respect whatsoever. Headings for each section have been included above for your convenience, but such headings do not have any legal meaning, and may not accurately reflect the content of the provisions they precede.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan without regard to the conflict of laws provisions thereof. Any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of this Agreement shall be finally settled by arbitration in Kent County, Michigan, using the English language in accordance with the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes, who shall be selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators in accordance with the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS. If that jurisdiction is prohibited by law, then arbitration shall take place with 75 miles of where the User resides. Judgment upon the award so rendered may be entered in a court having jurisdiction, or application may be made to such court for judicial acceptance of any award and an order of enforcement, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party shall have the right to institute an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable relief pending a final decision by the arbitrator. For all purposes of this Agreement, the parties consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the United States Federal Courts governing Kent County, Michigan.
We won’t be held liable for any delays or failure in performance of any part of the Service, from any cause beyond our control. This includes, but is not limited to, acts of god, changes to law or regulations, embargoes, war, terrorist acts, riots, fires, earthquakes, nuclear accidents, zombie apocalypse, floods, strikes, power blackouts, volcanic action, unusually severe weather conditions, and acts of hackers, or third-party internet service providers.
The following list of “Dos and Don’ts” is intended to provide a set of rules governing your use of, and participation in, the Services. All Users must adhere to these Dos and Don’ts and failure to do so may result in the suspension of termination of your account.
DOs
You agree that you will:
DON’Ts
You agree that you will not:
If you see something on the Service that you believe violates these Dos and Don’ts, please report it to us using the contact information provided in Section 17. We may, in our sole discretion, remove content that we believe violates these Dos and Don’ts or is otherwise objectionable even without receiving a complaint of a potential violation.
Our community is diverse and reaches beyond geographical borders, so please keep in mind that something that you may find objectionable may not violate our Dos and Don’ts.
Company has adopted the following general policy toward copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA (posted at https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl105-304.pdf).
The address of Company’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement (“Designated Agent”) is listed at the end of this Section. It is Company’s policy to (1) block access to or remove material that it believes in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers, members or users; and (2) remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders.
Procedure for Reporting Copyright Infringements:
If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the Services infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below: 1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed; 2. Identification of works or materials being infringed; 3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing including information regarding the location of the infringing materials that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with sufficient detail so that Company is capable of finding and verifying its existence; 4. Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, email address; 5. A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the material identified in (3) is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and 6. A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner.
Once Proper Bona Fide Infringement Notification is Received by the Designated Agent:
It is Company’s policy:
Procedure to Supply a Counter-Notice to the Designated Agent:
If the content provider, member or user believes that the material that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or the content provider, member or user believes that it has the right to post and use such material from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or, pursuant to the law, the content provider, member, or user, must send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent listed below:
If a counter-notice is received by the Designated Agent, Company may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that Company may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member or user, the removed material may be replaced or access to it restored in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at Company’s discretion.
Please contact Company’s Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement at the following address: PO Box 128, Sparta MI 49345; 616-520-9008.
If you have any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Services, you may contact us at:
Email: admin@greatamericanpublish.com.
Effective: Feb. 28, 2023
Great American Media Services
75 Applewood Drive, Suite A
P.O. Box 128
Sparta, Michigan 49345 U.S.A
Phone: 616-520-2137
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