Welcome to our Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

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It is The Gold Standard‘s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to The Gold Standard (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “The Gold Standard“). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Gold Standard collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Gold Standard‘s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Gold Standard‘s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Gold Standard may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Gold Standard also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://The Gold Standard blog posts. The Gold Standard only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Gold Standard‘s websites choose to interact with The Gold Standard in ways that require The Gold Standard to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Gold Standard gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at The Gold Standard to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Gold Standard and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

The Gold Standard uses Google AdWords for remarketing

The Gold Standard uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Gold Standard discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Gold Standard‘s behalf or to provide services available at The Gold Standard‘s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Gold Standard‘s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Gold Standard will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Gold Standard discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Gold Standard believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Gold Standard, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of http://The Gold Standard and have supplied your email address, The Gold Standard may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Gold Standard and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Gold Standard takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

The Gold Standard may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. The Gold Standard may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Gold Standard does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Gold Standard uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Gold Standard uses cookies to help The Gold Standard identify and track visitors, their usage of http://The Gold Standard, and their website access preferences. The Gold Standard visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Gold Standard‘s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Gold Standard‘s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Gold Standard‘s use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with The Gold Standard – by purchasing The Gold Standard‘s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Gold Standard collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Gold Standard. The Gold Standard does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Gold Standard may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Gold Standard‘s sole discretion. The Gold Standard encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.