PRIVACY POLICY

GfxCodes.com is dedicated to providing the best free and special services to you while at the same time respecting your privacy with integrity.

The following are statements outlining GfxCodes.com's Privacy Policy.

In order to protect your privacy, two kinds of information are collected in the following categories:

1. Personally Identifiable Information (any information associated or related with you as an individual). This may include your name, address, phone number, date of birth or other information relating directly to you. From time to time, we may collect additional personal information about you.

2. Aggregate Information: data gathered from a conglomerate of sources to give us an overall picture of the industry, trends or statistics and does not reveal the identity of the individuals who shared it. This information is used primarily for marketing and research purposes.

Personally Identifiable Information:

Our strict policy is not to release any personally identifiable information to any third party without your permission except under the situations outlined below. Your personal contact information will not be used for telemarketers or placed on a mailing list for spam or junk mail. We only use personal information to conduct business with you.

Your personal identifiable information will not be rented, sold or shared with any third party, except as described in the Privacy Statement or as otherwise agreed by you.

In order for us to better serve your needs as a member, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information to us, such as your name, mailing address and email address, birth date. We will use that information to send you news and products and services of interest to you. We further use this information for verification of age. We will also use this information to communicate with you if an item you posted has been rejected. We may use this information to send electronic newsletters periodically.

We may disclose information we have collected from any members and/or content any member has made available on the GfxCodes.com site when we believe in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or when it is necessary to do so to protect the rights or property of GfxCodes.com or others.

GfxCodes.com has the right to disclose personally identifiable information in special circumstances, in situations of company administrative transactions such as: the sale of the site or portions of it. If you wish not to share your personal identifiable information with third party marketing promotions please contact us at contact@GfxCodes.com. GfxCodes.com may continue to use this information for our internal purposes.

GfxCodes.com will not be responsible for privacy/security issues of sites that our members may be diverted to outside of our site.

Only authorized staff members of GfxCodes.com have access to your personal identifiable information. We will take all necessary security precautions to ensure your information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Given the nature of information transmission over the Internet though, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, therefore your use of the site will be at your own risk.

Aggregated Information:

Aggregated information allows us to perform statistical analysis on trends and behaviors. We use aggregate non-personal information, information that does not include personally identifiable data, for statistical analysis or user behaviors, product development, content improvement and marketing, promotional and advertising purposes. We may also make that aggregate non-personal information available to select third party partners. We may also aggregate information to develop summary reports for our partners. This information provides valuable assistance to our advertiser and sponsors to promote and market their products and services. GfxCodes.com may contact you in the future with offers it feels may be of interest to you.

We will gather IP addresses in the form of aggregations for system administration purposes and to gather demographic information. We also use IP addresses to confirm a membership registration if it's in question. IP addresses are also used to analyze trends, user's moments and aggregate demographic information.

Automatically collected Information:

We reserve the right to use cookies and invisible gifs to track users of our sites. This allows us to provide a more personalized service to our members. Cookies are small files contained within your web browser placed on your computer's hard drive for security purposes and to remember your site preferences and personalization. Upon visiting the site and registering as a member, you will assign yourself an unique User ID number and store this on your computer in the form of a cookie (unless disabled by your individual browser). With the use of cookies and your unique User ID, we will be able to present to you customized data and information and offer specific to your demographics and interests. Cookies also may be used to remember your password for you when you re-vist our web site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. Those members who are not comfortable with personal information store in cookies should disable this feature in their browsers. Disabling the cookie will lessen the performance of the site and certain enhanced features may not be available.

Affiliate Site ID:

Through entering our site via a banner or promotional link on other websites, we will store the ID of that affiliate site in our database with your user ID. This provides us with a measure of ensuring proper credit to our affiliates.

Newsletters:

Periodically our staff will send out newsletters updating the status of our network and services. If you want to be discontinued from our newsletter please follow the instruction in the bottom of the newsletter or send us an email to contact@GfxCodes.com.

Third Party Offers:

Members who respond to third party offers or who have opted to receive emails from selected sponsors or advertisers will indirectly allow GfxCodes.com to release their email address, name, address, any other information we collected and reports of aggregate information.

The Use of Cookies:

As an important and necessary part of providing customizable and personalized services to its members, GfxCodes.com uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about members. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to a member’s browser from a Web server and stored on a member’s computer hard drive. Areas of GfxCodes.com’s Web site where members are prompted to login or that are customizable require acceptance of cookies. With respect to cookies, you have a choice. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those GfxCodes.com services that require the use of cookies in order to participate.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection:

The safety of children is important to us. GfxCodes.com’s Web site is a general audience site and is not directed to children under the age of 13. Similarly, GfxCodes.com’s services are not directed to nor intended for anyone under the age of 13. GfxCodes.com will not knowingly accept members who are under the age of 13 years nor will it knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from or about anyone under the age of 13 years. Accordingly, when registering to become a Member, the new member must certify that they are not under the age of 13. GfxCodes.com relies on the truthfulness of this certification when accepting new members. In the event that GfxCodes.com receives information that establishes that a member is under the age of 13 years, GfxCodes.com reserves the right, which it will exercise, to terminate that member's membership. GfxCodes.com will also delete all information in its databases about that terminated member.

If you believe GfxCodes.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.

Email: contact@GfxCodes.com

Opting Out:

If you wish to be removed from our database, please click here (contact@GfxCodes.com) to e-mail your request. Rest assured, if you elect to be removed from our database, your information will not be used by GfxCodes.com, sold, rented or distributed to a third party from the date you make your request. If you choose to remain on our database, you will receive exclusive information on free offers, contests, promotions and more!

GfxCodes.com respects your privacy and will use the information you provided to us with integrity and full disclosure. If you ever feel this promise has been broken, please contact us.

Policy Changes:

The foregoing policy is effective as of May 2006. GfxCodes.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of GfxCodes.com’s services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

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