GSTQ Privacy Policy

Last Updated:  July 17, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes how GSTQ, Inc. (“GSTQ,” “we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from our website at www.gstq.com (the “Site”).  By accessing the Site, you agree to our collection and use of personal information as described in this privacy policy and in our Terms of Use.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

GSTQ may collect your personal information when you visit the Site, purchase products from us, interact with our customer service representatives, set up an account with us, sign up to receive information from us via email or text message, or post reviews about the products we sell.  

The personal information collected may include your name, billing and shipping addresses, email address, phone number and other contact information.  

We may also automatically collect certain information from you when you visit our Site, including information about your device, web browser and IP address. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we may collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site, such as what you click on, where you may encounter problems on the Site, and your keystrokes, movements of your mouse, and other patterns of use.  This information helps us detect potential problems on our Site, analyze the functionality of the Site, and improve the user experience.  We may retain third party service providers to assist us in collecting and analyzing information about your interactions with the Site, and they may do so by using software that allows them to record, for our use, your movements and interactions with the Site.     

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies are small, sometimes encrypted text files that are stored on computer hard drives by websites that you visit. They are used to help users navigate websites efficiently as well as to provide information to the owner of the websites. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. 

When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect personal information from you, using the following technologies:

    - “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

    - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

    - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your personal information to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  Additionally, we may use personal information to communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, provide you with information relating to our products, assess the success of marketing campaigns, and to improve and optimize our Site by, for example, analyzing how our customers browse and interact with the Site.

 

HOW WE MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with service providers that provide services on our behalf, such as shipping of orders, detecting fraud, analyzing how visitors interact with our Site, and payment processing.   For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  

Additionally, we may allow third party advertising networks to collect IP addresses and other information about you through third party cookies or other similar technologies that may be used to follow your online activities over time and across different websites.  This information is used to provide you with advertisements for products or services you may be interested in purchasing. 

We use Google Analytics to evaluate the use of our website. Google Analytics uses cookies and other identifiers to collect information, such as how often users visit the website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they visited prior to visiting our website. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects personal information, review Google’s Privacy Policy.

We may share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or similar legal process or government request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is legally required or otherwise necessary to protect our rights and property or the rights, property or safety of others, including to law enforcement agencies, and judicial and regulatory authorities.  We may also share your personal information with third parties to protect against data security vulnerabilities.  Further, we may transfer your personal information to a third party in the event of a merger, reorganization of our entity or other restructuring. 

DO NOT TRACK

We do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

SHINE THE LIGHT

California's "Shine the Light" law, Civil Code section 1798.83, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California residents asking about the business' practices related to disclosing certain types of personal information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.  We do not disclose those types of personal information to third parties, for such purposes.  

MINORS

The Site is not intended for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Site may contain links to other websites or social media buttons. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites or social media platforms. This privacy policy applies only to the information collected by, or on behalf of, us.

SECURITY

We implement and maintain reasonable security appropriate to the nature of the personal information we collect, use, retain, transfer or otherwise process. We take measures to safeguard your personal information, although such safeguards may not always be adequate to prevent all breaches of security.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time.  We will notify you of material changes through a notice on our Site and will also post an updated version on the Site.  Please check back periodically for updates.  

ACCESSIBILITY

We are committed to ensuring that our communications are accessible to people with disabilities.  To make accessibility-related requests or report barriers please contact marketing@gstq.com.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices or if you have questions, please contact us by e-mail at marketing@gstq.com or by mail at 155 E 44th Street, New York, NY, 10017.

 

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.