Last modified: May 25, 2024
Our Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you
can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this
notice easy to find, we make it available at the bottom of every page.
The Information We Collect This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the GS Retrofit website. The term GS Retrofit is a registered trade name that also refers to www.gsretrofit.com .
GS Retrofit helps you communicate more efficiently with real estate professionals and facilitate real estate transactions through the use of our unique professional real estate applications. The service is enabled by allowing users to communicate, share comments, and use professional real estate applications. GS Retrofit knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the GS Retrofit website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
GS Retrofit follows two core principles:
First, you should have control over your personal information. GS Retrofit
helps you communicate more efficiently with real estate professionals and share
information with people around you, but only when you choose to do so. For
example, you can choose what information you put in your profile, including
your username. You can also choose whether to post messages publicly or privately.
Secondly, purchase information is private. GS Retrofit will never broadcast a purchase with an individual's username.
When you visit GS Retrofit you provide us with two types of information:
Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
2) Information you provide to us. We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.
To use GS Retrofit services, such as communicating more efficiently with real estate professionals, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require select personal information (including your e-mail address).
User Profiles and Comments
In order to allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration; we enable you to provide additional information, such as a bio or favorite URLs. We also allow you provide questions, comments and other information, which are stored and shared.
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. GS Retrofit and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, GS Retrofit cookie information, and the page you requested. GS Retrofit uses this traffic data to analyze trends, help diagnose problems with its servers, and administer the website.
GS Retrofit may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.
GS Retrofit does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for GS Retrofit or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on GS Retrofit.
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
GS Retrofit will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission. You may receive notification emails from GS Retrofit, which provide information or actions (e.g. new features). GS Retrofit may also send emails with GS Retrofit-related news or promotions. If you do not want to receive email from us, please follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message. However, please note that in all cases you will receive legal notices (e.g. major policy updates) and system emails (e.g. forgotten passwords).
People who see your profile will not be able to see what items you are privately tracking and/or have bought. User profile information and comments you submit to GS Retrofit will be available to users of GS Retrofit. Your user name, profile picture thumbnail, and comments (e.g., posts of questions, reviews, and deals) will be available on the GS Retrofit site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so reviews, comments and deals shared with the GS Retrofit community can be found by the GS Retrofit community.
GS Retrofit may use information you provide to us and web site use information without identifying you as an individual. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people like a review or deal and personalizing advertisements and promotions. We believe this benefits you.
Because GS Retrofit enables people to discover and share information with one another, information shared by the people who use GS Retrofit is a part of the GS Retrofit experience. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you.
For example:
Questions, answers, reviews, and deals posted to GS Retrofit may always be
available to third parties.
We may provide information to service providers to help us deliver the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about GS Retrofit, to develop the software, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the GS Retrofit-specified purposes.
We occasionally provide demonstrations and accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into GS Retrofit.
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through links to these vendors or other on-site offers.
We may offer services, stores, or advertising jointly with other companies on GS Retrofit. You can tell when another company is involved in any service or advertisement provided on GS Retrofit, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
GS Retrofit personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of GS Retrofit business.
If the ownership of GS Retrofit, GS Retrofit's services or GS Retrofit International Web Services, Inc., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations.
When you use GS Retrofit, certain information you post or share, such as personal information, comments, or deals, may be shared with other users. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments or other items, this information may become publicly available.
GS Retrofit takes precautions to protect your information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Your GS Retrofit account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. Please help us protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer. Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
GS Retrofit may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage users to be aware of when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every web site that may collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to data collected by GS Retrofit.
Advertisements that appear on GS Retrofit are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. GS Retrofit does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on GS Retrofit unless you choose to share it with them.
Access and control over most personal information on GS Retrofit is readily available through the profile editing tools. GS Retrofit users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.
GS Retrofit may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Your use of GS Retrofit, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law.