At gooau.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. We are dedicated to complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services. This information can be broadly categorized as follows:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you directly, such as your name, email address, and contact information when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us through our website.
- Non-Personal Information: This includes information that does not directly identify you, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and browsing activity on our website.
Log Files
Like many other websites, gooau.com uses log files. These files log visitors when they access the website. The information collected in log files includes:
- IP addresses
- Browser type
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Date and time stamp
- Referring/exit pages
- Number of clicks
This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies
gooau.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. You have the option to disable cookies through your individual browser options. However, disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website.
Web Beacons
In addition to cookies, we may also use web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, or web bugs) on our website or in our email communications. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. Unlike cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages or in emails. Web beacons allow us to collect information such as:
- The pages you visit
- The links you click
- Your IP address
- Your browser type
This information helps us to understand how you use our website and to improve our services. You can often disable web beacons in email messages by turning off HTML images or refusing HTML (versus text) emails.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on gooau.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to gooau.com and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Amazon Associates Program
gooau.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As part of this program, gooau.com will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website.
Amazon uses cookies to track the source of these referrals and to determine the commissions earned. This information is used to track the effectiveness of the program and to pay commissions to the website owners. Please refer to Amazon’s privacy policy for more information on how they use cookies and other tracking technologies.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of gooau.com.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on gooau.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that gooau.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
gooau.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, California consumers have the following rights:
- The right to know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- The right to delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- The right to opt-out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. gooau.com does not sell your personal information. However, if we were to do so in the future, we would provide a clear and conspicuous “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on our website.
- The right to non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. gooau.com does not knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.