Privacy Policy

GS Filters BV believes strongly in protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information you share with us. We also believe it is important to inform you about how we will use your personal data and to give you choices about how those data will be used. Therefore, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

In general, this Privacy Policy applies to all personal information of consumers collected or used by GS Filters BV. This includes information from web sites for commercial use that are owned by GS Filters BV and offline collections of personal data for commercial use owned by GS Filters BV.

Why Should You Share Your Personal Data with GS Filters BV?

Sharing your personally identifiable information enables us to offer you a number of benefits. It will make it easier and more convenient for you to:

• Request information specific to your interests;
• Participate in online communities;
• Receive personalized messages and special offers that are relevant to your interests;
• Buy GS Filter BV products online.

It will also allow us to conduct market research to help us develop better products, to provide more responsive customer service, and to improve our Web Site. You may choose to share your information with us in a number of ways online, such as ordering a product, participating in a promotion, or subscribing to a newsletter.

Sharing Information

GS Filters BV will only share your data with third parties outside GS Filters BV in the following circumstances:

• Sometimes GS Filters BV sells you a product or offers you a service in a joint marketing effort with other companies. In such cases, your personal data will be shared with these companies. We will always let you know that such relationship exists and who these companies are prior to your registration.
• Note that these companies often have their own privacy policies that apply to the way they use your personal data.
• These privacy policies sometimes differ from the GS Filters BV Privacy Policy.
• GS Filters BV sometimes uses outside companies for handling your purchase or request or for processing your data.
• GS Filters BV requires these companies to adequately safeguard your personal data and not use your data for any other purpose not authorized by GS Filters BV.
• GS Filters BV will release personally identifiable information if compelled by law.

GS Filters BV will not sell or provide your personal data to other third parties allowing them to use your personal data for their own purposes. GS Filters BV will not share any personal financial information you provide (such as credit card information) with other parties unless this is needed to handle your order, process our invoice, or prevent or combat fraud. From time to time, this Web Site may provide links to other web sites. You should carefully review the privacy policies on those sites; they may differ from the GS Filters BV Privacy Policy.

JavaScript

Our Web Site uses JavaScript to help provide a better service and experience to you.

You may disable the use of JavaScript on your computer by changing the settings of your web browser. If you do this you may find that the layout and usability of our Web Site is degraded. You may also find that other web sites do not function as their designers intended.

You can find out more about JavaScript from the Wikipedia JavaScript article.

"Cookies" and Web Site Logging

Our Web Site will send a "cookie", a small text file, to your computer. This allows us to recognize your computer the next time you visit without bothering you with another request to register. We also use cookies to remember your preferred language so that we can load that automatically next time you visit.

If you do not wish to receive cookies, please refer to the "Help" file of your Internet Browser to learn how to either block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

However, should you want to use our online shop then you must have at least session cookies enabled. The shop requires a cookie to keep track of the products that you have placed in your cart and to handle the checkout process. The shopping cart will not work without a cookie.

If you visit our Web Site to browse, read, or download information, we collect and store some "visitor information" from you, such as the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using, the date and time you access our Web Site and other similar information that your browser makes available to us. We use this information to measure the traffic on our Web Site and to help us make it more useful. We delete this information after some time. Such information is anonymous and we make no attempts to identify individuals from this information.

You can find out more about cookies from the Wikipedia Cookie article.

Safeguarding the Information You Share with Us

We recognize our responsibility to protect the information you entrust to us. GS Filters BV uses a variety of secure techniques to protect your information, including secure servers, firewalls, and encryption of financial data.

Your Rights

Once you have provided us with your personally identifiable information you will have reasonable access to that information so you can change or delete it. You may do this by accessing your online profile or by requesting a copy of your profile at the contact address listed below. Your decision not to register now will not affect the information you have already provided to GS Filters BV. Of course, you will always have the option to unsubscribe to any online contact from GS Filters BV or to change your personal profile information.

Special Information for Parents

The GS Filters BV Web Site is generally not targeted at children under the age of sixteen. It is GS Filters BV policy to comply with the law when it requires that a parent's or guardian's permission is secured before knowingly collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children under the age of sixteen. We strongly recommend that parents take an active role in supervising the online activity of their children.

Contacting Us

You may contact us through our Contact Us form if you would like to:

• ask us any question regarding our privacy policy;
• request a copy of your personal data, or change or delete your personal data;
• opt-out from receiving any future personalized offers or information from GS Filters BV.

Our Address

You can find our address on the Contact Us page of this Web Site. If you have a problem with our use of your information, please let us know and we will make all reasonable efforts to correct it.