It is SellMyGold’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to (hereinafter, “SellMyGold”, “us”, “we” or “SMG”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the General Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
1. Website Visitors Like most website operators, SellMyGold might collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site and the date and time of each visitor request. SellMyGold’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SellMyGold’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SellMyGold may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. SellMyGold might also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users, users who have submitted a form and for users leaving comments on blog posts. SellMyGold only discloses logged in user, form user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information Certain visitors to SellMyGold’s websites choose to interact with SellMyGold in ways that require SellMyGold to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SellMyGold gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors, who wish to get their precious metal or other items valuated, for their Name, Contact Number and Email address.
3. Security The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. On rare occasions, your information may be shared with relevant authorities in order to assist in fighting fraudulent or any other crime.
4. Advertisements Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SellMyGold and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
5. Links To External Sites Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility, for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
6. Ad Services We use Google AdWords (or similar service) for remarketing to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google (or similar service) search results page, or a site in the Google (or similar service) Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google (or similar service), use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s (or similar service provider’s) privacy policy.
7. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information SellMyGold might disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SellMyGold’s behalf or to provide services available at SellMyGold’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SellMyGold’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SellMyGold may not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, SellMyGold discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SellMyGold believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SellMyGold, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of SMG and have supplied your email address, SellMyGold (or it’s Sister Affiliates) may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SellMyGold and our products and services. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SellMyGold takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
If you have an account on this site, interacted with a form or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Aggregated Statistics SellMyGold may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. SellMyGold may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SellMyGold does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
9. Cookies To enrich and perfect your online experience, SellMyGold uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. SellMyGold uses cookies to help SellMyGold identify and track visitors, their usage of, and their website access preferences. SellMyGold visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SellMyGold’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SellMyGold’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to SellMyGold’s use of cookies.
10. E-commerce and Valuation Those who engage in transactions with SellMyGold – by purchasing or using SellMyGold’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, SellMyGold collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SellMyGold. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
11. Privacy Policy Changes SellMyGold may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SellMyGold’s sole discretion. SellMyGold encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
