GOtop5TM Limited Privacy Policy
Effective Date: February 24, 2008
We at GOtop5TM Limited are committed to providing you with the highest level of service. We respect the privacy of the visitors to the GOtop5.com site. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products and services offered on GOtop5.com site. It outlines the use and collection of information by GOtop5 Limited, provided by you for the use of the website GOtop5.com. This Privacy Policy is limited to the use of the GOtop5.com website only and excludes information received by any other means. By visiting GOtop5.com you agree that any dispute over our online privacy practices is governed by this Privacy Policy and our User Agreement. If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website.
Information collected:
Registration and personal information - When you register for a GOtop5.com account or other GOtop5.com service or promotion that requires registration, we collect your personal information (such as your name, email address, city or location, and an account password). For certain services, such as purchase of our advertising programs, referral or commission payments, we also request credit card or other payment account information. In all payment cases, we use a third party processing company and you should read their privacy policy carefully. GOtop5 Limited takes appropriate steps to ensure third party affiliates adhere to strict security standards but cannot be held liable for their services or policy. Once you register for our services, you may remain anonymous to the rest of the community but you are no longer anonymous to us. GOtop5.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs including your URL, IP address, browser type, language, date and time of your request, GOtop5.com cookie information, the page you requested as well as any information that will help us improve our services. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You may at any time decline or refuse to provide personal information.
Voluntary non-personal information – With all viewable information you disclose, we suggest you remain anonymous and adhere to the rules of engagement disclosed in the user agreement. Disclosure of information is voluntary and may be viewed by all users or visitors, and we are not liable for any information or consequences of such information. GOtop5.com will not be responsible for loss or risk of loss in any way for any information you publicly volunteer and share in any form on our site. Users may or may not have administrative control over their own content or information but, we cannot guarantee that the information can be removed, retracted or deleted.
Information sent by you to GOtop5.com - When you send email or other communication to GOtop5.com, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Our Affiliated sites - Services offered in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to GOtop5.com in order to deliver the service. We will process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services.
Merchant Links – GOtop5.com remains neutral to all merchants and we do not endorse or recommend any merchant or their products or services in any way shape or form. All transactions with merchants and you are your responsibility and we suggest you take all necessary precautions before transacting with any merchant, caveat emptor.
Accuracy and quality of information – All information is sourced and provided on a voluntary basis by members. We may input or aggregate this information in a wide variety of formats or in many ways and means. We do not guarantee the accuracy or correctness of any information. We do not assume any liability for loss or risk of loss for the use of information on the GOtop5.com site.
Information use:
GOtop5.com uses information for the general purposes: to provide information to assist users with products and services requested, such as aggregated information, aggregated statistics, consumer reports, consumer findings, conduct research, display of customized content; to inform you about new products and services or for service announcements, communications, or administrative messages relating to the GOtop5.com services; to provide any information deemed relevant to users; auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve GOtop5.com technologies and services.
Information Sharing and Disclosure:
Personal non-financial information - GOtop5.com reserves the right to display, share, market, sell or rent, transfer or use as see fit, any information you volunteer to be viewed publicly by users on our website. GOtop5.com will not share, sell or rent your personally identifiable information we receive upon registration or other means unless: a) we have your consent to share this information and we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; or b) we reasonably believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required or permitted by law; or c) we are responding to warrants, subpoenas, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or d) we find that your actions on our web sites violate the GOtop5.com User Agreement or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
Personal financial information - GOtop5.com will not share your credit or personal financial information to anyone unless: a) to a third party processing or financial center to process payment or receipt of funds and transfer of funds information; b) take action against illegal activities; c) respond to warrants, subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or e) to establish our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Mergers and Acquisition - We may transfer information about you if GOtop5 is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, GOtop5.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Jurisdiction - When you register for a GOtop5.com account, your registration information may be transmitted to and/or other countries for processing and storage by GOtop5.com and its affiliates and may be subject to the legal jurisdiction of these countries.
Email Content - We may offer you the opportunity to subscribe to email content on topics that we believe are of interest to our visitors. If you have opted to receive a particular content or articles, you may always unsubscribe later if you decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from us. Each email will include instructions on how to unsubscribe from future issues by using either a designated reply email address or hyperlink.
Access and control over personal information - We make every effort to allow you access to your personal information and to let you to change and correct such data if it is inaccurate and delete it, when reasonably possible. You may request to delete or terminate your account. Upon termination of the account, all information and content submitted by the user to be publicly viewed on the site will be given unlimited and unrestricted usage at the discretion of GOtop5 Limited.
Children:
Although GOtop5.com strives to make our site a family friendly site, the responsibility of children resides in the care of their parents. We recommended that parents supervise and control internet usage of anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly allow anyone under18 years of age to register with our site or provide any personal information in any manner, such as name, contact information, address or email address, on our site.
Storage and Security of Information:
GOtop5.com attempts to take appropriate security measures to safeguard against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of data, such as internal reviews of data flow and storage. We also provide physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data and restrict access to personal information by our GOtop5 Limited employees, contractors and agents. These individuals are bound by confidentiality agreements and may be subject to discipline and legal action upon breach of these agreements. Though we attempt to provide safeguards to all information stored within a database, either managed by us or by a contractor, sensitive information, we cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. In the event you believe your personal safety is at risk or you are the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct please contact the appropriate federal and provincial law enforcement department and contact us by using the GOtop5.com contact information.
Changes to this privacy policy:
We reserve the right from time to time, at our own discretion to make changes to our privacy policy. We will post and inform you of such changes. However, these changes may take effect with or without your prior knowledge.