GREYSTONE PRIVACY POLICY
1. Purpose
This privacy statement explains how and why Stone & Gold LLC (“Stone & Gold”) processes personal information (called Personal Data under applicable data protection law and in this Statement) that we collect from or that are provided to us by people and organizations with whom we have contact as part of our business activities, including through our main website, www.greystoneguitars.com (“Website”). We also encourage you to read our Website Terms of Use. We are committed to protecting and using fairly any Personal Data that we hold.
2. Terms we use in this Statement
This section explains three terms that we use in the rest of this Statement.
- Legitimate Interests means the interests of Stone & Gold in conducting their business activities. When we process your Personal Data based on our Legitimate Interests, we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your data protection rights. We will not use your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law. You have certain rights when we process your Personal Data on this basis. For more on your data subject rights please see section 8 of this Statement.
- Performance of a Contract means processing your Personal Data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you or an organization with which you are connected is a party.
- Comply with Legal Obligations means processing your Personal Data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that applies to Stone & Gold.
3. When do we process Personal Data?
3.1. If you visit our Website
3.1.1. What Personal Data do we process about visitors to our Website?
We process Personal Data about visitors to our Websites. This may include:
- 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 browser software you are using.
- The operating system you are using.
- The date and time at which you access our Websites.
Stone & Gold will also collect and process information about your interaction with our Websites using cookies. For more information on how we use cookies, please see section 8 of this Statement or see our full.
3.1.2. When do we share your Personal Data?
We may disclose some or all of the Personal Data we collect from you to certain trusted third parties, in accordance with contractual arrangements we have in place with them, including:
IT service providers.
3.2 How do we share your Personal Data?
We may disclose some or all of the Personal Data we collect from you to certain trusted third parties in accordance with contractual arrangements we have in place with them, including:
- Suppliers and service providers to whom we outsource relevant services.
- IT service providers.
3.3 If we deal with you, or an organization with which you are connected, in the course of our business activities
3.3.1. What Personal Data do we process if we deal with you, or an organization with which you are connected, in the course of our business activities?
We process Personal Data about people we deal with in the course of our business activities. This may include:
- Name.
- Employer.
- Role or job title.
- Contact details, including address, email address and phone number.
- Details of visits to our Website and correspondence, communications and connections with our employees.
- Publicly-available information.
- Information which is provided to us by you or by an organization with which you are connected.
4. Personal Data that you provide to us
It is your responsibility to ensure that all Personal Data you provide to us are complete, accurate, up-to-date, and not misleading.
You may provide Personal Data to us about yourself or about other people. If you provide us with Personal Data about another person, you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose the Personal Data of that other person to us and that we may process that Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Statement without having to take any further steps. It is your responsibility to ensure that the person concerned is aware of the content of this Privacy Statement.
5. How long do we keep your Personal Data?
We will keep your Personal Data for the longer of the following two periods:
Any period required for the Performance of a Contract or to Comply with Legal Obligations.
For as long as it is relevant to and useful for the purpose for which they were originally collected.
6. Changes to this Statement
We may amend this Statement on occasion, in whole or part, at our sole discretion. Any changes will be effective immediately. You should check this page from time-to-time and take note of any changes we make, as they will be binding on you. We will include the effective date on each version of this Statement that we issue.
If at any time we decide to use your Personal Data in a manner significantly different from that described in this Statement, or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time they are collected, we will notify you by e-mail or by telephone, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your Personal Data in the new manner.
7. Cookies and web beacons
We may collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to collate aggregate information about how you browse our Websites. We use Google Analytics on our Websites. Google Analytics uses cookies and web beacons in connection with the services it provides.
Information about your general Internet use may be obtained by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Web beacons may also be used. These facilitate the transfer of data from our Websites to the Google Analytics website. Cookies and web beacons help us to improve our Websites. They may be used to enable us to:
- Estimate usage numbers, patterns and related activity.
- Store information about how you accessed and use our Websites and your preferences, and so allow us to customize our Websites according to your individual interests.
- Recognize you when you return to our Websites.
Information collected may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website or be unable to avail of some services we provide. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, cookies will issue when you log on to our Website.
8. Accessibility
Stone & Gold follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, in an effort to be fully compliant with the American Disabilities Act.
9. Contact
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at:
Stone & Gold
44 Prince Street #403
Boston MA 02113
You can also fill in the form on our Contact page.
