Privacy Policy

At Goldhawk.com, we appreciate an individual’s concern for his or her online privacy and security. And you can be assured we are committed to respect and protection of your privacy and online safety. Our policy is based on both your comfort when you provide us with personal information and the guidelines and principals of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of Canada.

This policy description will enable you to understand the kind of information we gather, our means of collecting information and the purpose and use we make of the information we require.

To what does this policy apply?
This privacy policy applies to Goldhawk.com’s use of personal information of web site visitors and of users of Goldhawk.com’s services. Our policy also applies to our use of any personal information shared with Goldhawk.com by our business partners and to the personal information we may share with business partners. "Personal” or “Personally identifying information" is any information which can identify who you are. Examples of this information are your name, address, phone number and email address.

Consent
If you continue to use Goldhawk.com or services offered on or through the site, and/or submit your personal information to Goldhawk.com, you consent to the use of this information for the purposes outlined below which constitute our reasons for collection and sharing of your personal information.

What kinds of information we we gather?

You control whether and how much you provide to Goldhawk.com in the way of personal information. It is possible to visit this web site or contact us through without providing Goldhawk.com with any personal information. If you want to take advantage of services offered by Goldhawk.com, we may require personal information. For instance, Goldhawk.com will collect personal information for those who enter promotions or sweepstakes or when we receive personal information from our business partners or clients including Advertisers and Members. When you subscribe to Goldhawk.com services, we require your name, email address, home address and phone numbers.

How we employ the information we require?

Goldhawk.com uses the information in three ways:

1.       To meet your requests for certain products and services

2.       To tailor the advertising and content on our pages

3.       To enable Goldhawk.com or an authorized third party to contact you about specials, fund-raising and new products and services.

In this third case, authorized third parties have approached Goldhawk.com with offers or information that may be of interest to you, and have received our approval to contact you via mail one time.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Goldhawk.com. may only send personally identifiable information about you to others when we have your consent to share the information or:

• we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested

• we need to send the information to organizations who work on behalf of Goldhawk.com to provide a product or service to you (Unless we tell you specifically and you consent, these companies do not have the right to use the personal information we provide to them beyond ways necessary to assist us.)

• we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process

• your actions on our web site violate the terms of use of Goldhawk.com or guidelines for obtaining specific products or services.

 If you wish to be excluded from mailings by third parties, please send your request to Goldhawk.com at the email address provided at ‘Contact Info’ on the Home Page.

Information Provided by Third Parties and Email Marketing Solutions
Our business and corporate affiliates, partners, strategic partners, Members, Advertisers or others may provide to us personal information from their clients to facilitate the delivery of products or services to consumers or others. However, information can be provided only with the consent of the original provider.

If you receive e-mail, messages or publications or material from Goldhawk.com it is because you have consented to this use of your personal information either to us specifically or to the organization providing this information to Goldhawk.com.

Goldhawk.com does its best to maintain the security and confidentiality of personal information from any source and to act in strict accordance with the instructions of the original information provider. This information is used only for Goldhawk.com  purposes, and it is not disclosed to third parties (except as instructed by the provider) and is not combined with information from other sources.

Combining Non-Personal Information sourced from Banner Ads and Cookies
In delivering advertisements, Goldhawk.com does not collect any personal information but may use sessional cookies which are temporary files that are deleted at the end of your online session. These sessional cookies ensure that you do not receive the same ad more than once in a session. Goldhawk.com also may use these sessional cookies to collect non-personal information about whether site visitors clicked on banner advertisements delivered on the site. This information may be combined and stored in anonymous statistical user data and used to measure effectiveness for Goldhawk.com and advertisers. Except for the purpose of serving banner ads to Goldhawk.com, this site does not use cookies, or collect clickstream data.