Effective as of: March 29, 2024
9.1. Residents of California
9.2. Residents of Nevada
9.3. Residents of Canada
9.4. Residents of the European Union
9.5. Residents of Brazil
9.6. Residents of Mexico
Global Finishing Solutions, LLC (“GFS”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects the privacy of its customers, business partners, and online visitors, and is committed to protecting your privacy and using the information you share with us responsibly.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) covers both our online and offline data collection activities and describes how we will collect, use, and share your personal information. Where applicable, this Policy also describes your choices and rights regarding the use, access, and correction or deletion of your personal information. Please note that this Policy does not apply to GFS employees or applicants for employment.
IMPORTANT: BY SUBMITTING INFORMATION TO US AND/OR USING OUR WEBSITES, YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED, USED, AND SHARED BY US IN THE MANNER AND FOR THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING POLICY. TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY LAW, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PROVIDE CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCAL AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.
All websites owned and operated by GFS are subject to this Policy, including: www.globalfinishing.com; www.finishingacademy.com; www.revocuring.com; and www.texaspaintboothservice.com (collectively, the “Websites”).
Please note: This Policy does not apply to, and GFS is not responsible for, any third party websites which may be accessible through links from our Websites. If you follow a link to any of these third party websites, you should review the website’s privacy policy before submitting any personal information through such website.
Personal information is information that can be used to identify you, directly or indirectly, alone or together with other information. This includes, but is not limited to, information such as your name, address, phone number, email address, country of residence, and IP address.
3.1 Information We Collect Directly From You
We will collect and use personal information whenever you explicitly provide it to us. This includes:
3.2 Information We Collect About You Indirectly or Through a Third Party
We also collect and use personal information from third party sources. This includes:
The information collected in connection with any of the above (3.1 and 3.2) may include your name, phone number, email address, street address, credit card details, details about your request and/or your order, as well as any other information necessary to (i) fulfill your request, (ii) provide you with the requested product, service, or support, (iii) invoice and collect payment for the requested products and services, and (iv) contact you.
When you place an order through our online store, you will be given the option to create an account at checkout or checkout as a guest. If you create an account, you will also be given the option to save your credit card to your account. In the event you save your credit card to your account, GFS will retain only the last four (4) digits of your credit card number on its servers and GFS’s third party payment processor will retain your full credit card details.
3.3 Email Marketing
We may send marketing messages to your email address containing information such as newsletters, educational materials about products and services offered by GFS, product advertising, and survey requests. In such instances, we may also use your collected information to customize such marketing messages, as well as collect information on whether you opened such messages and which links in their text you followed. You can opt out or withdraw your consent to receive such emails at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link provided in every marketing email.
3.4 Information We Collect By Automated Means When You Use Our Websites
When you use our Websites, we collect information about your activities during your visit in order to personalize your website experience, such as recording your preferences and settings, and to collect statistics to help us improve and further develop our Websites, products and services. For example, we collect information concerning the specific pages you visit on the Websites, and the amount of time you spend on each page. Additional details are provided in Section 4 below.
3.5 Other Ways We Use Information
In addition to the uses discussed above and elsewhere in this Policy, we use personal information for the following business and operational purposes:
(i) to operate, evaluate and improve our business; (ii) to protect the security or integrity of our Websites; (iii) to comply with our legal obligations, policies and procedures; (iv) to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain; (v) to protect our operations or those of any of our Affiliates; (vi) to protect and defend the rights, privacy, safety, or property of GFS, our Affiliates, customers, you, and others; (vii) to protect against, identify, and investigate fraud and other unlawful activity, claims and other liabilities; and (viii) to exercise, establish, or defend GFS’s legal rights.
We may also use the personal information we collect for those specific purposes that we provide you notice of at the time of collection, or for purposes compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.
We use “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyze how users use our Websites, as well as to improve marketing, analytics or website functionality. The use of cookies is standard on the internet. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, the decision of whether to accept or not is yours. You may adjust your browser settings to prevent the reception of cookies, or to provide notification whenever a cookie is sent to you. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to access the full functionality of our Websites.
Specific information about the third-party cookies we commonly use on our Websites can be found below. This list is not exhaustive, but is intended to illustrate the primary purposes for which we typically set third-party cookies.
4.1 Google Analytics
Our Websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service that uses cookies to collect information about how visitors engage with our Websites so that we can improve them. The cookies report website trends; they do not identify individual visitors. For information regarding Google’s uses of data, please click here.
4.2 Facebook Pixel
Our Websites use the Facebook Pixel, which is an analytics tool that helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising. Facebook’s Cookie Policy can be found here, and also includes information on how you can control Facebook’s use of data to show you ads.
4.3 LinkedIn Insight Tag
The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that we have added to our Websites that allows us to perform campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about website visitors that may come via the campaigns we run on LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s Cookie Policy can be found here. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their account settings.
We may share your personal information for our business and operational purposes, with the categories of third parties described below.
The Websites are not directed to children, which for purposes of this Policy are individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect (nor do we intend to collect) any personal information from children. If you are less than 18 years old, please do not send any personal information to us, including information such as your name, address, or email address. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information from our database.
Your information is stored on GFS’s servers located in the United States. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Although we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information, as no system is ever completely secure. If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached, please contact us as provided below.
We may retain personal information about you as long as it is necessary for us to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy. In addition, we may retain your personal information for an additional period as is permitted or required to, among other things, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Where required by applicable law, we shall delete your personal information when such data is no longer necessary, or when requested to do so.
9.1 Additional Privacy Notice for California Residents (see Addendum I)
9.2 Additional Privacy Notice for Nevada Residents (see Addendum II)
9.3 Additional Privacy Notice for Residents of Canada (see Addendum III)
9.4 Additional Privacy Notice for Individuals Located in the European Union (“EU”) (see Addendum IV)
9.5 Additional Privacy Notice for Residents of Brazil (see Addendum V)
9.6 Additional Privacy Notice for Residents of Mexico (see Addendum VI)
We will only use your personal information where we are permitted to do so by applicable law. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”), our use of your personal information must be justified under one or more of several enumerated legal grounds. Accordingly, please note that our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the specific personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect and use personal information from you on the following legal bases:
When we have your consent to do so.
We reserve the right to amend this Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Policy, we will post the revised Policy on our Websites and include the date the Policy was last updated. We may also notify you by email that our Policy has changed.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, please contact us by email at: privacy@globalfinishing.com, or at the following mailing address: Global Finishing Solutions, LLC, Attn: Marketing, 12731 Norway Road, Osseo, WI 54758.
