California Privacy Notice

1. About this Notice

This privacy notice supplements the information contained in Online Privacy Notice, applies only to the residents of California ("consumers", "you"), and sets out how we collect and use personal information about you in compliance with our obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.

Additional information about your rights under this law can be found at https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this notice carefully as it contains valuable information on the personal information that we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and whether it is sold to or shared with third parties.

2. Personal Information Collected by Us

We collect and use the following categories of personal information as described in Online Privacy Notice, and also:

3. Why We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

We collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance
Helping to ensure security and integrity and prevent fraud
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair functionality
Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us
Performing services including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, and providing analytic services
Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to you
Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
Undertaking activities to verify, maintain, or improve the quality or safety of the products or services
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including obligations to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations
For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

4. Sources of Collecting Personal Information

We collect this information from a variety of sources including, but not limited to:

Directly from you
From your browser or device
From information generated from your online browsing and usage activity
Service providers
Business partners and affiliates
Third parties you direct to share information with us

5. Disclosure of the Information

We may share your Personal Data within our group of companies and brands. We may also provide access to or share your Personal Data with the following parties:

Within Corporate Organization

Our Company has a complex legal structure with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems. We may share your personal information within the Company's corporate organization.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Circumstances may arise where for business reasons, the Company decides to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize its businesses nationwide. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal identifying information to prospective or actual purchasers, and/or receiving such information from sellers.

Agents

The Company employs or engages other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of the Company. These persons are provided with personal identifying information required to perform their functions, but are restricted by contract from using the information for other purposes.

Affiliated Businesses

The Company works closely with affiliated businesses operating website stores, providing services or selling products on each other's websites. These businesses identify themselves to customers. Customer information related to a transaction with an affiliated business is shared with that affiliated business.

Marketing Analysis by Third Parties

The Company reserves the right to disclose to third parties personal information about customers for marketing analysis; however, any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data that does not describe or identify an individual customer.

Disclosure to Governmental Authorities

Under certain circumstances, personal information may be subject to disclosure under a judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants or orders.

We do not sell personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration.

6. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept

We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products and/or services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:

To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf
To show that we treated you fairly
To keep records required by law

We will not retain your personal identifiable information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this notice.

7. Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the personal information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

The Right to Know

The right to confirm whether we are processing personal information about you and, under California law only, to obtain certain personalized details about the personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months, including:

The categories of personal information collected
The categories of sources of the personal information
The purposes for which the personal information were collected
The categories of personal information disclosed to third parties (if any), and the categories of recipients to whom the personal information were disclosed
The categories of personal information shared for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes (if any), and the categories of recipients to whom the personal information were disclosed for those purposes
The categories of personal information sold (if any), and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information were sold

The Right to Access and Portability

The right to obtain access to the personal information we have collected about you and, where required by law, the right to obtain a copy of the personal data in a portable and readily usable format.

The Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request the deletion of personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.

The Right to Correction

You have the right to request that any inaccuracies in your personal information be corrected, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of your personal information.

8. How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights

To submit a request to exercise one of the privacy rights identified above, please submit a request by:

Emailing it to orders@gmi-trading.com with the subject line "CCPA and CPRA Rights Request"
Calling (718) 318-1888

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems.

9. Authorized Agents

In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. For requests to know, delete, or correct personal information, we require:

A power of attorney valid under the laws of California from you or your authorized agent; or
Sufficient evidence to show that you have:
1. Provided the authorized agent signed permission to act on your behalf; and
2. Verified your own identity directly with us pursuant to the instructions set forth in this Notice

10. Updates to This California Privacy Notice

We will update this Notice from time to time. When we make changes to this Notice, we will publish them stating the date of last amendment. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.