Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY
This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains what information we may collect about you, as well as how we collect, use, share, disclose or otherwise process that personal information. It also provides information about your data protection rights.
We use your information to provide you with the products and services you request, as well as to understand how and why our audiences engage with us. This allows us to personalise content, show you relevant adverts that supports our journalism, and generally improve your experience of our products and services
Privacy Policy
Effective December 6, 2019
Thank you for visiting the Royalty Screw at https://www.royalgi.com/ (the "Website" or "Royalgi Screw"). It is important to us here at Royalty Screw that you know how information about you may be utilized by us and our advertising partners and affiliations. Please take a moment to look over this privacy policy (the "Policy") which we hope will address any questions you may have. We encourage you to contact us anytime with questions or feedback about this Policy or how we can use information about you.
Royalty Screw has a separate Privacy Notice for California residents which can be found here: California Privacy Notice.
Information covered by this policy
This Policy covers personally identifiable information and other visitor information collected by Royalty Screw and our advertising partners and affiliations on the Website (sometimes referred to as the "Site") and through other means, including sweepstakes and other promotional programs and directly by our customer service department.
The Information we collect and how we collect it
Royalty Screw may collect personally identifiable information about you and your browsing history, and other information regarding your usage of the Site, including without limitation:
Customer name
Email address
User ID and password
Billing address and telephone number
Shipping address and telephone number (if different from billing address)
Job title
Federal Tax ID or SSN (DUNS # if an open account)
Credit card information (optional)
Birth date
Cookies
Viewing history
Web preferences
Purchase history
IP address
Other information needed to provide access to the Site's applications or Royalty Screw's provision of products and services to you
You consent to your information being collected, used, disclosed and stored by us and our partners and/or affiliates, only as described by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. When customers purchase products at our Site, we retain information concerning those product purchases. In addition, from time to time, customers or other visitors to our Site may be invited to voluntarily provide personally identifiable or other information and/or participate in one of our voluntary online surveys. (These customers and other visitors are informed of the information we collect and how the information will be used before agreeing to provide this information or participate in these surveys.)
Our email communications will sometimes include "refer a friend" functionality that allows the recipient to forward the email to a peer. In these cases, the referrer's personal information is not disclosed and only the referral's email address is collected.
Cookies, Beacons and other technology information
A Cookie is a small file stored on your computer by a website to give you a unique ID (each, a "Cookie"). Royalty Screw uses Cookies to track visitors to this Site, to recognize customers in order to present more personalized content and provide persistent login functionality, to improve and enhance a visitor's experience on the Site and to advertise and market our products and services, including by targeting specific or promotional offers to you. Cookies are also used to assist Royalty Screw in customizing Site information or in improving the performance or usability of the Site.
Royalty Screw also contracts with a third party data collection and reporting service ("Third Party Service") to collect and analyze information regarding customers and other Site visitors and their use of the Site. The Third Party Service may store data or use Cookies on Royalty Screw's behalf to collect such information. The Third Party Service is contractually prohibited from using information obtained in the course of providing these services to Royalty Screw in any manner other than solely for Royalty Screw's business purposes and as agreed to by this Privacy Policy.
Our Site may also use a technology called "web beacons" or "tracking pixels." These may also be referred to as "Action Tags," "Clear GIFs" or "Web Beacons" or "Web Bugs." This technology, which may also involve the use of Cookies, allows us to monitor activity on the Site and to understand which pages you visit on our Site. These tracking pixels allow us to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing and are used to help us optimize and tailor our Site for you and other future website visitors, as well as to recognize users by accessing Cookies for the use and purpose noted above. In addition, Web Beacons allow us to know whether or not you received and opened our emails to you.
Setting your Cookie preference
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. However, you can adjust your computer browser settings so that you are informed when a Cookie is being placed on your browser. You can also set your browser to decline or accept all Cookies. However, you must accept C