PRIVACY POLICY AND EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
This page outlines how Guaranteed Tip Sheet (https://www.guaranteedtipsheet.com) complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as its Privacy Policies. Guaranteed Tip Sheet is classified as a "data controller" under the GDPR. If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact tips@guaranteedtipsheet.com.
LAST REVISION: 05-22-2018
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Guaranteed Tip Sheet is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Guaranteed Tip Sheet collects information from users at several different points on our website. Third parties that advertise through our website may also collect information through cookies and you may find their privacy policy at the corresponding advertiser's website.
Guaranteed Tip Sheet offers user registration which include both free and paid levels. We only require and store User Name, Alias, E-Mail Address and Password. We do not ask for or store other personally identifiable information such as Date of Birth, Social Security Number or any kind of Financial Data. All financial data is processed securely via PayPal (see: PayPal Privacy Policy).
SITE SECURITY
Guaranteed Tip Sheet operates only using SSL for all pages served through our site. All data is stored securely behind 3 independent firewalls in an effort to secure all data, personal or otherwise. Guaranteed Tip Sheet utilizes services by Cloudflare to help increase security, improve the performance of our our site and protect against DDoS and other attacks. Under the GDPR, Cloudflare acts as a "data processor" and we have a signed Data Processing Addendum (DPA) on file. You can view Cloudflare's privacy policy here: https://www.cloudflare.com/security-policy/.
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS
We sometimes work with third-party companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to our website in order to provide advertisements on this website, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.
COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Guaranteed Tip Sheet uses cookies to enhance the user's experience, often allowing a user to browse the site more quickly. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function, especially those used when signed in as a registered user or when being referred to our site from an affiliate partner. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). Additional cookies may include those used for gathering site statictics and analytics, user preferences and marketing. Under the GDPR, users may opt in or out of all cookies not deemed necessary. All visitors will be prompted to either allow or decline these cookies upon first visiting our site and then may change their previous choices at any time (see bottom of page).
LIVECHAT
Guaranteed Tip Sheet utilizes LiveChat (www.livechatinc.com) to provide members and guests with assistance through real-time chat and support tickets. Our LiveChat software is GDPR compliant and you can read their privacy policy here: https://www.livechatinc.com/privacy-policy/. You may request a transcript of chats and support tickets along with other personal information gathered by our LiveChat software by contacting tips@guaranteedtipsheet.com. If you would like for us to purge your chats and support tickets along with other personal information gathered by our LiveChat software, please contact tips@guaranteedtipsheet.com. Please note that depending on your response to our cookie declaration policy, you may not see or be able to use the LiveChat system.
LOG FILES AND IPS
IPs are logged in the server's log file which is used for administering the site. Log files contain no personally identifiable information.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Guaranteed Tip Sheet utilizes Google Analytics to gather information on our visitors and track certain site stats and metrics. IP anonymization is automatically enabled for all data collected by Google Analytics.
LINKS
This web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Guaranteed Tip Sheet is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this site.
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Under the GDPR, you have a right to request all personally identifiable information that we collect and store on our server as well as the option to have this data purged at any time. This data is only stored for registered users and the option to request or purge this data can be found on the ACCOUNT page. You must be logged into your account to access these options.
EMAIL OPTIONS
Guaranteed Tip Sheet uses the email address of registered users in order to notify them of site updates, changes, notifications of updated content as well as password resets. Users may opt in or out of these emails through the ACCOUNT page when logged in. Note that some emails, specifically those related to site operation and important updates, will still be delivered even if you have opted out of receiving emails. Examples include lost password reset and updates to our privacy policies.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users on our Homepage. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
GUARANTEED TIP SHEET COOKIE DECLARATION:
NOTE: If you are not seeing our cookie declaration then it means that your IP address has been identified as outside of the EU and does not require consent as a part of the GDPR. If you feel this is an error, please contact tips@guaranteedtipsheet.com with your public IP address so that it can be investigated.
