Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 2008GlobalFranchise.Net, a Global Franchise Net Inc. Ltda ME subsidiary, is committed to protect your privacy. This privacy statement applies to the data collected by Global Franchise through www.globalfranchise.net that links to this statement (the "Site"); it does not apply to data collected through other online or offline sites, products or services.
Collection of Your Personal Information
To browse this Site, it is not necessary to provide any personal information. However, we may collect information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you on our Site. The personal information we collect may include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with the Site. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every Web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.
To register at GlobalFranchise.Net, you will be asked to enter an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your membership credentials. After you create your membership ID, you can use the same credentials to sign in. By signing in on the GlobalFranchise.Net site, you may be automatically signed in when you access other services, such as those identified as protected, in the current edition, which present an image of a key-lock icon.
Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information collected on the Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.
In support of these uses, Global Franchise may use your personal information to respond to an inquiry, to improve the Site, and to make the Site easier to use by customizing the Site to your particular preferences or interests.
In addition, we may use your personal information to provide you with important information about the services that you are using, including updates and notifications. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about other Global Franchise products and services.
Global Franchise occasionally hires third parties to provide limited services on its behalf, such as Web site design, programming, hosting, packaging, mailing and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, and sending information about our products, special offers, and other new services. We will only provide those companies with the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of our information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Our Site may have sections with articles. The "share this" function or RSS image icon in the articles section of the Site allows you to bookmark a posting or to e-mail it to yourself or a friend. When you use the "share this" feature to send a posting to a friend, we use your personal information and your friend's e-mail address only to deliver the posting to your friend. The "share this" feature is hosted on our Web site, and both your personal information and your friend's e-mail address are not shared with any other company, nor do we use this information for any other purpose.
Some Global Franchise services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Global Franchise and the other company may share information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services. Global Franchise may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Global Franchise; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Global Franchise; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Global Franchise products or members of the public.
Personal information collected on the Site may be stored and processed in Brazil or any other country in which Global Franchise, its affiliates or service providers maintain facilities or do business, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Control of Your Personal Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of Global Franchise and its affiliates without your consent.
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Global Franchise, by following the specific instructions to unsubscribe within the e-mail you receive.
If you wish to unsubscribe from a newsletter, you may opt-out by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any of the e-mail newsletters you receive.
Please be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make on the Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to Global Franchise in the context of other, separately operated, Global Franchise products or services. Although Global Franchise provides links to other sites and access to third parties that may provide valuable information, we cannot control how they manage the personal information they receive from us. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and data collection procedures on their Web site.
Access to Your Personal Information
You can review and edit the personal information you provided at the Site by contacting us through our Web form and we will contact you within 30 days regarding your request.
Security of Your Personal Information
Global Franchise is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited accesses that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies on the Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a Web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site's features that you customized.
Cookies may also be used to measure user traffic such as browsing patterns and user visits. This information helps us to provide a better user experience through the use of statistics and measurements of user satisfaction. Some of this information may be collected and compiled by third-party service providers who place cookies on our Web site to provide us with Web analytics.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use interactive features of this or other Web sites that depend on cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
Global Franchise Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our Site and allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Global Franchise may also employ Web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We prohibit Web beacons on our Site from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
Contact Information
Global Franchise welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us using our Web form or write to us at the address below:
Global Franchise Privacy
Rua Dr. Fonseca Brasil, 107 – Morumbi
São Paulo SP 05716-060
Brazil
