Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice discloses the privacy practices for iGas USA Inc. By providing Personal Information (“PI”) to iGas USA Inc., you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice.
Personal Information (“PI”) is information that identifies you as an individual or that can be used to identify you when combined with other available information about you. We collect PI when you interact with us online and/or participate in various opportunities that we provide. We may combine the PI that we collect about you with PI you provide to iGas USA Inc., through other sources, such as product registrations, inquiries, or marketing events. We will use the combined PI in accordance with this Privacy Notice for as long as it is combined.
Collection and Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide and improve the Services, to administer your use of the Services, to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate the Services and to respond to your inquiries submitted via the Services. This information may include your:
- Name
- Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
- Telephone number
- Biometric information
- Email address
- Credit and/or debit card number
- Vendor or Customer tax ID numbers
- National ID number such as Social Security Number
- Purchase history
- Banking Information, such as account and routing numbers
- Passwords and reminder questions and answers
- IP Address
- Brower information
- Device used to access the Services
- Application version
- Device ID
- Geolocation
iGas USA Inc. collects Personal Information when you participate in various opportunities that we provide, such as:
- When you order a product or service, apply for credit, or make a request
- When you register your purchase of a product
- When you submit a warranty card
- When you register for subscriptions, technology forums or other communications through the Site or App
- When you participate in a contest, promotion, sweepstakes, survey or other promotion
- When you participate in a blog or forum
- When we conduct market research, meet you at a trade show or other event
- When you visit our locations and must establish your identity to gain access
We need to collect Personal Information to provide requested services and products to you. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. We may combine Personal Information that we collect about you with Personal Information you provide to iGas USA Inc. through other sources, such as product registrations, inquiries or marketing events. We will use the combined Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Notice for as long as it is combined.
Information About You Provided by Third Parties
In certain instances, we may also acquire PI, including personal, demographic, behavioral and indirect information) about you from third parties with whom we have a business relationship.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use the PI collected in the following ways:
- When it is necessary for the performance of a contract or to fulfill your request
- To improve our Services
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you e-mail alerts
- To complete and fulfill your purchase, for example, to process your payment, have your order delivered to you, communicate with you regarding your purchase and provide you with related customer service
- To monitor your usage of our Services
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of the information and advertising we serve you and others, and to deliver relevant information and advertising to you
- To send you important information regarding the Services, changes to iGas USA Inc.'s terms, conditions and policies and/or other administrative information
- To personalize your experience on the Site by presenting products and offers tailored to you
- To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your PI, so we suggest you read those rules carefully
- To allow you to communicate and interact with others through the Services (for example, through a blog, message board, messaging functionality, chat functionality, profile or other social media)
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the PI
- And for any other purpose with your consent
Who We Share Your PI With and Why
Except to the extent necessary to fulfill our business obligations as described in this Privacy Notice, or to accomplish a disclosure requested or authorized by you based on your express advance consent, we do not sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose the personal information we collect from and about you. We share your personal information as necessary to complete any transaction that you have requested or authorized. In addition, we share Personal Information among iGas USA Inc. affiliates and subsidiaries and with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this statement.
Customer Information Disclosed to Affiliates
We may share your Customer Information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Retention Period
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the services requested to you
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period before we can delete them); or
- Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Sensitive Information
Unless legally required, we ask that you do not send or disclose to iGas USA, Inc. any sensitive PI such as information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life or sexual orientation on or through the Services or otherwise to iGas USA Inc.
Updates to This Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Notice.