Our cookies do not use or process Personal Information, and only track anonymized Device Data about browser activity and Site or server performance.

 

Third-party Cookies

 

From time to time, some pages on the Site may link to or display Content from, or hosted by third-parties, such as videos on YouTube. To view this third-party Content, you will have to accept their terms of service and privacy policies, including their cookie policies, which we have no control over. We encourage you to read those terms and policies to learn how you can manage third-party cookies.

 

Managing Cookies

 

You may consent or refuse the use of cookies on our consent banner. You may also set your browser to refuse or delete cookies, including those associated with our Site.

 

However, essential or necessary cookies used to operate the Site do not require your consent, and cannot be refused. 

 

Other cookies may be considered non-essential or non-necessary because they keep track of how you interacted with the Site, or technical data, such as how the Site code and servers are performing, which are not strictly necessary to reading or viewing the Site.

 

You are free to refuse non-essential or non-necessary cookies on our consent banner, or you can set your browser to refuse or delete those cookies associated with our Site.

 

However, by refusing or deleting those cookies, some parts of the Site may not work as you expect, and you may lose saved information (such as your preferences about our cookies), and you will have to set your preferences each time you visit the Site.

 

Please note that we do not currently respond to browser or device “Do Not Track” settings that allow you to opt-out of information collection about your activities on the Site.

 

HOW WE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION

 

We are very concerned with safeguarding your information. We take reasonable steps to protect your information, including Personal Information and Device Data, using industry standard security measures, such as HTTPS secure access for our Site, and SSL encryption on our systems to protect against unauthorized access, use, loss, alteration or destruction of your information. Additionally, our service providers for hosting the Site provide cookies for security and regularly monitor their systems for vulnerabilities and attacks.

 

However, we are not in the business of providing information security, and we cannot guarantee your information will be perfectly secure.

 

We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored “personal data” (as defined in applicable statutes on security breach notification) to you via email or conspicuous posting on the Site as soon as commercially practicable, and without unreasonable delay, so long as those disclosures are consistent with (a) the legitimate needs of law enforcement; or (b) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

 

Do not provide us with Personal Information if you believe disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm, or if you are concerned about our security practices.

 

DATA RETENTION

 

We will retain your information for as long as you have an Account, or as needed to provide a Service.

 

We may retain an archived copy (not accessible to third-parties) of your information after you terminate your Account or stop using our Services for a reasonable time, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to maintain accurate business records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or abuse, enforce our agreement with you, and/or protect our legitimate business interests.

 

To determine what is a reasonable period of time to retain user information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purpose for processing the information, and applicable legal requirements.

 

INFORMATION AND DATA ABOUT CHILDREN

 

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 18, or allow them register Accounts.

 

If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with their Personal Information without the permission of their parent or legal guardian, we will delete the information from our systems. Do not submit any Personal Information to us if you are under the age of 18.

 

If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you should contact us immediately at info@goldenbeaconusa.com to request we delete your child’s information.

 

WHERE WE STORE AND PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION

 

Personal information about users is controlled and/or processed in the United States. If we ever need to process your information in a place other than the United States, we will ensure it has an adequate level of protection that conforms with our obligations under this Privacy Policy, as well as the requirements under the law where you are located.

 

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, we will be the controller or processor of the information (depending on the purpose you gave us the information), and we will transfer your information from your location to the United States.

 

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

 

YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR INFORMATION

 

You may contact us at any time to review, update, correct or delete your Personal Information. Also, when we rely on your consent to process Personal Information, you can withdraw your consent at any time, and withdrawal will take effect from then on.

 

We will not charge you for exercising these rights unless it is permitted by law, such as when requests are unfounded or excessive.

 

If you would like us to terminate your Account, delete your information, stop using your information, or make changes to your information, you may do so from your Account settings, or you may contact us at info@goldenbeaconusa.com with your request. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request as soon as possible, subject to legal and other permissible considerations.

 

For the safety and security of all users, keep in mind that we will take steps to verify a user's identity before complying with any request for Personal Information, and we may not comply with a request if we cannot verify your identity.

 

If you are unsatisfied with our response to any request, you have the right to file a complaint with your local authorities for data protection.

 

NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, UK, AND SWITZERLAND

 

If you are a resident of the European Union ("EU"); United Kingdom (and Gibraltar) ("UK"); or Switzerland, you have rights as a data subject concerning your "personal data" as defined under GDPR (which includes all your Personal Information and Device Data), and you should know the following:

 

Our legal bases for processing personal data are as follows: (a) user consent; (b) as necessary to perform a transaction, such as to provide users with requested products and services; (c) as necessary to comply with legal obligations, such as business record keeping to substantiate tax liability; (d) as necessary for legitimate interests, such as maintaining the safety and security of the Site and other Services.

 

If we transfer your personal data from the United States to another place outside of Europe, we will ensure (i) there is a level of protection deemed adequate by the European Commission at that place; or (ii) that the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place with the party importing the data; or (iii) that we use another legally recognized transfer mechanism in the applicable jurisdiction.

 

Data Privacy Framework

 

Golden Beacon complies with Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) that embeds the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Swiss-U.S. DPF”) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, European Commission, UK Government, and Swiss Federal Administration regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data transferred from the EU, UK, and Switzerland to the United States.

 

We have certified to the U.S. International Trade Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce that we adhere to the Data Privacy Framework Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the Data Privacy Framework Principles, the Data Privacy Framework Principles shall govern. Our commitment to the Data Privacy Framework is subject to the enforcement and investigative powers of the United States Federal Trade Commission.

 

To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework Program, please visit: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov. You may also confirm our participation in DPF by visiting the DPF List here: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list.  

 

We may share personal data with third parties under certain circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, subject to obligations under the Data Privacy Framework Principles, to third-parties acting as our agents who help us run our business and provide the Services. We remain liable if such a third party agent processes personal data subject to this Policy in a manner inconsistent with this Policy, except when we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

 

In compliance with the Data Privacy Framework Principles, we will resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. EU, UK and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Data Privacy Framework policy should first contact us at info@goldenbeaconusa.com.

 

We have further committed to refer unresolved Data Privacy Framework complaints to an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that you believe we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact the international division of our third-party dispute resolution provider, the American Arbitration Association, for more information or to file a complaint. The services are provided at no cost to you.

 

If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, you may, under certain conditions described on the Data Privacy Framework website, invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted. For more information on this option, please see Annex I of the Data Privacy Framework Principles.

 

Other Rights under Applicable Law

 

If you make any request to exercise your rights under applicable law, we will respond to the request without undue delay, no later than 1 month after receiving your request, or up to 2 months when we notify you about the extension of time. If we reject a request, we will inform you of the reasons for doing so, and your right to file a complaint with the relevant data protection authority where you are located.

 

NOTICE TO US STATE RESIDENTS

 

If you are resident of the United States in the State of California, you have rights under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, to know how we use and disclose your "personal information" as defined under CCPA (including all your Personal Information and Device Data) as follows:

 

Consistent with this Privacy Policy, we may collect certain categories and specific types of personal information about individuals. Specifically, we may collect the following types of personal Information: (i) "Identifiers" such as names, telephone numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords for our websites, and IP addresses; (ii) "Commercial information", such as information about products or services purchased, obtained or considered, other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies, payment information, and transaction history; and (iii) "Internet or other electronic network activity information" such as computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the websites, and other standard weblog information.

 

We may collect the categories of personal information described above from you and third parties. The categories of third parties from whom we may collect personal information may include: third-party service providers.

 

We may collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the “Why We Use Your Information” Section above. We may also share and/or disclose your personal information as follows:

 

Consistent with this Privacy Policy, we may share the following categories of information for our business purposes: (i) Identifiers; (ii) Commercial Information; and (iii) Internet or other electronic network activity information.

 

We may share the following categories of your personal information with third party partners in a manner that constitutes a “sale” (as that term is broadly defined under California law): (i) Identifiers; (ii) Commercial Information; and (iii) Internet or other electronic network activity information, for marketing, analytics, product or service performance measurements.

 

We do not knowingly share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age, in a manner that constitutes a “sale” under California law.

 

Subject to certain exceptions, as a California resident, you have the right to: (i) request access to your personal information; (ii) request deletion of your personal information; (iii) request information about the personal information about you that we have disclosed and/or “sold” (as that term is broadly defined under California law) to third-parties within the past 12 months; and (iv) opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information, as detailed above.

 

You may opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information on our consent banner, or by emailing us at info@goldenbeaconusa.com.

 

If you want to exercise your rights with regard to your personal information, we will not discriminate against you by offering you different pricing or products, or by providing you with a different level or quality of products, based solely upon your requests. You also have the option of designating an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf.

 

For authorized agents submitting requests on behalf of California residents, please contact us as described below, with your documentation that you have been authorized by a California consumer to submit a request on their behalf.

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

 

Our Site may contain links to other websites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s website. The fact that we link to a third-party website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third-party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices.

 

We do not exercise control over third-parties or their websites. Other websites may use their cookies, collect data, or solicit information from you, and they may follow different practices and policies about the use or disclosure of any Personal Information you share with them.

 

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you visit before you share your Personal Information with them.

 

CONTACT US

 

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or our practice and procedures about your information, please contact us at info@goldenbeaconusa.com. You can receive our current mailing address for any questions by emailing support.