Last Updated 7/22/2013
Good-Thrift™ Benefit Corporation (Good-Thrift) respects the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognizes the importance of protecting the information you share with us. We have adopted an Online Privacy Policy that guides how we collect, protect, and manage the information you provide.
What personal information is collected?
Good-Thrift only collects personal information from online visitors on a voluntary basis and only upon completion of the Contact Form. Good-Thrift collects name, address, and contact information. Good-Thrift does not collect or store payment or financial information.
What happens to the information provided?
When a request for contact is placed, name contact and address information is shared internally only as required to facilitate the contact by us.
Communication from Good-Thrift
Special offers and updates
We will occasionally send you educational information and offers that we deem to be of good value. Out of respect for your privacy, you may opt out of receiving these types of educational and marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each email we send.
Service-related announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, when a new request to be contacted by us is placed, we may send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.
Customer service
Based upon the personal information you provide us, we will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the information you request. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Testimonials
We receive permission to post testimonials prior to posting them on the Good-Thrift website.
Information sharing and disclosure
When a request for contact is placed, name contact and address information is shared only as required to facilitate the contact by us.
What about cookies?
A “cookie” is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. The Good-Thrift website uses cookies and other methods to monitor website usage. Cookies need not be enabled to access the site.
Good-Thrift uses session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our site.
Good-Thrift uses Google Analytics, a popular third party tracking utility, which uses cookies on the Good-Thrift website. We have no access to or control over these cookies. To learn more about Google’s privacy policy, visit http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/privacy.html. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by the Good-Thrift website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any of our partner sites.
Log files
As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. Server and application software tracks user IP numbers and logs browser types, access times, domain names, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personal information.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personal information about visitors to our site in the aggregate in order to capture usage and volume statistics and to improve our website.
Safeguarding your personal information
Good-Thrift encrypts all data transmissions using secure socket layer (SSL) technology. We will only collect personal information to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes, and we will maintain advanced safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of your personal information.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, but Good-Thrift strives to provide a superior level of protection of your information.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can send us your question by clicking on Contact and sending us an email.
Legal disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Links to other sites
This website may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Good-Thrift. Please be aware that we, Good-Thrift, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects your personal information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
Contacting us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our information practices, you can send us your question by clicking on Contact and submitting the form, or send correspondence to:
Good-Thrift Benefit Corporation
1332 Cape Saint Claire Road
Annapolis, MD 21409
By using this site, you signify your assent to the Good-Thrift Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. Good-Thrift reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently to ensure you are aware of any updates. Good-Thrift’s privacy policy will indicate the date it was last updated, and Good-Thrift may notify you of specific changes from time to time. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. Your continued use of the Good-Thrift website will signify your acceptance of these changes.