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Our privacy policy.

Important information for your use of our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Gessel & Associates collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Gessel & Associates’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Gessel & Associates’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Gessel & Associates may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gessel & Associates also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Gessel & Associates does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Gessel & Associates’s websites choose to interact with Gessel & Associates in ways that require Gessel & Associates to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Gessel & Associates gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at this website to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Gessel & Associates are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Gessel & Associates collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Gessel & Associates Gessel & Associates does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Use of Personal Data

Gessel & Associates may collect aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Gessel & Associates may monitor the most popular website account on this site. Gessel & Associates may display this information publicly or provide it to others. Gessel & Associates does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Gessel & Associates discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Gessel & Associates’s behalf or to provide services available at Gessel & Associates’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Gessel & Associates’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Gessel & Associates will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Gessel & Associates discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Gessel & Associates believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Gessel & Associates, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Gessel & Associates website and have supplied your email address, Gessel & Associates may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Gessel & Associates and our products. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Gessel & Associates takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Gessel & Associates uses cookies to help Gessel & Associates identify and track visitors, their usage of Gessel & Associates website, and their website access preferences. Gessel & Associates visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Gessel & Associates’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Gessel & Associates’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Gessel & Associates may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Gessel & Associates’s sole discretion. Gessel & Associates encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

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