GoldVu.com's Privacy Policy
Relating to You and Your Data

This Privacy Policy is all about you and protecting your privacy and personal information. You are incredibly important to us GoldVu.com and we want to ensure that you are fully protected and are comfortable entrusting us with your data.

At GoldVu.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognise that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use GoldVu.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

GoldVu.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that GoldVu.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to GoldVu.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

GoldVu.com uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Furthermore where we use Google's Search Box on GoldVu.com, we are required to post the following from Google:

"The search box on this web site ("Search Box") is powered by Google Inc. ("Google"). You acknowledge and agree that Google's privacy policy (located at https://policies.google.com/privacy) shall apply to your use of the Search Box and by using the Search Box you consent to Google using your personal data in accordance with its privacy policy."

GoldVu.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

In order to do a year to year comparison on any data collected by Google Analytics, we have set our Data Retention settings at Google Analytics to 26 months, after which Google will automatically delete the data.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on via this link:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies which can be found on this Google AdSense list to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalised ads for over 125 different ad networks here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalised ads by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Affiliate and Introducing Broker Products and Services

We receive an affiliate and introductory commission for some of the products sold on GoldVu.com.

The affiliate and introducing broker services platforms we use and their associated privacy policies are listed below. By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below.

Data Services

We use third-party providers for financial market data. The providers we use are:

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse GoldVu.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

GoldVu.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate our site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  • To personalize your user experience.
  • To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
  • To improve our site.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
  • To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email we send.

GoldVu.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.

If you open an account through us, we will collect your name, email address and residential address. If it is a corporate account, then we will also collect, your title/position and business address.

This site also uses Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings. You can see Facebook's privacy policy here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

GoldVu.com offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. We provide links for easy access to My Yahoo and Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review its privacy policy:

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities and opening an account with us.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Social Media

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of:

GoldVu.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell GoldVu.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Data protection

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

If you wish to review your information stored on the SiteSell servers for GoldVu.com, click on this link. You can also edit, download or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, then click on the below link to have the information we hold on you, sent to you:

You can also request to edit, download or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link: 

Note, you are not able to request to be edited or deleted, your historical financial transactions that we hold due to the relevant overriding financial legislations and regulations.

Updates and Effective Date

GoldVu.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to GoldVu.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: 14th January 2020

Any Questions About Your Data?

If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy then please get in touch with us via our Contact Us page.

Authored by David Gibson:

Authored by David Gibson:

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