Privacy Statement

Giga What? Computers LLC recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of our web sites, registrants for our events, recipients of our e-mails and all other customers of our products and services. We created this policy with a fundamental respect for our customers' right to privacy and to guide our relationships with our customers. This Privacy Statement discloses the privacy practices for all products and services owned by Giga What? Computers LLC.

Collection of your Personal Information
Giga What? Computers LLC collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Giga What? Computers LLC also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Giga What? Computers LLC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Giga What? Computers LLC for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Giga What? Computers LLC Web site.

Personal Information Usage
Giga What? Computers LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate the Giga What? Computers LLC Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Giga What? Computers LLC also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Giga What? Computers LLC and its affiliates. Giga What? Computers LLC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Giga What? Computers LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Giga What? Computers LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Giga What? Computers LLC may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Giga What? Computers LLC, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Giga What? Computers LLC does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Giga What? Computers LLC keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within www.gigawhatpc.com and any of its client web sites, in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within these web sites to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Giga What? Computers LLC web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Giga What? Computers LLC or any of the web site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Giga What? Computers LLC; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Giga What? Computers LLC, or the public.

Cookie Usage
The Giga What? Computers LLC Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize one of www.gigawhatpc.com pages, or register with www.gigawhatpc.com site or services, a cookie helps Giga What? Computers LLC to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same www.gigawhatpc.com Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the www.gigawhatpc.com features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Giga What? Computers LLC web sites services or web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information
Giga What? Computers LLC secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Giga What? Computers LLC secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement
Giga What? Computers LLC will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Giga What? Computers LLC encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Giga What? Computers LLC is protecting your information.

Contact Information
Giga What? Computers LLC welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Giga What? Computers LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Giga What? Computers LLC at kkelch@gigawhatpc.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.