Privacy Policy

Last Updated on – October 13, 2024

Our Commitment To Privacy

Gwoup.com ("Gwoup") is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.

Most privacy policies published by organizations saturate and overload you with paragraph after paragraph of legal language making it nearly impossible to understand how they are tracking you and what type of data they are collecting, storing and sharing on you.

We prefer to keep our Privacy Policy as simple and straight forward as possible.

Information We Collect

Gwoup will only collect the absolute minimal amount of information on or from you that is required to provide our services.

Anonymous Data

As with all websites, Gwoup has access to your IP address, but we do not use it to track you or your actions while using our services.
As with all websites, Gwoup has access to the type and version of your browser software, internet device and its operating system, which are provided by the User Agent of your web browser.
Gwoup stores anonymous non-user-specific information that is required to improve search results, manage access limits and to prevent the abuse and exploitation of the Gwoup website and its services.

Users Not Logged In

Gwoup does not collect any user identifiable information from you when you are not logged in while using this site.
Gwoup may set and retrieve a settings cookie in your web browsers to provide access to expanded site features.
Gwoup may use third-party analytical services that track your usage of the Gwoup webite, but that information is anonymous and only used internally to improve our service.
Gwoup may use display third-party advertisements on the site.

Users Logged In

Gwoup requires user accounts to be created and maintained by persons over the age of 13 as defined by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA"). If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete that personal data.
Gwoup requires an active email address from you to create or log in to your account, but we do not share your email address with any third-party organizations without your permission.
Gwoup will set and retrieve an encrypted user authorization cookie in your browser to verify you have access to your account. This cookie is not used to track your actions while using the Gwoup website.
Gwoup does identify and store your country of origin in your account to maintain compliance with all global, regional, country, state and local laws and regulations.
Gwoup provides a Bookmarks feature that allows you to bookmark sites within the Gwoup website and while on other sites and this information is stored in our databases on our servers. The Bookmarks system is optional and any and all bookmarks can be removed at any time which will immediately remove them from our servers.

User Payments

Gwoup does not have access to your credit card information as all payments are processed through third-party reputable payment service providers on their secured servers.
Gwoup requires and stores limited general information from you such as your name, email address, IP address, country of origin and limited transaction data if you purchase services or products through the Gwoup website as required by our payment processing providers for verification purposes.
Gwoup does not share your personal information with any third-party other than what is necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

Third-Party Services

Third-party advertising networks and services are used to serve advertising on the Gwoup website.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to the Gwoup website and other websites on the internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
Third-party analytical services are used to anonymously track usage, performance and activities on the Gwoup website.

How We Protect Your Privacy

The Gwoup website stores all of its data on secure servers located in enterprise-level data centers.
The Gwoup website uses and requires encrypted SSL connections to access and use the website which encrypts all web requests and data transmitted between the Gwoup website servers and your web browser.
The Gwoup website uses a passwordless account system that does not require a username and password to access your account.
Gwoup does not share your email address with any third-parties without your permission.
You can use the Gwoup website without creating an account. Some extended features and functionality may be limited or unavailable without logging in or without cookies enabled.
Gwoup allows you to logout of all devices when you logout of your account on the Gwoup website. Any device that is currently logged in will be logged out the next time it is used to access the Gwoup website.
You can Delete Your Account at any time and your user account data will be removed from our servers within minutes.

How You Can Protect Your Privacy

You can block or disable cookies and still use many areas of the Gwoup website. Some extended features and functionality may be limited or unavailable without cookies enabled.
You can block or disable javascript and still use many areas of the Gwoup website. Some extended features and functionality may be limited or unavailable without javascript enabled.
You can block or disable tracking and still use the Gwoup website.
You can use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service to hide and protect your IP address and still able to use the Gwoup website.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

The Gwoup website Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time as necessary to address any ongoing or future issues and concerns related to privacy and to maintain compliance with all global, regional, country, state and local laws and regulations.
You should periodically check the Gwoup website Privacy Policy to ensure you are happy with any changes or updates that have been made.