About Us
General Motors Astronomy Club (GMAC) was formed to further the interest and knowledge of the public in the hobby of amateur astronomy and to encourage youth education in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
We highly value your privacy and care about protecting the personal information of visitors who use our websites, products, or services (collectively, our “Users”)
This privacy policy provides details about how your personal information is collected, shared, and used by us, as described below.
You can learn more about our organization at http://www.gmastronomy.com.If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our practices described herein, you may contact admin@gmastronomy.com or 13665 Hibner Rd, Hartland, Michigan 48353.
Information We Collect From You
Like most website operators, GMAC collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available such as:
- Browser Type
- Language Preference
- Referring Site
- Date & Time of each visitor request
- Pages Your View
Our purpose to collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how GMAC’s visitors use its website.
GMAC also collects potentially personal-identifying information like:
- Name
- Email address
- Personal website URL
- Internet Protocol (IP) address for logged in users
- Internet Protocol (IP) address for users placing an order
How We Collect Information
To provide email distribution services, event registration/management, and or merchandise sales, we obtain the following information about you as described below:
- Information you provide prior to any registration process, such as your email when you provide it to us;
- Information that you provide during any registration process (such as your name, company name, email address, phone number, billing address, or credit card information, geographic location and industry), when you call or email us (for support or otherwise) or when you use our products or services; and
- Payment information that you provide to us (by way of our Service or otherwise) when you purchase some of our products and services, including credit card data.
We store this data we collect in a variety of places within our infrastructure, including system log files, back end databases and analytics systems.
Protection Of Certain Personally Identifying Information
GMAC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personal-identifying information only to those of its board members, volunteers, and affiliated organizations that:
- Need to know that information in order to process it on GMAC’s behalf
- Provide services available at GMAC’s website and;
- Have agreed not to disclose it to others
- Some of those board member, volunteers, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using GMAC’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
- GMAC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying information to anyone.
- Other than to its board members, volunteers, and affiliated organizations, as described above, GMAC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when GMAC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GMAC, third parties, or public at large.
- If you are a registered user of GMAC and have supplied your email address, GMAC 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 GMAC and our events and products.
- If you send us communication (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it, for any purpose aligned with our mission statement.
- GMAC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personal-identifying information.
How We Use Your Information
We have a legitimate interest in running a successful and efficient orgaization and in providing you with Services and useful content, and we use the information we collect, both on its own and combined with any other information we collect about you, for the following purposes:
- To provide the requested Services to you;
- To provide you with useful content;
- To ensure the proper functioning of our Services
- To offer and improve our Services;
- To provide you with requested information or technical support
- To facilitate your movement through our websites or your use of our Services;
- To do a better job of advertising and marketing our Services (our use of your information to do this is performed with your consent where required by applicable law);
- To advertise and market third party products and services (such advertisement is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law)
- To diagnose problems with our servers or our Services;
- In connection with our security and compliance programs;
- To administer our websites;
- To communicate with you;
- To target prospective customers with our products or services (such targeting is only performed with your permission where your consent is required by applicable law);
- To assist us in offering you a personalized experience or otherwise tailor our Services to you; and
- As otherwise described in this privacy policy.
Statistical Data
We also use the information we receive in aggregated and anonymized formats to produce reports on trends and statistics, such as mobile search trends, email open rates by industry, campaign best practices or the number of users that have been exposed to, or clicked on, our websites or evaluated or purchased our products and services.
Payment information that you provide to us, including credit card data, will only be used to facilitate payment for our products and services.
How We Share Information
GMAC may share personal data with third parties in order to provide a better service.
- Third Party Providers – GMAC may share your information with third party providers that provide services on our behalf of resellers, who provide services to GMAC. These companies may assist with marketing support, processing credit card payments, content delivery, email, and file sharing services. Third party providers may only process personal information pursuant to GMAC’s instructions, and in compliance with the Privacy Policy and other applicable regulations.
- Advertising – Based on the cookies and other tracking devices, we may work with advertising companies to display ads that may be of interest to you.
- Business Transactions – To provide information to a third party in the event of any disposition of all or any portion of our business (e.g. reorganization, sale, assignment, bankruptcy).
- Aggregated or De-identified Data – We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified information with third party providers for research purposes relating to our Services.
- As Required by Law or Similar Investigations – To comply with legal obligations (e.g. subpoena) or investigate potential legal violations. GMAC may be required to share personal data in response to lawful requests from public authorities including to meet national security and/or law enforcement requirements.
- Safety – We may disclose your information to protect and defend the safety of GMAC in connection with investigating and preventing fraud or security issues.
- Consent – GMAC may share your information with your consent.
Cookie Policy And Other Tracking Technologies
GMAC uses cookies, beacons, tags, and other tracking technologies to gather demographic information about you, identify your visits to our Website, other interactions with our Website, and personalize your search experience on our Website. We gather information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service provider (ISP), operating system, browser type, date/time stamp, and store it in log files. To collect this information, a cookie, a standard feature of a website that allows us to store a small amount of data on your computer to allow our web servers to recognize you, may be set on your computer or device when you visit our Website. We may track your use across different websites and services. In some countries, including those in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the information in this paragraph may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.
You can control how websites use cookies by changing your cookie settings (www.aboutcookies.org), but your modification may limit your use and functionality of some of the features on our Website. We may also use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide you advertising based on your browsing activities. You may opt out of targeted advertisements by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org, or if located in the EEA, you may opt out by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
Your Choices
You may unsubscribe from receiving promotional or marketing emails from GMAC at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in the email received, or by emailing us at admin@gmastronomy.com. As outlined in the Section, Cookies and other Tracking Technologies, you can also control your cookie settings.
With respect to your account information, you may update, correct or delete information that you provided to us by logging into your GMAC account or contacting us at admin@gmastronomy.com ;
Processing Information
For individuals in the EEA, GMAC’s legal basis for collecting and using your personal information will depend on the personal information collected and the specific context in which we collect it. GMAC will process personal information from you where, a) we have your consent to do so, b) where processing is necessary for GMAC to perform Services pursuant to an agreement, or c) where processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information, or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person. At any time, you have the right to withdraw or decline consent. If you do not provide the requested information, GMAC will not be able to perform Services for you. Also, you have the right to object where we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal information.
Business Transfers
If GMAC, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the event that GMAC is dissolved or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of GMAC may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Your Rights
Individuals located in the EEA may have additional statutory rights available to them with respect to their personal information, including the right to access your personal information, have it erased, have it corrected, or object to or restrict processing. If you would like to make such a request, please email
admin@gmastronomy.com and we will respond within thirty (30) days. GMAC will need to verify that the individual is inquiring about his/her own information before we can assist with the request.
Children
Our Website and/or Services are for general audiences. We do not knowingly collect information from or about children under 13 years of age, and use of our services by children under 13 years of age is forbidden.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, GMAC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in GMAC’s sole discretion. GMAC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.