Privacy Policy


WHO WE ARE 

General Waste is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your visits to this website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please let us know.

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to: when users visit our site, respond to a survey, fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our website.

Users may be asked for name, email address, mailing address, phone number. However, users may visit our site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information.

COMMENTS

If visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

NON-PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

COLLECTION OF DATA

We log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the Internet, and may analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site. We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users’ Personal Information through these processes. This information can be used to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website, to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
The data we collect will only be used for the purpose of supplying you with the requested products or services, company marketing purposes or for other reasons for which you have given your consent, except where otherwise provided by law.

USE OF COOKIES

This website uses cookies to assist you with making your online experience more individualized. A cookie is a text file that is placed on the hard disk of your computer 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.

Cookies are used for convenience and to save you time when you next visit this website. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page, so that when you visit the site again, the experience will be personalized. 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 set your computer to accept cookies from this website, you may also choose to be logged into the site automatically. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the this website or the other websites that you visit and you may experience technical problems receiving current information from such cookie-disabled websites.

We use Universal Analytics, Google’s Web tracking tool that provides detailed data about website traffic, sources and more. We place a cookie on a browser, and then a 3rd party reads these cookies and may serve an ad on a 3rd party site. You may opt out of this ad serving on Google’s opt out page. However, even if you opt out of interest-based ads, you may still see ads based on several factors, such as your general location derived from your IP address, your browser types and recent, previous searches related to your current search. Learn more on how Google uses data here.  For more information on how to block or filter cookies, see Cookie Central FAQ.

SECURITY 

In addition, we work to protect the security of your Personal Information when transmitted to our website. We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our website.

You should know that our website has no control over the security of other sites on the Internet you might visit, interact with, or from which you engage in financial transactions. Your own efforts to protect against unauthorized access play an important role in protecting the security of your Personal Information. You should be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer, and always log out of any site when viewing Personal Information. We may have links to other outside web sites that we do not control. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites, and users should check those policies on such sites.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

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