Privacy Policy

Last modified: 07/10/2026

Introduction

Giles Enterprises, Inc. ("Company""We", “Us”, “Our”, or “Giles”) respects your privacy and is committed to transparently letting you know how we use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our websites, including gfse.com, that links to this policy.This policy also covers information we collect about you when you contact us by phone, email, or otherwise receive our services.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights and disclosures afforded to you. Please refer to our California Privacy Notice for more information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. This policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to Our Privacy Policy” below).

Information We Collect About You

We may collect several types of information from and about you, including but not limited to the following:

  • Information you provide to us (discussed below), such as name, job title, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, company or employer, payment information such as credit card information (through our payment processors), and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
  • Information that is about you, or your activity, as website tracking information and website usage information, information about your internet connection, and the equipment you use to access our website and usage details.

For example, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you which we have grouped together follows:

  • Identity Data: includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, salutation, company name, and date of birth.
  • Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Transaction Data: includes details about products and services you have purchased from us, and may include references to payments processed in connection with the use of the website.
  • Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, internet service provider (ISP), date/time stamp, your login data, browser type, language and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data: includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and other services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also may collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal information but it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you individually, we treat the combined data as personal information which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not intend to collect certain sensitive information about you, such as your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, or criminal convictions and offenses. Please do not provide any such information in any way.

How We Collect Information

As described in more detail in the following three sections, we do or may collect information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • By way of third party advertisements, services, or features on our website.

Information You Provide to Us

We do collect information you provide to us on or through the website (in addition to any information we may collect automatically). Information we collect from you may include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering or updating an account on our website, submitting a review, submitting an order or request for information, posting material, or requesting further services. This will also include information when you report a problem or request relating to the website. If we offer a contest or promotion on the website, we may also ask you for information when you attempt to enter.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence submitted through web forms (including any attachments and any email addresses in any of those materials), if you contact us via web forms on the website.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Details of those portions of transactions you conduct through our Website, such as initiating an order. You may be required to provide financial information offline, in which case the information provided offline is not subject to this policy.
  • Your search queries on the website.

Usage Information We May Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, pages visited, IP addresses and domains of referring sites, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include and be useful for statistical data. We may do this, for example, for record-keeping purposes, to improve our website, or to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may from time to time consist of first-party and third-party “cookies,” as well as other tracking technologies (e.g., pixels, tags, web beacons, etc.). Cookies are small files that a website places on a website visitor’s hard drive through their web browser. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you choose to refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the website may not function properly as a result.

Some website content or applications (for example advertisements or pictures hosted on a third party server) may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. For example, if you see a banner advertisement for a service or product other than a Giles product, that banner advertisement may be served by a third party who may be collecting information about its appearance, your (or your computer’s) interaction with it, and other data. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us in the following ways:

  • To present our website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To provide you with notices about your orders.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website.
  • To allow you to receive email invoices.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • To process transactions
  • To provide you with support.
  • To evaluate and/or manage our relationship with you.
  • To understand your preferences
  • To improve our website, products, or services.
  • To communicate with you.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy. Some ways in which we may disclose personal information include:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer of our business or any part of it or other successor to our business or any part of it in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Giles’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Giles about our website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill, service, deliver, or provide support for an order, a product that is the subject of an order, or a request or service related to an order or a product
  • To obtain, effect, pursue, investigate or otherwise act in connection with a payment, refund, account balance, account receivable, or other financial situation.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your employer or similar entity, or a third party engaged by your employer.
  • For information processing
  • For extending credit or evaluating whether to extend credit
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use or terms of sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Giles, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

We do not respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms. Other parties may collect personally identifiable information about your activities over time and across different websites when a consumer uses the website.

Data Security

We have implemented reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this website or on or through any of its features or register on the website, make any purchases through the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at services@gfse.com.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

International Visitors

Giles’s services are hosted in the United States and are intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to access our website from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling you requests, and operating the service. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the service, you consent to such transfer, storage and processing.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: services@gfse.com.