Privacy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Gearfork, we have a few fundamental principles:

• We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information we collect about you through the operation of our services.
• We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
• We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
• We aim for complete transparency on gathering, using, and sharing your personal information.

Below is Gearfork’s privacy policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

gearfork.com

Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll collectively refer to our website, mobile applications, and other products and services as “Services.”

Below, we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with your choices concerning that information.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our products or services with a separate privacy policy.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information from you. The amount and type of information depend on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

• Basic Account Information: We ask for basic information from you to set up your account for subscription, purchases, and more.
• Public Profile Information: If you have an account with us, we collect the information you provide for your public profile.
• Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us, you will provide additional personal and payment information required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information.
• Communications with Us (Hi There!): You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, submit your email for newsletter subscription, or any other method by which we can contact you.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring Site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
• Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about users’ actions on a site–in other words, who did what, when, and to what thing on a site. We also collect information about what happens when you use our website (e.g., page views, support document searches, button clicks) along with information about your device (e.g., mobile screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you and get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.
• Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
• Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, which the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and e-mails. Gearemailses cookies and other teemailsies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, track and understand e-mail campaign effectiveness, and deliver targeted ads.
• Order Information: When you make a purchase or attempt to purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information, and email address.

How We Use Information

We use the information to email you as mentioned above and as follows:

• To provide our Services–Give the best in gear, cars, clothing, and more!
• To further develop our Services–for example, by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy;
• To monitor and analyze trends of device information to better understand how users interact with our content, which helps us improve our website and make it easier to use.
• To monitor and protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Gearfork and others.
• We want to communicate with you about offers and promotions offered by Gearfork and others that interest you, solicit your feedback, or keep you updated on Gearfork and our products.
• To personalize your experience using our Services, provide content recommendations, and serve relevant advertisements.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards for your privacy:

• Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are independent contractors who need to know the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, nd independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information we share with them.
• Third-Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need information about you so they can provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us deliver our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information) and those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers). We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments when sharing information with them.
• As Required by Law: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
• To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Gearfork, third parties, or the public. For example, suppose we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. In that case, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Gearfork goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information, and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or directed.
• Aggregated and De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so the data could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about using our Services.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information you submit against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the Information You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please remember that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services–for example, paid, premium themes–may not be accessible.
• Limit Access to Information on Your Mobile Device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect, store, or locate information via our mobile apps. If you do so, you may be unable to use certain features.
• Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
• Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: At this time,  Gearfork does not respond to “do not track” signals across all our Services. However, you can usually choose to set y ur browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using Improb’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Improb’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

Gearfork is a worldwide service. By accessing or using the Services or ot erwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of data in and to the U.S. and other countries, which may have rights and protections different from those in your home country.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Advertising networks may deliver ads that appear on any of our services. Other parties may also provide analytics services through our services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device and compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Gearfork and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (“AdThrive”) to advertise on the Site. dThrive uSitestandard and widely available tools for placing and serving ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, the Site is tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrvee, Google, and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and other websites using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. ookies may be either “persistent” cooki s or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Okies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user. Still, the personal data we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Using this Site, you consent to using such cookies and sharing data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third-party partners. Y u can view, delete, and add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. Y u can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws, you have the rights, among other things, to access your data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at gearforkcom@gmail.com and contact AdThrive at gearforkcom@gmail.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which partners track your behavior using cookies, click the Privacy policy link at the bottom of the site. (An available site in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, sharing your information with a service provider for advertising could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of sharing your information for advertising purposes, click opt out at the end of the page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please get in touch with gearforkcom@gmail.com. To be clear, we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply-side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand-side platforms.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your personal information to provide targeted advertisements or marketing communications that we believe may interest you. For more information about targeted advertising, you can v Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

IMPROB – Follow the instructions in the email to unsubscribe. OR on emails here https://gearfork.com/ contact/

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our email’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

Suppose you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) scope. In that case, data protection laws give you rights concerning your data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• We request that you know our data.
• Request correction or deletion of your data.
• Object to our use and processing of your data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your data; and
• Request the portability of your data.

If you would like to exercise this right, please get in touch with us through the contact information here: https://gearfork.com/contact/

Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example, if you make an order through the Site), or other Sites to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above, add ionally, please note that your inf mation will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Improb may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Impr b encourages visitors to check this page frequently for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent.

Update: April 2025