Great Northern Corporation General Website Privacy Policy

Last modified: February 21, 2023

Introduction

Great Northern Corporation (“GNC”, the “Company” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through the Company’s compliance with this policy.

This policy (the “General Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit one or more of the Company’s websites (collectively, GNC’s “Website”) and the Company’s practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. The Company’s websites include the following: https://greatnortherncorp.com; https://greatnorthernpackaging.com; https://greatnortherninstore.com; https://laminationsonline.com; https://rollguard.com; https://rollguard.eu; https://fiberinteriorpackaging.com; https://customboxesnow.com; https://boltboxes.com; and https://www.creativedisplaysnow.com.

This General Policy applies to information we collect:

  • On the Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website.
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this General Policy.

The General Policy does not apply to information collected by:

  • GNC offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand the Company’s policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with the Company’s policies and practices, your choice is to not use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to the General Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to the Privacy Policy, below). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes, so please check the General Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 16

The Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No person under the age of 16 may provide any information to or through the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Website or provide any information about yourself to the Company, 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 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact the Company at 1-800-236-3671 and/or hr@greatnorterncorp.com.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, credit card number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“); and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to the Company.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and/or other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through the Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes information provided at the time you register to use the Website, posting any information to or through the Website, or request products and/or services from the Company.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email address(es)), if you contact GNC.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please note that we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with the 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 the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and/or 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.

We may use this information to help improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling GNC to:

  • Estimate its audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing the Company to customize the Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to the Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and GNC’s emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of the Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on the Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, below.

We do not collect personal information through any automatic processes.

How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to the Company, including any personal information:

  • To present the Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from GNC.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.
  • To provide you with notices about your account.
  • To carry out the Company’s obligations and enforce its rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and the Company, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to the Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on the Website.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want the Company to use your information in this way, please let the Company know. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information, below.

Disclosure of Your Information

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

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of GNC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by the Company when you provide the information.
  • 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 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 GNC, our customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to the Company. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote its own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by following the opt-out link provided in our communications to you or by sending us an email stating your request to hr@greatnortherncorp.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
  • Targeted Advertising. If you do not want GNC to use information that we collect or that you provide to the Company to deliver advertisements according to the Company’s advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by following the opt-out link provided in our communications to you or by sending us an email stating your request to hr@greatnortherncorp.com.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights, below, for more information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit the California Privacy Policy.

In addition, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their personal information.
  • Access and delete certain personal information.
  • Data portability.
  • Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.

Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:

  • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose.
  • Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact the Company via an email to hr@greatnortherncorp.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please send a written request with details to hr@greatnortherncorp.com.

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.

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 the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

It is the Company’s policy to post any changes we make to the General Policy on this page, with a notice that the policy has been updated included on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the General Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Website and this policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions, register a complaint or comment about the General Policy and GNC’s privacy practices, contact the Company at:

Phone: 1-800-236-3671

Email: hr@greatnortherncorp.com; or

Postal Address:

Great Northern Corporation

395 Stroebe Road

P.O. Box 939

Appleton, WI 54914

If you need to access this General Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact hr@greatnortherncorp.com.

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