Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Last updated: July 1, 2024

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at GPM Investments, LLC (“GPM”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed to protecting your Personal Information and your right to privacy.

This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) describes the current policies regarding the collection, use, distribution, and protection of Personal Information (as defined below) you share with us (including our subsidiaries and affialites) on any of our websites (the “Websites”), through any of our services (the “GPM Services” and together with the Website, the “Services”), as well as when you visit our stores or otherwise interact or communicate with us. A full list of our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “GPM Brands”)  that this policy applies to can be found on the Privacy Center GPM Brands.

We appreciate that you trust us with your Personal Information and take your privacy very seriously. In this Statement, we explain what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to your Personal Information. Please take the time to carefully read through this and the other documents in our Privacy Center, as they are important. If there are any terms in this Statement that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

This Statement does not apply to websites, software, or applications run by third-parties that may link to, reference, or otherwise contract with, so please reference the respective third-party privacy policy for information on how they collect and use your information.

The Statement also applies to our mobile app fas Rewards policy. Prior to July 1, 2024 there was a separate mobile app privacy.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Statement, or our practices with regards to your Personal Information, please contact us at legal@gpminvestments.com

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE COLLECT IT?
  2. HOW DO WE USE OR SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?
  3. DO WE USE COOKIES, AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION, AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

 

  1. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

 

  1. INTERNATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS? 

 

  1. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

 

  1. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

 

  1. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

 

  1. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

 

  1. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE? 

 

  1. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

 

  1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW DO WE COLLECT IT?

Summary:  We collect Personal Information that you provide to us through our Websites, when you visit our stores or otherwise communicate with us as well as any information automatically collected when you visit our Websitse.

We collect Personal Information in several ways, including:

  • Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register or open an account on any of the Websites, 

 

  • When you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services,

 

  • When you participate in activities on the Websites, 

 

 

  • When you contact us

 

  • When you participate in a contest, sweepstake or online survey

Information That Can Be Used to Identify You

The nature of the Personal Information we collect will depend on the context of your interactions with us and the Websites, the choices you make and the products and features you use. For example, this may include information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with you, your household, or your device used to access the Websites. This information includes:

  • real names; 

 

  • phone numbers;

 

  • email addresses; 

 

  • mailing addresses;

 

  • usernames;

 

  • passwords;

 

  • contact or authentication data;

Payment Information

We collect payment information, such as billing data; billing addresses; debit/credit card numbers; and other similar information when you make an in-store or on-line purchase.

We ask that all that all you provide us is true, complete and accurate, and that you notify us promptly of any changes to such information so that we can update our records.

Computer, Device and Technical Information

We also collect information from which your identity is not readily ascertainable but collected automatically through your use of the Websites or the Services This data may may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Websites and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Websites, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

 

  1. HOW DO WE USE OR SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?

Summary:  We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use the information we collect or receive:

  • To facilitate account creation and log-on process. 

 

  • Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Websites.

 

  • To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.

 

  • To send administrative information to you. We may use your PII to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

 

  • To protect our Services. We may use your Personal Information as part of our efforts to keep our Websites safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).

 

  • To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract with you.

 

  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

 

  • To fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Websites.

 

  • To administer prize draws and competitions. We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.

 

  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of Services to you. We may use your information to provide you with the requested Service.

 

  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

 

  • To send you marketing and promotional communications with your consent. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the Personal Information you send to us for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Websites, subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect Personal Information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.

 

  • To deliver targeted advertising to you with your consent. We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

 

  • For other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Websites, products, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include identifiable information.

 

We may also share your Personal Information in connection with providing the Services, as required by law or to protect our business interest. For example, we may share your Personal Information:

 

  • With service providers acting on our behalf,

 

  • With other participants in the payment ecosystem, including financial institutions, and merchants.

 

  • With third parties for fraud monitoring and prevention purposes, or other purposes required by law.

 

  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

 

 

  1. DO WE USE COOKIES, AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION, AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

 

Summary:  We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

 

We may use automated means such as cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice below.

 

Cookies and similar technologies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Websites.

 

  1. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

 

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

 

  1. INTERNATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS? 

Summary:  We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.

 

Our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Websites from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities in the United States and by those of third parties with whom we may share your Personal Information. The applicable data protection laws or other similar laws may not be as comprehensive as those in your country.

 

 

 

  1. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

Summary:  We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.

 

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Statement, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

 

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

 

  1. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

Summary:  We aim to protect your Personal Information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

 

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information we process or that you provide to us. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, transmission of Personal Information to and from our Websites is at your own risk. You should only access the Websites within a secure environment.

 

  1. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

 

Summary:  We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Websites, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Websites. If we learn that Personal Information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at legal@gpminvestments.com and we will take steps to remove that information promptly.

 

  1. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

 

Summary:  Your rights may be determined by where you live and the laws that apply to your Personal Information.

 

Rights Relating to your Account Information

 

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

 

  • Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
  • Contact us using the contact information provided.

 

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our rights and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

 

Opting out of email marketing 

 

You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list — however, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes. To otherwise opt-out, you may:

 

  • Access your account settings and update your preferences.

 

  • Contact us using the contact information provided.

 

Opting out of targeted advertising

 

When you use our online services, we (and our vendors) may collect information about your activities so that we can provide you with advertising tailored to your interests. You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance website or the Network Advertising Initiative website . If you choose to opt out, you will continue to receive advertisements but they will not be tailored to your interests.

 

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at legal@gpminvestments.com  

 

  1. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE? 

 

Summary:  Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Statement from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this Statement, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Statement frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

 

  1. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE? 

If you have questions or comments about this Statement, you may contact us by email at legal@gpminvestments.com

 

 

 

CONSUMER PRIVACY NOTICE ADDENDUM

(For Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia)

Last updated: July 1, 2024.

GPM Investments, LLC (“GPM”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.  This  Consumer Privacy Notice Addendum (“Notice”) applies solely to residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia (“you”) and describes our current policies regarding the collection, use, distribution, and protection of your Personal Data (as defined below) you share with us, our subsidiaries, and affiliates, on any of our websites (the “Websites”), through any of our services (the “GPM Services” and together with the Websites, the “Services”), when you visit our stores or otherwise interact or communicate with us, and our mobile applications which include the Privacy Statement. This Notice supplements our main Privacy Statement located above.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Notice, please contact us at legal@gpminvestments.com

  1. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

GPM may collect, use, store, disclose, analyze, delete, and/or modify (“process”) Personal Data as described in this Notice.  “Personal Data” includes information that is linked to or reasonably associated with an individual, not including de-identified data or publicly available information.

GPM may process the following categories of Personal Data:

  • Personal identifiers such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, usernames; passwords, and contact or authentication data;
  • Personal Data that is consider “Sensitive Data,” such as Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status; the processing of genetic or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person; the personal data collected from a known child or precise geolocation data (if you consent to providing any of the such data);
  • Payment information such as billing data, billing addresses, debit and credit card numbers, and other similar information provided to us when you make an in-store or on-line purchase;
  • Computer, device and technical information, which includes data through which your identity is not readily ascertainable but collected automatically through your use of the Websites or the Services, such as device and usage information including your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Websites and other technical information.

 

  1. WHY DO WE PROCESS OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We process your Personal Data for legitimate business interests, such as providing you with the Websites and the Services, to fulfill our contracts with you, to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges, to facilitate account creation and log-on processes, to request feedback regarding our Websites and Services, to manage user accounts, to send administration information to you (e.g., to send you information regarding products, services, new features, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies), to administer prize draws and competitions, and for other business purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Websites, Services, products, marketing and your experience.

We may use your Personal Data to respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your data to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

We may process Personal Data for purposes of maintaining the security and operation of our Websites and Services and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes (e.g., for fraud monitoring and prevention to keep our Websites safe and secure).  We may also process Personal Data for purposes of enforcing our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

With your consent, we and/or our third-party marketing partners may use your Personal Data to send you marketing and promotional communications or for our marketing purposes. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time. 

We may also use your Personal Data to deliver targeted advertising or profiling advertising to you with your consent.  We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.  You may opt-out of targeted advertising or profiling advertising by contacting us at legal@gpminvestments.com .

  1. HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

GPM does not sell Personal Data for monetary consideration.

GPM may share certain types of Personal Data (as described above) in connection with providing the Services, as required by law or to protect our business interests. For example, we may share your Personal Data:

  • With service providers acting on our behalf,
  • With other participants in the payment ecosystem, including financial institutions, and merchants.
  • With third parties for fraud monitoring and prevention purposes, or other purposes required by law.
  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Targeted advertising or profiling advertising.

 

You may opt-out of targeted advertising or profiling advertising by contacting us at legal@gpminvestments.com

 

  1. CONSUMER RIGHTS.

Please contact GPM at legal@gpminvestments.com if you wish to request to exercise any of the following rights:

  • To confirm whether or not we process your Personal Data and to access such data;
  • To correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data (taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and our purpose(s) for processing of such data);
  • To delete your Personal Data;
  • To obtain a copy of your Personal Data (taking into account the extent this is technically feasible); and
  • To opt-out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of targeted advertising
  • To opt-out of processing any of your Personal Data for purposes of profiling

If you wish to appeal GPM’s decision or refusal to take action regarding a request within a reasonable time, you may also contact GPM at legal@gpminvestments.com  or in writing at
8565 Magellan Pkwy Suite 400 Richmond, VA 23227 including the date of your initial request, a response (if any) received from GPM and your request for further review or appeal regarding your request.   GPM does not discriminate against consumers that may exercise any of the above consumer rights. 

  1. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA SAFE?

GPM has implemented and shall maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of Personal Data. Such data security practices are appropriate to the volume and nature of the Personal Data.

  1. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE.

The top of this Notice will include the date it was most recently updated. Using our Websites and Services where this Notice is posted constitutes your acceptance of our privacy practices described herein.

  1. CONTACT INFORMATION.

If you have questions about this notice, you may reach us by email, telephone or US Mail as follows:

Email: fasREWARDS@gpminvestments.com

Toll-Free Telephone: 1-844-400-1035

Postal Address:
fas REWARDS® Customer Service
8565 Magellan Pkwy Suite 400
Richmond, VA 23227