Privacy Policies
As a member of the GE international family of companies, we subscribe to the GE.com EU Privacy Policy for European Union countries, which is provided below. You can also access the GE.com Privacy Policy for our customers in the United States.
GE.com EU PRIVACY POLICY
At GE.com, protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you furnish us with the utmost respect, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please read on for details about our practices for handling and securing your personal information.
ADDITIONAL PRIVACY INFORMATION
Information specific to certain products or services from GE or a GE subsidiary company can be found at Additional Privacy Information. This information is provided as an addendum to this policy, as various laws or the nature of those products or services may require additional description and disclosures. In addition, when you provide your personal information to us in an on-line application for one of our products or services, more specific details on how we may use and treat that information may be provided with the application. We encourage you to read this information, as well as the posted privacy policies of other web sites you visit. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? HOW DO WE USE IT ?
Anonymous Browsing You can visit the GE companies on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself, including your email address. In this case, our web servers may collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as aol.co.uk) and the web site you came from and visit next. This information is used by us and our business partners to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to our web site in general. We may also use this data to monitor site performance and to make the site easier and more convenient to use.
Personal Information Collection
There are times when we may ask you for information about yourself to assist us in meeting your various needs. This information may be used for the purpose of:
• Providing you with products or services you have requested • Servicing your account • Improving our services • Developing and/or informing you of additional products or services provided by a member of our group or our business partners that may be of interest • To provide these services, we may need to ask you directly to provide, among other things, your name, physical address, postal code, e-mail address, and phone number. Also, you may elect to apply online for one of our products or services, which may require us to gather additional information (including credit information) to determine your eligibility. Once you provide us such information about yourself, your browsing on GE websites will no longer be anonymous to us.
Please note that we do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our products or services to children.
Cookies If you are browsing, a cookie is used to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to our web site. This cookie, by itself doesn't tell us your e-mail address or who you are. If you decide to register online with one of the GE business units, we may collect additional information to provide tailored offerings or content to you. In this case, we use Cookies to recognize you on subsequent visits and make your online experience more convenient, unless prohibited by the law of the country where our server is located or which otherwise applies. SHARING OF INFORMATION AND CONSUMER CHOICE
When you provide information to us, we may share your information with our affiliated companies and third parties for the purpose of fulfilling your requests as well as offering you other products and services that may be of interest to you. These affiliated companies and third parties may be in the European Union or in other parts of the world. When you submit personal information to us during your visit to GE Equipment Services, we will let you know how you can prevent disclosure of this information to third parties for marketing purposes, if you so choose. We may also aggregate statistics that we gather about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics to third parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personal information that identifies individuals. E-MAIL COMMUNICATION AND ONLINE SURVEYS
Occasionally, we will send you e-mail communications with information, which may be useful to you, including information about our products and services or about offerings from affiliates or third parties. When you first provide us with your e-mail address, you will be given the option of not receiving any such e-mail or other marketing contacts if you choose. We will include instructions in our e-mail messages on how to unsubscribe if you later decide you do not want to receive any future e-mails or other marketing contacts.
At times, we conduct online surveys to better understand the needs, profiles, and experience of our visitors. You will be given the option of not participating in such surveys.
HOW DO YOU ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION?
In some cases you may want to update the information that you have provided to us. This may require you to use a unique user name and password (or "PIN"). Also, you may request that we modify or delete information we have gathered during your visit.
HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION SECURED AND PROTECTED?
GE Equipment Services uses encryption and authentication tools among other methods to protect your web-based personal information. E-mails you send us are not necessarily secure when they are transmitted to us. If your communication is sensitive or includes highly confidential information such as a credit card number, you may want to provide it by post or via the telephone instead.
We instruct our employees with access to your information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business. Employees who misuse customer information are subject to disciplinary action.
WHAT IF WE CHANGE OUR PRIVACY POLICY?
GE and its affiliated companies reserve the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at anytime. If we make any material change, we will update our web site to include such changes. We will seek your consent if we want to use your personal information for purposes other than those you have agreed to previously.
WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK
In order to continually monitor and strengthen our privacy procedure, we have on staff a Manager of Privacy, who can be contacted at GEFN.Privacy@GECapital.Com. Please contact the Manager of Privacy if you have questions about information security, privacy and usage at GE Equipment Services that were not answered here. We welcome any suggestions to our Privacy Policy.
Additional Privacy Information
More detailed information about privacy information relating to GE's various products and services can be found at the following link: Website Usage Agreement |