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Frequently Asked Questions
Privacy Policy
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Do you sell or rent my information? |
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NO ! Never! No exceptions at all! All personal information you send to us are will only be used by Genpi.com to best fulfill your order, and inform you about the status of your purchase (shipping, tracking information, etc... ). We store your information on our own secure servers and do not share it with others for other purposes than to fulfill your order. |
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What information does Genpi.com collect from you? |
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In order to better provide you with numerous products and services, Genpi.com
collects two types of information about its visitors: Personally Identifiable
Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Our primary goal in
collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and
customized experience while using our site.
Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that
lets us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information is requested
when you register and set up an account, order a product or service, register
for a Gift certificate, enter contests or sweepstakes, fill out surveys, and
send us feedback. For example, this information might include your name, billing
address, shipping address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card or
other payment information, and product details. With this information, Genpi.com
can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that
does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information
about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This
information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis.
For example, this information may include the Web site's URL that you just came
from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your IP address.
Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the
Internet, browse and shop.
On an aggregated basis, we collect anonymous data related to the pages,
products, downloads and other content that is sampled, clicked on, streamed,
searched for, transferred from and downloaded. Except as otherwise limited in
this Policy, we may disclose, sell, trade, or rent Non-Personally Identifiable
Information to others without your consent.
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Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it? |
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Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Genpi.com's visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our systems.
Demographic data also may be collected at our site from third party advertising servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents who provide us with the zip code and area code associated with a visitor's server, along with pages viewed on our site. We review the actions of the Genpi.com visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. Genpi.com also does research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files, from our web site analysis agents, or from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve our product offerings, and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served or viewed. |
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How does Genpi.com gather information? |
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Shopping: We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system
administration, to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be
served on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information to our
advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect
information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain
types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit
or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing
session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to
the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are
located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their
visit, whether the visitor's computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser
language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
Ordering: When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable
information from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will
collect and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping
address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other payment
information, order number, referring URL, IP address, page you bought from and a
password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy,
in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and to
send you promotional materials. Before confirming your order, you will have the
opportunity to review the product order form and make changes and additions to
the information it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for
future use.
Gift Certificates: If you purchase a gift certificate from our site,
you will give us the recipient's name and e-mail address if you wish to send the
certificate by e-mail. If you wish to send a certificate by regular mail, you
will give us the name, mailing information and phone number for the recipient.
The recipient information you give us will only be used to send the gift
certificate and for no other purpose.
Online Surveys and Polling: In order to improve our services to you,
we ask some of our customers to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be
collected by an independent third party. Individual survey answers are
confidential, although Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected and
disclosed to third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey,
simply decline to participate when asked.
Contests and Sweepstakes: When you enter a contest or other promotion,
we may ask you for contact information such as your name, address and e-mail
address in order to administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails,
notify winners and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain
states' laws. Your consent to such promotional use and disclosure of this
information is a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving
any prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for us to
ensure that you are eligible to receive the prize according to the Contest
Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails: We offer free newsletters and
promotional e-mails as a service to our customers. We will send you newsletters
and e-mails periodically listing current specials and deals. To stop receiving
our newsletter, send an e-mail to us at
optout@Genpi.com.
Contact Information and Third Party Data: If you contact Genpi.com or
our customer service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep
a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our
site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact
us through our feedback area or by calling one of our customer service
representatives, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and order information
in order to send you a reply.
Affiliate Program: Our Affiliate Program is administered by a third
party, on a third party's Web site. Any information collected by them is not
governed by this Policy.
Web Site Use: We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout
their online session, including which pages, information and advertisements a
customer views while using the site and what items they place in their basket or
purchase. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers,
software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information. We may
share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site, sales and other
shopping information with third parties. (This does not include your personal
information
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With whom do we share your information? |
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Fulfillment: The information collected by Genpi.com, is used for
processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical
purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads, and to
notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest to you. We will
disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties to charge
your credit card, fill your order, deliver your order, provide customer service
and deliver promotional e-mails to you from Genpi.com. For example, we must
release your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm
payment; and release your address and telephone information to the delivery
service to deliver products that you ordered.
Other Parties Generally: We may provide Non-Personally Identifiable
Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns, and related site
information to third parties, but these statistics do NOT include any Personally
Identifiable Information. We may release account information when we believe
that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Use
or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Genpi.com, our users, or
others. If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit their
account information to a third party collection agency.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for Genpi.com
may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis. That analysis
is to help us to improve our site and product selection, and to notify you of
special offers that may be of interest to you. That data analysis agent may not
share any Personally Identifiable Information with others, or use it for any
other purpose than to help Genpi.com.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally
Genpi.com may be asked by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide
Personally Identifiable Information to the appropriate governmental authorities.
We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court
order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, without
prior notice to you. Genpi.com fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in
identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the
right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we believe to be
unlawful.
Sweepstakes and Drawings: Where you enter a sweepstakes, drawing or other
promotion, we may provide entry information, including name, address, email
address and age to the company providing the prize or sponsoring the promotion.
They may use your Personally Identifiable Information to send you marketing or
promotional materials or other communications.
Sale of the Company: Genpi.com and its affiliated companies each reserve
the right to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information in the event that
any such company is sold, in whole or in part, either as an entire corporate
entity or through an asset sale that includes a customer information database.
This right is reserved whether or not the customer database is sold
independently of any continuing operations of such company.
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What security precautions are in place to protect your information? |
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In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order.
Within Genpi.com, your information is kept on password protected, limited access servers. Wherever possible and applicable, Genpi.com servers reside behind a corporate firewall that maintains controls on access to the system from both our internal network and the Internet. |
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Shipping
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How much is my shipping? |
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Genpi.com automatically computes and displays shipping charges whenever you place an item in your shopping basket. Those charges are calculated based on your location relative to the source of shipping. |
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When Will My Order Ship? |
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Please use this formula to determine when your order will arrive:
Shipping Time + Shipping Method = Total Delivery Time
Shipment time (the time between ordering a product and that product leaving our warehouse) depends on stock availability. Stock availability is indicated in each product description on our web site.
Genpi.com does not ship on Saturday, Sunday or holidays. Please allow an additional 1 to 2 business days for weekend orders.
For quicker delivery Genpi.com ships from multiple warehouses and will use the warehouse closest to your location. Also, we ship each item as soon as it is ready, so don't be concerned if your order arrives in separate shipments. |
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Do you ship outside the USA ? |
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Genpi.com ships within the continental United States only. At this time we are unable to process International shipments and orders going to Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. |
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Security
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Is it Secure to buy from Genpi.com? |
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At Genpi.com, we promise that your information is secure. We are a GeoTrust
verified site.
We promise to protect your personal information. Any page at Genpi.com that asks
you for personal information is highly secure. Our secure servers protect your
information using advanced encryption and firewall technology throughout the
ordering process. Most browsers will show a lock icon in the bottom status bar
on secure pages. Look for this icon on any web page that asks for your personal
information.
To further ensure your security, we use state-of-the-art 128-bit SSL
certificate (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect your personal
information from unauthorized use. Genpi.com is proud to be a GeoTrust Secure
Site (GeoTrust is the world’s second largest digital certificate provider, and a
leader in a wide variety of Identity and Trust services)

Fig 1: Look for the "https://www.genpi.com/....."
line on your address bar when placing an order (note the "s" after "http")

Fig 2: Look for the lock icon with the "SSL Secured (128
Bit)" description on your bottom right corner of your browser. |
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