Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice

PROTECTING AND RESPECTING YOUR PRIVACY

Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable, and Farm Market Expo (“GLEXPO”, “our”, “us”, or “we”) is proud to present to you the Great Lakes Expo (the “Expo”). As you seek more information about the Expo and register for the Expo, we wanted to provide information about how we treat the information that we collect about you during that process as we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we may collect information from you, including via our Website located at https://glexpo.com (the “Website”), paper mail, in-person interaction, email or via the phone, and how that information may be used.

By interacting with us and providing us information about yourself, including by registering for the Expo, you agree to this Privacy Notice governing our collection of information. If you do not accept this Privacy Notice, you must not provide us any information about yourself, including not using our Website and not registering for the 2024 Great Lakes EXPO.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We collect information that you choose to provide to use when you register for the Expo or otherwise communicate with us through the Website, email, in person, over the telephone, or by mail. During the registration process, we may request certain contact information about you such as your name, address, email, and details about your Expo registration.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only collect personal information from you (such as name, address, telephone number, email address, business information, etc.) which you have provided voluntarily to us either by completing registration, registering to be an exhibitor, or enquiry forms or sending emails to us. Please do not submit your personal data to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

COLLECTION OF OTHER INFORMATION

We may collect information about you automatically when you visit this Website. The collection of information may involve the use of cookies and web beacons. A web beacon is a small graphic image placed on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor visitors to our Website. A cookie is small text file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you first visit our site.

The information collected by cookies and web beacons is not personally identifiable, it includes general information about your computer settings, your connection to the internet e.g. operating system and platform, IP address, your browsing patterns and timings of browsing on our Website and your geographical location.

If you would like to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Services or some of its functionality may be affected.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

You agree that we may obtain, hold, correlate, merge and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with our services and ancillary services and for our internal business purposes. These include (without limitation):

To personalize, maintain, optimize, and improve the Website, including research and analytics regarding use of the Website, or to remember you when you leave and return to the Website.
To improve our services to you.
To provide and improve our services, to provide you with customer services, to process any transactions that you request or that may be necessary, or to authenticate you as a registrant.
To inform you about the latest changes to our Website, services or promotional offers, including other events, that you might find interesting.
Informing you if you have been successful in any of the competitions or promotions
To contact you regarding marketing endeavors.
For market research purposes.
To invite you to participate in user testing and surveys as well as sweepstakes, competitions, contests, and similar promotions.
To support core business functions, including internal audits.
To contact exhibitors about being sponsors.
To comply with legal and compliance obligations.
For security and fraud prevention.
For accounting purposes.
For any purpose required by law or regulation.
For strategic development.
To support health and safety at our events; and/or
For any additional purposes that you specifically consent to.

HOW WE SHARE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION

If you do register for the Expo, we may share your information with our marketing partners, such as magazine publications, to allow them to market products and services that are similar to those advertised, shown, or otherwise displayed at the Expo, and to allow you to register for next year’s Expo.

Vendors and Service Providers. We may share analytic information about you, such as demographic information, or information that does not personally identify you with our third party vendors and service providers that provide us with specialized services regarding putting on the Expo, including, but not limited to, customer services, registration, payment processors, subscription fulfillment, accommodations, booth decoration, freight services, research statistical analysis, application development, postal mailing, email and fax deployment, and other information services.

Please note that we do not share a list of registrants with the Expo exhibitors to allow Expo exhibitors to market to you directly.

Internally and with Corporate Affiliates. We share personal information with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, who process personal information on our behalf, where necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested, or in other circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law. Otherwise, we use your information internally for our purposes, including to plan future events and to market future events to you.

Legal and compliance. Notwithstanding any other provision of this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you to any third party when disclosure is required by law, or desirable to permit us to exercise or preserve our legal rights or take action regarding potentially illegal activities, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the safety of any person.

Business transfers: In the event we are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity or in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR PRIVACY

As required or permitted by law, you may be entitled to certain data privacy rights, including: (i) the right to control the dissemination of your personal information; (ii) the right to receive computerized personal information collected from you in a structured, commonly used and technological format and to have this information transferred directly to another organization; (iii) the right to be informed of and submit observations regarding automated decision-making; and (iv) the right to request information about data processing. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in the personal information we have in our custody or control, withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information or exercise any additional privacy rights available to you, by submitting a written request to us via email to ocrum@glexpo.com subject matter “Canadian Privacy Rights Request”. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to their personal information records. Please note that if you withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, we may not be able to provide some or all of our services to you. If you believe that applicable data protection laws have not been complied with, you may lodge a complaint with us by using the contact information provided below. You also have the right to complain directly to the appropriate data protection authority.

DO NOT TRACK

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. The information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this privacy policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES

This Privacy Notice applies only to information collected via our Website and not to other websites to which we provide links, such as to hotels. We also enter into agreements with commercial partners whose websites may be linked from our Website so that you may visit directly through our Website. These websites are not subject to our Privacy Notice.

We may create links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you, such as providers of various products and services. We may also provide links that allow you to send or forward a post from our social media or Website through or to third-party social media sites, or other means of electronic communication, such as an email or text messaging service. We do not endorse any other websites, providers, or services by providing such links, and this privacy policy applies only to your use of our services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of any websites and services we link to on our Services, and you should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what data that site may collect about you. You are advised to read the Privacy Notice of such other websites to learn how those companies collect, use and share your information.

Our Website may also integrate with social media websites. We do not control such social media websites, and are not liable for the manner in which they operate. While we may provide you with the ability to use such services in connection with our services, we are doing so merely as accommodation and, like you, are relying upon those third-party services to operate properly and fairly.

You should be aware that any personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, forum, social network, or otherwise may be viewed and used by others. By using such features, you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.

CHILDREN

This website is not directed at children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that this website has collected the personal information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us via the “CONTACT US” Section below.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain the personal information we hold about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need or as needed to provide you with our services, and for a reasonable time thereafter in accordance with our standard procedures or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Even if we delete some or all of your information, we may continue to retain and use anonymous or aggregate data, or any other data that constitutes non-personal information. Please note that we will not be liable for disclosures of your data due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties.

CROSS BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

We may store this information in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States and voluntarily submit information to us, we may transfer that information to and store that information in the United States. The data protection laws in countries to which personal data are transferred may or may not provide a level of protection equivalent to the laws in your home country. Wherever we hold the data, we will apply the terms of this privacy policy and any applicable data protection law.

DATA SECURITY

We maintain certain procedures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of information you submit to us or that we collect while it is controlled by us. We also use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to promote the security of our systems and protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of personal information. However, the storage and communication of such information cannot always be completely secure. Also, we cannot and do not guarantee that data transferred to third parties in accordance with this privacy policy will be protected against intentional or accidental misuse or loss.

SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY

No data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure, and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of our sites. However, we use our reasonable endeavors to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorized access or use.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may change our Privacy Notice from time to time without notification and you should regularly review this Privacy Notice when you visit the Website.

If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Notice, please contact us at ocrum@glexpo.com.

TERMS OF USE

TERMS

By accessing this website located at https://glexpo.com (the “Website”), you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this Website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

USE LICENSE

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on the Website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the Website;
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable, and Farm Expo (“GLEXPO”, “our”, “us” or “we”) at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

DISCLAIMER

The materials on the Website are provided “as is”. GLEXPO makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, GLEXPO does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this Website.

LIMITATIONS

In no event shall GLEXPO or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on GLEXPO’s Internet site, even if GLEXPO or a GLEXPO authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

REVISIONS AND ERRATA

The materials appearing GLEXPO’s could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. GLEXPO does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. GLEXPO may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. GLEXPO does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

LINKS

GLEXPO has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by GLEXPO of the Website. Use of any such linked web site is at the user’s own risk.

SITE TERMS OF USE MODIFICATIONS

GLEXPO may revise these Terms of Use at any time without notice. By using the Website you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms of Use.

GOVERNING LAW

Any claim relating to GLEXPO’s Website shall be governed by the laws of the State of Michigan without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

If you have any questions or complaints about these Terms of Use, please contact us at ocrum@glexpo.com.

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