Collection of Information - We collect several types of information to best serve our customers, vendors, banks or creditors, employees, associates or affiliates, visitors, investors or shareholders, or other valuable contacts (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as "Person") wanting GVA Services, Products or Information. Such may be personally or non-personally identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information - Personally identifiable information is any information that GVA attempts pooling from a Person whether orally, electronically or online through any of its websites, to identify, contact or service the Person with the Services, Products or Information offered by or as relevant to GVA or its subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, partners, employees, contractors, consultants, authorized third parties (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as "GVA"). Such information may include details as may be necessary for GVA to register, renew or cancel the Service or Information Request made by the Person (including Primary name, address, email address, telephone number and birth date etc). We may request other non public but personally identifiable information from a customer when the individual uses our services or products (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "Service"). Such information may include all the details as are necessary for GVA to process and complete Person's Service or Product Request. We may also receive personally identifiable information from the company in which the customer is employed (or the organization to which the customer applied for employment), a college (or university) that the customer attends and/or a Third Party Organization that seeks information from us (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "Entity"), to which Entity the said Person might have provided personally identifiable information and which uses our Service or Information.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information - Non-personally identifiable information is information that, which by it, cannot be used to identify or contact a Person, such as nationality, profession or gender etc. Non-personally identifiable information may also include user IP addresses, browser types, domain names, name and other particulars of the Entity, and other identifiable or anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Service or Information.

In addition, our Web site tracks information about the visits to our Web site. For example, we compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors to our site, the daily requests we receive for particular files on our Web site, and from which countries those requests come. These aggregated statistics are used internally to better provide services to the public and may also be provided to others, but again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

To effectively process your order, GVA needs to know some standard information, such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number and telephone number. For the purposes of preparing and filing your tax return, we need to know the residential status, money spent towards certain expenses and investments, Retirement plans contributed into, spouse and dependent information etc. For the purpose of forming your corporation or limited liability company (LLC), trust, estate etc we need to know the following information: the name you want your business entity to have, a brief description of the purpose of your business, the name and address of the corporation or LLC's registered agent, the name and address of the directors and officers of your corporation or members or managers for an LLC, how many shares of stock your corporation will be authorized to issue and the par value of such stock etc.

It is our policy that the information you provide is private and confidential. All order information is encrypted with secure server software to protect it from unauthorized access. Your credit card information and password for accessing the Online Corporate Status Center remain encrypted within our database and we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Additionally, we do not sell, rent or trade your personally identifiable information.

Updates - GVA may occasionally notify you of our or our partner's new services and special offers via periodic mailings or e-mail updates. For all e-mail-based marketing communications individuals on our database are automatically enrolled for our e-newsletter and email-based promotions. If you are receiving these materials and would like to be removed from our list, please send an email to sales@globalvalueadd.com.

Laws and Legal Rights - We may also disclose information (including personally identifiable information) if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with an applicable statute, regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other valid legal process. We may disclose personally identifiable information in special circumstances when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Terms and Conditions of our Services, or to protect the safety and/or security of GVA, our users, or the general public.

Third Parties Generally - We reserve the right to provide to third parties information that does not allow any Person to be identified or contacted, including where such information is combined with similar information of other users of the Service or Information. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who seek our Service or Information and the information breakdown of registered users of our Service or Information. The third parties to which we may provide this information may include potential or actual commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

Outside Contractors - We may employ independent contractors, vendors and suppliers (collectively, "Outside Contractors") to provide specific services and products related to our Service or Information, such as tax preparation and planning, customer care (call, and support centers), back office management, research and knowledge processing; managed hosting and maintenance of our Service or Information - Servers (rented, leased or co-located), VOIP, data storage, fraud screening, and developing applications for our Service, Information, websites or e-mail accounts. In the course of providing products or services to us, these Outside Contractors may sometimes have limited access to information collected on the Service, including personally identifiable information. We sign Confidentiality Agreement with these Outside Contractors and require that these contractors (1) protect the privacy of personally identifiable information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and (2) not use or disclose Information of GVA or personally identifiable information of any Persons using GVA Service or Information for any purpose other than providing us with the products or services for which we contracted and without written consent being obtained from us for usage or such information, either directly or indirectly.

Website Areas Beyond GVA's Control - GVA Site may include interactive forums such as message boards and chat rooms. Please note that any Personally Identifiable Information disclosed in such areas is public and becomes public information. You should use caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Website Areas Beyond GVA's Control - GVA Site may include interactive forums such as message boards and chat rooms. Please note that any Personally Identifiable Information disclosed in such areas is public and becomes public information. You should use caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Affiliates - We may disclose information (including personally identifiable information) about a Person to our Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Affiliates" means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with GVA, Inc., whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to customers that we provide to our Affiliates will be treated by those Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Customers should be aware that we may revise this Privacy Policy at any time and that such revisions may result in additional uses or disclosures of their personally identifiable information. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the Service so they are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner significantly different from that stated in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed, at the time it was collected, we will notify the customer by email, and the customer will have a choice as to whether or not use personally identifiable information in the new manner. We may also make non-significant changes to this Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our use of personally identifiable information.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at contact@globalvalueadd.com.

Upon request we will provide customers with access to their own records. Customers can access and correct this information by contacting our Customer Care department.