Security & Privacy

Privacy of our customers is of our utmost concern. 
To ensure our customers privacy and security we have implemented the following.

100% Secure online shopping

• gear-up.com is protected with 128-bit SSL encryption.
• We are secured through GeoTrust using QuickSSL
  • With GeoTrust QuickSSL web server certificates, you can conduct secure Internet transactions with confidence. QuickSSL offers REAL 128-bit SSL encryption
  • Advanced authentication technology that's ours alone.
    By activating the browser's "LOCK" icon, QuickSSL assures online visitors that credit card account numbers and other confidential information cannot be viewed, intercepted or altered.

Privacy

• Gear Up for Outdoors Ltd. strictly enforces and adheres to the privacy of its clients.
• At all times your order information is kept confidential and secure.
• Gear Up For Outdoors collects the billing and shipping addresses, including relevant e-mail, phone and credit card numbers and expiration dates of users who purchase a product from the site.
• Gear Up For Outdoors does not store a User's credit card information. This means the information must be re-entered each time an item is purchased.
• If printouts of your orders are required, all financial and/or personal information is destroyed by a bonded professional shredding company.
• Gear Up For Outdoors encourages online shopping and we are not responsible for transposition of numbers or incorrect personal information copied down or misplaced by our staff if orders are requested over the phone.
• Gear Up For Outdoors is not responsible for late, lost, incomplete, illegible, misdirected or stolen messages or mail, unavailable network connections, failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, on-line failures, hardware, software or other technical malfunctions or disturbances or any other communications failures or circumstances affecting, disrupting or corrupting communications.
• Our GUFO club mailing list is used only by us for providing members with specials, promotions and information.
• Email accounts, GUFO CLUB membership information, shopping details will not be disclosed to third party organizations.
  
  
  

Cookies and Click-Stream Data

• Through the use of "cookies" Gear Up may collect and store anonymous information relating to Users' browsing patterns, including, for instance, the User's browser version, site referral information, IP address, operating system, and other technical Site use information.
• Our site uses a feature of Internet Web browsers called a Cookie, which is a file that a User's Web browser places on a User's computer's hard drive, to assign an identification code to the computer and to collect anonymous browsing information. On this Site, cookies are used in conjunction with session variables to track a User's shopping cart and expire as soon as an order is completed or if a shopping cart sits idle for a lengthy period without being checked-out.
  
• Click-stream data is information that describes the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through our website.
• Gear Up For Outdoors gathers and analyzes information about your browsing or purchase behavior on our website.
• This data helps us conduct our business and deliver the most relevant products and services to our customers.

Please be aware of the Terms of Use for our site and make sure that you read and understand them.