Privacy

General
Welcome to Five Star Group’s website. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies solely to the information collection and use practices on the Five Star Group website. This Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use.

Five Star Group is not responsible for any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage related to your use of this website, whether arising from errors or omissions in the content of this site, from sites we may link to, from the site being unavailable, or from any other use of this site. Five Star Group does not necessarily endorse, and will not be held responsible for, any third-party content that may be linked to or accessed through this website.

Links
There might be links from the Five Star Group website or portals on the Five Star Group website to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Five Star Group website and not to websites of any other company or organization linked to or through the Five Star Group website, which may have different policies. We encourage you to review all policies, rules, terms, and regulations, including the privacy policies, of each website that you visit.

Gathering, Modifying, and Removing Information
We may request and/or collect personal information on the Five Star Group website that you might elect to provide to Five Star Group (“Personal Information”) when, via the Five Star Group website, you: (a) contact Five Star Group; (b) use Five Star Group services; and/or (c) send requests for information, questions, inquiries, or comments to Five Star Group. You are not required to provide Personal Information to access the Five Star Group website. Personal Information may include: (a) contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number, and email address); (b) information regarding certain of your preferences related to Five Star Group or the Five Star Group website; and/or (c) information regarding how you became aware of the Five Star Group website.

If you would like to review, correct, or remove your Personal Information, please contact Five Star Group at the address listed under “Contact Us.” Five Star Group will then make all reasonable efforts to correct your Personal Information from the Five Star Group active database or discontinue the use of your Personal Information.

Gathering Anonymous Information
Five Star Group might collect non-personal and aggregate information about the use of the Five Star Group website, such as page hits, number of visits, web pages viewed, and the length of visits to the Five Star Group website (collectively, “Non-Personal Information”). Five Star Group does not tie this Non-Personal Information to your Personal Information.

Use and Disclosure of Information
The Personal Information that you provide will be available to Five Star Group, our agents, representatives, service providers, and contractors, as appropriate, to be used to respond to your inquiries or questions about Five Star Group and for the purposes indicated or which may reasonably be inferred by your voluntary provision of such Personal Information and otherwise in connection with the conduct of Five Star Group’s business and operations. This use may include periodic telephone calls and postal and email mailings from Five Star Group about new products, services, or upcoming events offered by Five Star Group. Five Star Group does not, however, sell or furnish Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties to use in advertising or promoting their products or services without your permission. Five Star Group may also use your Personal Information, alone or in combination with the information submitted by other users, to improve our navigation or infrastructure. Also, we may use Non-Personal Information to enhance your experience on the Five Star Group website and improve its overall functionality. Third-party contractors or providers of services to Five Star Group that have access to your Personal Information are also expected to protect such Personal Information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and to use such Personal Information only to carry out the activities or services they are performing for you or for Five Star Group. Five Star Group might disclose Personal Information and Non-Personal Information if, in our opinion, such disclosure is required: (a) by law; (b) to protect and/or defend Five Star Group’s rights; and/or (c) to protect the personal safety of any individual. In addition, in the event that all or substantially all of Five Star Group’s ownership and/or assets are transferred or sold to, or Five Star Group is merged with, another entity, or there is a change of control of Five Star Group, Five Star Group may transfer Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to the successor entity.

Internet Communications
Communications and submissions over the Internet might not be secure. Please consider this fact before communicating or submitting any personal or confidential information through the Five Star Group website.

Changes
Five Star Group reserves the right to change, modify, amend, and/or update this Privacy Policy at any time with or without prior notice, at the sole and absolute discretion of Five Star Group. Your use of the Five Star Group website following any such changes, modifications, amendments, and/or updates constitutes your unconditional agreement to follow and be bound by this Privacy Policy as changed, modified, amended, or updated. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy each time you use or access the Five Star Group website.

Cookie Notice
Other Data We Collect, and How We Collect It
In addition to personal information, we may collect information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Site, and details about your usage of the Site, including your browsing patterns. This information is collected using automatic data collection technologies and may also include:

• Details of your visits to the Site, including traffic data, location data, and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We will retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our Site and how you move around different sections of our Site for analytics purposes to understand how people use our Site so that we can make it more intuitive. We will also keep a record of the articles on our Site that you have clicked on and use that information to target advertising on this Site that is relevant to your interests, which we have identified based on articles you have read. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies): A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Site.
• Flash Cookies: Certain features of the Site may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on the Site. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons: Pages of our Site, and our e-mails, may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Use of Cookies
What Types of Cookies We Use
Cookies vary depending on each site that you access. A cookie is information stored on your computer or mobile device by the Site. For further insight into how cookies work, please visit Microsoft Support’s description of cookies. For our Site, we use the following types of cookies:

1. Functionality: We use these cookies to recognize you on the Site and remember your previously selected preferences, such as language and location settings. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies is used.
2. Advertising: We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to the Site, the content you viewed, the links you followed, and details about your browser, device, and IP address. We sometimes share limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may see advertising based on your browsing patterns and activity on the Site.

How You Can Manage Your Cookies
Your browser settings will determine how you manage cookies. All standard browsers allow you to decline cookies. If you choose this setting within your browser, certain functionalities of our Site may be impacted.