Privacy Policy
Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy during your first visit to the website, allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
Section A: Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- Information about your computer including your IP address, your geographical location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.
- Information about your visits and use of the website including the external source, the duration of the visit, the page views and the navigation path to the website.
- Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the website.
- Information you enter when creating your profile on our website — for example, your name, etc.
- Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter when setting up your registration and for sending emails and / or newsletters.
- Information you enter when using services on our website.
- Information that arises when using the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information about your purchases, the services you use and the transactions you make on the website, which include your name, address, telephone number, email address and possibly your credit card information.
- Information you post on the Website with the intent of posting on the web, which includes your username, your profile information and the content of your posts.
- Information contained in any of your communications with us via email or through the website, including communication content and metadata.
- Any other personal information you send us.
Before disclosing any personal information to a third party, you must consent to the disclosure and processing of this personal information in
accordance with this policy.
Section B: Use of your personal information
The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We may use personal information for the following purposes:
- management of our website and business
- personalized website layout for you
- shipping the goods, you buy through our website
- providing services, you purchase through our website
- send transactions, invoices and payment reminders to you, as well as collect payments from you
- sending non-advertising communications
- send email notifications about your requests
- end our newsletter by e-mail if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer want the newsletter)
- send promotional communications, related to your business or to specific third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, through notifications or, if you have agreed to this, by e-mail or similar technology (you can let us know at any time if you no longer want advertising communications)
- provision of statistical data of our users to third parties (which will not be able to identify any user of this information)
- manage requests and complaints that you have submitted or are related to our website
- maintain the security of the website and prevent any fraud
- confirmation of compliance with the terms and conditions of our website (including monitoring of personal messages circulating through our private online messaging service)
- other uses
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will post or use this information in accordance with your license.
Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the posting of your information on our website and can be configured using the website privacy check.
We will not pass on your personal information without your consent to third-parties or to any third-party commercial division.
Section C: Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, executives, insurers, or professional consultants, representatives, suppliers or subcontractors as required for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our portfolio control company and its subsidiaries) as required for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may share your personal information:
- to the extent required by law
- in relation to any current or future legal proceedings
- for the purpose of consolidating, exercising or defending our legal rights (including the provision of information to third-parties with a view to preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)
- to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business good we sell (or intend to sell); and
- to any other competent authority regarding the disclosure of information may belong to the judiciary in the event that we consider that the relevant authority will require the disclosure of such personal information.
Also as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third-parties.
Section D: International data transfers
The information we collect may be stored, processed and moved between any countries in which we operate so that we may use it in accordance with this policy.
The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available online worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third-parties.
You expressly agree to the transfer of provisional data described in Section D.
Section E: Retention of personal data
- Section E sets out the procedure and policy for the protection of personal data, which is designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the protection and deletion of personal data.
- Personal data we process for any purpose will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
- We will retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data
- to the extent required by law.
- if we consider that the documents can be related to any legal procedure in force and
- with a view to consolidating, exercising or defending our legal rights (including the provision of information to third parties with a view to preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)
Section F: Security of your personal data
- We will take the necessary precautions at the technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
- We will store all personal data you provide on secure (password protected – and firewall) servers.
- All electronic money transactions on our website are protected by our encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use; we will not ask for your password (unless you log in to our website).
Section G: Modifications
We may update our policy from time to time by posting a new version of it on our website. You should check our website from time to time to make sure you understand any changes to our policy. We may notify you of changes to our policy via email or through our private messaging system on our website.
Section H: Your rights
You can ask us to give you any information we hold about you.
We may withhold the personal information you request for the period permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for advertising purposes.
In practice, you will usually either explicitly agree in advance to the use of your personal information for advertising purposes, or we will enable you to exclude your information from your use for advertising purposes.
Section I: Third Sites
Our website may contain hyperlinks to, and information from, third-party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the protection policies and practices of third-parties.
Section J: Information update
Please let us know if the information we have about you needs updating or correction.
Section K: Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains an identifier (a series of letters and numbers) that is sent through a server and stored in the browser. The ID is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “permanent” or “login” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted earlier by the user, a login cookie on the other hand will expire at the end of the user’s login when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user but your personal data we hold may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies. We use both login cookies and permanent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website and the purpose of their use are defined below:
We use Google Analytics and AdWords on our website to identify a computer when a user visits the website for the following purposes: to identify users while browsing the website / to allow the use of a shopping cart on the website / to improve the functionality of the website / analyze the use of the website / manage the website / protect the user from fraud and improve the protection of the website / personalize the website for each user / target ads that may be of interest to specific users.
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the corresponding settings by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”
- in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and removing the option “Accept cookies from sites”
- in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and Control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “View advanced settings”, and “Content settings” and selecting “Block sites from data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of a website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer — for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you have to delete the cookie files manually (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom history settings”, clicking “View Cookies” and “Remove All Cookies” ” and
- in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by entering the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “View Custom settings” and “Clear browsing data” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site data” Before pressing “Clear browsing data”.
- Deleting all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites.