Introduction
1. The privacy of our website visitors is an important concern for us. We make every effort to protect it. This privacy policy explains exactly what we do with your personal information.
2. Consenting to the cookies described in the terms of this policy the first time you visit our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
Collection of personal information
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored and used:
1. computer information, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits to and use of our website, including the source of visits, duration of visits, page views, and ways you navigate the site;
3. information such as your name and email address that you provide to set up subscriptions to our emails or newsletters;
4. information that you enter when you use the services on our site;
5. information that is generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
6. information contained in all correspondence sent to us by email or through our website, including content and metadata
7. any other personal information you provide to us.
If you wish to disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must first obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Use of your personal information
Personal information sent to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, as well as on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
1. administering our website and business;
2. to customize our website to your needs;
3. to authorize you to use the services available on our website;
4. send you statements, invoices and payment reminders and receive payments from you;
5. send you non-marketing commercial communications;
6. sending email notices you have requested;
7. sending our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
8. sending marketing information about our business or the activities of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you by mail or, if you have agreed, by email or similar method (you may let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
9. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these parties will not be able to identify any particular user from this information);
10. handle inquiries and complaints made by or about you regarding our website;
11. to ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud;
12. to verify compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website;
13. other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish it and otherwise use it in accordance with our license.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be changed through the privacy controls on the website.
We will not share your personal information with third parties or any other related third parties for direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
1. to the extent permitted by law;
2. in connection with any pending or potential legal proceedings;
3. to establish, exercise and protect our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
4. the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or asset that we sell (or plan to sell);
5. any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may be asked by a court or other competent authority to disclose such personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority has a reasonable likelihood of ordering the disclosure of such personal information
Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your information with third parties.
International transfers
1 The information we collect may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which we do business and may be transferred between those countries to enable the information to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2 The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. Personal information that you publish on our Web site or submit for publication on our Web site may be accessible via the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent others from using or misusing such information.
4. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this section.
Retention of Personal Information
1. In this section, we have outlined our data retention policies and procedures to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be retained longer than necessary for those purposes.
3. notwithstanding anything else in this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. to the extent permitted by law;
2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to current or anticipated legal proceedings;
3. to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
Security of Personal Information
1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide on our secure servers.
3. You are aware that the transmission of information via the Internet is potentially dangerous, and the security of data transmitted in this manner is not guaranteed.
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
Your Rights
A user may request access to his or her personal data that is stored. Providing such data requires you to provide appropriate identification (ID card or passport) for this purpose.
We may withhold personal data at your request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you usually either agree in advance to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we give you the opportunity to opt out of sharing your personal data for marketing purposes.
Third-party sites
Our website contains hyperlinks to and details of third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating Information
Please let us know if we need to correct or update the personal information we hold about you.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to and stored in a web browser. The identification data is sent back to the server each time the browser sends a request to open a page on the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session cookies”: persistent cookies will be stored in your web browser and will remain valid until the expiration date you set, unless you delete them before they expire; session cookies expire at the end of the user’s session when you close the web browser.
Cookies generally do not contain any information that identifies you, but the personal information we store about you may be associated with information stored in and derived from cookies.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are outlined below:
1. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize the computer when a user visits the website in order to:
– Tracking users as they browse the site
– improve the usability of the site
– website usage analysis
– site administration
– site management
– Preventing fraud and improving site security
– Personalization of the site for each user
– Targeting ads that may be of interest to specific users.
2. most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. Blocking all cookies will adversely affect your ability to use multiple websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all of the features of our website.
3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer.
4. Deleting cookies will adversely affect the usability of many websites.