Privacy Policy
A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).
C. Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
1. information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits to and your use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
3. information you enter when you submit a Contact Form, such as your name, surname, company name and organization number/social security number, e-mail address;
4. information you provide when using our website's services;
5. information generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
6. information related to any purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you make through our website or otherwise, including your name, phone number, address, email address, and payment information;
7. information in any form of communication that you send to us via e-mail or our website, including its content and metadata;
8. any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy
D. Using your personal information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:
1. to administer our website and business;
2. to customize our website for you;
3. to enable you to use the services available on our website;
4. to send goods that you have purchased from us via our website or otherwise to you;
5. to deliver services purchased from us through our website or otherwise;
6. to send you bank statements, invoices and payment reminders and collect payments from you;
7. to send commercial communications that are not for marketing purposes;
8. to send emails that you have specifically requested;
9. to send you our newsletter by e-mail if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need the newsletter);
10. to send you marketing communications relating to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties which we believe may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically consented to this, by email or similar technology (you may inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
11. to provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify an individual user from the information); to deal with inquiries and complaints from or about you regarding our website;
12. to keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
13. to confirm your acceptance of our website's terms of use; as well as other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
E. Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. in connection with ongoing or future court proceedings;
3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including disclosing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation);
4. to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are in the process of (or considering) selling; and
5. to any person whom we reasonably believe may request from a court or other competent authority that we disclose the personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority could reasonably order us to disclose the personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that 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: the United States of America, Japan, China, and India.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retaining personal information
1. This Section G describes our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe the documents may be relevant to ongoing or future court proceedings; and
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including disclosing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
H. Security of your personal information
1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
3. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
I. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy.
J. Your rights
You may instruct us to request to delete, correct or transfer your data to another entity, as well as provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:
1. The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (name, surname, company name and organization number/social security number, e-mail address for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third party websites
Our website includes 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.
L. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.