A. Introduction
The privacy of our website users is of great importance to us, and we make every effort to ensure that it is protected. This policy explains how we use your personal information.
By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of this Policy, you give us permission to use cookies on each of your subsequent visits.
B. Collection of personal data The following types of personal data are subject to collection, storage and use:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, length of visits, pages viewed, and site navigation paths;
- Information about the name and contact information you used for the contact form;
- Information, such as your email address, that you provided when you subscribed to our mailings and/or newsletters;
- Information generated by your use of our website, including information about the time, frequency and conditions of its use;
- Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including the content of the communication and the purpose of the communication;
- Any other personal information you knowingly send to us.
C. Use of your personal information
The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in these rules or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- administering our website and business;
- personalize our website for you;
- to enable you to use the services available on our website;
- sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
- sending you email communications that you have specifically requested;
- sending you email newsletters if you have requested them (you may notify us at any time that you no longer wish to receive email newsletters from us);
- sending you marketing communications regarding our business activities;
- providing third-party companies with statistical information about our users (however, these third-party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
- to handle inquiries and complaints made by or about you and relating to our website;
- to ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- to verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website;
- and for other purposes.
If you have provided personal information for publication on our website, we may publish it. Otherwise, we will use this information in accordance with the license you have granted us. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your personal information on our website and can be adjusted through the privacy controls on the website. Without your express consent, we will not share your personal information with any third party company for direct marketing use by this or any other third party company.
D. Disclosure of personal information
We do not disclose to third parties your personal information obtained as a result of using the site, except in cases of preventing fraud using this site.
E. International transfers of personal information
- The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use that information in accordance with this policy.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in the European Economic Area: USA, Japan, China and India.
- By agreeing to this policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal information as described in Section E.
F. Retention of personal information
- Section E sets forth the Company’s policies and procedures for the retention of personal information. These policies and procedures are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations to retain and delete personal information.
- Personal information that we process for a particular purpose or purposes should not be retained for longer than is necessary to achieve that purpose or purposes.
G. Protection of your personal information
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (both password and firewall) servers.
- You acknowledge that you are aware of the fact that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the protection of data sent over the World Wide Web.
H. Changes and amendments
We reserve the right to periodically make changes and amendments to these rules and publish a new version on our website. You should check this web page periodically to ensure that you understand the content of the changes made to these rules. We may also inform you about changes to these rules by sending an e-mail or through the private messaging system of our website.
I. Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you when verifying your identity.
We reserve the right to refuse to provide information upon your request, within the limits of applicable law.
You have the right to instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of our use of your information for marketing purposes.
J. Third-party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to, and details about, websites of third-party companies and individuals. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the privacy policies or practices of any such third party companies or individuals.
K. Updating information
Please notify us in a timely manner if your personal information held by us needs to be updated or corrected.
L. 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 a web browser and stored by the browser. Subsequently, the identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: persistent cookies will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until the expiration date unless deleted by the user in advance; “session” cookies, on the contrary, will be deleted after the end of the session with the site or after the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain any information that identifies the user. However, your personal information that we hold may be linked to information stored and retrieved from cookies. We use both persistent and session cookies on our website.
- The names of the cookies that we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are listed below:
- On our website, we use Google Analytics and other Google services to recognize a computer when a user visits the website to track users’ navigation through the website/improve the usability of the website/analyze website usage/administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalize the website for each user;
- Most browsers give you the option to refuse the use of cookies, for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block using the cookie management settings available in the menu “Tools” – “Internet Options” – “Privacy” – “Advanced” (“Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” “Advanced”);
- in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools” – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select “Use custom log settings” and deselect “Accept cookies from websites”; and finally
- in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Settings & Management” menu, selecting “Settings” – “Show Advanced Settings” and “Content Settings”, and then selecting “Prevent sites from sending any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the user experience of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use many features of our website.
- You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete cookies manually (instructions on how to do this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- in Firefox (version 24), cookies can be deleted by going to the menu “Tools” – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select “Use custom log settings”, click “Show Cookies,” and then “Delete all cookies”;
- in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by entering the “Settings and Management” menu, selecting “Settings” – “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then select “Delete cookies and other data and site plugins”.
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the user experience of many websites.