A. Introduction
- The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
- Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and has been modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)
C. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- 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 referring source, length of visit, page views, and website navigational paths;
- Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register with the site;
- Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
- Information that you enter when you use the services of our website;
- Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you make on our site, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and banking information;
- Information contained in any communications you send to us by e-mail or on our website, including their content and metadata;
- Any other personal information that you provide to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or in the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for:
- Administer our web site and our business ;
- Personalize our website for you;
- Enable your use of the services offered on our website ;
- To send you the goods purchased on our website;
- Send you invoices
- Send you our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish to stop receiving our newsletter) ;
- Process requests and complaints made by you or concerning you regarding your website;
- Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of our website.
We will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.
E. Disclosure of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law ;
- In connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
- To the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets in our possession that we wish to (or intend to) sell; and
- To any person we reasonably believe is a member of a court or other authority having jurisdiction to disclose such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of such personal information.
Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties.
F. Retention of your information
- This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose is not retained longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent we are required to do so by law.
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any current or potential legal proceedings .
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
G. Security of Your Personal Information - We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
- All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the Internet.
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. Amendments
We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website’s private messaging service.
I. Your Rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will either expressly express your consent in advance for us to use 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.
J. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
K. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session”: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that expiration date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained by cookies.
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
- We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website/ track users as they navigate through the website/ enable the use of a shopping cart on the website/ improve the use of the website/ analyze the use of the website/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve the security of the website.
- Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example, most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the alternative cookie management settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
- with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” and then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
- With Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and Control” menu and then clicking on “Settings”, “Show Advanced Settings” and “Content Settings” and selecting “Prevent Sites from Setting Data” under the “Cookies” header.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use the full functionality of our website. - You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions for doing so here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking on “Show cookies”, then “Delete all cookies”; and
- with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Personalize and Control” menu and then clicking on “Settings”, “Show Advanced Settings” and “Delete Browsing Data” and then “Delete Cookies and Data from Other Sites’ Modules” before clicking on “Delete Browsing Data”.
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.