General terms
A. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Giving consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
B. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths;
information such as your email address that you enter when you register on our website;
information you enter when creating a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, academic details, and occupation details;
information such as your name and email address that you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
information you enter while using the services on our website;
information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
information related to any purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which may include your name, address, phone number, email address, and bank card details;
information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which may include your username, profile pictures, and post content;
information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
any other personal information you send us.
Before disclosing the personal information of another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with this policy.
C. Use of your personal information
Personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant website pages. We may use your personal information for:
administering our website and business;
personalizing our website for you;
enabling your use of the services available on our website;
sending you goods purchased through our website;
providing services purchased through our website;
sending reports, invoices, and payment reminders to you and collecting payments from you;
sending commercial communications for information purposes;
sending email notifications you have specifically requested;
sending our email newsletter if you have requested it (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive it);
sending marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may interest you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
providing third parties with statistical information about our users (these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user with the information provided);
handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you grant us.
Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
D. Disclosure of 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 company group (this includes our subsidiaries, our parent company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
to the extent required by law;
in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
to the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or asset we are selling (or considering selling);
to any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of the personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is likely to order disclosure.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
E. International data transfers
Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information collected may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.
F. Retention of personal information
This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information we process for any purpose will not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
to the extent required by law;
if we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
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 on our secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
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.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. 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. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
I. Your rights
You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
you providing sufficient evidence of your identity; for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized copy of your passport, plus a certified copy of a utility bill showing your current address.
We may withhold personal information 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.
J. 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.
K. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
L. 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 browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it. Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted before that date; a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain personally identifying information, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used can be found below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users while they navigate the website / enable a shopping cart / improve website usability / analyze website usage / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements that may be of particular interest to the user.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the override cookie handling settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” then “Advanced”;
in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” and clearing “Accept cookies from sites”;
in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under “Cookies.”
Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show cookies,” then “Delete all cookies”;
In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” and clicking “Clear browsing data.”
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Autentic Gift assumes no responsibility and advises you to consult legal experts if you implement the above template on your website.