The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy when you first visit the website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
1. Information about your computer including your IP address, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.
2. Information about your visits and use of the website including external source, duration of visit, page views and website navigation path.
3. Information such as your email address, which you enter when sending a message from the contact form.
4. Information, such as your name and email, that you enter to send emails and/or newsletters.
5. Information obtained when you use the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
6. Information contained in any communication you make with us via email or through the website, including communication content and metadata.
7. Any other personal information you send us on your own initiative.
Personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website.
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
1. Administration of the Website
2. Customizing the site for you.
3. Enabling your use of services available on our website.
4. Sending non-advertising communications.
5. Sending email notifications about your requests.
6. Sending our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer want the newsletter).
7. Handling requests and complaints submitted by you or relating to our website.
8. Maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud.
9. Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your authorization.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.
We will not pass your personal information to any third party or to any commercial division of a third party.
We may share your personal information:
1. To the extent required by law.
2. In connection with any current or future legal proceedings.
3. In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
4. To anyone we reasonably believe may belong to the judicial or any other competent authority regarding the disclosure of information in the event that we believe that the relevant authority will require the disclosure of the particular personal information.
Also as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
Our website contains hyperlinks to, and information from, third party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent through a server and stored in the browser.
The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be either “persistent” or “login” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted earlier by the user, a log-in cookie, on the other hand, will expire with the end of the user’s connection, when the browser is closed.
Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user, but your personal data that we hold may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and their purpose of use are defined below:
1. We use Google Analytics on our website to recognize a computer when: a user visits the website, to identify users while navigating the website, to improve website functionality, to analyze website usage, to we manage the website, to protect you from fraud and to improve the protection of the website, to personalize the website for each user.
2. Most browsers allow you to opt out of cookies—for example:
– in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie settings found by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”
– in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from websites”? and
– in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “View advanced settings”, and “Content settings” and selecting “Block websites from data” under the heading “Cookies”.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of the website.
3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
– in Internet Explorer (version 10), should you manually delete the 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,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies ” and
– in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “View custom settings” and “Clear browsing data” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other website data” ” before tapping “Clear Browsing Data”.
4. Deleting all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of the website.