privacy policy
General Information
The following information provides the necessary highlights of personal or non-personal information that we may collect about you or a visitor to our website. Personal data can be any data that can personally identify you. For more information about data protection, please consult our link labelled Data protection.
Information collected on this website
How data is recorded
We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into registration, application or contact forms, that may be required in order to discharge or carry out a service for you.
Other data may be recorded by our IT systems automatically or after you consent to its recording during your website visit. This data comprises primarily technical information (e.g. web browser, operating system, or time the site was accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access this website.
Cookies
Our websites for some usage requires cookies and similar technologies to provide functionality and to recognise devices across different services and pages. You are able to clear cookies, disbale them together with other similar technologies while using our website, but please note without some of these technologies your expereince and usage of our website may be restricted or disallowed.
Cookies have a variety of functions. Many cookies are technically essential since certain website functions would not work in the absence of the cookies (e.g., the shopping cart function or the display of videos). The purpose of other cookies may be the analysis of user patterns or the display of promotional messages.
Cookies, which are required for the performance of electronic communication transactions, or for the provision of certain functions you want to use (e.g., for the shopping cart function) or those that are necessary for the optimization (required cookies) of the website (e.g., cookies that provide measurable insights into the web audience), shall be stored on the basis of required regulation or act, unless a different legal basis is cited. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the storage of required cookies to ensure the technically error free and optimized provision of the operator’s services. If your consent to the storage of the cookies and similar recognition technologies has been requested, processing occurs exclusively on the basis of the consent obtained; this consent may be revoked at any time.
How we use the information collected
Except for services that may require you to provide user or registration or account information to have access to such services on our website, most of the data collected are used to deliver and improve our services and user experiences, without any direct reference to your person.
These information could also be used to provide safe usage of our website and services, and to provide you with localised (but not personal) adverstising that may be of interest to you.
In summary we may use your information collected in the following way:
- Ensuring legal complaice
- Smooth administration of wesbite and services
- Communicatating with you about our website and services
- Safety and security measures
- Improvement of our website and services
Do we share your information with third parties?
No. In many cases we do not share your information with third parties.
In some exceptional circumstances, we may share any relevant information with a third party if we believe that sharing such data is resonably necessary to:
- Comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including meeting national security requirements
- Enforce agreements policies and terms of service
- Protect the security or integrity of our websites and services
- Protect our users or the public from harm or illegal activities
- Respond to an emergency which we believe in good faith requires us to disclose information to assist in the prevention of a death or serious bodily injury of any person.
We do not sell your information to any third party.
Links to third party websites or applications
The information or content we provide on our website may require or include links to other websites or services whose privacy policies may differ from ours. In such cases you have to review such policies for your own benefit. Any information that may be submitted on such websites may be governed by the privacy policies of such services.
Information Storage and Security
We use the necessary and required procedures and technologies to ensure unauthorized access to, or alteration, disclosure or destruction of, your personal information (when such personal information are stored).
Access to user data is not available to unauthorized employees. Even in such necessary events where personal data needs to be accessed, this can only be done by trained, restricted and authorised access under well formulated procedures with accounting along each stage.
While we implement safeguards designed to protect our systems and any user information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
How long do we store personal information
Generally, if we store any personal information about you, it will remain within our systems until the purpose for which it was stored or collected no longer applies.
If you requested for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be delete within 72 hours from when the request or consent was revoke, if not done instantly.
However, in some instances, when you request for your data to be deleted, it may have to be done in accordance with the various data protection regulations or laws, and sometimes in complaince with certain laws. For example if your data is required for the fulfillment of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of the applicable law or act.
SSL and/or TLS Encyption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption program. You can recognize an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.
If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.