Privacy Policy

A. Consent to Data Collection

By visiting and using our website, you consent to our use of cookies every time you visit our website. 

B. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

1. information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, duration of the visit, page views, and navigation paths on the website;
3. information you provide when you register, create a profile, and sign up for our newsletters;
4. information you provide when using the services on our website;
5. information generated when you use our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
   information related to all purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you conduct through our website, including your name, phone number, address, and email address;
6. information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
7. information in all forms of communication that you send to us via email or our website, including its content and metadata;
8. any other personal information you send to us.

Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

C. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us via our website will be used for the purposes set forth in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

1. to manage our website and operations;
2. to tailor our website to your needs;
3. to enable you to use the services available on our website;
4. to ship the items you have purchased through our website to you;
5. to provide services purchased through our website;
6. to send you account statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and to collect payments from you;
7. to send commercial communications that are not for marketing purposes;
8. to send you emails that you have specifically requested;
9. to send you our newsletter via email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
10. to send you marketing communications regarding our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you by mail or, where you have specifically consented to this, via email or similar technology (you may notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
11. to provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify individual users from this information);
12. to handle inquiries and complaints from or about you regarding our website;
13. to keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
14. to confirm your agreement to our website's terms of use

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use it in accordance with the permission you grant us.

We will not share your personal information with third parties for their own or any other third party’s direct marketing purposes without your express consent.

D. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, board members, insurance companies, 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:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. in connection with ongoing or future legal proceedings;
3. to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including disclosing information to others for the purpose of preventing fraud and mitigating credit risk);
4. to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or assets that we are in the process of (or are considering) selling; and
5. to any person whom we reasonably believe may request from a court or other competent authority that we disclose personal information about them, where, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority could reasonably order us to disclose that personal information.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except as described in this policy.

E. International Data Transfer

The information we collect is stored exclusively within the EU in accordance with this policy.
Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be accessible via the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent others from using or misusing this information.

F. Retention of Personal Information

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes in accordance with our privacy policy will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

G. The 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 (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions made through our website are protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that transmitting 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. Your rights

You may ask us to provide you with all the personal information we have about you; however, we will require proof of your identity before we can provide this information.

We may withhold 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 usually either explicitly consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the option to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

I. Third-party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to and information about third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

J. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information we have about you needs to be corrected or updated.

K. Cookies

Our website uses cookies, which is the most common term for them on the internet. 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. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be either “persistent cookies” or “session cookies”: a persistent cookie is stored by a web browser and remains valid until its specified expiration date, unless it is deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user’s session, when the browser is closed. 

Cookies do not typically contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both persistent and sessioncookies on our website.

Below is information aboutthe cookies weuse on our website:

1. We use analytics cookies onour website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site;
2. tracks users as they browse the website;
3. enables the use of a shopping cart on the website;
4. improves the website's usability;
5. analyzes website usage;
6. manages the website;
7. prevents fraud and improves website security;
8. customizes the website for each user;
9. targeted ads that may be of particular interest to specific users

Most browsers allow you to refusecookies anddeletecookies thathave already been stored on your computer. If you blockcookies,youmaynotbeable to use all the features on our website.

L. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should therefore check this page periodically to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or through our website’s private messaging system.

Version 1.1 Published September 10, 2022