Introduction

  1. Ensuring the privacy of all our website visitors is of the highest priority to us and we are serious about your security. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
  2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website gives us permission to use cookies each time you visit our website.

Collection of personal information

  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 referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
  3. information that you enter when you register on our website, for example your e-mail address;
  4. information that you enter when you create a profile on our site — for example, your name,
  5. information that you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
  6. information you enter when using the services on our website / information generated while using our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  7. information about anything you buy, services you use or transactions you make through our website, which may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information;
  8. information that you submit to our website for the purpose of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your username, profile picture and the content of your posts;
  9. information contained in any communication that you send to us by email or via our website, including the content of these communications and metadata;
  10. any other personal information that you send to us.

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

Use of personal information

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

  1. administration of our website and business;
  2. personalization of our website just for you;
  3. enabling your use of the services available on our website;
  4. to send you goods purchased through our website;
  5. provision of services purchased through our website;
  6. to send you messages, invoices and payment reminders and collect payments from you;
  7. to send you non-commercial communications;
  8. to send you email messages that you have specifically requested;
  9. to send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
  10. to send you marketing communications relating to our business or dealings with carefully selected third parties which we believe may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you may inform us at any time , if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
  11. to provide third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from such information);
  12. dealing with inquiries and complaints from or about you regarding our website;
  13. to keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
  14. other use.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we may publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you give us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and you can adjust these under privacy settings on the website.

Under no circumstances will we, without your express consent, disclose your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, managers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (that is, our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries) as is reasonably necessary for the purposes described 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 providing information to others for fraud prevention or credit risk reduction);
  4. to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset to which we are selling (or considering selling); and
  5. to any person whom we reasonably believe may request from a court or other competent authority the disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority is likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.

With the exception of the conditions set out in this policy, we will under no circumstances pass your personal information on to third parties.

International data transfer

  1. Information that we collect may be stored, processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in the European Economic Area: United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
  3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information.
  4. You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

Storage of personal information

  1. This Section G contains our data retention policies and procedures. These procedures and policies are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information
  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose will not be stored for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section G, we store documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data:
    1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law; 2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and 3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

Security of personal information

  1. We will always take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
  3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  4. You agree that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.
  5. You are responsible for keeping secret the password you use to access our website; we never ask you to provide your password (except when you log into our site).
  1. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you agree with 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.

Your rights

You can instruct us to transfer to you any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:


  1. provision of appropriate documentation for your identity. For this purpose we will normally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a bill or similar showing your current address.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You can at any time instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes in advance, or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third Party Websites

Our website contains links 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.

Updating information

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

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. 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 set expiration date, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain information that is personally identifiable to the user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the 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 are listed below:

  1. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user {INCLUDING ALL USES OF COOKIES ON YOUR PAGE visits the website / navigates the website / activates a shopping cart on the website / to improve the usability of the website / to analyze the use of the website / to administer the website / to prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / to personalize the website for each user / for targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purpose};
  1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies — for example:
    1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the settings to refuse cookie handling by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
    2. In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” in the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from websites”; and
    3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by opening the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” and then selecting “Block websites from collecting data” under the heading “ Cookies”.

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 all the functions of our website.

  1. You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer - for example:
    1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
    2. . In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy” and then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show cookies” and then clicking “Remove all Cookies ”; and
    3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by opening the “Personalize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browser data” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other website and plug-in in-data”, before clicking on “Clear browser data. "
  2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.

The Cozy Dot assumes no liability and advises you to consult relevant legal experts