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A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Accreditation
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and modified by Belgian Twin Trophy (www.belgiantwintrophy.be)
C. Collection of Personal Information
The following personal information can be collected, stored and used:
information about your computer including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version and operating system;
information about your visit to and use of this website, including the referral source, the length of your visit, the pages viewed and the navigation paths on the website;
information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register on our website;
information you enter when you create a profile on our website - for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational data and employment data;
information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to subscribe to our emails and / or newsletters;
information that 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 our website;
information related to anything you buy, services you use or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details;
information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile photos and the content of your messages;
information in any communications you send us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
any other personal information you send us.
Before disclosing another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent for both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Before disclosing someone else's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent for both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
D. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through our website will 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 purposes:
managing our website and our company;
personalizing our website for you;
making services available on our website;
sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collecting your payments;
sending non-marketing commercial communications;
sending e-mail messages that you have specifically requested;
sending our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer need the newsletter);
sending marketing communications related to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can at all times if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify individual users from that information);
handling questions and complaints submitted by or about you in relation to our website;
securing our website and preventing fraud;
checking compliance with terms of use of our website (including checking private messages sent through our website);
and other applications.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your data on our website and can be adjusted through privacy controls on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for direct marketing by them or other third parties.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to 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 group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of its subsidiaries) if reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
insofar as we are legally obliged to do so;
in connection with pending or prospective legal proceedings;
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or assets that we are selling (or are considering selling); and
to any person who we reasonably believe can apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information, if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would reasonably wish to disclose that personal information can order.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
Information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between the countries in which we operate so that we can use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information we collect 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 that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available over the internet from anywhere in the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information as described in this Section F.
G. Retention of Personal Information
This Part G sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and disposal of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal information:
insofar as we are legally obliged to do so;
if we believe the documents may be relevant to an ongoing or future legal proceeding; and
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including to provide information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
H. 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 any personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website are 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 transmitted over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Changes
We may change this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or private messages on our website.
J. Your Rights
You can instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information is subject to the following conditions:
providing correct proof of your identity for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary, as well as an original copy of an electricity bill with your current address.
We may withhold personal information that you request, to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you usually expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we provide you with the option not to use your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Websites of Third Parties
Our website contains hyperlinks to and data from third party websites. We do not control this and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. 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 identification code is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" cookies or "session cookies": a persistent cookie is stored by a web browser and remains valid until the set expiration date, unless 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 generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and permanent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are described below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users who navigate the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze the use of the website / the use of administer the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user;
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies - for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the available cookie handling settings by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on 'Tools', 'Options', 'Privacy', selecting 'Use custom settings for history' from the drop-down menu and unchecking 'Accept cookies from sites' switch; and
in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by going to the 'Customize and manage' menu and clicking on 'Settings',' Show advanced settings' and 'Content settings' then' Block sites from data retention 'under the heading' Cookies'.
Blocking all cookies has a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all functions of our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer - for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10) you have to manually delete the cookie files (instructions for this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
in Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking on 'Tools',' Options' and 'Privacy', then select 'Use custom settings for history', click on 'Show cookies' and then on' All cookies delete 'button; and
in Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by going to the 'Customize and manage' menu and clicking on 'Settings',' Show advanced settings' and 'Clear browser data' then 'Cookies and other site and plug data delete 'before clicking on' Clear browser data '.
Removing cookies has a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Belgian Twin Trophy is not liable and recommends that you consult legal experts if you implement the above template on your website.
