A. Introduction 1. 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. 2. Consenting to use cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
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 visit to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and navigation paths within the website.
3. Information that you enter when you register with our website, such as your email address.
4. Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website. For example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and work details.
5. Information that you enter to set up a subscription to your emails and/or newsletters.
6. Information that is generated when you use our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
7. Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use or transaction you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details.
8. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet.
9. Any other personal information you submit.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:
1. Administering our website and business
2. Personalizing our website for you
3. Enabling you to use the services available on our website
4. Shipping goods purchased through our website
5. Providing services purchased through our website
6. Sending statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and
collecting payments from you.
7. Sending marketing commercial communications
8. Sending email notifications that you have specifically requested.
9. Sending you our email newsletter if you have signed up for it (you can
unsubscribe at any time).
10. Sending marketing communications related to our business or
the businesses of third parties that we think may be of interest to you.
11. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users.
12. Dealing with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to
our website
13. Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.
14. Checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of
our website.
15. Other uses.
If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it
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 information on our website and can be adjusted using the website’s privacy controls.
We will not provide your personal information without your express consent to any third party for their or another third party’s direct marketing.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers,
underwriters, professional advisors, 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 any of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out 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 current or future legal proceedings;
3. for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are considering) selling; and
5. to any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information where in our
reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to do so
to order the disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information
to third parties.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred
between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us
to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. The 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: United States of America, Russia, Japan,
China and India.
3. Personal information that you post on our website or that you submit for publication on our website may be accessible, via the Internet, around the
world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in
this section.
PERSONAL INFORMATION RETENTION
1. This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us 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 or purposes shall not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Without prejudice to this section, we will generally delete personal data falling within the categories set out below on the date/time set out below:
a. type of personal data will be deleted 30 days; and
b. or 24 hours after a request or claim has been made
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section G, we will retain
documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
a. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and C. for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
3. All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected with encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
5. You are responsible for maintaining the password you use to access our confidential website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
CHANGES
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our
website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand 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 may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold. The provision of such information will be subject to the following: 1. payment of a fee; and 2. the provision of appropriate evidence of your identity (using an identity card or document, as appropriate to the information we process). We may retain personal information you request to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, you will usually either expressly consent in advance to us using your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of our use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website includes hyperlinks 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.
INFORMATION UPDATE
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 from 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 will be stored by a web browser and will
remain valid until its specified expiration date unless deleted by the user before the expiration
date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session,
when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information
that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you
may be linked to the information stored and retrieved by cookies. We use and record each cookie session on the gentech.bg website.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:
a. we use Google Analytics and Google Ads on our website to recognise a
computer when a user visits the website/track users as they navigate the
website/enable the use of a shopping cart on the website/improve the usability of the website/analyse the use of the website/administer the
website/prevent fraud and improve the security of the website/personalise the website for each user/target advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users/describe the purpose(s)};
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
a. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using
The settings for overriding cookie processing are available by clicking “Tools”,
“Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and then “Advanced”;
b. in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”,
“Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom history settings” from the
drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
C. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website. 3. You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer – for example: a. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you must manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
b. in Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”,
“Options”, and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show cookies”, and then clicking “Remove all cookies”; and
C. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by opening the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and add-on data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.” 4. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
