Privacy Statement

(Last amendment: July 12, 2007)

We are fully aware that handling your personal information with due care is important. We therefore appreciate your trusting in our handling said information conscientiously. With this declaration you agree that Programimi.COM may collect, process and utilise the personal data you have released for such purposes as named. This authorization may be withdrawn to take effect in future at any time you consider to be appropriate.

Data collection and utilisation of personal information of our Members/Visitors

The information that we receive from you assists us in individually optimising and continuously improving the benefit you gain from Programimi.COM. We utilise this said information to provide services. We also use your information to communicate with you concerning services and marketing offers (see below under communication per email) and also to keep our data records up to date and to maintain your member account. We also utilise your information to enhance our platform, to prevent abuse of our website, to discover the latter or to pave the way for third parties to carry out technical, logistic or other services for our account.

We collect the following information:

Information that you give us: We collect and store all the information that you enter in our website or transmit to us by other means; statistics of the date, duration and geographic origin of site visits and the pages viewed during that visit are collected, but individual visitor’s identities are not recorded. You can decide not to give us certain information, which may, however lead to your not being able to make use of many of our services/features. We use, among others – as many other websites do – so-called “cookies” and receive certain information as soon as your web browser opens our website. Various companies offer software that enables you to visit websites anonymously. Although we are no longer able to offer you a personal portal when we can no longer detect you, we would like you to know that these tools are available.
Communication per email: Provided you do not want to receive any emails from us on principle, kindly set up your user account correspondingly.

What are cookies all about?

Cookies are alpha numerical identification characters that we transmit to your hard disk by means of your web browser. They pave the way for our systems to detect your browser and to offer you services between visits to our website. The HELP function in the menu bar of most web browsers explains how you can stop your browser from accepting new cookies, how your browser is set to pointing out the receipt of a new cookie or even how you can reject all cookies received. However, it is only with cookies that you can benefit from some of the most interesting features and we therefore recommend that you keep the cookie function activated. We furthermore recommend that when shutting down a computer which you share with another person, whose browser is set up to accept cookies, to log off completely when you have completed your session.

Does Programimi.COM pass on the information contained?

Information about our Members/Visitors is important and assists us in optimising our services. However, our operations do not include the selling of information. We only pass on the information we have received to third parties in the scope described in the following, except in a situation judged ‘life-threatening’ by staff where help will be sought immediately from an appropriate authority:

Affiliated enterprises: Affiliated enterprises that are under the control of Programimi.COM and its subsidiaries, if these are either subject to a data protection declaration or abide by guidelines that offer at least as great a protection as does this data protection declaration.
Service providers: We entrust other companies and individual persons with fulfilling tasks for us. Examples, among others are the dispatch of letters or emails, the maintenance of our Member lists, the analysis of our databases, and other services. These service providers have access to personal information that they require to fulfill their tasks. They are, however, not permitted to utilise this data for any other purpose. In addition, they are committed to handle the information pursuant to this data protection declaration and any Data Protection Act.
Protection of Programimi.COM and third parties; We reveal Member/Visitor nodes and personal data about Members/Visitors when the law commits us to do so, or when such a dissemination is necessary to assert our general terms and conditions of service or other agreements, or to protect our rights and the rights of our Members/Visitors and those of third parties. This includes the exchange of data with companies that are specialised in the prevention and minimisation of abuse and fraudulent use of credit cards. It is explicitly declared in this connection that no data is passed on to these companies for any commercial utilisation in contradiction to this data protection declaration.
With your consent: We will inform you in all other cases when personal data is to be passed on to third parties to enable you to issue your authorization. Whenever personal data is to be passed on to third parties as described above, information to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we make sure that the information complies with this data protection declaration.

How safe is the information about me?

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safety measures in connection with the collection, the storage and the revelation of our Members/Visitors personal information. These safety measures result in our occasionally requesting you to prove your identity before we reveal personal information. It is important that you protect yourself against unauthorised access to your password and your computer. If you share your computer with others, you should take care to log off after every session.

What options do I have?

As revealed above, it is your free choice not to impart any information, even though this could be utilised for the utilisation of features such as the news letter system. You can adapt your user account correspondingly if you do not want to receive any emails from us. The HELP function in the menu bar of most of the web browsers explains to you how you can deter your browser from accepting new cookies, how your browser is set to pointing out the receipt of a new cookie or even how you can reject all cookies received. Whatever you may opt for: If you do not use any cookies you will not be able to benefit from many features.

Notes

If you have any questions concerning data protection at Programimi.COM, please Contact Us using this form with your most precise query as possible, and we will do our best to allay your doubts and fears.

Our services and operations are constantly changing. The same applies to this data protection declaration and our terms and conditions of utilisation. We reserve the right to send you information about our applicable guidelines from time to time. However, you should, nevertheless, visit our website regularly to make a note of the changes. If not otherwise ruled, the utilisation of all the information that we have about you and your member account is subject to this data protection declaration. We assure you that essential amendments of our data protection declaration that lead to a lower level of protection of member data already received will only be carried out with the approval of the members concerned.

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