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Privacy Policy
EYEDEA endeavors to protect the private life of its
users and respects and adheres to all current French law. We will deal with
User Personal Data (“Personal Information”, or “Data”) in compliance with the
current French data protection legislation (no. n°78-17, dated January 6th,
1978 regarding “Information Technology and
I.
Collection of Personal Information
All use of the Site is recorded. There are instances
where we request personal information (“Personal Information”) for statistical
or advertising purposes. In certain cases, the Site User (“User”) can request
access to the data collected in accordance with French law no. n°78-17, dated
January 6th, 1978 regarding “Information Technology and
By “Personal Data” EYEDEA means all the information
that concerns you as an actual person, and that you furnish voluntarily or in
the course of your internet navigation, and which permits us, directly or
indirectly, to identify you. EYEDEA collects certain personal information from users
of this Web site. EYEDEA may use certain account information for commercial
purposes, to process your order and any invoices, to maintain or update your EYEDEA
account, or to send you updates about special offers, new services, special
promotions, and noteworthy news and events, or to verify your identity as a EYEDEA
user.
EYEDEA also uses cookies (see below) to track user
traffic patterns. As is true of most web sites, we also gather certain
information automatically and store it in log files.
II.Use of Personal Information
EYEDEA
collects certain personal information from users of this Web site. When you
visit this Site, some information, such as the website that referred you to us,
your IP and email address and navigational and purchase information, may be
collected automatically as part of the Site's operation. We may combine this
information with personally identifiable information. On some occasions we may
ask you to provide information on online forms. For example, we may ask for
your username, password, place of birth, full name, telephone number, email
address and postal address, or other information to register online, or for
your credit card number or other personally identifying information to fulfill
licensing transactions or to receive products or services.
Users
are required to provide certain personal information in order to access images,
and authorized users must provide certain contact and account information such
as name, email address, billing address, and phone number in order to access
and download images.
We may also ask you about your age, hobbies, income,
gender or other information to participate in surveys or other online
activities. Providing information on online forms is always voluntary, and you
are free not to complete any online forms. If you choose not to, however, some
products and services may not be available to you.
III.
Storage of Personal Data
Personal information requested online is stored
indefinitely and is used for various purposes, including processing your
transactions, customer service, product and service development, direct
marketing and marketing analysis, facilitating your use of this Site and
customizing your image selection to your particular interests.
By using this Site, you understand and agree that the
information collected from this Site may be retained indefinitely, and may be
stored, accessed and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different
and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction.
IV. Transmission of
Personal Data
To a Third Party
EYEDEA reserves the right to transmit the personal
information gathered on its site to its employees, agents, necessary service
providers, subsidiaries, partners and its parent company. Information about our
clients, including personal information, may also be disclosed as part of any merger,
sale of the company assets or acquisition, as well as in the unlikely event of
an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would
be transferred as one of the business assets of the company.
Links
Websites we link to, including but not limited to the
sites of subsidiaries and third-party content partners, may have different
privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. EYEDEA is not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and we encourage our
users to be aware when they leave our site. We recommend that our users read
the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally
identifiable information.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by
law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to
conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on
our Web site, to respond to claims or protect the rights, property or safety of
our company, employees, customers or the public.
V.Cookies
When you visit the Site, we place a text file called a
cookie in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a
small piece of information that a website can store on your web browser and
later retrieve. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time
of your visit, your registration information, which may be personally
identifiable, and your navigational and purchase activity. Other information it
provides includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time
stamp, and clickstream data. Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow EYEDEA,
and certain of its subsidiaries and third-party content partners, to recognize
information, such as the Lightboxes you have created, and assist in determining
what content is best suited to your needs. Cookies also allow you to retrieve
previous image search results, access Lightboxes with ease and view your
previous invoices.
Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you
elect to do so, these pages may not display properly. You are free to delete
cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how
to do this.
EYEDEA also reserves the right to use new technologies
known or unknown at the present time. Should we elect to do so, we will inform
users of the site.
VI. Reviewing,
updating or correcting your information
If you would like to review, revise, or suppress
information you previously provided on an online form, or believe that the
information we currently have on record is incorrect, you may update your
information in the “My Account” section of this website.
VII. Sécurity
Children
We do not intend to solicit or collect personal
information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13 you should not
use or enter information on this Site.
Protection of Personal Information
The security of your personal information is important
to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage,
is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
Change to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to change the terms of this
privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to review this privacy policy
whenever you visit our website to make sure you understand how we use the
information we collect. If we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page at www.eyedea.fr.
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