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PRIVACY POLICY OF “Photos of Arabia”
Last Updated: September 2008
We understand and respect your concern about the privacy of any information you supply while at our Web site. “Photos of Arabia” or POFA or www.photosofarabia.com is committed to protecting your privacy, all information will be treated with complete confidentiality and will not be misused and when used shall only be for the reasons set out below:- The terms of this policy apply to all “Photos of Arabia” websites, unless different terms are specified in a form or contract provided to you online or offline. By using this site, you understand and agree to the terms of this policy. This site is owned by “Photos of Arabia” and may be accessed anywhere in the world. For data protection purposes, “Photos of Arabia” is the controller and, unless otherwise noted, is also the processor of data. Information collected may be retained indefinitely, and may be stored, processed, accessed, and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction.
Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use this Web site unsupervised and we ask that children do not register for an account or submit any personal information to us. By using this site unsupervised, and/or registering for an account, you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.
Personal Information
“Photos of Arabia” collects certain personal information from users of this Web site. Guests 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. “Photos of Arabia” may use certain account information such as credit card number and company information of authorized users to conduct credit inquiries. “Photos of Arabia” uses this information for internal purposes (to process your order and any invoices, to maintain or update your “Photos of Arabia” account, or to send you updates about special offers, new services, special promotions. “Photos of Arabia” do not sell or rent information about its customers to third parties.
Profile Information
Your profile information in the registration form is used by “Photos of Arabia” to create personalized content, services, and advertising on the “Photos of Arabia” Web site. “Photos of Arabia” may also profile your Web site activity in order to accurately track your account and provide you with “Photos of Arabia” products and services that correspond to your interests.
Automatically collected Information
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to segregate customer types for analytical purposes. “Photos of Arabia” will use this email address and any personal information collected for the purpose of responding to the user's request.
Email Referrals
If you use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we will ask you for the friend's name and email address. “Photos of Arabia” will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. “Photos of Arabia” does not retain this information
Service providers
We occasionally hire or partner with other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as managing and handling the processing and delivery of mailings (both email and postal mail), providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Change of address or Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, or delete inaccuracies in your information by making the change through the "Contact Us" page of our website or on the Account Information page of our “Photos of Arabia” Subscriptions Web site, by emailing our Customer Support at info@photosofarabia or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. After our verification process your request will be processed and implemented within thirty (30) days
Security
“Photos of Arabia” has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in secured facilities. “Photos of Arabia”' employees are trained and kept up-to-date on our security procedures. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to info@photosofarabia.com. We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technologies to transmit sensitive information such as a credit card number to our servers. However, perfect security on the Internet does not exist, and “Photos of Arabia” does not warrant that its Web site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers
Cookies
When you visit the “Photos of Arabia” Web site, “Photos of Arabia” sends your computer a cookie, which is a small file that resides on your computer's hard drive and might contain personally identifiable information about the user. Cookies identify the user's computer and allow “Photos of Arabia” to make its Web site more useful by storing information about your preferences too. For example, “Photos of Arabia” will send your computer a cookie to maintain default settings such as your language preference. You can set your browser's options not to accept cookies, but this may prevent you from accessing all of the features of the “Photos of Arabia” Web site. Additionally, this Web site uses clear GIFs, or pixel tags, provided by our ad serving company to help manage our online advertising. These clear GIFs provide our ad serving company with the ability to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this site. This allows us to learn which banner ads bring users to our Web site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable (it does not include your name, address, telephone number, or email address). For more information about our ad serving company or your option to restrict the use of this anonymous information, please click here If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you should first contact “Photos of Arabia” (using the Contact Information below).
Photos of Arabia
C/o Tiara FZ LLC, Office 47, 8th Floor, Al Thuraya Tower 2,
Dubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Tel: +971 4 4280 887 Fax: +971 4 4280 686
Email: sales@photosofarabia.com
Links
Please be aware that the “Photos of Arabia” Web site may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. “Photos of Arabia” 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 Web site that collects personally identifiable information
Changes to this online Privacy Policy
“Photos of Arabia” reserves the right to change the terms of this online privacy policy at any time. When “Photos of Arabia” makes changes, it will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the policy. If there are material changes to this statement or in how “Photos of Arabia” will use your personal information, “Photos of Arabia” will notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes here or on its home page, or by sending you an email. “Photos of Arabia” encourages you to review this policy whenever you visit one of our sites.
Effective January 2008 Photos of Arabia. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. |
