A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors at www.christiankromme.com is of paramount importance to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy details how we handle your personal information. By consenting to our use of cookies when first visiting our website, you permit us to use cookies each time you visit www.christiankromme.com.

B. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com).

C. Collecting personal information
We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:
1. Details about your computer including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. Information about your visits to and use of this website such as referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. Information, like your email address, entered when registering on our website;
4. Information entered when creating a profile on our website (e.g., name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests, educational and employment details);
5. Information, like name and email, entered to set up subscriptions to our emails/newsletters;
6. Information entered while using our website services;
7. Details generated in the course of using our website, including how often and under what circumstances you use it;
8. Information relating to purchases, services used, or transactions made through our website, including name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
9. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and content of your posts;
10. Information contained in communications sent to us by email or through our website, including communication content and metadata;
11. Any other personal information sent to us.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Using your personal information
Personal information submitted through our website will be used for purposes specified in this policy or on relevant website pages. Uses include:
1. Administering our website and business;
2. Personalizing our website for you;
3. Enabling your use of services on our website;
4. Sending purchased goods and supplying services;
5. Sending statements, invoices, payment reminders, and collecting payments;
6. Sending non-marketing commercial communications;
7. Sending requested email notifications and newsletters;
8. Sending marketing communications related to our business or third-party businesses;
9. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (not individually identifiable);
10. Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
11. Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
12. Verifying compliance with terms and conditions of our website;
13. Other uses.

With your consent, we may publish personal information you submit for publication on our website. You can use privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our website.

We will not supply your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing without your express consent.

E. Disclosing personal information
We may disclose your personal information to employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

Disclosure to our group of companies (subsidiaries, our holding company and its subsidiaries) may also occur as reasonably necessary for the purposes identified in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:
1. To the extent required by law;
2. In connection with ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset we are (or are contemplating) selling;
5. To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or competent authority for disclosure where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order disclosure.

Except as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International data transfers
Information we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any countries we operate in, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Information may be transferred to countries without equivalent data protection laws, such as the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.

G. Retaining personal information
This section outlines our data retention policies and procedure, designed to help ensure we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information will not be kept longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. To the extent required by law;
2. If relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

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.

All personal information you provide will be stored on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge the inherent insecurity of internet data transmission and acknowledge we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping passwords used for accessing our website confidential.

I. Amendments
We may update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check occasionally for changes and may be notified of changes by email or through our website’s private messaging system.

J. Your rights
You may instruct us to provide any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
1. The payment of a fee (if applicable); and
2. Supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (we will usually accept a certified photocopy of your passport and an original utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or will have an opportunity to opt out.

K. 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.

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 sent by 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” or “session” cookies. Cookies typically do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. These are used for: Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they navigate, enable the use of a shopping cart, improve usability, analyze use, administer the website, prevent fraud, improve security, personalize