We at Merkspace strive to protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets how we handle the information you chose to provide us with and learn about you when you visit our website, including:
The information we collect:
The choices available to you regarding how information is used and to whom it is disseminated
Your rights to access and correct/update your personal information
Our pledge to have reasonable security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control
In case there are any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please contact us on the Contact Us page.
NOTICE: Information We Collect and How We Use It
Once you register and fill in any form on our website, we collect: Your name, telephone number and e-mail address). We collect non-personal information as well, aggregate information (such as information regarding the pages on our site that you have visited and your IP address).
PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION – WHAT WE COLLECT
The only personally-identifying information we collect and store about you is the information that you choose to provide to us.
E-MAIL
We will also gather your personally-identifiable information when you send us an email. This info will be used in order to respond to your email. We might also use the information to send you notifications about our service\discounts\events.
Sweepstakes and Contests
From time to time we may request information from you in regards with sweepstakes, special offers, or contests we offer on our website. Participation in these sweepstakes or contests is completely voluntary and is under the official rules of each activity, which should be read carefully; you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name, phone and e-mail. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes.
We may co-sponsor sweepstakes and contests with other companies and partners. In this case your information is likely to be shared with these companies. We will request that these companies maintain the privacy of the registrants’ information.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website that they visit. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected when you visit and fill in your information at our website only.
NON PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION: WHAT WE COLLECT
We collect and use non-personally identifiable information about you in the following ways:
Cookies
At certain points in your visit to our site, our server may send a “cookie” file to your computer. Your Web browser may prompt you to accept this file unless you have set your browser preferences to accept all cookies automatically. Cookies are employed primarily as a service to our customers, to extend the relevance and responsiveness of the our website. We may link cookie information with any personally-identifiable information you provide us.
Other Non-Personally-Identifiable Information
Our website may collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit, such as type of browser, operating system, domain name, or IP address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you visit pages on our website our servers log your IP address. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. This means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. IP address information is used only to improve the service of the our website, and is then discarded at the end of each session on our site.
We also collect information through “referrers” and various environmental variables. A “referrer” is information the Web browser passes along to our web server that references the URL from which you came. “Environmental variables” include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our website, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the website you left to visit, the names of the pages you visit while at our website, and the Internet address of the website you then visit. We collect this info to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on our website. We may store “referrer” information for a limited period of time prior to deleting this information.[1]
Profiling
To help us improve our website and to ensure we try to provide you with information and offers that are of relavent to you, we may merge your personally-identifiable information with click-stream data and other data we have (such as cookies & offline data). We will ofcourse provide notice of this, as well as an opportunity to opt-out of it at the time and place of information collection & before data is entered on our system.
We may also create a non-identifiable profile on you based on the pages you visited on our site.
Links
This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites. We encourage our visitors to read the privacy policies of each and every website they visit. This privacy policy applies to information collected when you visit our website only.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so you will always be updated what is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy statements under which the information was collected.
Special Policy Regarding Information from Children Under 13
This website is not targeted to children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly request personally identifiable information from any child under the age of 18 without parental consent. When we do receive such information, we delete it as soon as we discover it or are notified of it and do not use it or share it with third parties.
CHOICE
You have the following choices in relation to the use of your information.
You may set your browser to reject cookies and to erase cookies that have already been placed on your hard drive. Beware that if you do so, your ability to navigate this site will be limited.
You may choose not to provide us with any contact information.
If you would like us to manage your contact status or be removed from any of our on-line mailing lists, email us via our contact us page or click unsubscribe at the given mail you received for us.
If you do not want your personal or nonpersonal information merged with cookie and other information, you should not use our website.
If you would like us to delete any personal information you have provided, please send an e-mail via our Contact Us page.
You may request to see personally-identifiable information that we have collected about you via the Internet to update it or to have factual inaccuracies corrected by contacting us via contact us page.
SECURITY
We make every effort and strive to have reasonable security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to us via our Contact Us page.