GALERIE SAMIA MEHDI

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is of great importance to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy outlines what we do with your personal information.

Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies whenever you visit our site.

B. Source This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and was modified by GALERIE SAMIA www.samiamehdi.com

C. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type, and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, duration of the visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths.
Information such as your email address, which you provide when registering on the website.
Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, hobbies, educational background, and professional history.
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
Information you enter when using the services on our website.
Information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
Information related to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you perform on our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information.
Information you post on our website with the intent to publish it on the internet, including your username, profile photos, and the content of your posts.
Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata.
Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person's consent regarding the disclosure and processing of such personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant website pages. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business.
Customize our website for you.
Enable your use of the services offered on our website.
Send you purchased goods from our website.
Provide you with purchased services from our website.
Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders and collect your payments.
Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
Send you our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter).
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party companies that we think may be of interest to you, either in print or, if you expressly agree, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (this information will not allow third parties to identify any individual user with this information).
Process inquiries and complaints about your website made by you or related to you.
Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud.
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service).
Other uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and may use this information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your website privacy settings.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

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

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent required by law.
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a competent court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority would be reasonably likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.

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

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of Your Personal Information

This Section G outlines our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information we process for any purpose will not be retained for longer than necessary for that purpose.

Without prejudice to Section G-2, we will typically delete personal data from these categories at the time and on the date specified below:

This type of personal data will be deleted {ENTER DATE/TIME}; and
{ENTER OTHER DATES/TIMES}.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

To the extent required by law.
If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings.
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

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.

We will store all personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by a password and firewall).

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

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and not sharing it with anyone; we will not ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may occasionally update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may inform you of changes to this policy by email or through our website's private messaging service.

J. Your Rights

You can request us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

Payment of a fee {ENTER FEES IF APPLICABLE}; and
Presentation of sufficient proof of your identity {ADJUST TEXT TO REFLECT YOUR POLICY} (for this purpose, we generally accept a notarized copy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may retain the personal information you request in accordance with the law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will express your agreement explicitly and in advance for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

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 (a string of letters and numbers) 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 "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user's session when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you can be linked to information stored in cookies and obtained through cookies. {SELECT THE APPROPRIATE STATEMENT We only use session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our website.}

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website for: {INCLUDE ALL WAYS COOKIES ARE USED ON YOUR SITE} recognizing a computer when a user visits the website / tracking users during their navigation on the website / enabling the use of a shopping cart on the website / improving the use of a website / analyzing website usage / administering the website / preventing fraud and improving website security / customizing the website for each user / sending targeted advertisements that may interest some users (describe your other purposes).

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";
with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," and selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," then selecting "Prevent sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie file manually (instructions can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools," "Options," and "Privacy," then selecting "Use custom settings for history" and clicking "Show Cookies," and then "Remove All Cookies"; and
with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data," then "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data."

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.