Engineering 360 (each a "Site", together the "Sites") recognize the importance of privacy as well as the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to all products and services provided by us and sets out how we collect, use and disclose information in relation to users of the Sites. This Privacy Policy also applies to use of our services and products via a mobile device, either through mobile applications or mobile-optimized websites.
A. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Your privacy is important to us and we have taken steps to ensure that we do not collect more information from you than is necessary for us to provide you with our services and to protect your account:
• If you are registered as a seller or service provider, in addition to the information mentioned above, we may also collect your identity information, tax registration number and information about your business, such as the information about your business license.
• If you are successfully certified by Engineering 360 as a blogger or an influencer, in addition to the information mentioned above, we may also collect your live stream videos, your social media account names and profile photos, and posts or comments made by the Site’s members.
• From time to time, we collect information about our users and prospective users during trade shows, industry events and other functions. The information we may collect at these events includes, but not limits to, user name, address, phone number, fax number and email address.
• We record users' buying and browsing activities on our platform including but not limited to IP addresses, browsing patterns, buyer behavioral patterns and equipment information. In addition, we gather statistical information about the Sites and visitors to the Sites including, but not limited to, IP addresses, browser software, operating system, software and hardware attributes, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors.
To enable us to provide our services and products to users, users need to provide certain categories of data (that mainly includes Business Data), such as user name, address, phone number, and email address. If certain data is required, we will let you know at the time of collection. In the event that users do not provide sufficient data marked as necessary, we may not be able to complete the registration process or provide certain products or services.
B. USE OF BUSINESS DATA
We collect and use your Business Data for the following purposes:
We may also use your Business Data for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
• We in any case will not ask for your personal details like your bank credit card or debit card number in any B2B transaction being performed on our Engineering 360 B2B Marketplace. The onus of burden of any transaction will solely lies on the Buyer and Seller and engineering 360 only plays the role of a facilitator for an effective business networking between the both the stake holders.
C. DISCLOSURE OF BUSINESS DATA
We may disclose and transfer (whether within or outside the jurisdiction of the Engineering 360 Marketplace) your Personal Data to our partners and to service providers engaged by us to assist us to provide services to you or who otherwise process Business Data for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your Personal Data. Examples of these partners or service providers include:
D. COOKIES
Marketing platforms, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and VKontakte, and providers of analytics services relating to users’ behavior, in order to tailor the content, you see when visiting our Sites. These marketing platforms may combine information they collect on our Sites with data on their platforms and data they collect from other websites or through other sources in order to conduct targeted advertising. The activities of these third-party marketing platforms are governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy;
For the purposes specified above, we may share your Business Data with affiliated companies or Search Engines for better productivity to your business and as a source for an effective business generation model.
E. COOKIES
We use "cookies" to store specific information about you and track your visits to the Sites, either through a computer or via a mobile device. It is not uncommon for websites to use cookies to enhance the identification of their visitor and companies.
A "cookie" is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's or mobile device’s hard drive. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same browser or mobile device to access the Sites, our web servers will be notified of your visit to the Sites and in turn, we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage. The cookies will enable us to remember your information so you do not have to re-enter it every time you use the Site.
In addition, we use cookies to manage the security of our Sites, to gather information about usage by users; to research visiting patterns and conduct interest-based advertising; to assist our partners to track user visits to the Sites and process orders, and to track progress and participation in promotions.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you choose to set your web browser controls to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
Certain features of the Site depend on cookies. Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies may be lost.
We use two types of cookies: session cookies (which are erased once you close the browser or shut down the device) and persistent cookies (which remain even after closing the browser or shutting down the device/application and which are activated each time you visit the Sites). The session cookies use encrypted data to unambiguously authenticate you. The persistent cookies do not store account numbers or passwords.
F. Google Analytics
Our Sites use internet analytics services provided by third parties.
G. SECURITY MEASURES
We employ commercially reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized access to the Sites, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the correct use of the information we hold.
H. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated by us posting an amended Privacy Policy on the Sites. Once posted on the Sites, the new Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.
J. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any requests, questions, or concerns about our use of your Business Data and this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
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