Privacy Policy

Century Europe and its affiliates (collectively, “Century Europe,” or “we,” “us,” “our”) respect your concerns about personal data protection and value our relationship with you. This Privacy, Cookies and Data Protection Policy (the “Policy”) applies solely to personal data collected through Century Europe web sites, web pages, portals, interactive features, applications, telephone support lines, email, widgets, blogs and their respective contents in addition to our Twitter, Facebook or other social networking sites, and their respective contents (collectively, the “Sites”), whether accessed via computer, mobile device or other device (collectively, “Device”).

This Policy describes the types of personal data we collect through the Sites and how that personal data may be used and/or with whom it may be shared. This Policy also describes how you can reach us to update your contact information, access and control the use of the personal data we collect in connection with our marketing communications and activities, or get answers to questions you may have about our privacy practices at these Sites. Please read this Policy carefully, because by using the Sites you are acknowledging that you understand and agree to the terms of this Policy. In addition, please review our Terms & Conditions, which governs your use of the Sites and any content you submit to the Sites.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR SITES

Information You Provide To Us

Generally you can visit the Sites without providing personal data, unless otherwise mentioned in the Sites themselves. However there may be circumstances when you may be asked or choose to provide personal data that could reasonably be used to contact you or to identify you personally (such as your name, home address, telephone number, credit card data or email address (“Personal Data”) through the Sites. For example, Century Europe may collect Personal Data when you register on the Sites, request information, purchase products or services, supply products or services, submit a resume, comments or participate in some promotion, survey or other feature of the Sites, or otherwise communicate or interact with us. The Sites may also ask you to provide other Personal Data about yourself, such as demographic data (gender, zip code, age, etc.) or certain information about your preferences, product use, and interests. If we combine demographic or other data we collect about you with Personal Data about you, we will treat the combined information as personal data according to the applicable laws, subject to your prior opt-in, if and when required by the applicable laws.. If you do not want your Personal Data processed by us, please do not submit it or notify us at any time to have it deleted.

Data Collected by Automated Means

Whenever you visit or interact with the Sites, Century Europe may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect information about how the Sites are accessed and used (“usage data”). Usage data may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, how many users visited the Sites, and the preceding page views. Usage data is statistical data which provides us with information about the use of the Sites, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Sites, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. This usage data helps us to keep the Sites fresh and interesting to our visitors and to tailor content to a visitor’s interests. Usage data is generally non-identifying, but if Century Europe associates it with you as a specific and identifiable person, Century Europe treats it as Personal Data.

In the course of collecting usage data, Century Europe might also automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for the Device. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device when you access a web site or its servers, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. When you visit the Sites, we may view your Device Identifier. We use this data to determine the general physical location of your Device and understand from what regions of the world the visitors to the Sites come. We also may use this Personal Data to enhance the Sites.

The technologies used on the Sites to collect usage data, including Device Identifiers, may include cookies.

2. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED

Century Europe uses the Personal Data and usage data we collect through the Sites for a variety of business purposes, including for example, to: respond to your questions and requests; provide you with access to certain areas and features of the Sites; verify your identity; communicate with you about your account and activities on the Sites and, in our discretion, changes to any Century Europe policy; tailor content, advertisements, and offers we serve you; send you samples, premiums, products and information; process payment for products or services purchased by you; process payment for products or services sold by you to Century Europe; improve the Sites; develop new products and services; process applications and transactions; and for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your personal data or otherwise with your consent.

3. E-MAIL MARKETING

Your name and e-mail address are only collected after you have given permission for it by filling out the request a quote form and/or the contact form on the Century websites. The collection of this data has the aim to send you a requested quote or provide you with the information/answers to questions submitted by you via the 2 before mentioned forms.

The collected data will not be used for any other purpose than quoting or informing you for only this one occasion. After the quote or information has been sent to you, your data will be used for correspondence regarding this quote or provision of the requested information on your or our initiative. After this period, the data will be removed from our system and the data will not be included in any of our mailing lists used for marketing purposes. If you have any questions about this, please contact our sales support or our marketing department. You can find the contact details at the bottom of this statement.

4. INFORMATION WE SHARE

We will not provide any of your Personal Data to any third parties without your specific consent, except as described in this Policy. We may share non-personal data, such as aggregate user statistics, demographic data, and usage data with third parties. We may also share your personal data in the following circumstances: third parties providing services on our behalf. In order to carry out your requests, to make various features, services and materials available to you through the Sites, and to respond to your inquiries, we may share your Personal Data or usage data with third parties that perform functions on our behalf (or on behalf of our business associates), such as companies or individuals that: host or operate our Sites; analyze data; provide customer service; mail product samples or manage payments; advertisers; sponsors or other third parties that participate in or administer our promotions or provide marketing or promotional assistance. When sharing your Personal Data with these third parties we require them to use and protect your Personal Data in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.

Your Agreement To Have Your Personal Data Shared.
While on our Sites, you will have the opportunity to opt-in to receive information and/or marketing offers from us and from someone else or to otherwise consent to the sharing of your Personal Data with a third party. If you agree to have your Personal Data shared, your Personal Data will be disclosed to the third party and the Personal Data you disclose will be subject to the privacy policy of that third party.

Business Transfers.
Your Personal Data may also be used by us or shared with our subsidiaries, affiliates and other entities in the family of companies controlled by Century Europe for internal reasons, primarily for business and operational purposes mentioned herein. If another entity acquires us or all or a portion of our assets, Personal Data, usage data, and any other information that we have collected about the users of the Sites may be disclosed to such entity as part of the due diligence process and will be transferred to such entity as one of the transferred assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will require the transferee to use the Personal Data and usage data in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.

You may ask us to refrain from using and sharing your personal data (whether collected online or offline) among our affiliates for marketing purposes. Please tell us your preference by contacting us as indicated in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Policy.

5. INFORMATION WE RECEIVE FROM THIRD PARTIES

Century Europe may receive your Personal Data or usage data from third parties. For example, if you are on another web site and you opt-in to be contacted by Century Europe, that web site will forward to us your e-mail address and other Personal Data about you, so that we may contact you as requested. You may also choose to participate in a third party application or feature such as one of our Facebook or Twitter pages or a similar application or feature on a third party web site through which you allow us to collect and share (or the third party to collect and share) information about you, including Personal Data.

We may also supplement the Personal Data we collect about you through the Sites with other data from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the Personal Data we receive from these third parties with data we collect through the Sites. In those cases, we will apply this Policy to any Personal Data received, unless we have disclosed otherwise.

6. YOUR ACCESS AND CHOICES

You may always direct us not to share your Personal Data with third parties, not to use your Personal Data to provide you with information or offers, or not to send you newsletters, e-mails or other communications by: (i) sending us an e-mail at info@century-retail.com; (ii) following the removal instructions in the communication that you receive. Century Europe does not charge for this service, and your opt-out request will be processed within 10-15 business days of the date on which we receive it. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data.

If you wish to verify, correct, or update any of your Personal Data collected through the Sites, you may do so by contacting us at the above address or e-mail. In accordance with our routine record keeping, we may delete certain records that contain Personal Data you have submitted through the Sites. We are under no obligation to store such Personal Data indefinitely and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such Personal Data.

7. ADVERTISING; OPT-IN and OPT-OUT

Century Europe licenses technology to serve advertisements on other Sites and within its content as that content is served across the Internet. In addition, Century Europe may use third party network advertisers to serve advertisements and third party analytics vendors to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the Sites and viewing of our content. We do not share Personal Data with these third parties, but ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors, and/or analytics service providers may set and access their own cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies on your Device and they may otherwise collect or have access to data about you, including usage data. Third parties that provide marketing programs on Century Europe's behalf are responsible for maintaining both cookie opt-in and opt-out functionality. We and our network advertisers may target advertisements for products and services in which you might be interested based on your visits to both the Sites and other web sites subject to your prior opt-in if and when required by the applicable laws.

If you prefer to not receive targeted advertising any longer, you can opt out of some network advertising programs that use your Personal Data. To do so please visit the NAI Opt-Out Page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Please note that even if you choose to remove your Personal Data (opt out), you might still see advertisements while you're browsing online.

8. LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The Sites may provide links to other websites that we do not own or operate. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement. To the extent that any linked websites are not part of the Century Europe Sites, we do not control, recommend or endorse and are not responsible for these websites or their content, products, services or privacy policies or practices. These other websites may send their own cookies to your Device, they may independently collect data or solicit personal data and may or may not have their own privacy policies. You should also independently assess the authenticity of any website which appears or claims that it is one of our Sites (including those linked to through an email or social networking page).

9. HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA

We maintain certain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your Personal Data.

10. CONSENT TO PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

Given that Century Europe includes entities located all over the World, processing your Personal Data and usage data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that Personal Data and usage data we collect may be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Sites, or providing us with any personal data, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance and transfer of such personal data and usage data to Century Europe affiliated entities in the United States or in other countries, save their compliance with the applicable personal data protection laws.

11. SAFE HARBOR

Century Europe complies with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the Protection of Individuals with rRegard to Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of sSuch Data (the “EU Directive”), as well as the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. Century Europe has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement established by the U.S. Department of Commerce (the “Safe Harbor Principles”) applicable to Personal Data transferred from EU members and Switzerland to U.S. recipients. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view the company's certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

12. CHILDREN

The Sites are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable data from anyone under 13 years of age. If we determine upon collection that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain his/her personal data without the parent/guardian’s consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personally identifiable data from a child under the age of 13, we will delete such personal data from our records.

13. UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This Policy and other policies on the Sites may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you, and any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised policy on the Sites. However, we will use your Personal Data in a manner consistent with the policy in effect at the time you submitted the Personal Data, unless you consent to the new or revised policy. We will post a prominent notice on the Sites to notify you of any significant changes to our Policy and indicate at the top of the Policy when it was most recently updated.

14. HOW TO CONTACT US


If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, please contact us by:

In writing to:
Klavermaten 71
7472 DD GOOR
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: +31 – 547 – 82 03 03

or

Via email to: info@century-retail.com or marketing@century-retail.com

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