Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information that Import.de collects when you use our website and service, in order to run an efficient and effective service.
Submitting personal information on our site is optional, but sometimes necessary e.g. when you register or submit an enquiry via our websites. This notice applies to all personal information collected or submitted on this website. The types of personal information we ask for and collect in order to run our service are details such as name, address, email address, phone number and information specific to an enquiry. This information will be saved and released to a small number of our registered suppliers (Exporters) in order to send you quotes or to contact you regarding your enquiry. Suppliers who register with Import.de will provide information such as name, address, phone number, email address and company details. This information will be made available to the public as the companies are listet in our B-to-B directory. If a supplier signs up for our Pay-Per-Lead service the mentioned information may also be made available to a user who is submitting an enquiry.
2. How we use the Information
Import.de does use the personal information you provide about yourself within its own organisation for the purpose of internal business administration and to forward enquiries and/or quotes an user is sending or receiving. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. We respect your email privacy and you will not receive unsolicited mail from Import.de or from third parties.However, Import.de may send you occasional Newsletters or emails about important changes to our service. Import.de is monitoring customer traffic patterns and site usage in order to identify problems and/or to develop the design of our websites. For these purposes we may send your information internationally, including to countries outside the European Economic Association. Other countries offer differing levels of protection for personal information, not all of which will be as high as the levels of protection offered in Germany. Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
3. Protection of Personal Information
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, we have strict procedures governing the storage and disclosure of personal details to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. All personal information is password-protected and only Import.de and selected suppliers have access to the personal information provided by an enquiring company.
4. Access to Personal Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by calling us or sending us an email to info@import.de. You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows the error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
5. Use of Cookies
Import.de collects information about your preferences in relation to this site by analysing site traffic, which includes the use of cookies. Cookies are pieces of computer code which are stored on your computer and which allows Import.de to recognise the fact that you have visited our site previously. Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site will not work properly. During the course of any visit to Import.de the pages you see along with a cookie are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.
6. IP Addresses
Import.de may log IP addresses of users of our websites for administrative and analytical purposes. In cases of suspected abuse or service problems, Import.de may use an IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce our terms of use and/or to protect or troubleshoot the services, its users or others who may be affected. Except as provided in section 2, Import.de will not share personally identifiable information associated with IP addresses with third parties.
7. Your Consent to this Agreement
By disclosing your personal information to Import.de, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Should you have any questions or concerns about these Privacy Policies, please contact us.
