IMPORTANT: BY USING THE Automation-Raoul.ch WEB SITE YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT THAT ALL PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU SUBMIT MAY BE PROCESSED BY Automation-Raoul IN THE MANNER AND FOR THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY.
Definitions
Automation-Raoul.ch is owned and operated by Raoul Francis.
The terms "Automation-Raoul", "we", "us", "our" and "ours" when used in this Privacy Policy means Automation-Raoul which inludes all its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates or commercial/technical partners of Automation-Raoul .
The terms "you", "your" and "yours" when used in this Privacy Policy means any user of this Web Site.
The term "Personal Data" refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address.
This Privacy Policy describes Automation-Raoul’s current policies and practices with regard to Personal Data collected by Automation-Raoul through www.Automation-Raoul.ch ("Web Site").
Collection of Personal Data including e-mail addresses
We collect the information you give us when you use our Web Site. You may use this Web Site to register to receive additional information or products from us. When you register, we ask you for contact information like your name, postal address and e-mail address.
Automation-Raoul Email Marketing Communication Policy
Automation-Raoul sends promotional email only to:
- our customers
- people who have given consent to Automation-Raoul to receive promotional email
- people on rented email lists who have given permission to the list owner to receive third-party promotional email
- people who have not opted out after having received promotional email from us.
We always disclose our identity in mass email communications, luding the address of our headquarters location, and we always identify our mass, promotional email as advertisements.
We never use deceiving header information or subject lines.
We never send mass, promotional email to email addresses “harvested” from websites.
We never, under any circumstances, rent or sell email addresses to any other company or individual.
When capturing email addresses via our Web forms, we always provide the opportunity to opt out of promotional email.
When coordinating with our resellers for the purpose of follow-up on sales inquiries made to us, we provide full contact information of the inquirer to the reseller, luding email address, so the reseller can follow up on the inquiry.
Use of Personal Data
We process your Personal Data only for specific and limited purposes. We ask only for data that is adequate, relevant and not excessive for those purposes. When we ask you for Personal Data, we tell you the purposes for which we will process that data. Some of these purposes lude the following:
* We may contact you occasionally to inform you of new services we will be providing, or special offers, events or articles we think will be of interest to you.
* We may send you regular updates by e-mail or by post on Automation-Raoul organised or related events.
* We may send you requested product information and promotional material.
* We may use your Personal Data for marketing purposes and market research.
* We may use your Personal Data internally to help us improve our products and services and to help resolve any problems.
Disclosure of your Personal Data
We do not share, sell or distribute your Personal Data with unrelated third parties, except under these limited circumstances:
Personal Data may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for or on behalf of Automation-Raoul, or in connection with the business of Automation-Raoul for further processing in accordance with the purposes for which the data was originally collected or for purposes to which you have subsequently consented. For example, sometimes a third party may have access to your Personal Data in order to handle our mailings on our behalf.
We may share or transfer the information in our databases to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your vital interests, to protect the security or integrity of our databases or this Web Site, to take precautions against legal liability, or in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganisation, dissolution or similar event.
Data Integrity and Security
We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of Personal Data in our databases and to protect the privacy and security of our databases. We keep your Personal Data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements.
Our servers and our databases are protected by industry standard security technology, such as industry standard firewalls and password protection.
The employees who have access to Personal Data have been trained to handle such data properly and in accordance with our security protocols and strict standards of confidentiality. Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorised disclosure, alteration or destruction of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
Data Access and Corrections
Upon receipt of your written request and enough information to permit us to identify your Personal Data, we will disclose to you the Personal Data we hold about you. We will also correct, amend or delete any Personal Data that is inaccurate and notify any third party recipients of the necessary changes.
If you wish to access or correct your Personal Data, please write to our data protection officer at Automation-Raoul, (webmaster [at] Automation-Raoul [dot] ch).
Anonymous data collected through this Web Site
In addition to the information we collect as described above, we use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our Web Site. This technology does not identify you personally, it simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our Web Site.
We use this anonymous data to improve the content and functionality of this Web Site and our e-mail updates, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services.
Cookies
In order to collect the anonymous data described in the preceding paragraph, we may use "cookies" that collect the first level domain name of the user and the date and time you accessed this Web Site.
We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web Site. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on a network, or in this case, the Internet. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information, such as determining how many of our visitors are from outside of the US.
We may also perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (i.e: aol.com, yourcompany.com) to more accurately gauge our users' demographics.
Links to other web sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to www.Automation-Raoul.ch and to other Automation-Raoul URLs through or from which you have reached this Web Site. This Web Site contains hyperlinks to web sites that are not operated by Automation-Raoul. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party web sites or any association with their operators. We do not control these web sites and are not responsible for their data or privacy practices. We urge you to review any privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any Personal Data about yourself.