Our Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.svkintercultural.com and SVK Intercultural, and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to SVK Intercultural include www.svkintercultural.com. The SVK Intercultural website is an information site. By using the SVK Intercultural website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us, such as when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us through email. In such cases, we collect your:
- First and Last Name
- E-mail Address
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data in the Comments section of the Blog page, this information may be collected and used by others.
Use of your Personal Information
SVK Intercultural collects and uses your personal information to operate its website and deliver the services you have requested.
SVK Intercultural may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SVK Intercultural and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
SVK Intercultural does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
SVK Intercultural may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis or send you email. Our email service provider is MailChimp. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to SVK Intercultural, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
SVK Intercultural may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SVK Intercultural or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SVK Intercultural; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SVK Intercultural, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
SVK Intercultural may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within SVK Intercultural, in order to determine what SVK Intercultural services are the most popular.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by SVK Intercultural through Squarespace, the platform we use for our website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SVK Intercultural website.
Use of Cookies
The SVK Intercultural website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the SVK Intercultural services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other unaffiliated sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our sites and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
SVK Intercultural secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. SVK Intercultural uses the following methods for this purpose:
- SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen
SVK Intercultural does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, SVK Intercultural may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from SVK Intercultural, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button in every newsletter.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to this Statement
SVK Intercultural reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
SVK Intercultural welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that SVK Intercultural has not adhered to this Statement, please contact SVK Intercultural at:
Email Address: sharon@svkintercultural.com
Effective as of May 30, 2018