D-ASTERA DUTY FREE GLOBAL AGENCIES, INC., PRIVACY POLICY
Effective immediately- Last revised November 2013
BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE OR OTHERWISE USING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY LONGCHAMP, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
INTRODUCTION
D-ASTERA DUTY FREE GLOBAL AGENCIES, INC. (“D-Astera” or “we”) recognizes the importance of protecting the personal and financial information of our customers. We respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining and using the information you submit through D-Astera’s website, www.d-astera.com (the “Site”) responsibly. This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) was created in order to assist you in understanding what information we gather when you visit the Site.
UPDATING THE POLICY
D-Astera reserves the right occasionally to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy. Therefore, we encourage you to review this page from time to time. We will indicate at the top of the policy when revisions were last made. Your continued use of any section of the Site following posting of changes to the Privacy Policy will represent your acceptance of these changes.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal Information
During your visit to our Site, we may at times ask that you submit personal information in order to provide the services that you request from us. The information that we collect may include your name, billing and shipping address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, content from correspondence between you and D-Astera.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to deliver a better and more customized service and improve the appearance of our website. Cookies are small text files that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer when you access a website during a browsing session. We may also use pixel tags or web beacons which are typically a one- pixel image used to pass information from your computer to our website. These tracking technologies are used to: store information about your preferences; recognize you when you return to our websites; and, monitor website usage, measure the effectiveness of our advertising and simply speed up your searches. When you enter our website, our servers may recognize information about you such as, your access provider, domain name, IP address and browser language. Cookies and pixel tags in our newsletters may be used to track your interaction with those messages, such as when you open or click a link in an email message from us. We reserve the right to use cookies and similar devices to collect non-personal information about users of the Site, such as a user's ISP address, the type of web browser and operating system being used and/or the pages of the website a user visits. Most browsers accept cookies automatically.
Please note, our Site will not operate if you disable the cookies settings from your browser. We use this technology, in part, to determine what country you are accessing our Site from. If you still wish to decline cookies you must access the ‘Help’ menu of your browser to change your preferences.
USAGE OF INFORMATION
D-Astera will use information we collect from you for the following purposes: to fulfill your requests for products and/or services;detect and prevent fraud and abuse; resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems;to protect the integrity of our company; enforce our rights; and comply with legal obligations. We may also maintain and use customer data for
market research; to better understand your preferences; to review and improve our website selections; improve our website, quality of service and your and other customers’ overall experience. If you submit your resume online, we may use the information you provide for the purpose of evaluating you as a candidate for employment and to contact you about prospective employment.
If you provide inaccurate or incomplete data, D-Astera may not be able to inform you of specific events or promotions and provide you with our services.
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
We may disclose information that we collect from you to outside third party companies, to the extent permitted by law for the following purposes: to help maintain our customer database; support us in distributing emails; assist us in direct marketing; monitor Site activity and content and provide fraud prevention. As necessary, the personal information that you provide to us may be processed by these third parties, solely on D-Astera’s behalf. They are not authorized to use your information for any other purposes other than to provide the contracted services.
We may also disclose your personal information if required by law in the case of a legal claim or proceeding or to limit our legal liability and to protect our rights or the rights of visitors of this Site or the public.
However, technical and legal circumstances beyond our control prevent D-Astera from ensuring that your information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described herein. For example, among other things, we may be required by law, regulation or court order to disclose information to government representatives or third parties under certain circumstances. If D-Astera is requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide information on individuals, D-Astera may, without your consent, provide such information. In matters involving claims of personal or public safety or in litigation where the data is pertinent, D-Astera may use or disclose your personal information without your consent or court process. Further, corporate restructuring, sale of assets, merger, divestiture and other changes of control or financial status affecting D-Astera may require disclosure as an incidental result of a transfer of assets by operation of law or otherwise. Therefore, D-Astera and its business partners do not promise, and you should not expect, that your private information shall remain private under all circumstances.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
On our Site you may be able to access links to third party websites, which could have different privacy policies then ours. We advise you to check their policies as they are independent from us and we are not responsible nor have control over their information or activities.
SECURITY
The internet is not a secure medium, and neither the privacy of your communications, nor visits to this Site, can be assured. D-Astera shall not be liable or responsible for any interception of, access to, unauthorized use of, or fraudulent interference with, any communication or information you may send to this Site, whether personal information, or otherwise, while in transit. The nature of internet communications means that your communications may be susceptible to data corruption, interception and delays. This Site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. You agree that D-Astera and any other persons involved in the management of this Site may make changes described in this Site, and to the content of this Site, at any time without notice. D-Astera shall not be responsible for any detrimental reliance you place on this Site or its contents. Use of this Site is on an "as is" basis and is entirely at your own risk.
D-Astera uses reasonable security measures to reduce the possibility of loss, misuse and/or alteration of information under our control. We store your personal information on a secure server and use procedures designed to protect the information we collect from you, from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
D-Astera does not knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of eighteen. D-Astera’s Site is for use by adults 18 years of age or older. We will remove from our files any personally identifiable information of anyone we discover to be under eighteen years old. Any online sweepstakes or contest are restricted to entrants who are at least eighteen years old.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR VIEWING AND USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING IN ANY CONNECTION WITH ANY COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS THAT MAY BE UNDERTAKEN IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS SITE, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY AGREED TO BY D-ASTERA IN WRITING, D-ASTERA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY DAMAGES, HARM, LIABILITY, LOSS, COST, EXPENSE, OR INJURY SUFFERED IN ANY CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING AS A RESULT OF USING, ACCESSING, COPYING, OR DOWNLOADING ANY PART OF THIS SITE'S CONTENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL D-ASTERA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, THIRD PARTY,
INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE (INCLUDING LOSS OF BUSINESS, REVENUE, PROFITS, USE, DATA OR OTHER ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE) HOWEVER SAME ARISES, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF
CONTRACT, OR IN TORT, NEGLIGENCE, EQUITY, OR OTHERWISE EVEN IF D-ASTERA HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
YOU AGREE TO HAVE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADEQUATE PROTECTION AND BACKUP OF DATA AND/OR EQUIPMENT USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE AND WILL NOT MAKE A CLAIM AGAINST D-ASTERA FOR LOST DATA, RE-RUN TIME, DATA CORRUPTION, BREACH OF SECURITY COMMUNICATION INTERCEPTION, INACCURATE OUTPUT, WORK DELAYS OR OTHER LOSS WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM ANY USE OF THIS SITE.
D-ASTERA shall not be responsible or liable for any visit, use or detrimental reliance that you may place on this Site. You agree and accept that D-ASTERA denies, and is excluded from, any harm, loss, damages or other liability associated with any unauthorized third party conduct concerning this Site, including any cyber-attack, Site availability (denial of service attack), or hacking of this Site, regardless of whether or not same arises where any personal information/credit card information may be accessed, sabotaged, viewed, copied, stolen, transmitted out or otherwise interfered with.
GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION
You agree and confirm that the Site you are visiting is a website and online business that is located in the Cyprus. The laws of Cyprus without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will exclusively govern all aspects of this Site, your use of the Site, your privacy rights, and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and D-ASTERA regarding your visit to and use of the Site, including this Privacy Policy. You agree that any and all claims arising out of use of this Site and/or the Privacy Policy will be exclusively tried in Cyprus and the Cyprus courts in Cyprus County will have exclusive jurisdiction and venue and you consent and submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such court over any claim, suit, or proceeding arising out of this Privacy Policy. You agree that his Site does not have any material, substantial or relevant connection to any jurisdiction other than Cyprus.
CONTACT US
If you have any comments or questions about your privacy or security on our website or want to update, correct or request removal of your personal information from our customer database, and/or our newsletters please email our privacy manager at:
When contacting us, please be sure to provide us with your name, mailing address, email address and/ or telephone number(s) in order to be sure we handle your request correctly. Please note that some personal information also may continue to be stored on back up files for legal, financial or technical reason.