Privacy policy

Private information security

For your safety and protection, your credit card information is not stored on our servers. Our payment gateway provider, authorize ecoss.net keeps this information encrypted and secure on your behalf.

Your privacy

At ecoss.net, we take your privacy very seriously. Please read this policy (this "Policy") to see how ecoss.net handles your personal information that you give to us when you register our website (the "Site"). This Policy only covers employees of ecoss.net and does not extend to people or companies that ecoss.net does not employ or manage. We reserve the right to modify this Policy. We will notify you of substantial changes to this Policy by telling you about them on our Announcements Board.

Information we collect

Our main purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with an enjoyable, customized, and efficient experience on our Site. It is our policy to never willfully disclose any personal information about our Members to the general public without their consent. Ecoss.net collects information from you when you register and conduct certain activities on the Site. We collect your full name, valid telephone number, contact/billing information, email address, tax number and shipping address. Also, each Member must create a unique user id and password and recieves a membership nubmer. Any additional information collected will be used in accordance with our privacy policy. We collect some information from your browser. This includes your IP address and the name of the page you requested. This information helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and administer the Site. Basically, your IP address helps us in identifying you and your specific needs. We also collect information from cookies, which are software tags that are stored by your browser onto your hard drive. These bits of information are general in nature and they allow us to customize our Site to fit your specific needs. Cookies also allow you to log onto or navigate through specific sections of our Site without having to re-enter certain information. You can decline the use of cookies, if any, through your browser. As always, your data remains strictly confidential and is never willingly shares with third parties.

“How is my information used?”

The information collected from ecoss.net Members is used to improve product/service offerings, customize our Site’s content and layout, and for marketing and statistical effort. Occasionally, we will send you emails about new services or promotions. You can always opt-out of receiving any information from us.

 

"Who will see my personal information?"

Our number one priority is to keep your personal information private and confidential. We will not willfully disclose your personal information to third parties. And we will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone.

Ecoss.net will disclose your personally identifiable information to others under the following circumstances:

– You consent to share the information;

– In response to subpoenas, court orders or legal process;

– Your actions on our Site are, or appear to be, in violation of the Terms of Service and disclosure of this information will assist in efforts to enforce the Terms of Service;

- You post a listing which ecoss.net believes in its sole discretion may create liability for ecoss.net and disclosure of this personal information may minimize or eliminate its liability.

Nothing in this Policy shall limit, prohibit, or otherwise deny the ability of ecoss.net to (1) transfer, assign, or sell its assets, including, without limitation, the assets of our Site, to a third party or (2) dispose of its assets in any manner through bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Ecoss.net also makes no representations regarding, and disclaims all liability arising out of or related to, the accuracy or completeness of the information it collects and discloses through our Site.

Security

In an effort to keep your information confidential, ecoss.net provides its Members with the highest industry standards for secure servers - Secure Socket Layers (SSL) and firewalls. Unfortunately, perfect security does not exist on the Internet (or in the real world, for that matter) - so we cannot guarantee that your information cannot be guaranteed. However, we will do our best to continue to ensure the security of your private information.

Minors

Minors (those under the age of 18) are not eligible to use ecoss.net unless they use our Site through a parent or guardian who is a registered Member of ecoss.net.

 

Your responsibilities

We go to great lengths to protect all of your information on our Site. In order to help us maintain the security of your personal information, we ask that you do not share your password with anybody. Sharing this information could put you and your rating as an user at risk. If you lose control of your password or you think that somebody has obtained unauthorized access to your account, immediately change your password. Please contact us if you have any questions.

USE OF COOKIES

Definition of cookies

Cookies are small, erasable text files stored on the User’s computer, and they permit personalisation of the content provided on our website. They are downloaded by the User’s browser during his or her first visit to our website. When our website is accessed again using the same terminal, device or browser, the cookie and the information stored in it will either be sent back to the website that generated it (first party cookie) or sent to another website to which it belongs (third party cookie). This is how the cookie detects that the browser in question was used to access the website and through this status it changes the way in which content is displayed. Cookies “remember”, for example, the preferences of Users, and they indicate how a User uses a page, and partially tailor the displayed content to the User’s individual preferences.

Cookies required for functionality

For purposes of performing transmission of messages and providing the services requested by the User, we use the cookies referenced below. Our data processing activities carried out through the use of cookies are based on our legitimate interests in providing a fully functional website and the services requested by Users, as well as our legitimate interest in constantly improving the content of our website and adapting it to the need of Users with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of individuals in the processing of personal data and on the free flow of such data.

Cookies that are functionally not required

For purposes of improving our services and our website, to increase user-friendliness, to personalise our services for Users of the website by temporary storage of search parameters and for online marketing purposes, we use the cookies listed below. The data processing activities carried out through the use of the cookies are based on the explicit consent of Users with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of individuals in the processing of personal data and on the free flow of such data.

Website visitors under the age of 14 are requested to obtain the consent of a parent or a guardian before sending us data via our website. Without such consent, they are not permitted to provide any data. However, if we receive data from persons under the age of 14, we will stop processing such data as soon as we become aware of it.

Cookie settings on this website

The User may block or limit his or her non-functional cookies by changing their cookie settings here.

Google Analytics

Purpose and scope of data processing

To design our website in line with the requirements of Users, we create pseudonymous user profiles with the help of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses targeting cookies that are stored on your end device and can be read by us. In this way we are able to recognise returning visitors and count them as such and find out how often our website pages have been accessed by different Users.

Legal basis

The data processing is based on consent in accordance with with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of individuals in the processing of personal data and on the free flow of such data.

The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of our website is usually transferred to a Google server in the United States and stored there. However, since we have activated IP anonymisation on our website, your IP address will first be truncated by Google within Member States of the European Union. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and only truncated there.

Google LLC processes this data and uses it to create profiles and links to Google accounts. For more information on how Google processes your data, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Information of third-party provider:

Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd.,
Gordon House, Barrow Street,
Dublin 4
Ireland
Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001
Terms of use: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html
Privacy Statement: www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy