Privacy Policy
MER MEC COMMITMENT TO DATA PRIVACY PROTECTION
Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to MER
MEC; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on
data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below
will help you understand what data MER MEC may collect, how MER MEC uses and
safeguards that data and with whom we may share it.
PERSONAL DATA
Through our Web sites, MER MEC will not collect any personal data about you
(e.g. your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), unless you
voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g. by registration, survey),
respectively, provide your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable
laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.
PURPOSE OF USE
When you do provide us with personal data, we usually use it to respond to your
inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or
offers. Also, to support our customer relationship with you:
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we may store and process personal data and share it with our worldwide
affiliates/partners to better understand your business needs and how we can
improve our products and services;
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we (or a third party on our behalf) may use personal data to contact you about
a MER MEC offer in support of your business needs or to conduct online surveys
to understand better our customers' needs
If you choose not to have your personal data used to support our customer
relationship (especially direct marketing or market research), we will respect
your choice. We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third
parties, except to MER MEC affiliates.
PURPOSE LIMITATION
MER MEC will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only
for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure:
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is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly
related to the original purpose for which the personal data was collected,
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is necessary to prepare, negotiate and perform a contract with you,
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is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
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is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
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is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as willful
attacks on MER MEC information technology systems.
COMMUNICATIONS OR UTILIZATION DATA
Through your use of telecommunications services to access our Web site, your
communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g.
information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on
the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and
could conceivably relate to personal data. To the extent that there is a
compelling necessity, the collection, processing and use of your communications
or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the
applicable data privacy protection legal framework.
NON-PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration)
collect non-personal data (e.g. type of Internet browser and operating system
used, domain name of the Web site from which you came, number of visits,
average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share
it with our worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites
and improve their performance or content.
"COOKIES" - INFORMATION STORED AUTOMATICALLY ON YOUR COMPUTER
When you view one of our Web sites, we may store some data on your computer in
the form of a "cookie" to automatically recognize your PC next time you visit.
Cookies can help us in many ways, for example, by allowing us to tailor a Web
site to better match your interests or to store your password to save you
having to re-enter it each time. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please
configure your Internet browser to erase all cookies from your computer's hard
drive, block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
SECURITY
To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss
or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, MER MEC uses
technical and organizational security measures.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
MER MEC Web sites contain links to other Web sites. MER MEC is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites.
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
MER MEC will respond to reasonable requests to review your personal data and to
correct, amend or delete any inaccuracies. If you have any questions or
comments about the MER MEC Data Privacy Protection Policy (e.g. to review and
update your personal data), please click on "Contact Us" in the upper
right-hand corner of the main window. We will post changes to our Data Privacy
Protection Policy on this page. Please check this page regularly to keep
up-to-date.