Privacy Policy

Noark Electric respects your concerns about personal data protection and value our relationship with you. This Privacy, Cookies and Data Protection Policy (the “Policy”) applies solely to personal data collected through Noark Electric web sites, respective contents in addition to our Facebook or other social networking sites, whether accessed via computer, mobile device or other device.

This Policy describes the types of personal data we collect through the Sites and how that personal data may be used and/or with whom it may be shared. This Policy also describes how you can reach us to update your contact information, access and control the use of the personal data we collect in connection with our marketing communications and activities, or get answers to questions you may have about our privacy practices at these Sites. Please read this Policy carefully, because by using the Sites you are acknowledging that you understand and agree to the terms of this Policy. In addition, please review our Terms & Conditions, which governs your use of the Sites and any content you submit to the Sites.

Cookies
Like many companies, Noark Electric uses “cookies” and similar tools on the Sites to improve their performance and enhance your user experience.

**What are Cookies? ** A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your Device. Cookies help to analyze web traffic and allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Most cookies won’t collect personal data that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information.

What do we use Cookies for?
Noark Electric may place cookies or similar files on your Device for security purposes, to tell us whether you have visited the Sites before, to personalize your experience while visiting our Sites. Cookies allow us to collect technical and navigational information, such as browser type, time spent on our Sites and pages visited. Cookies also allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Sites. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular Site. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better Site by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your Device or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

What kinds of Cookies do we use?
Generally, the cookies that are used on the Sites can be broken down in to the following categories:

• Session Cookies
  These cookies are used 'in-session' each time you visit and then expire when you leave a Site or shortly thereafter: they are not stored on your Device permanently, do not contain any personal data and help by minimizing the need to transfer personal data across the internet. These cookies can be deleted or you can refuse to allow their use, but this will hamper the performance and your experience in using the Sites. These cookies also take time stamps that record when you access a Site and when you leave a Site.

• Tracking Cookies
  These cookies enable us to recognize repeat visitors to our Sites. By matching an anonymous, randomly generated identifier, a tracking cookie keeps track of where a user of our Sites came from, what search engine they may have used, what link they clicked on, what keyword they used and where they were in the world when they accessed a Site. By monitoring this data, we can make improvements to our Sites.

• Persistent Cookies
  This type of cookie is saved on your Device for a fixed period (sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for a year or longer) and is not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies are used where we need to remember who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, this type of cookie can be used to store your preferences, so that they are remembered for the next visit to a Site.

• Performance or Analytical Cookies
  Performance cookies are used to analyze how the Sites are used and to monitor their performance, which allows us to improve your experience in using the Sites. These cookies help us to tailor the content of the Sites to reflect what the Site users find most interesting and to identify when technical issues with the Sites arise. We may also use this data to compile reports to help us to analyze how Sites are used, what the most common issues are and how we can improve the Sites.

Can the Cookies be blocked?
You can choose 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 would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) to disable existing cookies; or (iii) to set your browser to automatically reject any cookies.

Instructions for blocking or allowing Cookies in Popular Web Browsing Software can be found at AboutCookies.org

Privacy & Data Protection Policy

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR SITES

Information You Provide To Us
Generally, you can visit the Sites without providing personal data, unless otherwise mentioned in the Sites themselves. However, there may be circumstances when you may be asked or choose to provide personal data that could reasonably be used to contact you or to identify you personally (such as your name, home address, telephone number or email address (“Personal Data”) through the Sites. If you do not want your Personal Data processed by us, please do not submit it or notify us at any time to have it deleted.

Data Collected by Automated Means
Whenever you visit or interact with the Sites, Noark Electric may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect information about how the Sites are accessed and used (“usage data”). Usage data may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, how many users visited the Sites, and the preceding page views. Usage data is statistical data which provides us with information about the use of the Sites, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Sites, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. This usage data helps us to keep the Sites fresh and interesting to our visitors and to tailor content to a visitor’s interests. Usage data is generally non-identifying, but if Noark Electric associates it with you as a specific and identifiable person, Noark Electric treats it as Personal Data.

In the course of collecting usage data, Noark Electric might also automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for the Device. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device when you access a web site or its servers, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. When you visit the Sites, we may view your Device Identifier. We use this data to determine the general physical location of your Device and understand from what regions of the world the visitors to the Sites come. We also may use this Personal Data to enhance the Sites.

The technologies used on the Sites to collect usage data, including Device Identifiers, may include cookies.

2. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
Noark Electric uses the Personal Data and usage data we collect through the Sites for a variety of business purposes, including for example, to: respond to your questions and requests; tailor content, advertisements, and offers we serve you; send you information; improve the Sites.

3. INFORMATION WE SHARE
We will not provide any of your Personal Data to any third parties without your specific consent.

4. HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA
We maintain certain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your Personal Data.

5. CONSENT TO PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
By using the Sites, or providing us with any personal data, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance of such personal data and usage data to Noark.

6. UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This Policy and other policies on the Sites may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you, and any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised policy on the Sites. However, we will use your Personal Data in a manner consistent with the policy in effect at the time you submitted the Personal Data, unless you consent to the new or revised policy. We will post a prominent notice on the Sites to notify you of any significant changes to our Policy and indicate at the top of the Policy when it was most recently updated.

Upon request, we will inform you whether, and if so, which personal data we have stored about you. If we have misrepresented information about you, we will correct it as soon as you advise us. Your Data Protection Declaration of Consent (consent to customer care and market research) may be revoked by you at any time in the future. To do so, please contact marketing-eu@noark-electric.com.

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal information, please contact: marketing-eu@noark-electric.com.