Scandinavian StockPhoto DA, with the registered websites ScanStockPhoto.com and Scandinavianstockphoto.com (hereinafter ScanStockPhoto) understand and respect your concern about the privacy of any information you provide us. This statement sets forth ScanStockPhoto’s Privacy Policy and describes the practise followed with respect to all visitors as, members of and customers at the ScanStockPhoto website.
1. ACCOUNTABILITY
We are accountable for our policies and practices with respect to the management of any and all personal and / or other classified information coming to our knowledge because of your use of the ScanStockPhoto website. If you have any comments, questions or complaints to or about our Privacy Policy or Practice, do not hesitate to contact us at the following address:
Alternatively e-mail can be used: post@scanstockphoto.com
2. APPLICATION OF OUR POLICY
This Privacy Policy will tell you how and why personal, non-personal and other classified information about you is gathered. The Privacy Policy applies to the ScanStockPhoto website only.
3. EXTERNAL LINKS
This website is connected to other websites by “hyperlinks”. ScanStockPhoto are not responsible for the privacy policy on these sites, and recommend that you review the privacy policies on linked websites before using them.
4. MANUALLY PROVIDED INFORMATION
Guests, members and customers are required provide different personal information as information that identifies them as an individual (this includes name, address, phone number(s) and e-mail address) or company information (like billing information) in order to access and download or upload Data Files. This information is provided voluntarily, and you are under no obligation to provide us with this information.
ScanStockPhoto uses this information for internal purposes as to process your order and any invoices, to maintain or update your account, or to send you updates about special offers, new services, special promotions, noteworthy news and events, and for internal statistical purposes.
Under no circumstances are personal information provided to ScanStockPhoto by guests, members or customers sold or rent to any third parties.
5. AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
Similar to most web sites, do also ScanStockPhoto gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to segregate customer types for analytical purposes.
Under no circumstances are automatically collected information gathered by ScanStockPhoto sold or rent to any third parties.
6. PROFILE INFORMATION
Profile information (such as company type) in the registration form is used by ScanStockPhoto to compile data in aggregate form so that we may better understand the users that are visiting our site. For example, we may produce reports on the most popular search terms by collecting general search term data based on individual searches. Aggregate data is anonymous and does not contain any personal information that identifies a user.
7. CHILDREN / MINORS
Minors (persons under the age of 18), can only use this Site with the approval of a parent or guardian. Minors are not eligible to use this Web site unsupervised and we ask that minors do not register for an account or submit any personal information to us. By using this site unsupervised, and/or registering for an account, you warrant that you have reached the age of 18.
8. COOKIES
When you visit the ScanStockPhoto Web site, a cookie is sent to your computer. A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer's hard drive and contains non-personally identifiable information about the user. Cookies only identify the user's computer.
You can set your browser's options not to accept cookies, but this will prevent you from accessing all of the features of the ScanStockPhoto Web site.
More information about cookies can be found here
9. SECURITY
ScanStockPhoto has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. Personal information provided to us are stored on computer systems with limited access that are located in secured facilities.
All ScanStockPhoto employees are trained and kept up-to-date on our security procedures, and have signed a confidentiality agreement.
Perfect security on the Internet does, however, not exist, and ScanStockPhoto does not warrant that its Web site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers.
10. LEGAL DISCLAIMER – DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on our Web site.
Personal Information may also be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate re-organization, merger or amalgamation, or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, provided that the personal information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring this information
Information voluntarily disclosed on the user forum, will become public information and can be collected and used by other parties. ScanStockPhoto cannot control third parties’ use of this information.
11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy may be changed as new services are added or old ones are changed. All changes will be posted on the news section of the website. We recommend you check this Privacy Policy for changes regularly, by checking the date of the “Last update” at the top of this document.