This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how www.ark-cat.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We want certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please don't use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your settings on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may reverse our access to the information you supply in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information regarding your use of and actions on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we'll notify you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for can't be provided, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our Site that you may customize. The objective of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site. We utilize Matomo for this purpose. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to enhance how our Site functions. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party sites. You may disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies which aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you link your accounts or participate with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this. |
You can typically reject or remove cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you don't accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience in your usage of our Site. For instance, we may be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you publish user-generated content to our Site, such as via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be private or confidential once it is published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we do not associate such opinions with your personal information. For those who have provided your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name together with your comments on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not offer the same degree of security as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, processing or leasing. We'll take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web is not completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we might only implement requests concerning the private data related to the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal information, please contact us through the information listed on our site. We'll reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact the regional data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our website.