We collect and store personal information you choose to provide through the Site or when you contact us (such as your name and other contact details). "Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. The types of personal information we collect include:
Information from other sources. We obtain your Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases and demographic data providers. Automatic information collection. When you use the Site, we obtain certain information by automated means, such as browser cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, server logs, and other technologies.
The information we obtain in this way may include:
Third-Party Web Analytics Services
We use third-party online analytics services such as Google Analytics. The service providers that manage these analytics services use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Site, report on activities and trends, and diagnose technical issues. To learn more about Google’s practices, please visitwww.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and you may opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available athttps://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We use the Personal Information obtained on the Site for legitimate business purposes in the following ways:
We share your Personal Information with:
We may also disclose information about you (1) if required by law or legal process (e.g., a court order or subpoena), including laws outside your country of residence; (2) in response to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement, including outside your country of residence; (3) to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; (4) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; (5) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; (6) in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in the event of reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation); or (7) otherwise with your consent.
Your personal information may be processed and stored in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Site you understand that your information may be transferred to countries other than your country of residence, including Turkey, the United States, and Malta, which may have different data protection rules. In some cases, courts, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those countries may be entitled to access your personal information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA): Some non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (a list of these countries is availablehere). For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place appropriate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, to protect your personal information. You can obtain a copy of the EU Standard Contractual Clauseshere.
We offer you certain choices regarding the personal information we obtain about you. If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete personal information, object to the processing of personal information, or request a copy of your personal information for transmission to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a fee may apply to provide you with a copy of the personal information we maintain about you.
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Other Online Services and Third-Party Features
For your convenience and information, the Site may provide links to other online services and websites, and may include third-party features such as apps, tools, widgets, and plug-ins (e.g., LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter buttons). These services and websites may operate independently from us. The privacy practices of these third parties, including details about the information they collect about you, are subject to their own privacy policies. To the extent any linked online service or third-party feature is not owned or controlled by the Agency, we are not responsible for the information or other practices of such third parties.
We retain personal information for as long as necessary or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
We seek to use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. We hold our employees accountable for adhering to policies, procedures, and regulations regarding the protection and confidentiality of personal information. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately contact us at[email protected]
Our services are not designed for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe we may have any information about a child under 13, please contact us.
This Website Privacy Notice will be updated periodically without prior notice to reflect changes in our personal information practices. We will indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Website Privacy Notice on the Site.