Legal Information

A. Introduction

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1. Confidentiality is very important to us. This text brings detail to what we do with your data 

B. SourceThis document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and was modified by Shelfish

 

C. Collection of personal information

 

Following information can be collected and stored :

1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system ;

2. Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referring source, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;

3. Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register on the app;

4. Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;

5. Information contained in any communications you send us by e-mail or on our website, including their content and metadata;

6. Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

 

D. Use of your personal information

 

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

1.         Administer our website and our business;

2.         Personalise our website for you;

3.         Enable your use of the services offered on our website;

4.         To send you e-mail notifications that you have expressly requested; in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by e-mail or similar technology (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);

5.         To deal with requests and complaints made by or about you in relation to your website;

6.         To maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;

7.         To monitor compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service);

If you submit personal information to our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish that information and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.

 

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.

 

 

E. Disclosure of your personal information

 

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

 

We may disclose your personal information:

1.         To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

2.         In connection with any current or future legal proceedings;

3.         To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

4.         To the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets in our possession which we wish (or are considering) to sell; and

5.         To any person whom we reasonably believe to be a party to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of such personal information.

Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass your personal information to third parties.

 

F. International data transfers

1.         The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred to any country in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

2.         The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

3.         The personal information that you publish on our website or that you submit for publication may be available, via the Internet, throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.

4.         You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information as described in this Section F.

 

 

G. Retention of your personal information

1.         This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

2.         Personal information that we process for any purpose is retained no longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

 

H. Security of your personal information

1.         We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

2.         We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).

3.         All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

4.         You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.

5.         You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).I. Amendements

 

From time to time we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website's private messaging service.

 

J. Your rights

 

You can ask for your account to be deleted.

You can ask for the personal information we have about you (achievements, number of books read, friends, alias and inscription date).

We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

 

You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

 

K. Third-party websites

 

Our app uses Firebase Authentication as the authentication method.

 

M. Cookies

 

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not generally contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in the cookies and obtained through the cookies. {We only use session cookies / persistent cookies / session cookies and persistent cookies on our website}

1. 1.          The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:

2. 1.          We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: {INCLUDE ALL THE WAYS COOKIES ARE USED ON YOUR SITE} recognise a computer when a user visits the website/ track users as they navigate the website/ enable the use of a shopping cart on the website/ improve the use of a website/ analyse website usage/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalise the website for each user/ send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users (describe your other purposes);

3. 2.          Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example, with

4. 1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the alternative cookie management settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" then "Advanced";

5. 2. with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" then selecting "Use personalised settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and

1. 6. with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Personalise and control" menu and then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings" and then selecting "Prevent sites from setting data" in the "Cookies" header.

2. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

 

1. 1.         You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:

2. 1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

3. 2. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", and "Confidentiality", then selecting "Use personalised settings for history" and clicking on "Show cookies", then on "Delete all cookies"; and

4. 3. with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Personalise and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Delete browsing data", then "Delete cookies and data from modules on other sites" before clicking on "Delete browsing data".

7.         Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.

Shelfish declines all responsibility and advises you to consult legal experts if you implement the above model on your website.