Legal Notice & Privacy

Data Protection & Privacy Policy

Data Security

The publisher uses Security Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to encrypt sensitive personal information before it travels over the internet.

The security of personal information is important to the publisher. The publisher follows generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted, both during transmission and once the publisher receives it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, the publisher can never guarantee its absolute security.

Because of the technical requirement to ensure reliability and security, the publisher may store personal information in locations outside of the publisher's direct control (for instance, on servers located in datacenters, at hosting providers, or on backup servers).

Processing of Personal Data

Personal data may only be collected and processed in accordance with the regulations related to the laws on data protection.

In some cases, especially when the user sends personal information by filling out one of the site forms, personal data may be saved on the server. The publisher processes the personal information received from the user for the sole purpose of replying to the user inquiry and for any future email communications resulting from possible business relationships between the user and the publisher.

The user’s personal data may also be stored on the server for backup/logging/statistical purposes and will be retained for a period that will not exceed 26 months, after which it is automatically deleted.

The user’s personal data shall be regarded as confidential information and treated as such. It will never be sold or transmitted to third parties without prior approval.

The user has the right to access, update, change and ask for the removal of his/her personal data at any time by writing to this address: Erwin VICTOR - info@aworldofstone.eu

Newsletter

The user may subscribe to the newsletter in order to receive regular information by email. In this case, the newsletter subscriber (hereinafter “the subscriber”) accepts to give the publisher a valid email address in the subscription form. The subscriber confirms that he/she is the owner of the said email address and also agrees to receive informational, commercial and promotional emails from the site or the publisher for an indefinite period.

The newsletter subscription process is logged as proof of consent in order to be compliant with personal data protection legislations. The logged data include the subscriber's e-mail address, the time of subscription and the subscriber's IP address, the language of the subscription form and any other relevant information the subscriber may have communicated when filling out the subscription form (name, topics of interest, among others).

The subscriber may unsubscribe from the newsletter (or only from one of the topic-specific newsletter, when applicable) at any time by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the end of any newsletter. For technical reasons, the subscriber's e-mail address may remain stored in the publisher database even after the subscriber unsubscribes from the newsletter. Keeping this email address in the publisher database will allow the publisher to permanently prevent any accidental reactivation or resubscription of this email address to the newsletter. In this case, the email address is stored as inactive data and will no longer be used as a destination address for any newsletter.

The newsletters contain "web beacons", these are small invisible 1x1 pixel images enabling the publisher’s system to detect when the subscriber has fully opened the newsletter email. Also, newsletters may contain "trackable links", that enable the newsletter tool to detect when the user clicks on a link in the newsletter.

The goal of these measuring techniques is not to collect data on individual subscriber' behaviour, but to gather statistical and anonymized information in order to improve the content and delivery of the publisher’s newsletters, and to make them more relevant to the subscriber.

All subscriber-specific tracking information related to a Newsletter (newsletter delivery, opening signals, click signals) will automatically and permanently be deleted after a period that will not exceed 48 months from the time of the newsletter mailing was sent.