Privacy Policy

This policy is a part of our Terms and conditions and covers the use of Althemy�s platform and the services provided by Althemy. By visiting our platform, you consent to our use of your personal information in the ways set out in this policy and in our Terms and conditions. This Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Althemy does not own or control, or individuals that we do not employ or manage.

1. Collection and use of information

Althemy collects personal information when you register to use our services or to post content on our site. At registration you are asked for a username, password and a valid email address.

If you would like to shop from the e-shops hosted on our platform or to open your own e-shop on your Althemy website, we will ask for your full name, address and PayPal address. We will not have access to your PayPal.

The data that we collect if you are our registered member may also include user Material that you submit while interacting with our platform (e.g., your ratings, reviews and etc.)

We collect your IP address (the address of your computer) by an automatic collecting process in order to help diagnose problems with our servers, administer our Website and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on the type of internet connection. If you reach this Website by clicking on a link or advertisement on another website, then we also could collect that information. All of this information is collected and used only in aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not reports about individual visitors.
Each account holder can access, correct, change, and delete certain personal information associated with his account. If you as an account holder need further assistance in connection with one of the above, you can contact us.

2. Purpose of usage

Althemy uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provisioning, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research and anonymous reporting. IP addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a webpage. IP addresses may be used for various research purposes.
Althemy will not sell or disclose your name or email address to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this Privacy Policy.

3. Data security

Althemy attaches great importance to the security of your Data, and takes all appropriate steps to limit the risk that it may be lost, damaged or misused.

4. Data retention

Data is stored on the premises of the Website host and is kept only as long as necessary for the purposes set out above and required by the law. After that point, data is kept only for statistical purposes and shall not be used for any other reason.

5. Service-related Announcements

We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. You may not opt-out of service-related communications, which are not promotional in nature.
Service-related announcements may be post also on visible places on our platform.
We will notify you via our notification system on any action on the platform that concerns you or your Althemy website as for instance private massages, friend requests, comments on your content and etc.

6. Choice & Control

We know that members of our community value having control over their own information, and therefore we gives you the choice of providing, editing or removing certain information, as well as choice over how we contact you.
You may change or correct your account information on the Site. You may also remove certain optional information on the Site that you no longer wish to be publicly visible on the Site, such as your full name.
If you no longer wish to use Althemy�s services or receive service-related messages, then you may close your account.
7. Community

Althemy is both a marketplace and a community. We offer several features that allow members to connect and communicate in public or semi-public spaces, such as Forums. Please use common sense and good judgment when posting in these community spaces or sharing your personal information with others on Althemy. Be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others, or could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Althemy generally does not remove content from community spaces, and your posts may remain public after your account is closed. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to post in community spaces on Althemy.

8. Information Sharing and Disclosure

When you post a message, picture, video or other content on Althemy, your username is visible to other users.

Althemy may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate our Terms and conditions. We may disclose personally identifiable information as our sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. In such events, Althemy may disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email address and company name. Althemy may share aggregated demographic information with business partners.

Althemy may employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and needs to share your information with them to provide products and services to you. Examples include but are not limited to fulfilling orders, handling billing disputes and collections, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and providing customer service.

Althemy will not sell, rent or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy or with your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to prevent, investigate, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of the Althemy Terms and conditions, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law.

Althemy will transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on our website before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

While interacting with our platform, you may obtain email address, names or other information of another user of Althemy.
Althemy has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any of our users to your email or physical mail list.


9. Cookies Policy

We may use technologies such as cookies, clear gifs, log files, and flash cookies to enhance and personalize your experience of our Services. For more information about the cookies and the other tracking technologies that we use, see our Cookies & Tracking Technologies page.

Cookies are pieces of information that are placed on your device by a website when you visit it. Websites are able to read and write these files, which allows them to store things like personalization details and user preferences.

You can disable or enable browser cookies through your browser settings, you enable or disable cookies or set your browser to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.
Althemy does not require that you accept cookies, and you may disable cookies at any time. However, some functionality of our Services may be impaired if you decline to accept cookies.

10. Your Rights

If you have an account on Althemy, you can access, correct, change, and delete certain personal information associated with your account by visiting your account settings. If you need further assistance, you can contact us through our e-mail address: mail@althemy.com

11. Changes to the Privacy policy and the Cookies policy

Althemy reserves the right to change these Policies at any time.