Data Protection and Privacy Statement - Your Personal Information

This Data Protection and Privacy Statement relates solely to any information supplied by you on this website. Note www.bohemiancommerce.eu and www.bohemiancommerce.com are the main global gateways to Bohemian Commerce Company and its subsidiary companies on the internet, containing the general data protection and privacy policy for www.bohemiancommerce.com and www.bohemiancommerce.eu.

Bohemian Commerce Company, the Data Controller, Bohemian Commerce Company Group subsidiary or partner companies (hereinafter refered to as "BCC Group", "we", "our" and "us"), respects the privacy of your personal information. Bohemian Commerce Company, the Data Controller, is publicly registered with the United Kingdom Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in compliance with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act and the European Union Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Any personal information provided by you to BCC Group through this website will be used solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you have requested at this website and for other related purposes including updating and enhancing the records of BCC Group, understanding your customer needs, advising you of other products and services which may be of interest to you, fulfilling orders and transactions, and for fraud prevention purposes. If you are providing your details in connection with an application for employment, please refer to our "Data Protection and Privacy Statement - Job Applicants" which will be displayed when you apply (see our 'Careers' page). This policy will not alter or affect any information otherwise provided by you to BCC Group.

The information collected from you by BCC Group will be valuable in improving the design and marketing of our range of products and services for customer use. BCC Group wishes to assure you that your private information will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security. The use of your information will be kept to the minimum required in order for BCC Group to provide and to continually monitor and improve its services to our customers and keeping you informed about our products, services and other opportunities within BCC Group.

BCC Group is a global trading company and group, with operations in various countries, and have developed global information practices to assure your personal data are appropriately protected. While the primary data centres of BCC Group are under the control of Bohemian Commerce Company in the European Union, we will transfer information provided by customers to appropriate BCC Group offices or authorized agents to deliver the service or information requested by our customers. In order to provide service in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner, information provided to BCC Group may be made available to authorized BCC Group personnel and business partners across our global group offices that require access to the information for business purposes.

The details which you are requested to provide on this website may be transferred within the BCC Group which may include transfer to other parts of the group in different jurisdictions which may not have a level of data protection legislation equivalent to that of the European Union. However, BCC Group pledges its intention to meet fully internationally recognised standards of personal data privacy protection and to comply with the requirements of applicable data protection/privacy laws. In doing so, we will ensure compliance by our personnel with the strictest standards of security and confidentiality. In addition BCC Group has implemented a mandatory group wide information security management policy, which is intended to achieve a level of security compliance similar to or greater than the relevant elements of the International Information Security Management Standard ISO/IEC 27002. By providing personal details to BCC Group via this website you consent to such transfer.

User access login identifications and passwords, it is your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of any login or access user ID and password you hold.

Other than to those individuals and entities listed below who are under a duty of confidentiality to BCC Group, your details will not be revealed by BCC Group to any external entity, unless BCC Group has your permission, or is under either a legal obligation or any other duty to do so. The information provided by you at this website may be disclosed by BCC Group to:

• Other Companies or Partners in the Bohemian Commerce Company Group
• Regulators
• Lawyers
• External Auditors
• Third Party Service Providers
• Any Agent acting on our behalf

Data provided by you is retained as long as the purpose for which the data was collected continues. The data is then destroyed unless its retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect the interests of BCC Group. As a general rule, the maximum retention period is 7 years.

Cookies

In order to improve our Internet service to you, we will occasionally use a "cookie" and/or other similar files or programs which may place certain information on your computer's hard drive when you visit a BCC Group website. A cookie is a small amount of data that our web server sends to your internet web browser when you visit certain parts of our website. We may use cookies to:

• allow us to recognise the PC you are using when you return to our website so that we can understand your interest in our website and tailor its content and advertisements to match your interests (This type of cookie may be stored permanently on your PC but does not contain any information that can identify you personally.);
• identify you after you have logged in by storing a temporary reference number in the cookie so that our web server can conduct a dialogue with you while simultaneously dealing with other customers. (Your internet web browser keeps this type of cookie until you log off or close down your web browser when these types of cookie are normally deleted. No other information is stored in this type of cookie.);
• allow you to carry information across pages of our website and avoid having to re-enter that information;
• allow you access to stored information if you register for any of our on-line services;
• enable us to produce statistical information (anonymous) which helps us to improve the structure and content of our website;
• enable us to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising and promotions.

Cookies do not enable us to gather personal information about you unless you give the information to our server. Most internet web browser software allows the blocking of all cookies or enables you to receive a warning before a cookie is stored. For further information, please refer to your internet web browser software instructions or help screen.

Children

BCC Group will not knowingly collect personal information from children without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal information about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child. The definition of "child" or "children" should take into account applicable laws as well as national and regional cultural customs.

Internet Communications

In order to maintain the security of our systems, protect our personnel and customers, record transactions, and, in certain circumstances, to prevent and detect crime or unauthorised activities, BCC Group reserves the right to monitor all internet communications including web and email traffic into and out of its domains.

Your Rights and How to Contact Us

You may have the right under data protection legislation on payment of a fee to request access to personal information about you held by BCC Group and to have it corrected where appropriate. If you have that right and you wish to access or correct or delete any of your personal data held by BCC Group, or if you have any questions concerning our Data Protection and Privacy Statement please contact the relevant BCC Group Data Protection representative or write to global headquarters of BCC Group in the United Kingdom.

Contacting You

In providing your telephone number(s), facsimile number(s), postal and e-mail address(es) or similar details, you agree that BCC Group may contact you by these methods to keep you informed about BCC Group products and services or for any other reason. If you prefer not to be kept informed of BCC Group products and services, please contact BCC Group by E-Mail.

BCC Group reserves the right to amend its prevailing Data Protection and Privacy Statement at any time and will place any such amendments on this website. This Data Protection and Privacy Statement is not intended to, nor does it, create any contractual rights whatsoever or any other legal rights, nor does it create any obligations on BCC Group in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party. Nothing in this Notice shall limit the rights of data subjects under the Data Protection Act of the United Kingdom, respectively the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC of the European Union as amended from time to time.

IMPORTANT: By accessing this website and any of its material you are agreeing to the terms set out above. Thank you for visiting the Bohemian Commerce Company Group.