Benka Pulko respects your ability to make informed choices about the collection and uses of your personal information. This privacy policy tells you about our online collection and use of information that identifies you personally so that you can make an informed choice about using this website ("Site"). The terms of this policy apply to domains BenkaPulko.com, BenkaPulko.info, BenkaPulko.net, BenkaPulko.org, BenkaPulko.si, Benka-Pulko.com, BenkaPulkoOnline.com and all of their sub-domains, unless different terms are specified in a form or contract provided to you online or offline. Websites we link to, including but not limited to the sites of subsidiaries and third-party content partners, may have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked sites and encourage you to become acquainted with them.

This Site is operated by Benka Pulko in Slovenia, United States and elsewhere. By using this Site, you understand and agree that (1) the information collected from this Site may be retained indefinitely, and may be stored, accessed and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction; (2) Benka Pulko may use this information for a variety of purposes, including direct marketing (unless you opt out of receiving direct marketing from Benka Pulko); (3) Benka Pulko may disclose this information to necessary service providers, such as payment processors, data storage providers and similar entities to provide the services they contract for. These third parties have no right to use your information for secondary purposes. We use an outside shipping company to fulfil orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. We use a data storage facility to securely house back-end data that may include your personally identifiable information. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes; they are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose; (4) information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, sale of the company assets or acquisition, as well as in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company, with notification of such transfer provided directly to account holders through email or post; and (5) we reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims or protect the rights, property or safety of our company, employees, customers or the public.

Information Collected from This Site
When you visit this Site, some information, such as the website that referred you to us, your IP and email address and navigational and purchase information, may be collected automatically as part of the Site's operation. We may combine this information with personally identifiable information. Our Web sites also use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the Web site. Please see "Cookies", below. This information is used to generate user profiles and to personalize the Site to your particular interests. On some occasions we may ask you to provide information on online forms. For example, we may ask for your username, password, place of birth, full name, telephone number, email address and postal address, or other information to register online, or for your credit card number or other personally identifying information to fulfil licensing transactions or to receive products or services. We may also ask you about your age, hobbies, income, gender or other information to participate in surveys or other online activities. Providing information on online forms is always voluntary, and you are free not to complete any online forms. If you choose not to, however, some products and services may not be available to you.

How We Use Your Information
Information collected online is stored indefinitely and is used for various purposes, including processing your transactions, customer service, product and service development, direct marketing and marketing analysis, facilitating your use of this Site and customizing your image selection to your particular interests. The information we collect may be used by Benka Pulko and may be shared with our agents, service providers and selected other entities for fulfilling their service obligations to Benka Pulko, such as credit card processors, data base service providers, and similar entities to provide the services they contracted for. In addition, unless you opt out of receiving promotional materials from Benka Pulko, we may notify you of special promotions, new products or services or other information that may be of interest. (See Opting-Out section, below.)

About Cookies
When you visit the Site, we place a text file called a cookie in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can store on your web browser and later retrieve. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information, which may be personally identifiable, and your navigational and purchase activity. Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow Benka Pulko, and certain of its subsidiaries and third-party content partners, to recognize information, such as what content is best suited to your needs. Cookies also allow you to retrieve previous results, access content with ease. Most browsers allow you to decline cookies, but if you elect to do so, these pages may not display properly. You are free to delete cookies after your session, and your browser should contain instructions on how to do this.

Opting-Out
If you do not want to receive promotional information from Benka Pulko, you can opt out by unchecking the appropriate box on your online registration form or, in the event an online registration form is not available, by notifying your account executive. If you did not opt out when you registered and later decide that you are not interested in receiving this information, you can opt out at any time by sending an email to legal@BenkaPulko.com.

Children
We do not intend to solicit or collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to review this privacy policy whenever you visit our website to make sure you understand how we use the information we collect. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here and by means of a notice on our home page.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at legal@BenkaPulko.com.

Contact Information
You can contact Benka Pulko by writing to info@BenkaPulko.com or by postal mail at Benka Pulko, P.O. Box 3838, Ljubljana 1001, Slovenia, EU.

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