Privacy Policy:
Balkan Amazon (“Balkan Amazon”) operates balkanamazon.com and may operate other websites. It is Balkan Amazon policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Balkan Amazon collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Balkan Amazon purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Balkan Amazon visitors use its website. From time to time, Balkan Amazon may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Balkan Amazon also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on balkanamazon.com blogs/sites. Balkan Amazon only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Balkan Amazon websites choose to interact with Balkan Amazon in ways that require Balkan Amazon to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Balkan Amazon gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at balkanamazon.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Balkan Amazon are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Balkan Amazon collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Balkan Amazon. Balkan Amazon does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Balkan Amazon may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Balkan Amazon may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Balkan Amazon does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Balkan Amazon discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Balkan Amazon behalf or to provide services available at Balkan Amazon websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Balkan Amazon websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Balkan Amazon will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Balkan Amazon discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Balkan Amazon believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Balkan Amazon, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Balkan Amazon website and have supplied your email address, Balkan Amazon may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Balkan Amazon and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Balkan Amazon takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Balkan Amazon uses cookies to help Balkan Amazon identify and track visitors, their usage of Balkan Amazon website, and their website access preferences. Balkan Amazon visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Balkan Amazon websites, with the drawback that certain features of Balkan Amazon websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Balkan Amazon, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Balkan Amazon goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Balkan Amazon may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Balkan Amazon may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Balkan Amazon sole discretion. Balkan Amazon encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a balkanamazon.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.