Written in accordance with the provisions of Law 677/2001, regarding individual protection about collecting and free circulation of personal data.
 

Sphynx Soft Romania has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy over the internet. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website:  www.sphynxsoft.com is operated by Sphynx Soft Romania, located in Iasi, Romania.

During the administration process of the website, Sphynx Soft needs to take over some personal information, in order to personalize the website usage and make it easier for each one of the users. Also, collecting information (such as name, e-mail etc) is useful for Sphynx Soft Romania  in order to adapt our ads to your preferences. Sphynx Soft Romania  respects and grants confidentiality for personal data collected over from its users at several different points on the website. We are the sole owners of the information gathered within the sphynxsoft.com website. We shall not sell or rent this information to others in any way. We shall not share this information in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

The clauses of this policy are valuable for all kinds of information gathered from Sphynx Soft users. Additional clauses, if any, will be added if necessary for special services that we may offer in the future. This privacy policy informs you about the type of personal data that we may collect from you, the way we can use it, the way we understand to protect it, who has access to it and how the possible mistakes can be corrected.

Information that we collect

Sphynx Soft may collect information from its users in three different ways: directly from the user, from traffic references of hosting servers and from cookies.

Information provided directly by the user: when you subscribe to a service provided by Sphynx Soft, we may ask you about your name, e-mail address or other personal data. For example, when you register to our website, you need to enter your username, e-mail address and password.

Information from traffic references: when you visit a website, you unveil certain information about you, such as your IP address, time of visit, place from which you accessed our website. Sphynx Soft, like other operators, stores this information.

Information collected from cookies: in order to offer you a personalized service, Sphynx Soft may use cookies to ease storing and tracking your preferences. For instance, we may use cookies to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly, or to deliver content specific to your interests; the content contained is not distributed to third parties.

Cookies are "txt" files offered to your browser by a web server and then stored on the hard-disk of your computer. Most of browsers are set to accept cookies. But if you prefer, you can reset your browser so as to let you know whenever you receive a cookie or even to refuse cookies. However, you should know that some parts of Sphynx Soft website can only be normally seen if your browser allows cookies.

You need to acknowledge that, whenever you disclose information in public areas on the website, such as message boards (comments) or forums, that information becomes public and can easily be tracked and used by unauthorized persons. Although Sphynx Soft Romania does its best in order to protect your personal data, we cannot entirely grant you its safety. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. You should also know that you are the only one responsible for keeping the secret of your passwords, usernames etc.

How and when we use the information

Sphynx Soft uses the information collected from you for several purposes, depending on the type of data collected:

• information provided directly by the user: this information is used only in order to personalize the services that we offer you and to check your identity;

• information from traffic references: this type of info helps us identify the parts of our site of most interest for you. Sphynx Soft also collects the IP addresses of its users, in order to safely manage our computer system;

• information collected from cookies: Sphynx Soft uses cookies to help you with our services and with getting statistic information for the services improvement. Cookies allow us to save your passwords and your preferences so that you do not have to introduce them again at your next visit.

How we protect information collected from you

We show great interest in confidentiality. Sphynx Soft Romania does not offer your personal data to third parties without your prior express consent. Any statistics that we may offer to our partners or to advertisement networks does not include any personal identifying information about any individual user.

Your access to certain services on the website is protected by a password. We advise you not to unveil this password to anyone. Sphynx Soft will never ask for the password of your accounts through any kind of messages or unsolicited phone calls. We strongly advise you not to unveil your passwords to those who may ask you to. As a plus, if possible, you should remember to click “log off” / “sign out”, at the end of any working session in your account. We also advise you to close your browser window when you quit using the sites or the services provided by Sphynx Soft Romania.

These pieces of advice are meant to restrain the access of unauthorized persons to your personal information or mail, especially when you work in a computer network in a public place (net cafe for example).

Unfortunately, no data transmission by means of internet can be 100% sure. As a consequence, despite our efforts to protect your personal data, Sphynx Soft Romania cannot guarantee the safety of your information. All this kind of transmission whatsoever is made on your own risk.

Still, we can grant you that we carry out all our efforts to ensure safety for our systems, according to the security standards imposed by Romanian legislation. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our servers have strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving personal information about our users. Staff checks server access daily to ensure the above holds true.

Unsolicited communication

Sphynx Soft will not use your e-mail address in order to send you any kind of unsolicited or promotional mail. It is your choice whether you decide to receive or not newsletters from us. You can always choose to unsubscribe from our newsletter services.

Who has access to the information collected from you

As a rule, Sphynx Soft Romania will never unveil any sort of personally identifiable information about any of its users, without their prior express consent. On the other hand, Sphynx Soft Romania may unveil this kind of data when expressly permitted by law or when this measure is necessary in order to protect Sphynx Soft’s rights and interests.