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1. What information do we request? How do we use it?
When you sign in to receive Merkalink.com services, we
ask for your name, e-mail address, shipping address or addresses,
credit card number and expiration date. With this information, we
will be able to process your registration, handle the shipments
you make using the address in the United States, and notify you
the status of your delivery and the delivery and customs tariffs.
If you sign in to receive the service of products' and
virtual shops' news of the Mailing List, we will only ask for your
name, e-mail address and some general preferences and demographic
data.
If you want to participate in any contest or promotion,
we will ask for your name, your postal address and your e-mail address.
In this way, we will be able to contact the winners.
MMerkalink.com verifies the site's use patterns. With
this information, we can develop a better service for our registered
or occasional clients.
The client's collected information may be used to send
notifications via e-mail about important changes in our site, new
services and special offers that may be of your interest. If you
would rather not receive this information, please specify it in
your User Profile.
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2. How does Merkalink.com protect its clients' information?
When you sign in, manage your user profile, and check
your operations, we offer you a secure server. The software for
the server´s security (SSL-secure socket layer) codifies the information
you provide before it is sent to our server. All the clients' information
that we collect and store in our data base is protected against
the access of not authorized people. If you want further information
about Security, send us an e-mail; we will be glad to help you :
informes@merkalink.com
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3. How are "cookies" used?
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard
drive by its browser containing information about the user. Usage
of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Cookies enable us to assure that the site operation
agree with our client's expectations, for example, to remember the
person who is navegating during the session. Many of the commercial
browsers allow the cookies desactivation. In this way, you may be
able to control the information saved in your computer. Cookies
are not necessary for the correct operation of the greatest part
of our site.
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4. Will Merkalink.com share its clients' information
with third parties?
We may decide to distribute information about third parties
among our clients via promotional e-mails. Merkalink.com assures
you that none of its clients' information will be provided to third
parties, excepting the necessary for sending e-mails. If you would
rather not receive this additional or promotional information, you
can select the corresponding option in your User Profile.
Merkalink.com may disclose aggregated statistic information
about the traffic of the site and client´s use patterns, such as:
shoppijng destinies, acquired product types, shipment volume per
time periods, etc. This information will be aggregated and it will
not contain data that would identify any individual client.
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5. About your acceptance of our information handling
policies.
When you use our site, sign in as a client and use our
warehouse and delivery services, you agree with the collection and
the use of your information by Merkalink.com, according to the related
in detail in this section. If Merkalink.com decides, in its sole
convenience, to change the security, privacy and use of information
policies, the changes will be published at this same section, for
you to be constantly informed about the information we collect,
how we use it and under which circumstances we disclose it .
Tell us about your opinions. Merkalink.com wants to receive
all the opinions that its clients may wish to send, specially the
ones about our confidentiality policies, use and disclosure of information.
Please send us an e-mail to: informes@merkalink.com
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