This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how kmetal.net in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we'll process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an instance, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we need under applicable law to process your information. You keep the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't consent to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you supply in this way at any time by amending the right settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. By way of instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and offer you an opportunity to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your personal computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.
We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. By way of instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for can't be supplied, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the changes you make to other sections of our Site which you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they've visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only utilized to improve how our Site functions. You can find out more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our permission, third party advertisers can set cookies to enable them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests while you're on third party websites. You may disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they might not be applicable to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still get some cookies and tailored ads from companies that are not listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you join your account or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this. |
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. For instance, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might need to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our Site, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it is published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we do not associate such opinions with your personal data. If you have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you live, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, processing or leasing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to protect personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web is not completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the security of any account you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests concerning the personal data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started prior to requesting such change or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.