Kharalis collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register for kharalis.com newsletters and alerts, participate in our activities, sign up for events, send ‘Contact Us’ information request emails, and participate in user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, email address and telephone number. In addition, Kharalis collects certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements and the status of cookies placed on your computer by Kharalis.

Kharalis uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfil your requests for information, publish your comments, process your requests to participate in events, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, personalise content that you view or receive, evaluate and improve our services, and for such other purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you.

Cookies are small packets of information that are stored by your web browser. They are put on your web browser by the websites that you visit. These packets of information do not contain personal information about you but they do allow us to know if you visit the same website twice or if you visit related websites.

The laws in many European Union countries require you to provide a form of consent before cookies are placed on your web browser unless the cookie is necessary for the website to work.

There is no agreed standard for how companies comply with these laws. We do the following:

• We only use cookies where they are necessary for our services or where you have provided your express or implied consent.
• We respect your wishes, and you can inspect, delete or block any cookies used by us by selecting the appropriate control in your web browser.
• We support technologies that have been developed and are being developed for your web browser that allows you to be more selective about the cookies that your web browser will accept.

Kharalis uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track your use of the Site. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on our Site and to process any requests that you make with us.

To administer our website and for research purposes, Kharalis has also contracted with third parties to track and analyse anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, manage our site content, and track visitor behaviour.

Kharalis has also contracted with a third party to send email to our registered members. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our email communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of Kharalis is used solely by or on behalf of Kharalis and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

We do not seek to collect your personal information, and, where we do collect it, we strive to anonymise your personal information as soon as practicable.

In connection with applications that we make available for mobile devices, Kharalis may use third-party services to track and analyse non personally identifiable user activity in order to fix errors, monitor usage and improve the performance of the applications.

Our mobile applications may include integration with various social-networking sites, including Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter. If you enable and use these features within an application, the extent to which your activities and information are tracked is governed by the relevant user agreement you have in place with such a third party.

By registering for recurring newsletters or alerts, you agree to receive on occasion other correspondence from Kharalis related to the subscribed newsletters and other news and information that you consented to receive during registration. This type of information is shared externally only in anonymous, aggregated form for generalised user analysis or to enable third party agents to send emails to you on our behalf. You will be contacted by e-mail or otherwise only by Kharalis or its agents.

We ask for your email address at registration. We will send emails to this address to confirm your registration, to provide newsletters or alerts and to contact you for any other reason. In addition, we may contact you regarding your account status. If you sign up to receive any of our newsletters, alerts or surveys, you may on occasion receive other correspondence from Kharalis. Your email address will not be shared with any third party other than an agent who has agreed to send emails on our behalf.

The Site also includes a feature that enables Kharalis to send links to its content through email at our users’ request. The email address(es) that you supply in connection with this service will be used only to send the requested content. They will not be stored or reused for any purpose.

Kharalis shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorised or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of Kharalis) without your consent, whether for such third parties’ marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. Kharalis may provide access to your personally-identifiable information to third party vendors engaged by Kharalis to provide services related to the Site; provided that such vendors will first agree to maintain the strict confidentiality of such information and provide the same level of data security as provided by Kharalis. Kharalis may also be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use of or any other terms on this Site, including but not limited to a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, Kharalis may disclose personal user information to affected parties and legal authorities in furtherance of potential or on-going legal proceedings.

If you participate in a survey, all of our research results are reported as totals or in other aggregated form, and no information about you as an individual respondent is made public.

You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. Kharalis is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Site.

Kharalis may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by Kharalis of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and Kharalis shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

You may access, correct, update and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information, subscribed or registered or contact us at the address provide at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Kharalis has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized Kharalis personnel and third party vendors are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, Kharalis, however, cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.

Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to Kharalis offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and the Site may be viewed and hosted by Kharalis or its vendors anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have the same data protection laws than what is found in your country of residence. By using the Site and registering such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.

Kharalis stores personally-identifiable information for various purposes as notified to you in this policy. For each of these different purposes, Kharalis only retains the personally-identifiable information for so long as it is serving its notified purpose.

Kharalis understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and Kharalis will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under this age.

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 2 May 2017.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you require any assistance in navigating or reading the materials on this Site, please contact us at: privacy@kharalis.com