SokoMarket-Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy governing your use of the SokoMarket.com site ("Site") and the collection, use, transfer and processing of your Collected Information by SokoMarket.com which provide the relevant Premium Services (collectively referred to as "SokoMaket.com", "we" or "us").SokoMarket.com respects the privacy of its users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe for you, as an individual who is a user of our website, www.sokomarket.com. The fundamental purpose of the services that SokoMarket.com provides you requires that we gather, process, use and distribute the member's information which also you provide directly by filling out our various forms and formats; for example, your company name, contact information, company profile and homepage and the products you buy and sell, etc. Therefore, SokoMarket.com does not guarantee that your information will be protected from exposure in any particular party or group. In fact the purpose of this platform is to make you and your company known all over the commercial world. If you wish to remove your company or update your company's information, please Contact us. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services or transacting business with us. By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information we collect about you

We may collect personal information that can identify you such as your name and e-mail address and other information that does not identify you.

  • Information you provide. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and, if you transact business with us, financial information such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information). We also may request information about your interests and activities, your gender and age, your location (such as zip code and/or country), and other demographic information and we may ask you to complete a survey or send us a review.
  • Statistical Information.In addition, we gather aggregate statistical information about our Site and Users, such as IP addresses, browser software, operating system, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors, etc. ("Statistical Information").
  • Information about others. We may also collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us. If you use our website to send others (friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) a product as a gift, information that may interest them, invitations or messages (e.g., to use our gift registry, tell a friend, Add contact) through our system, we may store your personal information, and the personal information of each such recipient. We use guests' contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your SokoMarket invitation. At your request, we may send reminders to your contacts and display their email addresses to other contacts on your buddy list. Other than as described in this Policy we will not intentionally sell or otherwise disclose contact information you submit to any third party. We may also collect ' contact information in order to provide certain services through our Site.
  • Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities on our site.
    1. Information collected automatically We automatically collect information from your browser when you visit our website. This information may include your IP address, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies" below), and the referring website address.
    2. Cookies When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more cookies to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our website.
    3. Other Technologies We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site. We also may include web beacons in promotional or other e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our website visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming, or other activities.
  • Information collected by third parties We may allow third parties, including our authorized service providers, advertising companies, and ad networks, to display advertisements on our site. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements. Our website does not provide any personal information to these third parties. This information allows them to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness.
  • Publishing Information All of your Publishing Information will be publicly available on the Site and therefore accessible by any internet user. Any Publishing Information that you disclose to SokoMarket.com becomes public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such information. You should exercise caution when deciding to include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing Information that you submit to us.

How We Use Information

  • We use your Collected Information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our Site's content, layout and service specifically for you.
  • Manage your account and provide you with customer support;
  • Perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
  • We use your Registration Information to provide services that you request or to contact you regarding additional services about which SokoMarket.com determines that you might be interested. Specifically, we use your email address, mailing address, phone number or fax number to contact you regarding notices, surveys, product alerts, new service or product offerings and communications relevant to your use of our Site, such as newsletters, if you choose to receive these as indicated at the time of registration.
  • Any Publishing Information that you disclose to SokoMarket.com becomes public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such information. You should exercise caution when deciding to include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing Information that you submit to us.

We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information we have collected about you or your activities on our web site or while using our services.

    Personal information We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. SokoMarket will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with nonaffiliated parties except as specified in this Privacy Policy to provide products or services you have requested or when SokoMarket has your permission. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of SokoMarket's Terms of Use, as specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. We may share personal information with:
    Other Users As part of the buying and selling process, you may obtain another SokoMarket user's email address, shipping address and/or other information. Pursuant to SokoMarket's Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use this information. This information should only be used for SokoMarket-related communications or for SokoMarket-facilitated transactions. SokoMarket has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any SokoMarket user to your email or physical mail list. In addition, other users may choose to e-mail you.
    Authorized service providers We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, processing credit card payments, delivering packages, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting our website functionality, and other features offered through our website. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
    Other Situations We also may disclose your information:
    1. In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
    2. When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
    3. In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Payment Information

At SokoMarket.com, your payment information will be collected by 3rd party vendor like paypal and googlecheckout in order to enable transactions to be completed by SokoMarket.com. Any credit card information that you provide through the vendor Site is directly submitted to a payment server of the credit card processing bank. Those vendors will not use the payment information collected for any secondary reasons, but only to perform and validate the transaction. They also have in place up-to-date technology and internal procedures to guard your Payment Information against intruders, there is no guarantee that such technology or procedure can eliminate all of the risks of theft, loss or miss-use. SokoMarket.com shall not be liable to you or any other person for any damages that might result from unauthorized use, publication, disclosure or any other miss-use of Payment Information, including credit card information.

How we protect your personal information

We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption in the transmission of your sensitive personal information between your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your personal information. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) for registration SokoMarket encrypts that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). SokoMarket follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once SokoMarket receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure e-mail.

Minors

The Site and its contents are not intended to be targeted to minors under applicable law and we do not intend to sell any of our products or services to minors. However, we have no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who access our Site and so we carry out the same Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a minor has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information.

Forums / Chat Rooms

If you use a forum or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others or could be used to send you unsolicited messages. SokoMarket is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Reviews

We may provide areas on our websites where you can post information about yourself and others and communicate with others as well as reviews of products, companies, and the like, or upload content (e.g., pictures, videos, audio files, etc.). Such postings are governed by our Terms of Use. In addition, such postings may appear on other websites or when searches are executed on the subject of your posting. Also, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on publicly-viewable web pages, that information will be publicly available and can be collected and used by others. For example, if you post your e-mail address, you may receive unsolicited messages. We cannot control who reads your posting or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and caution with respect to your personal information. Once you have posted information, you will not be able to edit or delete such information.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

Access and control over most personal information on SokoMarket is readily available through the registered user’s account profile section. SokoMarket users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their SokoMarket account may do so by sending an email request to support@sokomarket.com. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of SokoMarket. Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on SokoMarket, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another SokoMarket user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated through our posting an amended and restated Privacy Policy on our Site. Our posting the amended and restated Privacy Policy will make such new Privacy Policy immediately effective. SokoMarket reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If SokoMarket makes material changes to this policy you will be notified here, by email, or other places SokoMarket deems appropriate.