TOUCH SCREEN MIDDLE EAST GLOBAL INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY

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Touch Screen Middle East respects your right to privacy. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information. This policy also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.

Touch Screen Middle East Global Internet Privacy Policy

It is Touch Screen Middle East´s policy to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection laws. This commitment reflects the value we place on earning and keeping the trust of our employees, customers, business partners and others who share their personal information with us.

This Global Internet Privacy Policy (this "Policy") describes how Touch Screen Middle East protects your privacy when we collect personal information on the Touch Screen Middle East Internet site. As used in this Policy, the term "personal information" means information that identifies you personally, alone or in combination with other information available to us.

This Policy applies, in general, to the Internet site operated by or on behalf of Touch Screen Middle East.

Your Consent

By using the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site or providing personal information to us, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy and any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements.

If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Policy (and any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements), do not use the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site.

Limitations on the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

To the extent required by applicable law, whenever Touch Screen Middle East collects personal information on the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site, Touch Screen Middle East will:
  • provide timely and appropriate notice to you about its data practices;
  • collect, use, disclose and transfer your personal information only with your consent, which may be express or implied, depending on the sensitivity of the personal information, legal requirements, and other factors;
  • collect your personal information only for specific, limited purposes. The information we collect will be relevant, adequate and not excessive for the purposes for which it is collected;
  • process your personal information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected or to which you have subsequently consented;
  • take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and, where necessary, kept up-to-date;
  • not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes without giving you an opportunity to "opt-out"; and
  • take appropriate measures, by contract or otherwise, to provide adequate protection for personal information that is disclosed to a third party or transferred to another country, including transfers within Touch Screen Middle East;

Information Collected on Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites and How It May Be Used

When you access and use the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site, there are 3 ways we may collect information about you:

1. Information Sent to Us by Your Web Browser
Touch Screen Middle East collects information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser. This information typically includes the IP address of your Internet service provider, the name of your operating system (such as Macintosh® or Windows®) and the name and version of your browser (such as Internet Explorer® or Netscape®). The information we receive depends on the settings on your web browser. Please check your browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.
The information provided by your browser does not identify you personally. We use this information to create statistics that help us improve our site and make it more compatible with the technology used by our Internet visitors.

2. Information Collected By Placing a "Cookie" On Your Computer
Touch Screen Middle East may obtain information about you by installing a "tag" on your computer´s hard drive. This tag is known as a "cookie."
The Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites uses "session cookies." A session cookie is used to tag your computer with a computer-generated, unique identifier when you access our site. A session cookie does not identify you personally and expires after you close your browser. We use session cookies to collect statistical information about the ways visitors use our sites - which pages they visit, which links they use, and how long they stay on each page. We analyze this information (known as "clickstream data") in statistical form to better understand our visitors´ interests and needs to improve the content and functionality of our sites.
The Touch Screen Middle East Internet site may also use "persistent cookies." These cookies do not expire when you close your browser; they stay on your computer until you delete them. By assigning your computer a unique identifier, we are able to create a database of your previous choices and preferences, and in situations where these choices or preferences need to be collected again, they can be provided by us automatically, saving you time and effort. If a Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site uses "persistent cookies" we will notify you in the Privacy Statement posted on that site.
If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. Although you are not required to accept cookies when you visit the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site, you may be unable to use all of the functionality of the site if your browser rejects our cookies.

3. Information You Knowingly and Voluntarily Provide
Touch Screen Middle East collects the information you knowingly and voluntarily provide when you use a Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site, for example, the information you provide when you sign up to receive email alerts, when you complete a survey, or when you ask us a question or email us with feedback. In many cases this information will be personal information.
Touch Screen Middle East uses this information for the purposes for which you provide it. For example, if you provide your e-mail address when you send us an enquiry, we will use your e-mail address to reply accordingly.
We may also use the information we collect on Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites for various business purposes such as customer service, fraud prevention, market research, improving our products and services, and providing you and your company with information and offers we believe may be of interest to you. We may also remove all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical, statistical or scientific purposes.
The Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites permits you to make choices about the use of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.

Sharing Personal Information

Touch Screen Middle East will not sell personal information collected from its Internet sites to mailing list brokers. Touch Screen Middle East may share your personal information with the manufacturers we represent. When we do so, these manufacturers will use your information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you subsequently consented) and only as permitted under this Policy, any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements, and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.

Touch Screen Middle East may also share your personal information with third parties we hire to perform technical support services for us. These third parties are required to use the personal information we share with them only to perform services on our behalf and to treat your personal information as strictly confidential.

In certain, limited circumstances we may share or transfer personal information to unrelated third parties. For example, we may provide personal information to a third party (i) at your request; (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or court order; (iii) to investigate a possible crime, such as identity theft; (iv) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of Touch Screen Middle East; or (v) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information.

The Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site permits you to make choices about the disclosure and/or transfer of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.

Security of Personal Information

Your personal information will be stored in the Touch Screen Middle East databases maintained by our service providers. Most of these databases are stored on servers located in the United States. To the extent required by law, if your personal information will be transferred outside your country an appropriate notice will be provided.
Touch Screen Middle East maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. For example, we use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to transfer personal information over the Internet. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the Internet, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.

Links to Third Party Internet Sites

Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites may contain links to Internet sites that are not operated by Touch Screen Middle East. These links are provided as a service and do not imply any endorsement of the activities or content of these sites, nor any association with their operators. Touch Screen Middle East does not control these Internet sites and is not responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on web sites you visit before using the site or providing personal information.

Retention of Personal Information

Touch Screen Middle East retains the personal information collected on Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites as long as necessary to provide the services, products and information you request or as permitted by applicable law.

Children and Parents

Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites are generally not intended for persons under 13 years of age. Touch Screen Middle East does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children on its Internet Sites except as permitted under applicable law. If your child has submitted personal information and you would like to request that such information be deleted from our records, you may do so by using the feedback mechanisms provided at a particular Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site, by clicking on the contact us link and adding your comment or writing to us at Touch Screen Middle East, PO Box 42, Dubai, UAE.

Questions about this Policy or our Privacy Statements

If you have any questions about this Policy or the Web Site Privacy Statement or our use of your personal information, please contact us by clicking on this feedback link or write to us at Touch Screen Middle East, PO Box 42, Dubai, UAE.

Changes to this Policy and our Privacy Statements

Touch Screen Middle East reserves the right to update or modify this Policy, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of this Policy on our Touch Screen Middle East Internet Sites. We also reserve the right to update or modify our Web Site Privacy Statements, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised Privacy Statement on the Touch Screen Middle East Internet Site. If we modify this Policy or any Privacy Statement, the modifications will only apply to the personal information we collect after we have posted the revised Policy or Privacy Statement on the applicable Touch Screen Middle East Internet site.

This Policy was last revised on 4 May, 2010.

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