PRIVACY POLICY

The Privacy Policy describes the rules for processing information about you, including personal data and cookies, i.e., “cookies.”

General Information

This policy applies to the website operating at the URL: usg.kiev.ua.
The operator of the website and the administrator of personal data is Ukraine Sea Group LLC, Gnata Yury str. 9, of. 414, 03148 Kyiv.
Contact email address of the operator: tvtrade@ukr.net.
The operator is the administrator of your personal data with regard to data voluntarily provided on the website.
The website uses personal data for the following purposes:
Managing the comments system.
Conducting online chat conversations.
Handling inquiries via the form.
The website collects information about users and their behavior in the following ways:
Through data voluntarily entered in forms, which are entered into the operator’s systems.
By saving cookies in end devices (so-called “cookies”).

Selected Data Protection Methods Used by the Operator

Login and data entry areas are protected at the transmission layer (SSL certificate). This means that personal and login data entered on the website are encrypted on the user’s computer and can only be read on the target server.
The operator periodically changes its administrative passwords.
An important element of data protection is the regular update of all software used by the operator to process personal data, particularly regular updates of programming components.

Hosting

The website is hosted (technically maintained) on the operator’s servers: HOSTING UKRAINE LLC.
The hosting company ensures technical reliability by maintaining server logs. These logs may record:
Resources specified by URL identifier (addresses of requested resources – pages, files),
The time of receiving the request,
The time of sending the response,
The client’s station name – identification via HTTP protocol,
Information on errors that occurred during the execution of HTTP transactions,
The URL of the page previously visited by the user (referer link) – in case the transition to the website was made via a link,
Information about the user’s browser,
Information about the IP address,
Diagnostic information related to the self-ordering of services through recorders on the site,
Information related to email handling directed to and sent by the operator.

Your Rights and Additional Information on How Data Is Used

In certain situations, the administrator has the right to transfer your personal data to other recipients if necessary to perform the contract with you or to fulfill obligations imposed on the administrator. This applies to the following groups of recipients:
The hosting company based on entrustment,
Postal operators,
Online chat solution operators,
Authorized employees and associates who use the data to achieve the purpose of the site’s operation,
Companies providing marketing services for the administrator.
Your personal data processed by the administrator is not processed longer than necessary for the activities related to them as defined by separate regulations (e.g., accounting). For marketing data, the data will not be processed for more than 3 years.
You have the right to request from the administrator:
Access to your personal data,
Rectification,
Deletion,
Limitation of processing,
Data transfer.
You have the right to object to the processing of data specified in point 3.2 regarding the processing of personal data for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the administrator, including profiling, but the right to object cannot be exercised if there are valid legitimate grounds for processing, overriding your interests, rights, and freedoms, in particular, establishing, pursuing, or defending claims.
Providing personal data is voluntary but necessary for the operation of the website.
Automated decision-making activities, including profiling, may be undertaken towards you to provide services under the concluded agreement and for the administrator’s direct marketing.
Personal data is not transferred to third countries within the meaning of data protection regulations. This means that we do not send them outside the European Union.

Information in Forms

The website collects information provided voluntarily by the user, including personal data, if provided.
The website may save information about connection parameters (time indication, IP address).
The website, in some cases, may save information facilitating the linking of data in the form with the user’s email address filling out the form. In such a case, the user’s email address appears inside the URL of the page containing the form.
Data provided in the form is processed for the purpose resulting from the function of a specific form, e.g., to handle a service request or business contact, service registration, etc. Each time the context and description of the form clearly inform what it is for.

Administrator’s Logs

Information about user behavior on the website may be subject to logging. These data are used to administer the website.

Important Marketing Techniques

The operator uses statistical analysis of website traffic through Google Analytics (Google Inc., USA). The operator does not provide personal data to the operator of this service, only anonymized information. The service is based on the use of cookies in the user’s end device. Regarding user preferences collected by Google’s advertising network, the user can view and edit information derived from cookies using the tool: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
The operator uses remarketing techniques to match advertising messages to the user’s behavior on the website, which may give the impression that the user’s personal data is being used to track them, but in practice, no personal data is transferred from the operator to advertising operators. The technological condition of such actions is the enabled support of cookies.
The operator uses the Facebook pixel. This technology makes Facebook (Facebook Inc., USA) aware that a registered user is using the website. In this case, it is based on data for which Facebook itself is the administrator; the operator does not provide any additional personal data to Facebook. The service is based on the use of cookies in the user’s end device.
The operator uses a solution that examines user behavior by creating heat maps and recording behavior on the site. These information are anonymized before being sent to the service operator, so they do not know which physical person they relate to. In particular, passwords and other personal data are not recorded.
The operator uses a solution automating the functioning of the website concerning users, e.g., which may send an email to a user after visiting a specific subpage, provided that they have consented to receive commercial correspondence from the operator.

Information About Cookies

The website uses cookies.
Cookies (so-called “cookies”) are IT data, in particular, text files, which are stored in the end device of the website user and are intended for using the website’s pages. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, the time they are stored on the end device, and a unique number.
The entity placing cookies on the end device of the website user and accessing them is the website operator.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:
Maintaining the session of the website user (after logging in), thanks to which the user does not have to re-enter the login and password on each subpage of the website;
Achieving the goals set out above in the section “Important marketing techniques”;
The website uses two basic types of cookies: “session” (session cookies) and “persistent” (persistent cookies). Session cookies are temporary files that are stored on the user’s end device until logging out, leaving the website, or turning off the software (web browser). Persistent cookies are stored on the user’s end device for the time specified in the parameters of the cookies or until they are deleted by the user.
Web browsing software (web browser) usually allows the storage of cookies on the user’s end device by default. Users of the website can change settings in this regard. The web browser allows deleting cookies. It is also possible to automatically block cookies’ support. Detailed information on this topic is provided in the help or documentation of the web browser.
Restrictions on the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the website.
Cookies placed on the user’s end device may also be used by entities cooperating with the website operator, in particular, this applies to companies: Google (Google Inc., USA), Facebook (Facebook Inc., USA), Twitter (Twitter Inc., USA).

Managing Cookies – How to Give and Withdraw Consent in Practice?

If the user does not want to receive cookies, they can change the browser settings. We reserve that disabling the necessary cookies for authentication processes, security, maintaining user preferences may hinder, and in extreme cases, may prevent the use of the websites.
To manage cookie settings, select the web browser you use from the list below and follow the instructions: