privacy statement

In making available its website and providing related services to its users, AWON Group in some cases is required to use personal data. A summary is given below of which data is used by AWON Group for which purposes and the measures it takes to protect your privacy. AWON Group recommends that you read this privacy statement prior to using the AWON Group website.

Furthermore, the AWON Group website is covered by the following disclaimer. AWON Group also recommends that you read this disclaimer prior to using the AWON Group website.

Who will use the personal data?

The partnerships AWON Global Trading, AWON Management & Consultancy and AWON Human Resource Management and their affiliated companies (hereinafter referred to jointly as 'AWON Group') shall be responsible for the use of the personal data in respect of the AWON Group website.

If AWON Group uses the services of other AWON Group member firms or service providers, AWON Group - where necessary - shall also provide your personal data to those AWON Group member firms or service providers. The nature of the Internet in general and the infrastructure of the AWON Group organisation and the AWON Group website in particular mean that your personal data might also be used outside your country. In order to make available to you and provide you with the services referred to in this privacy statement, you shall consent to the use of the personal data gathered on the AWON Group website and referred to in this privacy statement in other countries, and, where necessary, to the exchange of such data with other AWON Group member firms or service providers engaged by AWON Group.

Other than as described above, AWON Group shall not sell, distribute or make available your personal data to third parties outside of the AWON Group international organisation without your prior consent, unless obliged to do so under law, codes of conduct and professional practice or a court order.

What data will be used?

If you order publications, apply for a position, ask questions, make comments and/or make use of other services through the AWON Group website (hereinafter to be referred to jointly as 'the Services'), you may be required to provide certain personal data about yourself and/or you may provide this data on your own initiative. AWON Group shall use this data for the purpose of:

• making the AWON Group website available to its users;
• making available to you and providing you with the Services offered on the AWON Group website;
• optimising AWON Group's services, whether provided via the AWON Group website or otherwise.

If you have submitted questions and/or comments by e-mail and/or requested other Services through the AWON Group website, AWON Group may use your personal data to contact you regarding our response to those questions and/or comments and the provision of those Services.

AWON Group shall not retain your personal data longer than is necessary for the purposes described above, unless this data is necessary for complying with a statutory retention obligation, or (if longer) after the retention period under the applicable code of conduct and professional practice has expired.

Use of cookies and log files

A 'cookie' is a small unit of information which can be passed to your browser while you are on the AWON Group website. In some cases, AWON Group uses cookies to ensure that use of the AWON Group website is as efficient as possible. If you do not want AWON Group to use cookies with your browser, the settings on your browser can be changed so that the cookies are deactivated. If you do not allow the use of cookies and have deactivated the cookies or arranged to have the cookies deactivated, this may have consequences for the ease of use of the AWON Group website.

The AWON Group website automatically generates log files that register the use by you and other users of the AWON Group website. AWON Group maintains user data, such as source addresses of pages requested, IP (internet protocol) addresses and domain names, dates and times of page requests, links from other websites and other parameters in the URLs (universal resource locators). These log files and data shall be used, on an anonymous basis, for statistical purposes and for improving the services offered via the AWON Group website.

Security

AWON Group has put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place in order to safeguard your personal data against loss or any form of unlawful use. Those persons who, on behalf of AWON Group, have access to your personal data, have a confidentiality obligation - including that prescribed by the applicable code of conduct and professional practice.

Third party websites

AWON Group may include links to third party websites and these third parties or parties present on these websites may gather information about you. AWON Group shall not be responsible for the content of these websites or the actions of these third parties and parties present on these websites. AWON Group recommends that you read their policy on the use of personal data.

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