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Effective January 2020

Privacy Policy,

1. Scope and Application

Nabataea.net is a website utilizing the contribution of many different volunteers and contributors.

All of our content is intended for general audiences and are NOT directed to children. We do not knowingly permit children under age 13 (in the United States) or age 16 (in the EEA) to register on our website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about users under age 13 (in the United States) or age 16 (in the EEA), except as permitted by law.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, ‘personal information’ means information that identifies a specific person or that is about an individual who can be identified, such as full name, email address, membership information, product purchases, or consumer product preferences.

2. Collection of Information

Information You Provide Directly to Nabataea.net

If you are interested in obtaining membership in this website, you may need to provide us or our service providers with information about yourself. For example:

  • If you register to become a member, or order a product, you may be asked for your name, email address, mailing address, phone number and other information.
  • If you order a product from us or one of our business partners, you may be asked for your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and your credit card number.
  • If you are ordering a product as a gift for another person, you may be asked for that person’s name, postal address and phone number in order to enable us to deliver the gift to the recipient.

Sensitive Information. We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (such information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise.

Information We May Collect Automatically

In addition to information you choose to provide to us, Nabataea.net and our service providers also use standard technologies to automatically collect certain additional information. For example:

  • IP Address and Other Identifiers. When you access and interact with our website and our service providers we or they may collect information about your visits in order to permit you to connect to and obtain the services offered and to understand the frequency with which specific visitors visit various parts of our website. For example, we may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which identifies the computer or service provider that you use to access the website, or information about your browser type, authentication identifiers, and other software and hardware information. If you access the website through a mobile or other device we may collect your mobile device identifier, geolocation data (including your precise location), or other transactional information for that device. We may combine this information with other information that we have collected to make our website and our communications to you more targeted to your interests.
  • Social Media Information and Content. If you access or log into our website through a social media service or connect our website to a social media service, the information we collect may also include your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, any information or content you have permitted the social media service to share with us, such as your profile picture, email address or friends lists, and any information you have made public in connection with that social media service. When you access the Nabataea.net website through social media services or when you connect our website to social media services, you are authorizing Nabataea.net to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  • Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Our website may also use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer and allow websites to remember information about users. We and our service providers use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to enhance the quality of our sites. We use transient (also called “session ID”) cookies to provide continuity from page to page. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. We also use persistent cookies. Persistent cookies allow our online store and certain other parts of our site to recognize your browser when you return after your first visit to that part of our site. Cookies allow us to personalize your return visits to our site and to save you time during certain activities, such as checking out from our online store. You have the choice to set your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) You can manage the use of Flash technologies, with the Flash management tools available at Adobe’s website. It is up to you whether to allow us to send you cookies. Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalization available to others on this site.
  • Web beacons and other tracking technologies. This website may use other tracking tools, including so-called “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “web bugs,” “clear GIFs,”etc. (collectively “Web Beacons”) to collect user activity information about your activities on Nabataea.net. These are small electronic images embedded in web content (including online ads) and email messages and are ordinarily not visible to users. Like Cookies, Web Beacons enable us to track pages and content (including ads) accessed and viewed by users. Also, when we send HTML-formatted (as opposed to plain text) emails to you, Web Beacons may be embedded in such emails to allow us to monitor readership levels so that we can identify aggregate trends and individual usage to provide our audiences with more relevant content or offers. Web Beacons in emails may recognize activities such as when an email was opened, how many times an email was forwarded, which links in the email were clicked on, etc. Web Beacons cannot be declined when delivered via a regular web page. However, Web Beacons can be refused when delivered via email. If you do not wish to receive Web Beacons via email, you will need to disable HTML images or refuse HTML (select Text only) emails via your email software.
  • Third Party Tracking. Third parties that support Nabataea.net by serving advertisements or providing services, such as allowing you to share content or tracking usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect similar information when you use Nabataea.net. These third parties may also use these technologies, along with activity information they collect, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile device and a laptop or other computer. Nabataea.net does not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of third parties using such technologies.

Please visit our Cookie Policy for more information on the Cookies and other tracking technologies present on our Services.

Information Contained in User Content

  • Some parts of Nabataea.net may allow users to post or transmit messages, comments, screen names, computer files and other materials. You should be careful about what personal information you choose to make public through Nabataea.net.

Information from Other Sources

  • To the extent permitted by law, Nabataea.net and our service providers may supplement the information we collect from and about you with information from other sources, such as publicly available information about your online and offline activity from social media services, commercially available sources.

3. Use and Disclosure

Nabataea.net and our service providers may use information that we collect from and about you for a variety of business purposes, including:

  • to maintain and manage your account, deliver content and services that you request, improve our website and enhance your experience on Nabataea.net;
  • to process and track your product or service orders and provide Nabataea.net the content you request;
  • to communicate with you about Nabataea.net other products, content or services in which you may be interested, or to respond to your inquiries or comments;
  • to contact you. Nabataea.net may periodically send out notifications related to the website such as notifications of changes or policies;
  • to deliver relevant advertising and marketing. Nabataea.net and our service providers may use the information we collect from and about you as described in this Privacy Policy to deliver relevant ads to you when you use Nabataea.net (on any of your devices) or another service (on any of your devices). As noted above, third-party advertising networks and advertisers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect and track information such as demographic information, inferred interests, aggregated information, and information about the different devices you use and your activity on such devices, to assist them in delivering advertising that is more relevant to your interests. The information may also be used to deliver more relevant advertising to you across marketing channels, including email.
  • to allow social sharing functionality. If you log in with or connect a social media service account with Nabataea.net, we may share your user name, picture, and likes, as well as your activities and comments with other Nabataea.net users and with your friends associated with your social media service. We may also share the same information with the social media service provider. By logging in with or connecting your Nabataea.net account with a social media service, you are providing your consent to us to share information we collect from and about you with the social media service provider, other users and your friends and you understand that the social media service’s use of the shared information will be governed by the social media service’s privacy policy. If you do not want your personal information shared in this way, please do not connect your social media service account with your Nabataea.net account and do not participate in social sharing on Nabataea.net;
  • to perform business analyses or for other purposes to improve the quality of our business, the Nabataea.net website, and the products and services we offer;
  • To protect the rights of Nabataea.net and others. There may be instances when Nabataea.net may use or disclose your information, including situations where Nabataea.net has a good faith belief that such use or disclosure is necessary in order to: (i) protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of Nabataea.net, our volunteers, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our agreements and our terms of use); (ii) protect the safety, privacy, and security of users of Nabataea.net or members of the public; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with the law or legal process; or (v) respond to requests from public and government authorities;
  • to complete a merger or sale of assets. If Nabataea.net sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of its business (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings), Nabataea.net may transfer your information to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction; or
  • in accordance with your consent.

In order to make our content, website and advertising more interesting and relevant to you, we may use the information we collect from and about you to make inferences and predictions about your potential areas of interest. When the information collected from or about you does not identify you as a specific person, we may use that information for any purpose or share it with third parties, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Nabataea.net will disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, including:

  • with entities that help us to manage and provide Nabataea.net, including development of our websites and applications, maintenance and support, personalization, payment processing, email distribution, measurement and improvement, , and promotion of other businesses, only to the extent that these entities need the information to perform their services or as required by law;
  • with identified entities whose products or services you specifically use or request to receive while you use Nabataea.net;
  • with third parties in the ordinary course of business in order to process your requests and fulfill your orders for products or video content offered through Nabataea.net;
  • in response to legal process and when we believe that doing so is required by law (including laws applicable to our service providers), may be necessary to protect any person’s property, rights, or safety, or to investigate a potential violation of law, will help to enforce any terms of use or other legal agreement, or in the event of a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, bankruptcy or asset sale;
  • in accordance with your consent.

Nabataea.net service providers, business partners and other individuals described above, may be located outside of your country of residence, including, among others, in the United States (Canada and EEA). These countries may have different data protection regimes than is found in the country where you are based.

When information we collect is aggregated, anonymized or otherwise does not identify you, we may use that information for any purpose or share it with third parties, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

4. Information Security

We take a number of commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures designed to safeguard information in our possession from loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. However, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your information.

5. User Access and Control

If you would like to access, review, correct, update, suppress, delete or otherwise limit our use of your personal information you have previously provided directly to us, you may contact us using the mechanisms provided below. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

  • If you are under 18 and a registered user Nabataea.net, you may request removal of content or information that you have publicly posted to Nabataea.net. To make such a request, please contact us, identify yourself, and request User Content Removal. Please also provide your name, email address, and a detailed description of your content removal. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user. There may also be circumstances where the law does not allow removal of your content even if requested.

6. Other Important Information

Changes in this Privacy Policy. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the most recent version of the Policy on Nabataea.net, along with an indication of the date on which the Policy was amended most recently. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on Nabataea.net. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy in the way we collect, use, and/or share personal information through Nabataea.net in a manner that expand our rights to use the personal information we have already collected from you, we will notify our members and provide them with a choice about our future use of that information.

Location of Data. Nabataea.net is hosted in and managed from Canada. If you are a user located outside Canada, you understand and consent to having any personal information (which may include information collected through the use of cookies and other technologies, as described above) processed in Canada or in any other country in which we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. Canadian and other countries’ data protection laws may not be the same as those in your jurisdiction. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in Canada may be entitled to access your personal information.

Data Retention. We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

Remember that even after you cancel your account, or if you ask us to delete your personal information, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances where, for example, you have shared information with social media or other services. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation or your request for deletion, for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security or recordkeeping policies. It may not always be possible to completely remove or delete all of your information due to technical constraints or, contractual, financial or legal requirements.

Third-Party Sites. If you click on or interact with a hyperlink or advertisement that you find on Nabataea.net, you may leave our Services or send information to a different website or application. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to your interactions with third-party websites or mobile apps, even if you find a link to them on or access them through Nabataea.net, and so you should read the privacy policy of the third-party provider to see how your personal information will be treated on its site. We have no control over such third-parties, their Internet sites, or their products or services.

Collection of Personal Financial Information by a Payment Service. In some cases, we may use an unaffiliated payment service to enable you to purchase a product or make payments on a third-party payment service provider website (“Payment Service”). If you wish to purchase a product or make a payment using a Payment Service, you will be directed to a page operated by that Payment Service. Any information that you provide to a Payment Service will be subject to the applicable Payment Service’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, any Payment Service’s use of information collected through any Payment Service.

7. The GDPR and Additional Information for Individuals in the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and Nabataea.net is targeted to you, please note:

  • The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new comprehensive data protection law that updates existing EU laws to strengthen the protection of “personal data” (any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, so called “data subjects”) in light of rapid technological developments, the increasingly global nature of business and more complex international flows of personal data. The GDPR replaces the current patchwork of national data protection laws with a single set of rules, directly enforceable in each EU member state. The GDPR took effect on May 25, 2018. In addition to this Privacy Policy, if you would like to know more about how we are implementing the requirements of the GDPR please contact us.
  • We may need to collect and process the types of Personal Information listed above in order to provide Nabataea.net to you or because we are legally required to do so. If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the Services. We may use the Personal Information for our legitimate business interests, including those listed above.
  • We do not knowingly permit children in the EEA under age 16 to register for any content, or purchase products from Nabataea.net. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about users under age 16, except as permitted by law. In recognition of the need to provide additional privacy protections for children, we have a separate privacy policy that applies to those sites and apps that are directed to them.
  • Regarding the section entitled “Data Retention” in Section 6, above: We keep your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include (i) for as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you; (ii) as required by a legal obligation to which we are subject; or (iii) as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

We use technologies on the site Nabataea.net to collect information that helps us improve your online experience. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, pixels, web beacons and gifs, collectively as cookies. This policy explains the different types of cookies used on Nabataea.net and how you can control them. We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please take a look at the last effective date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through Nabataea.net. Any personal information that we collect through the use of cookies is obtained through transparent notice to you and through your consent. We hope that this Cookie Policy helps you understand, and feel more confident about, our use of cookies. Please also see our Privacy Policy to understand the other ways in which we use information we collect about you.

1. What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. They can do this because websites can read and write these files, enabling them to recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (e.g. by remembering your user preferences, or allowing you to make comments).

2. What cookies do we use?

Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on the Site.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies, which are sometimes called analytics cookies, collect information about your use of Nabataea.net and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage on Nabataea.net, help us record any difficulties you have with Nabataea.net and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.

  • Functionality Cookies. .

In some circumstances, we may use functionality cookies. Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on our Site and to provide enhanced and more personalized features, such as customizing a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion and for other services you request, like watching a video or commenting on a blog. All of these features help us to improve your visit to the Site.

  • Targeting or Advertising Cookies.

Nabataea.net and our service providers may use targeting or advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our Site and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These cookies remember what you have looked at on Nabataea.net and we may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.

Opting out of third party targeting or advertising cookies does not necessarily mean that you will not see our advertising on third party websites, only that this advertising will not be targeted to you through the use of third party cookies.

In some circumstances, we may work with third parties to provide services on Nabataea.net. Third-party advertisers and other organizations may use their own cookies to collect information about your activities on Nabataea.net and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information may be used by them to serve advertisements that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed. Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. We do not control these cookies and to disable or reject third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third party’s website.

You may refuse to accept cookies from Nabataea.net at any time by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. For more information about third party cookies and how to opt-out, please visit the third party privacy policy.

Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features on Nabataea.net may operate as intended, especially the ability to make comments, or interact with other users.