Privacy Policy

Elfron International Limited  ( Elfron ) is a consulting company providing value-added services to its clients. 

This privacy policy applies to our operations covering all products and services within the Elfron's  group.

Overall privacy statement

Your privacy is important to us and because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want to assist you in understanding  the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to the web site that you were viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which is operated directly by us, by our partner, or by our affiliate.

1.       What information does Elfron collect?

Our main consideration in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Because we do derive revenue from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services relevant to our users.

We collect personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register on one of our sites, when you subscribe for a print magazine or an e-mail newsletter or when you register to use certain services. Several of the services that we offer on our sites may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of our Elfron's  sites you are no longer anonymous to us. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

This personally identifiable information is limited to:

• First and last name
• Address, including street name and city
• E-mail address
• Telephone number

2.       What is Elfron’s practice regarding cookies?

Your Internet browser contains a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may opt not to allow cookies to be collected.

We also use technologies, including electronic images known as web bugs that let us track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or services, the information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

We use cookies and tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

• Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertisers' or partners' sites;
• Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on web-site and advertisement usage;
• Determining which features our overall user population likes best;

• We allow other companies that are presenting advertisements on our sites and, sometimes, in our newsletters to use tracking technology on your computer. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship. Unless you visit the web site of these companies and provide them with personally identifiable information about yourself, these tracking technologies tell those advertisers nothing about who you are. Our advertisers' use of tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies.

3. How does Elfron's use the information?

We use the information we gather for four general purposes:

• To customize the advertising and the content you see;
• To enhance the user experience in our sites. We use tracking information to analyse how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you;
• To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in paid services, polls, contests, message boards;
• To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

4. How does Elfron share the information?

Personally identifiable information

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:

• We have your consent to share the information;
• We have engaged companies to work with us or on our behalf to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements;
• You use cobranded services. When you use a cobranded service within our sites, you grant us permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies;
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, Elfron's Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

Aggregate information

We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Business transfers

We are always seeking to improve our web sites and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may acquire or divest a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

5. What are my options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.

We also provide users the following options:

Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the subscription-management pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;

Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site, provided, however, that you may not be able to use some of our products or services without providing us with certain information.

6. How will I know if the privacy policy is changed?

Any modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected first within this area of our web sites. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy statement. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail.

Questions, Comments

Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our web sites should be sent via e-mail below. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.

 Email: inquiries@efrenzconnect.com

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