Privacy policy

1. THIS DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION FROM EPSON SHOWS OUR OBLIGATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUR DATA. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING DATA PROTECTION GUIDELINES CAREFULLY THROUGH BEFORE YOU ACCESS THE EPSON WEBSITE ("WEBSITE"). IF YOU USE THIS WEBSITE, YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT EPSON WILL RECORD AND PROCESS PERSONAL DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS DATA PROTECTION GUIDELINE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS DATA PROTECTION GUIDELINE, YOU MAY NOT USE THE WEBSITE. THE SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION ("EPSON") RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, AMEND OR DELETE PARTS OF THESE REGULATIONS ON ITS OWN ACCORD. IF THESE ALTERATIONS SHOULD AFFECT YOU, YOU WILL FIND APPROPRIATE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE FOR 30 DAYS, OR YOU WILL BE CONTACTED DIRECTLY. IF ANY MINOR ALTERATIONS WHICH DO NOT AFFECT YOU PERSONALLY ARE MADE, YOU WILL FIND THEM DURING REGULAR VISITS TO THIS WEBSITE. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO THE REGULATIONS CONTAINED IN THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE EPSON DATA PROTECTION GUIDELINES AT THE TIME OF USAGE.

2. Epson respects your data protection. If you provide us with personal data, we will treat this carefully in accordance with our data protection guidelines.

3. We recommend that you use cautious restraint when transmitting any personal data to website operators/owners. We would like to point out that such personal data is made available to any persons with access to the Internet when transmitted to publicly accessible areas such as chat rooms or message boards. For this reason we recommend that you do not transmit any information which should not appear in such public areas. If you should have any questions about data protection, you should contact whichever website requires personal information from you. You should observe the contact data provided by the website or visit www.epson-europe.com to find the appropriate website for your country.

If you have registered with Epson at an Epson website, you may be asked to provide personal data such as your name, address, age and e-mail address (summarised as "personal data"). You can also, if you wish, state further personal data such as your gender, profession and telephone number (summarised as "optional data"). Optional data does not have to be given. If you do refrain from providing this information, it can possibly restrict our facilities for offering you particular services or personal content. Your personal data must always be correct from the time of registration onwards. If your personal data should change after registration, you should change/update it immediately. If you fail to do so, you may no longer receive services, information or notices from Epson. You will find more detailed information in the registration instructions on the Epson website you visited.

5. Epson is allowed to use your personal and optional data (summarised as "user data") for administration purposes or improvements to this website as determined in these data protection guidelines.

6. Please note that access and partial use of Epson websites is possible without stating personal data and/or optional data, but that you will not be able to access certain parts of Epson websites for which your personal data is necessary.

All data recorded by Epson (personal and/or optional data) is used for improved and precisely adapted services for our website visitors.

The data recorded allows us to offer content based on the user's interests. We analyse our user's interests and improve our services accordingly.

8. If you register for any Epson service, we record your data (personal data and/or optional data) so that we can offer you particular services and a personalised website. The data you provided us with may be used by us to send you personal offers by e-mail or post. Any e-mail or posted correspondence which we send you always contains instructions about how to annul the subscription if you no longer wish to receive e-mail messages or posted correspondence from us.

9. We may occasionally send you e-mail messages or posted correspondence to offer you useful information. This contains information about new Epson products or Epson services. It is also possible that we will contact you to find out whether you wish to participate in various Epson market surveys. Our guidelines only allow sending of e-mail messages or post to customers who have given us their permission to do so. Any e-mail or posted correspondence which we send you always contains instructions about how to annul the subscription if you no longer wish to receive e-mail messages or posted correspondence from us.

10. In general, user data is saved until we receive cancellations from you, or until any applicable statutory time limits have expired. You can query the data we have saved about you at any time and request us to carry out changes or deletion of the data. You should note the contact data provided by the website or visit www.epson-europe.com to contact the appropriate website for your country.

Epson does not hand over any user data (personal or optional data) to third parties unless Epson is acting in the belief that this is legally necessary or is necessary to protect Epson's rights or property.

At the time of transmitting this data to an Epson website you can specify distributors so that you can receive information (via e-mail and post) from us (or our partners). Any e-mail or posted correspondence which we send you always contains instructions about how to remove yourself from the distributor list if you no longer wish to receive e-mail messages or posted correspondence from us.

13. As we have already mentioned, it is your decision to hold information back; this can, however, restrict our facilities for offering you particular services or personal content In the Epson form for e-mail registration you must, for example, state contact data (such as your e-mail address), demographic information (such as postcode and age) and information about use of Epson products.

14. Cookies are information about a website user which are saved on the user's computer. Access is made to these cookies during any future visits to a website. There are two types of cookies: cookies which are saved for the current sitting, and permanent cookies. Cookies for the current sitting are only saved in the working memory, i.e. when you close your browser the cookie will be deleted. Permanent cookies, however, remain on your computer.

Any data recorded by Epson for improvement of the content and use of our websites uses cookies which are only recorded for the current sitting. Permanent cookies are only used in the Epson Store so that we can display appropriate content and save time during any future visits to the website. You can delete or block cookies in your browser. If you do not wish to use cookies, close the website you are currently visiting.

15. You have the facility to remove yourself from distributor lists for information and services provided by Epson. In this case, your data will be completely deleted from our database. You should note the contact data provided by the website or visit www.epson-europe.com to contact the appropriate website for your country.

16. Procedural methods for protection against loss, misuse or changes to data under Epson's control.

Epson guarantees that information will only be made available to the user who initially transmitted it, our authorised partners, and Epson itself. These partners are in agreement with Epson's data protection guidelines and apply any data protection laws applicable in Europe.

Epson websites contain links to other websites which are not subsidiaries of Epson. These websites have their own guidelines and regulations for online data protection, and Epson can accept no responsibility for the data protection regulations or the contents of such websites which do not belong to Epson. It may occur, in a few cases, that you are asked to give personal data for Epson advertising. Epson accepts no responsibility for the data protection used by advertising customers. Epson does, however, require its partners and advertising customers to apply data protection regulations which fulfil local legal requirements.

19. If you use any connected websites, Epson accepts absolutely no liability for losses or damages, including content, services, updates, changes or usage conditions/data protection guidelines of such connected websites, irrespective of their cause. Any access you make to connected websites takes place at your own risk.

Epson feels obliged to guarantee the safety of your user data and does not hand your user data over to third parties except, as described in this data protection guideline, in such cases in which Epson is allowed to hand personal and/or optional data over to third parties:

(a) if Epson has your agreement for the handing over of information

(b) if Epson is forced to hand over customer information by current laws, court orders or other legal processes

(c) if such disclosure of personal and/or optional data is necessary for the protection of Epson's rights and ownership

(d) if such disclosure of personal and/or optional data is necessary in order to offer suitable service performances to Epson's end user customers including yourself

21. Unauthorised access for disclosure is avoided by the fact that Epson guarantees to save your personal and/or optional data on a secure server which only authorised third parties can access.

22. Please read all additional usage conditions on any Epson websites.

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