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Privacy Statement 

 Your privacy is very important to us

This statement applies to all services that are hosted on our Web site www.all-about-dvd.com and is effective as of August, 9, 2003. All employees are required to abide by this policy.
Our privacy policy covers:

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About element 5 

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of organizations such as element 5 which operate on an international level. Based in Cologne, Germany, our principal activity is Electronic Software Distribution Services.

Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organize and implement our activities on-line and off-line.

Our main purpose in collecting and using your personal information is to fulfill your request/ order.
We share personal data about our Web sites’ users only with our subsidiary, which also maintain our security policies.

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone else unless:

- We have your consent to share the information;

- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, levy, attachments, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our users, or others.You can access our Web site home page and browse our sites without disclosing personal data. We collect, store and process your E-mail address only to send you the requested information by e-mail and to process our service. We collect personal data that you provide upon registration, order, survey, competition, or other forms as well as by e-mail.

We may 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.

Please note: Personal Data is information that can be used directly or indirectly to identify a living individual. These personal data include information like your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Information that does not have any relation to your real personality (e.g. often-visited Web sites or numbers of users of one site) do not have the meaning of personal data.

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Links 

Our Web sites include links to third party Web sites that are governed by their own privacy statements, and we are not responsible for their operations, including but not limited to their information practices. Users submitting information to or through these third party Web sites should review the privacy statement of these sites before providing them with personally identifiable information.

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Cookies 

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive a warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site; however, you may be limited in the usage of certain special features.
We store the following information in cookies: session information (session ID, random key). All set session cookies are temporary; once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates after one hour of non-usage.

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Electronic Newsletters 

You will receive promotional or marketing information from our Web sites if you choose to do so. We provide you the opportunity to opt-in and opt-out of receiving promotional or marketing information from us. The opt-in is made available during sign-up for your order and on our Web pages. The only required information is your e-mail address. If you submit your request you will receive an E-mail from us. Here we kindly ask you to confirm your registration, by clicking a link. By completing this step, you are confirming to us that you wish to regularly receive the software newsletter and that you were not signed up by someone else without your knowledge.
You may remove yourself from or mailing list by following the instructions contained in every newsletter. Once you opt-out, you will no longer receive further promotional or marketing information.
You can correct your e-mail address at any time before you submit your query. If your e-mail address changes and you want to correct it we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update and remove your personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by contacting privacy@element5.de .

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Notification of Changes 

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on in this area of our Web site. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy practices have changed. We will provide the new policy on our web server and additionally we will provide a link to the old privacy statement. Your continued usage of our server will mean you accept those changes.

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