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PRIVACY POLICY

culture- images collects certain personal information from users of this site. We believe that knowledge is the key to monitoring and protecting how your information is used on the Internet. This statement sets forth culture-images' Privacy Policy and describes the practice culture-images follows with respect to all visitors to this site.

Personal information
Guests are required to provide certain personal information in order to access images, and registered users must provide certain contact and account information in order to access and download images. culture- images uses this information for internal purposes (to process your order and any invoices, to maintain or update your culture- images account, or to send you updates about special offers, new services, special promotions, and noteworthy news and events). culture- images does not sell or rent information about its customers to third parties.

culture- images may share contact information with its partners or affiliates to enable them to provide you with special benefits, promotions, or offers from either culture- images or its affiliates and its partners.

Your profile information (such as age and gender) in the registration form is used by culture- images to create personalized content, services, and advertising on the culture-images website. culture- images may also profile your Web site activity in order to accurately track your account and provide you with culture- images products and services that correspond to your interests. culture- images may also compile data in aggregate form so that we may better understand the users that are visiting our site. For example, we may produce reports on the most popular search terms by collecting general search term data based on individual searches. Aggregate data is anonymous and does not contain any personal information that identifies a user.

Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use this site unsupervised and we ask that children do not register for an account or submit any personal information to us. By using this site unsupervised, and/or registering for an account, you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.

Security
culture- images has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. However, perfect security on the internet does not exist, and culture- images does not warrant that its site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers.


Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States .

In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

As an alternative to the browser Addon or within browsers on mobile devices, you can click the following link in order to opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics within this website in the future (the opt-out applies only for the browser in which you set it and within this domain). An opt-out cookie will be stored on your device, which means that you'll have to click this link again, if you delete your cookies: Deactivate Google Analytics

Links
Please be aware that the culture- images website may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. culture- images is not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites, and we encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site.

If you have any questions about culture- images' privacy policy, please contact culture- images Customer Service at:

contact@culture-images.com