Privacy Notice (GDPR)

ARCHIVED 2023-11-13, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20231113_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20230207_rev01

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 . **Registration**
 When you register and create an account on our website, we collect information about you, including your name, date of birth, gender, email address and telephone number. If you choose to register using your existing social network profile, we collect information from your profile, including (but not limited to) nickname, avatar (photo), gender, date of birth, profile ID or URL. Users may edit their profile at any time to change, add, or remove certain personal information, except date of birth and gender.
 . **Your correspondence with Litnet**
+If you correspond with us by email, the postal service, or other form of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it and use it to respond to your inquiry, or to keep a record of your complaint, accommodation request, and the like. If you wish to have Litnet "erase" your personal information or otherwise refrain from communicating with you, please contact us at support@lit-era.com.
+If you correspond with us by email, the postal service, or other form of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it and use it to respond to your inquiry, or to keep a record of your complaint, accommodation request, and the like. If you wish to have Litnet "erase" your personal information or otherwise refrain from communicating with you, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
 . **Purposes for processing your data**
 As explained above, Litnet processes your data in order to enhance your experience on our website and to provide you with the services you have requested from us. By creating an account, you get access to additional features, such as ability to save books to your personal library, receive notifications about new content, purchase or publish books, follow your favourite authors, access mature content, and more.
 . **Payment card information**
 **Data subject rights**
 **Summary:**
 The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and other countries' privacy laws provide certain rights for data subjects.
+This Privacy Notice is intended to provide you with information about what personal data Litnet collects about you and how it is used. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@lit-era.com.
+This Privacy Notice is intended to provide you with information about what personal data Litnet collects about you and how it is used. If you have any questions, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
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+If you wish to confirm that Litnet is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data Litnet may have about you, please contact us at support@lit-era.com.
+If you wish to confirm that Litnet is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data Litnet may have about you, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
 You may also request information about: the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside Litnet might have received the data from Litnet; what the source of the information was (if you didn't provide it directly to Litnet); and how long it will be stored. You have a right to correct (rectify) the record of your personal data maintained by Litnet if it is inaccurate. You may request that Litnet erase that data or cease processing it, subject to certain exceptions. In many countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how Litnet processes your personal data. When technically feasible, Litnet will-at your request-provide your personal data to you or transmit it directly to another controller, subject to certain exceptions.
+Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost upon request made to Litnet at support@lit-era.com . If access cannot be provided within a reasonable time frame, Litnet will provide you with a date when the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, Litnet will provide an explanation as to why access has been denied.
+Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost upon request made to Litnet at [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) . If access cannot be provided within a reasonable time frame, Litnet will provide you with a date when the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, Litnet will provide an explanation as to why access has been denied.
 **Lawful basis for processing**
 We process your information for the purposes described in this notice, based on the following legal grounds:
 . ### When we're pursuing legitimate interests
 **Security of your information**
 To help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of our website, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. We commit to taking appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce our employees' privacy responsibilities.
 **Data storage and retention**
+Your personal data is stored by Litnet on dedicated server(s) located in Germany. Litnet retains data for the duration of the customer's relationship with Litnet, plus additional six months. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact us at support@lit-era.com.
+Your personal data is stored by Litnet on dedicated server(s) located in Germany. Litnet retains data for the duration of the customer's relationship with Litnet, plus additional six months. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact us at [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
 **Changes and updates to the Privacy Notice**
 By using Litnet.com, you agree to the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Notice and/or any other agreement that we might have with you. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, you should not use this site or any Litnet services.
 As our organization, membership and benefits change from time to time, this Privacy Notice is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Notice at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Notice on this site. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and terms and conditions and will email users of material changes thereto, but you should check our site frequently to see the current Privacy Notice that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices and the terms and conditions that govern the use of this Site.
 , Larnaca, Cyprus
 HE 370604
 Telephone number: +359 877 888 300
+Email: support@lit-era.com
+Email: [\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)
 **Data Protection Officer:**
 **Boris Makarenkov**
+support@lit-era.com
+[\[email protected\]](https://litnet.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)