Starting May 25, 2018, Regulation 2016/679 / EU on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and the Free Movement of such Data (the "Regulation" or "GDPR") will be applied in all EU Member States. The Privacy Policy on Personal Data Processing ("Data Processing Policy" or "Policy"), presented below, is intended to inform you about the way we collect, use, transfer and protect your personal data when interact with us about our products and services, including our website www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de ("website") or the applications available on your mobile phone. We reserve the right to periodically update and modify this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes in the way we process personal data or any changes to our legal requirements. In the event of any such change, we will display on our website the modified version of the Privacy Policy, which is why we ask you to periodically review the content of this Privacy Policy page.

EPM ("EPM" or "Operator" or "We"), E-P-M America Consulting Inc. EIN: 88-0640159 is the operator of your data and the entity that provides you through www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de. For any questions or concerns about this Policy, how EPM processes your data or your rights, you can contact us at info@ep-m.com.

Personal data means any data or information that helps us identify you directly (for example, your name, surname) or indirectly (for example, depending on the profile we create for personalized offers). Certain information is less obvious (such as your browsing preferences and habits, your computer's IP), but associated with your person, helps us to identify and circumvent the notion of "personal data." The purpose of data collection is to analyze the behavior of online navigation, advertising, marketing and advertising, electronic communications services. The personal data entered by the user of the website will be used by EPM only for the stated purpose of the www.ep-m.com and ep-m.de site. All the information provided is collected only when you provide it, the pages that request this information are encrypted through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - a cryptographic protocol that allows secure internet communications. You are not required to provide personal data, which is primarily required for the processing of orders placed on our site with secondary purposes specified above. The possible refusal to provide us with the required data determines our inability to provide the required services.

EPM's policy is to collect and process only the data we need to give you the most enjoyable experience when you browse the website. We can also collect and then process certain information about your behavior while you visit the website, personalize your online experience, and make offers tailored to your profile. Generally, we process the following types of data about you: name, surname, email address, phone number.

On our website we can store and collect information in cookies and similar technologies, according to the Cookie Policy presented below. We do not collect or otherwise process sensitive data included in the General Data Protection Regulation in special categories of personal data. We also do not want to collect or process data of minors under the age of 18.

Marketing

In order to provide you with information of interest to you, we may use certain data about your browsing behavior (e.g., Viewed Pages) to create a profile. We always ensure that such processing is done with respect for your rights and freedoms and that decisions taken thereon have no legal effect on you and do not affect you to a significant extent. In certain situations, we can base our marketing activities on our legitimate interest in promoting and developing our commercial activity. In any situation where we use information about you for our legitimate interest, we take care and take all necessary measures to ensure that your fundamental rights and freedoms are not affected. However, you may at any time request us, by the means described below, to stop processing your personal data for marketing purposes, following your request. We also use the personalized audience Facebook service created using your pixel data on the website. With this service offered by Facebook, We and Google can identify that you clicked on our Facebook ad and you were redirected to www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de. The data collected by Facebook serves exclusively to produce statistics on the success and use of our Facebook advertising campaigns. More about personalizing personalized Facebook offers by using personalized customer-based audience service on goals, how Facebook collects and processes your personal data, and privacy settings on Facebook, you can see the Facebook Help Center for Promoters in the Privacy Policy of Facebook. If you have opted in to subscribe to the newsletter, your email address will be used by our system to ship this service. You can always unsubscribe from receiving your newsletter or modify your subscription data by visiting the links in any newsletter you receive. EPM sends newsletter mail only to subscribers using the subscription option from www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de by entering the email address to receive newsletters. By subscribing to the newsletter, you agree to receive monthly newsletter emails until the time you unsubscribe.

Behavior for online advertising

Based on your surfing and behavior on the cookie-monitored website, we will provide you with online advertisements on some of our services that may interest you. If you do not want to participate in cookie tracking for the purpose of submitting online banners based on your interests, you can refuse the setting of a cookie in this way by setting the browser that generally disables the automatic module setting cookie. You can also disable cookies for the browser services of a browser service provider (such as Google) by setting your browser so that the domain's cookies are blocked. When you visit www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de, we also collect cookies and data from your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use ("the device") with which we can identify you online ("identifiers online "), and that we use for profiling for direct marketing purposes: IP Address; The internet browser you are using and the operating system version of your device; HHTP / HTTPS protocol data; Duration of your visit / activity on the website www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de. The general location of the device (if geo-location is enabled) from which you connect to the website www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de. (Please note that most devices give you the option to disable geo-location services from the settings of that device) ("Cookies" - are files that a server sends to your device, placed on the website, or by downloading / using the mobile application. The purpose and way we process cookies are detailed in the Cookies Policy, available below).

Protect our legitimate interests

There may be situations in which we use or transmit information to protect our rights and commercial activity.
These may include:
- Measures to protect the website and users of the platform www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de against cyber-attacks.
- Measures to prevent and detect fraud attempts, including the transmission of information to competent public authorities.
- Measures to manage various other risks.
The general focus of these types of processing is our legitimate interest in defending our commercial activity, being understood that we ensure that all the measures we take guarantee a balance between our interests and your fundamental rights and freedoms.

We ensure that access to your data by third parties private legal entities is carried out in accordance with the legal provisions on data protection and confidentiality of information, based on contracts concluded with them. As the case may be, we may transmit or give access to certain personal data to the following categories of recipients:
- Courier service providers.
- Marketing service providers.
- The provider that provides data storage services.
We may transmit some of your personal data to competent authorities or institutions when required by law (e.g. investigating fraud, preventing money laundering, filing statements, financial statements with tax authorities, etc.), or we can forward this data to the courts when we defend ourselves, or before other public authorities. In order to offer you personalized services to your interests and preferences, we process some data with some partners that help us address your customized offers, such as: processing Facebook data to personalize your targeted advertisements with the customized customer audiences, or data processing to deliver personalized online behavioral advertising with Google AdWords. The way that Facebook or Google processes your data is presented in the table in this Data Processing Policy. If we decide to alienate our EPM business or business in the future, we will provide access or send our clients' data to our auditors and potential buyer consultants for auditing the acquisition of the stock / business. For this purpose, we will ensure that any potential buyer will track and implement the security measures necessary to protect your data, and the parties will first sign a data processing agreement for the purpose of the transaction.

We are committed to ensuring the security of personal data by implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures, according to industry standards. Transmission of your personal data is done using state-of-the-art encryption algorithms and stored on secure servers while ensuring data redundancy. Despite the steps taken to protect personal data, we would point out that the transmission of information via the Internet in general or through other public networks is not completely secure, with the risk that data may be seen and used by unauthorized third parties. We cannot be responsible for such vulnerabilities of systems that are not under our control.

EPM is at your disposal for any queries, clarifications or any details you may need regarding this Data Processing Policy. You can also contact us for any suggestions or comments about this Policy or how we collect and use your data by email at info@ep-m.com

External links

www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de may contain links to other sites. We do not take responsibility for the privacy policies of other sites, the above policy only applies to the information we collect on www.ep-m.com and www.ep-m.de

Changes to privacy policy

EPM reserves the right at any time to revise or modify the privacy policy, to change the site, including removing or interrupting the continuity of site content or specifications, restricting availability times, or limiting permitted use. Privacy Policy may be changed by EPM at any time by publishing the modified policy on the site without prior notice.

Effective: February 24, 2023