Privacy and Cookie Policy

Terms and conditions Privacy Policy

 dFindar.com understands the importance that must be given to protecting personal data and our Privacy Policy applies to all members and visitors. We collect data when you use our services so that we can offer you a personalised and relevant experience, allowing you to grow your network and offer you new business opportunities. The rules outlined below apply to all services offered by dFindar.com on all the different language versions of the https://dfindar.com/ website.

In order to offer the best protection of data concerning an identified or identifiable person collected on the dfindar.com website, our company applies a strict policy for protecting personal data, including enforcing high security standards for all information registered into our database.

Commission

There are no registration fees associated with becoming a member of dFindar platform. A commission system is designed for vendors at a rate of 5%. Commission is only deducted when a purchase is made by a customer from a registered vendor. Commission system can be negotiated by vendors and can be differentiated per category.

  1. Gathering your personal data

1.1 The company dFindar Company is responsible for processing the data.

When browsing the https://dfindar.com/ website, certain personal data is automatically generated.
This electronic identification data comprises:

  • connection data: the IP address of the User’s computer, the type and version of browser programme, the URL address visited and the version consulted;
  • usage data: keywords types, search(es) carried out, sectors, fields and headings selected.

1.2 Other personal data may be communicated voluntarily by the User to dFindar.

This concerns:

  • data used to fill in online forms;
  • data provided to receive alerts;
  • data communicated during online surveys.

1.3 Creating an account and online subscriptions

To create an account with dFidnar.com, you have to tell us your first name, last name and email address and agree to our Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy, which governs the way in which we process your personal data.

By providing us with personal data when you create or modify your account and your profile, you expressly and voluntarily agree to our Terms and Conditions of Use and freely consent to our processing of your personal data in compliance with the terms described in this Privacy Policy. Providing us with any information deemed ‘sensitive’ by applicable law is entirely voluntary on your part.

If you have any reservations about providing information to us or having such information displayed on our services or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use, you should not become a member and should cease to visit our websites.

1.4 Activity and session information

We may be led to store data concerning your use of our services, such as your searches, the pages you visit, the data and time of your visit and the companies you contact on the dFindar website.

1.5 Communications

When you sign up for an account or to use certain functions, you choose or agree by default to receive messages from other dFindar users, companies and the dFindar site itself.

Members can send requests for information to the companies listed on the site. If you choose to send a request for information using the contact forms on the dfindar.com website, your personal data, including your email address and any other information you provide, will be visible to the company contacted.

In addition, these messages may be stored, processed, or transferred by our servers.

When required, we may view messages sent via our platform. We may also occasionally use third-party email servers to send and monitor the reception of messages containing requests for information and analyze the usage patterns provided by third-party monitoring systems.

If you represent a company listed on dFindar, we may contact you, including by telephone or email, using the details that you provide us with, that you make publicly accessible or that we have recorded for your establishment.

  1. Use of your personal data

dFindar does not sell or rent personal data that it collects on the www.dfindar.com website.

2.1 dFindar undertakes to process personal data gathered on its www.dfindar.com website in accordance with the following specific aims:

  • general operation of the dfindar.com website;
  • operation of services for registered or subscribed Users;
  • gathering and transmitting administrative information;
  • compiling statistics on traffic, use, and surveys;
  • collecting and replying to suggestions or requests for information;
  • communication security;

We communicate with you via email and other available means. We may send you emails concerning the availability of services, security, and other services-related questions.

We may also send you promotional emails to the email address you have provided to us upon registration.

Communications include:

  1. Welcome and other communications explaining how best to use our services and informing you about new functions;
  2. Services communications, covering availability, security and other questions concerning how our services work;
  3. Promotional communications: emails that may contain promotional information, new features, etc. on dFindar or on behalf of our partners.

In any event, dFindar will only use your personal data for canvassing operations or other purposes that have no direct relation with our services in full compliance with legislation in effect with regard to personal data and privacy.

2.2 Third parties

  1. Advertisers

We may allow third parties to use the cookies on the dFindar website to collect the same type of information as dFindar for the same purposes. Third parties may be able to link the information they collect with other information about you they have obtained from different sources.

Moreover, we may provide third parties with information about you or from you that does not allow you to be identified personally, including data on your position and advertising identifiers, in order to improve the display of targeted advertising. You may be able to limit our communication of this information via the parameters of your mobile device or browser.

  1. Browsing statistics

We may provide third parties with information on users in the form of browsing statistics, including advertisers and content distributors.

  1. Commercial and statutory data transmission

dFindar reserves the right to disclose the personal data that it collects in the following cases:

  • Transmission of certain personal data to trustworthy sub-contractors and partners in order to provide certain functionalities of the www.dfindar.com website;
  • Transmission of requests for information to its commercial partners;
  1. Companies listed on dFindar

We may communicate information from or about you (such as your first name, last name, and email address) and concerning your device or use of our services (for example, companies you visit or contact) with the companies present on dFindar.

Do not forget that companies can see your profile when you contact them and receive information on your visits to their pages. If you visit a company’s page, we may communicate information on your visit, including the date and time of the visit and your first name, last name, email address, and company name.

2.4 dFindar reserves the right to contact user companies, those registered in the free listing or members, in order to offer them new products or propose new business offers. If a User does not want to receive these proposals and/or business offers, then that User may unsubscribe via an active link featured in each message.

  1. Security of your personal data

DFindar uses several types of technology to guarantee the security and confidentiality of personal data recorded on its servers. All data relating to its Users are processed on servers that are protected by firewalls against external intrusions. Strict rules of access are applied in order to prevent non-authorized access, loss, improper use, and modification of the stored personal data.

  1. Using cookies

Users are informed of the installation of cookies on their browser. The cookie stores all website browsing information. These data are useful in improving the functionality and usability of the site. Refusal of use may hinder optimal navigation on the site. dFindar informs users of their right to oppose the registration of cookies by disabling this feature on their browser. More information is available regarding cookie data under the Cookies heading. 

  1. Unsubscribing – Contacts

5.1 Any User of the www.dfindar.com website may object to the processing of their personal data

If a User receives an e-mail or letter that they do not wish to receive, they may:

  • either request that they no longer receive messages by clicking on the link “I no longer wish to receive e-mails” provided for this purpose in the message;
  • or contact dFindar.

5.2 Any registered or subscribed company benefits from direct online access to all the personal data that has been gathered concerning them. Such a company may, at any time, have access to the information given during their registration or subscription by logging into their dFindar account.

5.3 Any User of the website and any company registered in the free listing or a member that wishes to contact dFindar pursuant to their rights mentioned in this article may do so by:

  • either sending an e-mail to: contact@dfindar.com
  • or calling via; +1868-769-1126 or +1868-769-1810
  1. Application of these rules – Assignment of jurisdiction

6.1 dFindar personal data protection policy does not apply to:

  • Websites independent from the www.dfindar.com website that have established a hyperlink or search block directing Users to service offers;
  • Websites working in partnership with www.dfindar.com that have integrated one of the services on their website (co-branding);
  • Websites working in partnership with www.dfindar.com that are accessible through integration in one of the offered services (co-branded websites);

dFindar, therefore, advises its Users to consult the data protection policies applied by these different websites.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

For the exhaustive list of cookies, we collect see the List of cookies we collect section.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by letting us know using our Contact Us information

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us this request using our Contact Us information.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

Cookie Name Cookie Description
FORM_KEY Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.
PHPSESSID Your session ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW Allows guests to view and edit their orders.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this.
STF Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
MAGE-CACHE-SESSID Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
SECTION-DATA-IDS Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
X-MAGENTO-VARY Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION Facilitates translation of content to other languages.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE Facilitates translation of content to other languages.