PRIVACY POLICY OF ATARAXIA
The protection of your data shared with us remains our ultimate concern. This notification on preserving your privacy informs you on data processing in any case that Ataraxia collects your data. This applies to the collected information with regard to:
- Visitors in our website that do not register with any of our platforms;
- Visitors that register and share their personal data with Ataraxia;
- Visitors that receive our services by selling, buying, asking for estimates as well as other services provided by Ataraxia.
The following Privacy Policy is guaranteed from Ataraxia. We report to the Commissioner of the Right to Information and Data Protection in the Republic of Albania (“the Commissioner”) for the implementation of all primary law and secondary legislation with regard to data protection.
- Visitors in our website that do not register with any of our platforms
By means of the official website, Ataraxia transmits and collects information as part of its object of activity as an intermediate agent between buyers and sellers of arts and collectibles.
With regard to the visitors of https://ataraxia-auctionhouse.com/, the system gathers standard information which is related to articles or sections in this website. This information is collected for statistical purposes and research (to identify visitor’s interests) as well as for security reasons. We collect this information safely in order to not identify any visitor. We do not make any effort to reveal visitors’ identity in our website. We certainly preserve the collected information of the visitor, and never share the collected information with third parties, other than with our service providers (e.g. lawyers, webmaster), which maintain the same data protection obligations. The administrators of Ataraxia do not use (and do not allow any third party to use) any analytic statistical means in order to follow or collect personal information making visitors identifiable. We do not link any collected data by this website with any personal data identifying the visitor by any source, as part of our usage.
The search engine in our internet website is designed to be strong and easy to use as in the search of Google. The search is enabled by a hardware (search application) being sustained by Google, which is closed in our sever and indexes continuously the content in our website. All search requests dealt by the application and information is not accessible to any third party including Google.
- Visitors that register and share their personal data with Ataraxia
In these cases, we collect information personally identifiable through our internet website. When a user fills a Registration Form, it is registered in our databases. The webmaster and administration of the system, as well as any employee of the Company having access in the databases has previously signed the declaration of confidentiality and is informed on the Company’s code of ethics, as well as with the regulations on the data management and privacy, approved by the Commissioner.
We use the collected personal data only for the processes related to the level of services we provide. We compile and statistics reflecting information such as the number of Registered users for internal purposes only, by always preserving individuals’ identification, and do not publish such data.
We obtain personal data which are included at complaints records in compliance with the law and our policy of protection of personal data. They are stored in a safe environment and access is restricted.
- Visitors that receive our services by selling, buying, asking for estimates as well as other services provided by Ataraxia
In order to successfully provide our services, we collect a more sensitive information during the registration for auctions or other services, such as selling, buying, estimates, or other services of Ataraxia. We use details of provided data and store them with the intention to provide services to the subject also in cases requested by the latter for other related purposes. For example, when we answer to a person whom previously requested information on a estimate, we may use his/her data to provide the service only. The data, processed automatically (due to computer system of notification-registration) and manually (due to legal requests and administrative procedures), are restricted regarding the access that have several employees, as well as preserving confidentiality on these data is guaranteed by the law.
This information may contain personal data of individuals being tasked by the controllers for fulfilling this obligation aiming authentication of declaration and holding contacts intending conclusion of legal agreements with Ataraxia. The Bank information duly collected shall be used this for the purposes of fulfilling the written agreements only. We do not disclose these data but Ataraxia reserves the right to verify the provided information with the relevant Bank or other official authorities only.
Ataraxia does not share information with third parties without the prior written approval of the owner of these data. The information is a valuable asset. The continuous work of controllers is based upon their integrity and continuous availability. Thus, steps should be taken to protect information by unauthorized use, change, disclosure or rectification, whether occasional or by purpose. Ataraxia is committed to secure the use of information and data of technology systems aiming to preserve integrity and confidentiality of information at its control. Ataraxia uses a risk based approach during assessment and understanding of risks also uses all physic means of personnel, technical and procedural to attain the appropriate security measures. We take into account technology developments and implementation costs to attain an appropriate security level for the nature of information and damage that may result by a security breach. The personnel of Ataraxia is submitted to the obligation to preserve confidentiality of information which is given to the latter to exercise its functions under the law and may disclose it only to official authorities for legal purposes only. Ataraxia offers guides and trainings to its personnel to enable them to understand and enforce their responsibilities in respecting security. Ataraxia assesses employees’ integrity before they are hired and monitors their compliance on their obligations with security.
Any person may revoke its registration at any time and in such cases, the data shall be permanently deleted.
