Privacy Statement
The privacy of every one of our customers is important to The Empire Property Group.

Public Areas of The Empire Property Group Website
Anyone may visit the public area of The Empire Property Group website www.theempirepropertygroup.com without disclosing personal data (name, address etc.). Personal data is only requested by The Empire Property Group if it is needed to optimize the services provided to you. The purpose of collecting personal data is to make it possible to provide you with additional information, if required, on specific topics, also by eMail. The objective is also to make it easier for you to use our services and purchase products from The Empire Property Group website.

Protected Areas of The Empire Property Group Website
Only registered users are permitted to access the password-protected area, i.e. The Empire Property Group Development Details.
The Empire Property Group treats personal data provided by you online according to the principles enumerated below.

1. Disclosure and Transparency
The privacy statement explains how The Empire Property Group treats personal data and informs you about The Empire Property Group's data protection policy. Customers can make relevant inquiries, obtain specific information and order services and/or purchase products at The Empire Property Group websites. To be able to supply such services, The Empire Property Group needs information about your identity, how to contact you and information to make the transactions possible. It is The Empire Property Group´s aim to constantly improve the present websites and to orient its products and services to customers' requirements. To help us to achieve this aim we ask you to voluntarily supply us with detailed information about your field of work and activities, information about what you expect from and your assessment of The Empire Property Group products and services, your general opinion of how The Empire Property Group websites are developing and the possibility of our contacting you.

2. Intended Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small file which is written to your hard disk by certain websites that you visit. A cookie can only contain the personal information that you yourself have volunteered. Under no circumstances are cookies able to read hard disks or to read cookies written to your hard disk by other sites. The Empire Property Group uses cookies to modify the services and products on offer at The Empire Property Group websites to match your needs and to structure its content so that you can get the best out of it. We use information derived from cookies to improve the navigation structure of The Empire Property Group websites and optimize their user-friendliness. A large part of The Empire Property Group websites may also be viewed without cookies. The Empire Property Group only uses cookies when absolutely necessary. You can set your browsers to prevent cookies from being stored. You can also set your browser to notify you before cookies are received or you can turn off cookies permanently. Cookies that have been stored can be deleted at any time. Files containing cookies are usually stored in your browser directory.

3. Service-Oriented Data Processing and Use
Your data is processed and used by The Empire Property Group to help us to provide you with the best possible service to meet your needs. We use your data, for example, to help us to process transactions that you have requested, to pass on information about The Empire Property Group products and services and to further improve our website. Your credit card information will only be used in conjunction with payments and will neither be stored nor processed for any other purpose. The Empire Property Group may send you information on products and/or services and ask for your opinion on The Empire Property Group's development work. In agreeing to this Privacy Statement, you also expressly agree to being sent this kind information but you always have the option at any time of refusing it. You can also decline such inquiries and information in the future. To do so, please contact us by eMail at info@theempirepropertygroup.com. The Empire Property Group will then make every endeavor to ensure that no further information is sent to you. Furthermore, every user can stipulate in advance that no such inquiries and information are to be sent.

4. Passing on Data
Any personal data that you provide online to The Empire Property Group websites will basically only be passed on to other The Empire Property Group Affiliates and/or business partners if deemed appropriate according to the principles outlined above. In such situations, by accepting this Privacy Statement, you expressly agree to the transfer of that data to any country where the scope of the data protection may differ from that of the country of the access-authorized user. In any other situation personal data will only be passed on to third parties after securing your prior consent or if we are required by law to do so. The Empire Property Group Affiliates and/or business partners are bound by the Data Protection Policy and Confidentiality Agreements in the same way as The Empire Property Group itself. Data provided by you online may also be linked to information passed on by The Empire Property Group when services or products are ordered.

5. Preliminary Information Subject to Consent
Under no circumstances will personal data that you provide online be used in any other way than that described here unless we inform you first and obtain your consent. That applies in particular to the possibility allowed for in certain The Empire Property Group Services of disclosing the names of Administrators and people with access authorizations, and also of creating directories containing the names of contacts within a customer company.

6. Update, Information and Amendment
The Empire Property Group strives to ensure that personal date is constantly kept up to date and accurate. You can inform The Empire Property Group of alterations to your personal data at any time or request your stored data to be deleted. To do so, please contact us by eMail at info@theempirepropertygroup.com. The data will then be updated and amended accordingly. If you wish The Empire Property Group will send you by email the personal data that you submitted to us when you registered at The Empire Property Group website.

7. Data Security
The Empire Property Group makes every effort using the latest state of the art to protect personal data against accidental and illegal destruction and loss. The Empire Property Group endeavours to ensure that such data is used in a proper manner and to protect it from unauthorised access.

8. Data Confidentiality
The Empire Property Group personnel are under obligation to maintain data confidentiality even after termination of their employment relationship.

9. Further Development and Data Protection
The The Empire Property Group Data Protection Policy is based on our absolute commitment to actively protecting data and maintaining data confidentiality. The Empire Property Group regards continuous development and improvement of its data protection standards as an indispensable component of a successful data protection policy.

November 29th, 2006