Privacy Policy


Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for Gefura’s Website

Privacy Policy

Gefura Inc. (“Gefura”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to ensure that your privacy is secured and protected. We respect your right to know what personal information we collect from you, how we use them, and with whom we share the information. This Privacy Policy also describes the security measures we undertake to protect your information and how you can communicate with us regarding your privacy concerns.

This Privacy Policy shall govern your use and access of the Website and of the services therein. The term Website pertains to the website operated and/or owned by Gefura, including the mobile versions and mobile applications made available by us, if any. By continuing to access or use our Website or any of the services therein, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

What personal data we collect,why we collect them, and how we use the information

1. Registration and Access Data

If you access the Website, or register therein, we store your personal information (your name, email address, mobile number, company, position, etc.) and any additional personal information you provide us. We also collect and process relevant data on your access and use of the Website, including your IP address and the type of web browser that you are using.

The information that we collect will be stored in our database and administrators will access the information for the purpose of giving feedback to website visitors.

We may use these pieces of information to profile interest in our solutions as well as in order to contact and designate you as needed for particular purposes. We may also use your personal information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.

2. Contact forms

Information submitted through the contact form on the Website is sent to our company email.

a. Cookies

If you leave a comment on the Website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one (1) year.

If you have an account and you log in to the Website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article on the Website, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

b. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on the Website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content on the Website that are from other websites, which may operate independently from us, behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited these other websites.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

3. Comments

When you leave comments on the Website, we collect the data you provide in the comments form, and also the your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

4. Media

If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format)refers to a standard that specifies the formats for images anddata that might include:

      • Latitude and longitude coordinates for the location where the photo was taken;

      • Camera settings like ISO speed, shutter speed, focal length, aperture, white balance, and lens type;

      • The make and model of the camera;

      • The date and time the photo was taken; and

      • The name and build of all programs used to view or edit the photo.

With whom we share or transfer information

We do not sell or otherwise disclose or transfer personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may share, transfer or disclose your personal information with subsidiaries and affiliates, third party service providers who perform services based on our instructions (who are authorized to use or disclose your personal information only as may be necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements), other third parties with your consent, and other third parties as allowed and limited by Republic Act No. 10173, its implementing rules and regulations, other data privacy laws, and such issuances from the National Privacy Commission.

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information, so as not to unnecessarily disrupt our transactions with you, in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. We will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use and process your personal information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose information that is necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. In addition, we may disclose any information when it is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with suspected or actual illegal activity

Where and how long we store and retain your data

We store and process your personal information in our facilities located in [location]. We shall comply with the applicable laws and regulations should we transfer the storage and/or processing thereof outside the country. Only our authorized personnel are granted access to personal information we collect. Personal information collected via the internet or other electronic methods is stored in a secure IT infrastructure, while physical records of personal information are stored in locked filing cabinets.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on the Website, we  store the personal information they provide in their user profile until necessary for business, tax, or legal purposes. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

You are responsible for the accuracy and correctness of any personal information you provide to us, as well as for the consequences of disclosing your personal information to us and failure to provide the accurate, correct and updated personal information.

You have the right to be informed, to access, to object, to erasure or blocking, to damages, to file a complaint, to rectify, and to data portability in relation to the personal information which you provided and which we collected and stored, in accordance with the conditions and requirements under the existing rules and regulations.

If you have an account on the Website, or have left comments on the Website, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Requests may be sent to this e-mail address: [insert email]

Should you wish to obtain a hard copy or printout of such personal information, any and all costs related thereto shall be for your own account.

Protection of information

We have in place reasonable and appropriate organizational, technical and physical security measures designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal information you provide and we collect.

Terms of Use

Website Terms of Use (“Terms”)

Version 1.0

The Gefura, Inc. (the “Company”) website located at www.gefura.com (the “Site”) is a copyrighted work belonging to Gefura, Inc. Certain features of the Site may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules, which will be posted on the Site in connection with such features.

All such additional terms, guidelines, and rules are incorporated by reference into these Terms.

These Terms describe the legally binding terms and conditions that oversee your use of the Site as visitor and user. BY USING, ACCESSING, or LOGGING INTO THE SITE, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU AGREE WITH ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN AND UNDERTAKE TO FULLY COMPLY, and you represent that you have the authority and capacity to enter into these Terms. YOU SHOULD BE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE TO ACCESS THE SITE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY OR ALL OF THE PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT ACCESS, LOG INTO AND/OR USE OR CONTINUE TO USE THE SITE.

These terms require the use of arbitration Section 10.2 on an individual basis to resolve disputes and also limit the remedies available to you in the event of a dispute.

Access to the Site

  • Subject to these Terms. The Company grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to access the Site solely for your own personal, non-commercial use.

  • Certain Restrictions. The rights approved to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) you shall not sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Site; (b) you shall not change, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Site; (c) you shall not access the Site in order to build a similar or competitive website; and (d) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Site may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Site shall be subject to these Terms.  All copyright and other proprietary notices on the Site must be retained on all copies thereof.

The Company reserves the right to change, suspend, or cease the Site with or without notice to you.  You approve that the Company will not be held liable to you or any third party for any change, interruption, or termination of the Site or any part thereof.

  • No Support or Maintenance. You agree that the Company will have no obligation to provide you with any support in connection with the Site.

Excluding any content that you may provide (“User Content”), you are aware that all the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, in the Site and its content (collectively, the “Site Content”) are owned by the Company or, where applicable, the Company’s suppliers. Note that these Terms and access to the Site do not give you any rights, title or interest in or to any intellectual property rights to the Site Content.

Third-Party Links & Ads; Other Users

  • Third-Party Links & Ads. The Site may contain links to third-party websites and services, and/or display advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Links & Ads”). Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not under the control of the Company, and the Company is not responsible for any of the Third-Party Links & Ads. The Company provides access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads. You use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices.

  • Other Users. Each Site user is solely responsible for any and all of its own User Content.  Because we do not control User Content, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content, whether provided by you or by others.  You agree that the Company will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such interactions.  If there is a dispute between you and any Site user, we are under no obligation to become involved.

You hereby release and forever discharge the Company and our officers, employees, agents, successors, and assigns from, and hereby waive and relinquish, each and every past, present and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right, obligation, liability, action and cause of action of every kind and nature, that has arisen or arises directly or indirectly out of, or that relates directly or indirectly to, the Site.

  • Cookies and Web Beacons. Like any other website, Gefura, Inc. uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Disclaimers

The Site is provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis, and the Company expressly disclaims any and all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including all warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement.  We make no guarantees that the Site will meet your requirements, will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free basis, or will be accurate, reliable, free of viruses or other harmful code, complete, legal, or safe.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.  Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not apply to you.

We do not guarantee that the information available on the Site is accurate or up-to-date.

Limitation on Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Company or our suppliers be liable to you or any third party for any lost profits, lost data, costs of procurement of substitute products, or any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of, or incapability to use the Site even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.  Access to and use of the Site is at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your device or computer system, or loss of data resulting therefrom.

The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit.  You agree that our suppliers will have no liability of any kind arising from or relating to this agreement.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

Term and Termination.

Subject to this Section on Term and Termination, these Terms will remain in full force and effect while you use the Site.  We may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Site at any time for any reason at our sole discretion, including for any use of the Site in violation of these Terms.  Upon termination of your rights under these Terms, your user account (“Account”) and right to access and use the Site will terminate immediately.  You understand that any termination of your Account may involve deletion of your User Content associated with your Account from our live databases. The Company will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights under these Terms.

Copyright Policy.

The Company respects the intellectual property of others and asks that users of our Site do the same.  In connection with our Site, we have adopted and implemented a policy respecting copyright law that provides for the removal of any infringing materials and for the termination of users of our online Site who are repeated infringers of intellectual property rights, including copyrights.  If you believe that one of our users is, through the use of our Site, unlawfully infringing the copyright(s) in a work, and wish to have the allegedly infringing material removed, the following information in the form of a written notification must be provided to our designated Copyright Agent through the e-mail [insert email]:

  • your physical or electronic signature;

  • identification of the copyrighted work(s) that you claim to have been infringed;

  • identification of the material on our services that you claim is infringing and that you request us to remove;

  • sufficient information to permit us to locate such material;

  • your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

  • a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the objectionable material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or under the law; and

  • a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are either the owner of the copyright that has allegedly been infringed or that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Please note that, any misrepresentation of material fact in a written notification automatically subjects the complaining party to liability for any damages, costs and attorney’s fees incurred by us in connection with the written notification and allegation of copyright infringement.

General

These Terms are subject to occasional revision, and if we make any substantial changes, we may notify you by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Site.  You are responsible for providing us with your most current e-mail address.  In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice.  Any changes to these Terms will be effective upon the earliest of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on our Site.  These changes will be effective immediately for new users of our Site.  Continued use of our Site following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

  • Electronic Communications. The communications between you and the Company use electronic means, whether you use the Site or send us emails, or whether the Company posts notices on the Site or communicates with you via email. For contractual purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications from the Company in an electronic form; and (b) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Company provides to you electronically satisfy any legal obligation that such communications would satisfy if it were be in a hard copy writing.

  • Entire Terms. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Site. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. The word “including” means “including without limitation”. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of these Terms will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.  Your relationship to Company is that of an independent contractor, and neither party is an agent or partner of the other.  These Terms, and your rights and obligations herein, may not be assigned, subcontracted, delegated, or otherwise transferred by you without Company’s prior written consent, and any attempted assignment, subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of the foregoing will be null and void.  Company may freely assign these Terms.  The terms and conditions set forth in these Terms shall be binding upon assignees.

  • Copyright/Trademark Information. Copyright © Gefura Inc. All rights reserved.  All trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on the Site are our property or the property of other third parties. You are not permitted to use our marks without our prior written consent or the consent of such third party which may own the marks.