Who we are
Our website address is: https://21century.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site 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 year.
If you visit our login page, 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, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
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 our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy covers the conditions for collecting and managing visitor / user / member data (hereinafter: Users) from the website www.21century.com
When subscribing to the online annotation platform, users are required to provide personal information that is kept for security purposes as required by law.
(Data provided by users when enrolled on the online annotation platform are only for safety reasons, in accordance with the law.)
Cookies and IP address
During your visit to our web pages, your computer receives a small file, called a cookie. The cookie is stored on your computer or the device you use to surf the web.
Processing of children’s personal data
The Company will not collect or process personal data of children under the age of 16 unless a parental consent has been given in accordance with applicable local law. If we realize that a child’s personal data was collected in error, we will delete this data without undue delay.
Correction, Modification or Deletion of Information
21century.com allows its users to correct, change, supplement or delete data and information submitted to 21century.com. If you choose to delete information, 21century.com will act to delete this information from its files directly. For the protection and security of the user 21century.com will try to make sure that the person making the changes is the same person as the user. In order to access, change or delete your personal data, to report problems with the operation of the website or to make any inquiries contact 21century.com via www.21century.com or via e-mail to the electronic info@21century.com. The change or correction of your personal data can also be done through the 21century.com registration page. Please note that we will do our utmost to protect your personal data, but protecting your password on our website is also up to you.
Your legal rights
As a data subject you have specific legal rights regarding the personal data we collect from you. The Company will respect your rights and deal adequately with your concerns.
The following list contains information about your legal rights under applicable data protection laws:
Right to withdraw consent: Where processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time.
Right of rectification: You may ask us to correct your personal data. We make reasonable efforts to keep your personal data in our possession or control and used on a continuous basis, accurate, complete, current and related, based on the latest information available to us. You also have the ability to check and correct your personal information by entering your personal account at 21century.com
Restriction right: You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data if
– You dispute the accuracy of your personal data for the period we will need to verify the accuracy, – Processing is illegal and you are requesting the restriction of the processing instead of deleting your personal data, – We no longer need your personal data, but you You need to support, exercise or defend legal claims, or – You have objections to the processing for the period we verify whether our legitimate interests override yours.
Right of access: You may request information about personal data we hold about you, including information about the categories of personal data in our possession or control, for what purpose they are used, from which they were collected, if not from you directly, and to whom they have been notified, as appropriate. You can receive from us free of charge a copy of the personal data we hold for you. We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for any further copies that you may request.
Right of access: You may request information about the personal data we hold about you, including information about the categories of personal data in our possession or control, for what purpose they are used, from which they were collected, if not from you directly, and to whom they have been notified, as appropriate. You can receive from us free of charge, a copy of the personal data we hold for you. We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for any further copies that you may request.
Right to Deletion: You may ask us to delete your personal data where – personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed – you have the right to object to further processing of your personal data and exercise this right – processing based on your consent, withdrawing your consent and no other legal basis for processing – your personal data has been processed illegally unless a treatment is necessary – for compliance with a legal obligation, which requires treatment of us – especially for the legal duty to fulfill obligations – for support, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Right of objection: You may object – at any time – to the processing of your personal data because of your particular circumstances, provided that the processing is not based on your own consent but in our legitimate interest or on legitimate third party interests. In this case, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate overriding legitimate reasons and a superior interest in processing or supporting, exercising or defending legal claims. If you are opposed to processing, please specify whether you wish to delete your personal data or restrict our processing by us.
Please note:
Time period: We will try to meet your request within 30 days. However, the deadline may be extended for specific reasons relating to the specific legal right or complexity of your request.
Restriction of access: In some cases, we may not be able to provide access to all or some of your personal data by law. If we denied your request for access, we will let you know why this is a refusal.
Non-recognition: In some cases, we may not be able to search for your personal information due to the identifying information you provide in your application. Two examples of personal data that we can not look for when providing your name and email address are: – data collected through browser cookies, – data collected from social networks since you have posted a comment under a nickname is not known to us.
In such cases, where we can not identify you as a data subject, we are unable to comply with your request to perform your legal rights as described in this article unless you provide us with additional information that allows us to identify you.
Exercise of your legal rights: In order to exercise your legal rights, please contact us in writing by e-mail.
Retention of your personal data: Generally, we will delete the personal data we collect from you if it is no longer necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was originally collected. However, we may be asked to store your personal data for longer because of legal provisions.
In addition, we will not delete all your personal information if you have asked us not to communicate with you in the future. For this purpose, the Company maintains records that contain information about people who do not wish to communicate with them in the future (e.g., through group emails). We categorize your requests as consent to the storage of your personal data for the purpose of maintaining that file unless you give us different instructions.
Periodic Changes
Continuously, 21century.com extends, updates and improves its website, and related products and services, will update this policy. We encourage you to read this process at regular intervals to be informed of any changes to the content of this privacy policy. This policy will be modified from time to time without prior notice to users.
When you visit one of your websites you receive one or more cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small file that is placed on your computer or your device with which you browse the internet
The cookies we use are as follows:
1.Basic Cookies
(These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website as part of the registration required for service (e.g. posting comments). Without the use of these cookies the commenting service on our websites will not be able to work.)
We use these types of cookies in order to operate our site as much as we need to subscribe to (for example, post comments) as well as to operate the comment service on our web pages.
Performance Analysis Cookies
(We use these types of cookies to monitor the performance of our sites and how their users can use them. These cookies provide us with information to help us deliver better articles and services to our users. identify areas of our site that do not work properly or need maintenance)
The way our sites are used by users and their performance tracking is done through Performance Analytics cookies. With the information they provide, they help to improve the services and articles provided to users, while helping to maintain the repair of areas of our site that are not working properly.
Functional Cookies
(Functional cookies are used to remember your site’s preferences on our web pages. This may be anything like remembering your city in a weather forecast or storing your username (where needed) so that you do not you need to register it from the beginning when you return to our site.)
The type of these cookies serves to store on your website your preferences regarding our websites. Cookies can for example store your username or geographic location in a weather forecast so we do not need to register again during the next visit to our site.
Behavioral Cookies – Third Party Advertising / Cookies
(We, our affiliates and our advertisers / sponsors use cookies to provide personalized ads that we believe are important to you.
Online behavioral advertising is advertising that involves advertising on the websites you visit by making them more relevant to your interests. This is done by grouping and categorizing your interests based on your previous web browsing activity. The ad then appears to you when you visit a website that matches your interests.
Behavioral advertising is based on the activity you performed while browsing the internet for a specific period of time.
Please note that these cookies do not collect the user’s personal data that is always anonymous.)
While browsing the Internet, we use cookies to help us sort and group your interests on the basis of which we take care to provide you with personalized ads. Once we collect data that is indicative of your interests, we select the ads we think are important to you and then the latter appear to you when you visit a site that suits your preferences.
This ad is called online behavior and is based on previous users’ activity on the internet during a certain period, but no personal user data is stored, which is always anonymous.
As long as you use our website, you strongly agree to send the above-mentioned cookies to your device, which are automatically deleted after one year.
(We can also monitor IP addresses, an IP address is a number that can be recognized by the Internet Provider and the user’s country of origin, and IP can not provide personal information.)
You can control them by allowing or deleting all or some of them. You can also set the browser to not accept cookies from any website.
You can also set the browser to request your consent before accepting a cookie on your device. This gives you full control over cookies, but it has the disadvantage of slowing your internet browsing.
Website Terms of Use
Read this policy below, or view all policies
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website https://21century.com (“our site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
We are a limited company.
Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
Intellectual property rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Reliance on information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Our liability
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
loss of income or revenue;
loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill;
wasted management or office time; and
whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Information about you and your visits to our site
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Transactions concluded through our site
Contracts for the supply of services formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our Terms and Conditions.
Uploading material to our site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.
We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on or upload to our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Linking to our site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please contact us.
Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England.
Variations
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us.