Privacy policy

General information

This privacy policy determines how the Patent Agency for Inventions and Trademarks Limited Liability Company collects, uses, stores and discloses information received from users on the patent.ru.ru website (Site Next). This privacy policy applies to the Site, all subdomains of the Site and all products and services offered by the Site. This page contains information about what information we or third parties can receive when you use our Site. We hope that this information will help you make informed decisions regarding the information you provide to us about yourself. This Privacy Policy applies directly to this Site and to information obtained through it. It does not apply to any other sites and is not applicable to third-party websites, which may contain references to our Site and from which links to the Site may be made, as well as links from this Site to other Internet sites.

Received information

When you visit the Site, we determine the IP address, the domain name from which you came to us (for example, “yandex.ru”) and the country of registration of this IP, as well as we record all visitors’ transitions from one page of the Site to another. The information we receive on the Site may be used to facilitate the use of the Site. The site collects only general information that your browser provides voluntarily when you visit the Site. The site uses the standard technology “cookies” (“cookies”) to customize the display styles of the Site to the parameters of the monitor screen. A cookie is data from a website that saves it on the hard disk of your computer. The “cookie” contains information that may be necessary to configure the Site – to save your settings options for viewing and collecting statistical information on the Site, Ie. which pages you visited, what was downloaded, the Internet provider’s domain name and the country of the visitor, as well as the addresses of third-party websites from which the transition was made to the Site and beyond. Also, this technology uses the Yandex / Rambler / Google counters installed on the Site, etc. Technology “Cookies” do not contain any personal information about you. To view material without cookies, you can set your browser so that it does not accept cookies, or notify you about sending them (browser settings are different, so we advise you to get help in the Help section and find out how to change the settings by browser “cookies”). You can read about cookies in detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie In addition, the Site uses standard web server logs for counting the number of visitors and assessing the host server’s technical capabilities, ratings and attendance counters from third-party organizations (yandex.ru, top100.rambler.ru, top.mail.ru et al.). We use this information in order to determine how many people visit the Site and arrange pages in the most user-friendly way, ensure that the Site is consistent with the browsers you use, and make the Site content as useful as possible for visitors. We record information about movements on the site, but not about individual visitors to the Site, so no specific information regarding you personally will be saved or used by the Site Administration without your consent. We can also collect personal identification information from users when a user visits our Site, registers on the Site, places an order, fills out forms and in connection with other activities on the Site. The user may be asked to specify the name, email address, phone number, credit card details, if necessary. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We collect personally identifiable information from users only if they voluntarily provide us with such information. Users can always refuse to provide personal identification information, except in cases where this may prevent the use of certain functions of the Site.

How we use the information we collect

The site may collect and use personal information of users for the following purposes:

To improve customer service. The information you provide helps us respond to customer requests more effectively;
To personalize user experience. We can use the information to determine which of the visitors to the Site are most interested in the services and resources provided on our Site;
To improve our Site. We may use the feedback you provide to improve our products and services;
To process payments. We can use information about users when placing an order for making payments and only for this. We do not share this information with third parties, except as otherwise provided by law.