privacy statement

Shapeways Privacy Statement 

Shapeways (a venture within the Lifestyle Incubator of Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.) collects and uses your personal data such as your name, e-mail address and your place of living in order to provide you with the Shapeways services. We need this information for instance to be able to fulfill your orders or to enable you to communicate with other users of the Website.

 

Your personal data will be collected and treated in strict confidence and kept secure according to “best practices” such as firewall, user access control. Access to your personal data will be restricted to a limited number of administrators. In your profile, you can also upload your picture. Please be informed that if you do so, your picture will be visible to the other users on our Website.

 

You can update your personal information on our portal yourself. If you wish to have it deleted send your request to the following e-mail address: privacy@shapeways.com

We do not sell, rent or license your personal data to third parties. However, please be informed that we may share your personal data with other businesses (our service providers) for example to enable them to provide their services to us or to you (for instance handling your orders). We require these service providers to protect your personal data adequately. They are not allowed to use your personal data for any purpose not specifically authorized by Shapeways or by you.

 

We collect certain information by automated means when you visit our website, such as how many users visited our site and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our website to our visitors. We collect this information through various means such as “cookies”, “google analytics” and “IP addresses” as explained below.

“Cookies” are bits of text that are placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit certain websites. We use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.

Pages on our website use “google analytics”. These analytics allow third parties to obtain information such as the geographical location of the computer that downloaded the page on which the analytics is used, the URL visited, the date/time the page was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page.

An IP address is a unique identifier that electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our website, we may view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand from what regions of the world our website visitors come. We also may use this information to enhance our website.

 

Our website may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked sites.

 

Should you have a problem with our use of your personal data, please let us know and we will make all reasonable efforts to meet your concerns. In case you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact us on the following e-mail address: privacy@shapeways.com.

 

We reserve the right to change this privacy statement from time to time and will post any revisions on our website. Therefore we encourage you to check the website often to read the latest version.