This document "Privacy Policy" (hereinafter referred to as the "Policy") represents the rules for the use by the website - https://cathodic.ru [SPE Don Ltd.] (hereinafter referred to as the Operator) of the User's personal information, which the Operator, including all persons included in the same group with the Operator, may receive about the User during the User's use of the Operator's websites, services, programs, products or services (hereinafter referred to as the Site) and during the execution by the Operator of any agreements and contracts with the User. The User's consent to the Policy, expressed by him within the framework of relations with one of the listed persons, applies to all other listed persons.

Use of the Site means the User's unconditional consent to this Policy and the terms of processing of his personal information specified therein. In case of disagreement with these terms, the User must refrain from using the Site.

1. General Policy Provisions
1.1 This Policy has been drawn up in accordance with the Federal Law Russian Federation “On Personal Data” No. 152-FZ of July 27, 2006, as well as other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation in the field of protection and processing of personal data and applies to all personal data that the Operator may receive from the User, who is a party to a civil law contract.

1.2 The Operator has the right to make changes to this Policy. When making changes, the date of the last revision is indicated in the heading of the Policy. The new version of the Policy comes into force from the moment it is posted on the website, unless otherwise provided by the new version of the Policy.

1.3 The legislation of the Russian Federation shall apply to this Policy, including the interpretation of its provisions and the procedure for adoption, implementation, amendment and termination.

2. Personal information of Users processed by the Site
2.1. In this Policy, personal information means:

2.1.1. information provided by the User independently upon registration (creation of an account) or during the use of the Site, including the User's personal data. Information required to be provided by the Site is marked in a special way. Other information is provided by the User at his/her discretion;

2.1.2. data that is automatically transmitted to the Site during their use with the help of software installed on the User’s device, including the IP address, cookie data, information about the User’s browser (or other program used to access the Site), technical characteristics of the equipment and software used by the User, date and time of access to the Site, addresses of requested pages and other similar information;

2.1.3. other information about the User, the processing of which is provided for by the terms of use of the Site.

2.2. This Policy applies only to information processed during the use of the Site. The Site does not control and is not responsible for the processing of information by third-party sites to which the User may follow links available on the Site.

2.3. The Site does not verify the accuracy of personal information provided by the User and has no ability to assess his/her legal capacity.

3. Purposes of processing personal information of Users
3.1. The Site collects and stores only the personal information that is necessary to provide services or fulfill agreements and contracts with the User, except in cases where the law provides for mandatory storage of personal information for a period specified by law.

3.2. The Site processes the User’s personal information for the following purposes:

3.2.1. identification of the party within the framework of services, agreements and contracts with the Site;

3.2.2. providing the User with personalized services and services, as well as the execution of agreements and contracts;

3.2.3. sending notifications, requests and information concerning the use of the Site, execution of agreements and contracts, as well as processing requests and applications from the User;

3.2.4. improving the quality of the Site, its ease of use for the User, developing new services;

3.2.5. targeting of advertising materials;

3.2.6. conducting statistical and other studies based on anonymized data.

4. Terms of processing personal information of Users and its transfer to third parties
4.1. The User's personal information remains confidential, except in cases where the User voluntarily provides information about himself/herself for general access to an unlimited number of persons.

4.2. The Site has the right to transfer the User's personal information to third parties in the following cases:

4.3.1. The User has consented to such actions;

4.3.2. The transfer is necessary for the User to use a certain service or for the execution of a certain agreement or contract with the User;

4.3.3. The transfer is necessary for the functioning and performance of the Site itself;

4.3.4. The transfer is provided for by Russian or other applicable legislation within the framework of the procedure established by law;

4.3.5. Such transfer occurs as part of the sale or other transfer of a business (in whole or in part), in which case all obligations to comply with the terms of this Policy in relation to the personal information received by it are transferred to the acquirer;

4.3.6. In order to ensure the possibility of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the Site or third parties in cases where the User violates this Policy or documents containing the terms of use of specific services.

4.3.7. As a result of processing the User's personal information by depersonalizing it, depersonalized statistical data is obtained, which is transferred to a third party to conduct research, perform work or provide services on behalf of the Site.

5. Changing and deleting personal information. Mandatory data storage
5.1. The User may at any time change (update, supplement) the personal information provided by him or her or part of it by contacting the Site using the contacts in section 9. “Contacts”.

5.2. The rights provided for in paragraph 5.1 of this Policy may be limited in accordance with the requirements of the law. For example, such restrictions may include the obligation of the Site to save information changed or deleted by the User for a period established by law and to transfer such information in accordance with the legally established procedure to a government agency.

6. Processing personal information using cookies and counters
6.1. Cookies transmitted by the Site to the User's equipment and by the User's equipment to the Site may be used by the Site to provide the User with personalized services, to target advertising shown to the User, for statistical and research purposes, and to improve the Site.

6.2. The User understands that the equipment and software used by him to visit websites on the Internet may have the function of prohibiting operations with cookies (for any websites or for certain websites), as well as deleting previously received cookies.

6.3. The Site has the right to establish that the provision of a certain service or service is possible only on condition that the acceptance and receipt of cookies is permitted by the User.

6.4. The structure of the cookie file, its content and technical parameters are determined by the Site and may be changed without prior notice to the User.

6.5. Counters placed by the Site may be used to analyze the User's cookies, to collect and process statistical information about the use of the Site, and to ensure the functionality of the Site as a whole or its individual functions in particular. The technical parameters of the counters are determined by the Site and may change without prior notice to the User.

7. Protection of User's personal information
7.1. The Site takes the necessary and sufficient organizational and technical measures to protect the User's personal information from unauthorized or accidental access, destruction, modification, blocking, copying, distribution, as well as from other illegal actions by third parties.

8. Changes to the Privacy Policy
8.1. The Site has the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. When making changes to the current version, the date of the last update is indicated. The new version of the Policy comes into force from the moment of its posting, unless otherwise provided by the new version of the Policy. The current version is always available on the page at https://cathodic.ru/eng/priv_pol

9. Contacts and questions about personal data
9.1. The User has the right to send all suggestions, questions, requests and other inquiries regarding this Policy and the use of their personal data to the Site:

-by email: info@cathodic.su

Publication date: 09/30/2023