Privacy policy
- Introduction
We care deeply about the privacy of our website visitors and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you visit our website for the first time, you authorize us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
B. Copyright
c. Collection of Personal Information
The following personal information may be collected, stored and used: Information about your computer including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits to and use of this site including referral source, length of visit, what you see on the page, and your navigation paths on the site.
Information you enter when you register on our website, such as your email address.
Information you enter when you create a profile on our website - for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational status, and job details.
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters.
Information you enter while using the services on our website.
Information that is generated while using our website, including the dates and frequency of your use of the website and the circumstances in which you use the website.
Information relating to anything you buy, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card details.
- Information you post on our website for the purpose of sharing it online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.
Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including shared content and metadata.
Any other personal information you send to us.
Before you disclose another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this Policy.
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us via our website is used for the purposes described in this Policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Manage our website and online business.
Customize our website to make it more convenient for you.
Enable you to use the services available on our website.
Sending you the goods you purchase from the Internet.
Providing services purchased through our website.
Sending you statements, invoices and payment notices, and collecting payments from you.
Sending you non-marketing commercial messages.
Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.
Sending you an email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need the newsletter).
Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require such marketing communications).
Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify the specific users of that information).
To deal with inquiries and complaints made by you or to us about you on our Site.
Protecting our website from fraud and maintaining its security.
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website's private messaging service).
Other uses.
If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you give us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the dissemination of your information on our website and can be modified using the privacy controls on the website.
We will not provide any third party, without your express consent, with your personal information for any third party's direct marketing purposes.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, parent holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
To the extent we are required to do so by law.
In connection with any ongoing or potential legal proceedings.
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any work or asset we sell (or intend to sell).
to any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information, which, in our reasonable judgment, is reasonably likely to order such court or authority to disclose that personal information.
Except as provided in this Policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
f. International Data Transfer
The information we collect may be stored, processed or transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries which are not subject to data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
We cannot prevent the use or misuse by others of the personal information you post on our website or submit for posting on our website that is available online worldwide.
You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of Personal Information
This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations relating to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes may not be retained for any longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
. Without prejudice to clause G.2.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
To the extent required by law.
If we believe that such documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings.
In order to initiate, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to
others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
h. Security of your personal information
We undertake to take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We undertake to store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions made through our website are protected by encryption technology.
By agreeing to this policy, you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).
i. Modifications
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand any changes to this Policy, and we may notify you of changes to this Policy by email or through the private messaging system on our Site.
J. Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, the provision of which is subject to the following:
payment of fees
providing appropriate proof of identity
We may refrain from providing you with the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may at any time ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will either explicitly consent in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third Party Sites
Our website includes hyperlinks and details of third party websites, although we have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
l. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to your browser and is stored by your browser, and then the identifier is sent back to the server each time your browser requests a page from the server. The browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: A persistent cookie is stored by the Internet browser and remains valid until its specified expiration date, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; on the other hand, a session cookie expires at the end of the user's session, i.e. by closing the Internet browser. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies the user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in the cookies from which it is obtained. { Use applicable statements We use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
