Privacy Policy
A. Introduction
We attach great importance to the privacy of our website visitors and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how your personal information is handled.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
B. 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 website, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
Information you enter when registering on our website, such as your email address.
Information you enter when creating a profile on our site – 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, which you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter while using services on our website.
Information generated during the use of our website, including the dates and frequency of your use of the website and the circumstances under which you use the website.
Information relating to anything you purchase, or services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
Information you post on our website for online sharing purposes, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.
Information contained in any correspondence you send to us by email or through our website, including shared content and metadata.
Any other personal information you submit to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
C. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through our website is used for the purposes described in this policy or on relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Administering our website and business online.
- Personalizing our website to be more convenient for you.
- Enabling you to use the services available on our website.
- Sending goods purchased online to you.
- Providing services purchased through our website.
- Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.
- Sending non-marketing commercial communications to you.
- Sending email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.
- Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
- Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe 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 these marketing communications).
- Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify individual users from that information).
- Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you on our website.
- Protecting our website from fraud and maintaining its security.
- Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service).
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish this information and otherwise use it in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.
D. 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 out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate 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 that we are required to do so by law.
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
- To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are selling (or contemplate selling).
Anyone we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
E. International Data Transfers
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: these countries are the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
We cannot prevent the use or misuse of personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website and is available online worldwide.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section "E."
F. Retention of Personal Information
This Section "F" sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
To the extent required by law.
If we believe that these documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
G. 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 servers (password and firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website are protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge your agreement to this policy with your knowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy, and we may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging system.
I. Your Rights
You may request us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, the provision of such information is subject to the following:
Providing appropriate proof of your identity (we usually accept a national ID or residency permit or a notarized copy of your passport in addition to an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
J. Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites, it being understood that we have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
K. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
L. Cookies
We only use session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user [add all applicable uses of cookies on your website] visits the website / tracks users as they navigate the website / enables the use of a shopping cart on the website / improves the website’s usability / analyzes website usage / administers the website / prevents fraud and improves the security of the website / personalizes the website for each user / targets advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / describes the purpose.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced."
In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and deselecting "Accept cookies from sites."
In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," "Content settings," and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," and "Privacy," then selecting "Use custom settings for history," clicking "Show Cookies," and then clicking "Remove All Cookies";
In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data," then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data."
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of websites.
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