A. Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we attach great importance to it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
- By consenting to the 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. Merits
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet ( www.websiteplanet.com )
C. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:
- information about your computer including your IP address, geolocation, browser type and version, and operating system;
- information about your visits and use of this website, including method of access, duration of visits, pages viewed and navigation paths to the website;
- information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register on our website;
- information you enter when you create a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
- information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
- information you enter while using the services on our website;
- data generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- information relating to anything you purchase, services you use or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information;
- information that you post on our website with the intention of posting it online, which includes your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
- information contained in any communication you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
- all other personal data you send us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent both to the disclosure and to the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
D. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal data submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following:
- administering our website and business;
- personalizing our website for you;
- enabling your use of the services available on our website;
- sending goods purchased through our website;
- providing services purchased through our website;
- sending statements, invoices and payment reminders and collecting payments from you
- sending non-commercial communications;
- sending notifications via e-mail if you have specifically requested;
- sending our 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 it, by email or similar technology (you can notify us at any time if you no longer necessary marketing communications);
- providing statistical data about our users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that data);
- dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you and in relation to our website;
- security of our website and fraud prevention;
- checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service); and
- other applications.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you have given us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted by the privacy controls on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their own or direct marketing purposes.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors for the reasonable purposes set forth in this policy.
For the reasonable purposes set out in this policy, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries).
We may disclose your personal information:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk);
- to a buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or property that we sell or plan to sell; and
- to any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information, and where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would reasonably be likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
- The data we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any country in which we operate to enable us to use the data in accordance with these policies.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- Personal data that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the Internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such data by other parties.
- You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of personal data
- This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
- Personal data that we process for any purposes or purpose will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purpose.
- Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will normally delete personal data that falls into the categories below on the date / time set out below:
- type of personal data will be deleted after the purpose for which it is used is fulfilled
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal information:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe the documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and
- for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
H. Security of Your Personal Information
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store any personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers.
- All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that 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).
I. Amendments and additions
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website.
You should check this page periodically to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
J. Your rights
You can direct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such data is subject to the following:
- paying fee
- providing appropriate proof of your identity (for this purpose we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of your utility bill with your current address).
We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will either expressly consent in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out from the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to third-party websites and their details. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Data Update
Let us know if the personal data we have 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 a web server sends to a web browser and stores in the browser. The identifier is then returned to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored in the web browser and will remain valid until a certain expiration date unless the user deletes it before the expiration date; On the other hand, the session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that personally identifies the user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored and obtained from cookies. {SELECT ACCURATE PHRASING On our website we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies.}
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are listed below:
- on our website, we use Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize the computer when the user {INCLUDE ALL USES THAT COOKIES ARE USED FOR ON YOUR SITE visits the website / tracking users while they move around the website / enabling the use of the shopping cart on the website / improving the usability of the website / analyzing the use of the website / administer the website / preventing fraud and improving the security of the website / personalizing the website for each user / targeted ads that could be of particular interest to certain users / described purpose (e)};
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
- and in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, in the drop-down menu select “Use custom settings for history” and deselect the option “Accept cookies from websites”; and
- in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Block websites from setting any data” “, under the heading “Cookies”.
Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all features on our website.
- You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
- in Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then select “Use custom settings for history”, click “Show cookies”, then click “Remove all cookies”; and
- in Chrome (version 29) you can clear all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced” and “Clear browsing data”, then selecting “Clear cookies and other sites” and the “before Click “Clear Browsing Data.”
- Deleting cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites.