PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
The privacy of our website visitors is very important and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
When you visit us for the first time and consent to our use of cookies, in accordance with the terms of this policy, you give us permission to use cookies each time you visit our website.
COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
The following types of 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 sources, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths.
- information you enter when creating an account on our website, such as your email address.
- information that you enter when creating a profile on our website, for example, your name, profile photo, gender, birthday, marital status, interests and hobbies, training and employment information.
- information you enter to subscribe to our emails and newsletters, such as your name and email address.
- information you enter while using the services on our website.
- information that is generated while you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
- information about anything related to your purchase, services you use or transactions you make through the website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information.
- information that you post on our website with the intention that it be published on the Internet, including your username, profile photos, and content of your posts.
- information contained in any communications you send to us via email or our website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
- any other personal information that you submit to us.
Before you disclose another person's personal information to us, you must first obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy;
USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Any personal information that you submit to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified 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 business.
- personalize our website for you.
- activate the use of services available on our website.
- send you items purchased through our website.
- supply services purchased through our website.
- send statements, invoices and payment reminders and collect data from you.
- send commercial communications (not marketing).
- send email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- send an email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to subscribe to the newsletter).
- send marketing communications relating to our business, or the businesses of carefully selected third parties, which we consider will be of interest to you, by post or where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technologies (you can inform us at any time if do not wish to continue receiving marketing communications).
- give statistical information to third parties about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user with that information).
- respond to questions and complaints from or about you related to our website.
- keep the website protected and prevent fraud.
verify compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of our website (including monitoring private messages through our website's private messaging service).
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of our information on our website and may be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
Without your explicit consent we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their or another third party's direct marketing.
DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or contractors, as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes subsidiaries, our group and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
to the extent required by law;
in connection with any current or prospective legal proceeding;
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing personal information to others for the purposes of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);
to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are selling or contemplating selling; and
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority to request disclosure of that personal information, and that, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority will be reasonably likely to order disclosure of such personal information.
Except as required by law, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries where we do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal information that you post on our website, or submit for publication on our website, may be available through the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You explicitly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this section F.
RETAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION
This section G sets out our personal information retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes must not be stored longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will usually delete personal data that falls within the categories mentioned below on the date and time determined below:
personal data will be deleted on {INSERT DATE/TIME}; and
{INSERT ADDITIONAL DATES/TIMES}.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
to the extent required by law;
if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any current or prospective legal proceeding; and
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing personal information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
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 all personal information you give us on our secure servers (password and firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You agree 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, and we will not ask you for your password (except to log in to our website).
AMENDMENTS
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should occasionally check this page to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or through our website's private messaging system.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; The delivery of said information will be subject to the following:
payment of a fee of {INSERT FEE IF APPLICABLE}; and
that you present appropriate evidence of your identity ({ADJUST TEXT TO REFLECT YOUR POLICY for this purpose, we will usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport and an original copy of a bill showing your current address}).
We may retain personal information that you request from us to the extent permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually explicitly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of having your personal information used for marketing purposes.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
UPDATE INFORMATION
Please inform us if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.