A. Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
- By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and was modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)
C. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referring source, duration of the visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
- Information such as your email address, which you provide when registering on the site;
- Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education and employment history;
- Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
- Information you enter when using our website’s services;
- Information generated while using our website, including when, how frequently and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you carry out through our site, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and banking information;
- Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, 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 their content and metadata;
- Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- Administer our website and business;
- Personalize our website for you;
- Enable your use of the services available on our website;
- Send you goods purchased through our site;
- Provide you with services purchased through our site;
- Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
- Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
- Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
- Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or, if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (without those third parties being able to identify any individual user from that information);
- Handle requests and complaints relating to your website made by or about you;
- Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- Verify 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 uses.
If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or for the direct marketing of other third parties.
E. Disclosure of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (meaning our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as 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 reducing credit risk);
- To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish to sell (or are considering selling); and
- To any person whom we reasonably believe may be a member of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided otherwise in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International data transfers
- Information that we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in any of the countries in which we operate, in order 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: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use, whether proper or improper, of that information by third parties.
- You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of your personal information
- This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing 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 all personal information you provide on secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).
- All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
- 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
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging service.
J. Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- Payment of a processing fee for your request; and
- Presentation of sufficient evidence of your identity (for these purposes, we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport together with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will 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.
K. Third-party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
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 a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by a browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
- We use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and AdWords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website/ track users as they navigate the website/ enable the use of a shopping cart on the website/ improve website usability/ analyze website use/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalize the website for each user/ deliver targeted advertising that may be of interest to certain users;
- Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie-handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
- with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
- with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
- You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions for doing so here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking “Show Cookies”, followed by “Remove All Cookies”; and
- with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, then “Clear cookies and other site plugin data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.