Privacy Policy
Introduction
- We care deeply about the privacy of our site visitors, and are committed to protect it. This policy explains how we dispose your personal information.
- 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.
Collection of personal information
The following personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- Information about your computer including your Internet Protocol address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referring source, length of visit, what you view on the page, and your browsing paths on the website.
- Information that 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, 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 generated while using our website, including the times and frequency of your use of the website and the circumstances in which you use the website.
- Information about 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 that you post on our website for the purpose of sharing online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.
- Information contained in any communications you send to us via email or via our website, including shared content and metadata.
- Any other personal information you submit to us.
Before you disclose personal information about another person 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.
Use of your personal information
Personal information submitted 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:
- Managing our website and business on the Internet.
- Customize our website to be more convenient for you.
- Enable you to use the services available on our website.
- Have merchandise you buy from the Internet sent to you.
- Providing services purchased through our website.
- Send you statements, invoices, and push notifications, and collect payments from you.
- Send you commercial, non-marketing messages.
- To send you email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.
- To send you our 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 businesses of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have specifically agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need to these marketing communications).
- Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify users of that information themselves).
- Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by you or submitted to us about you on our site.
- Protect our site from fraud and maintain its security.
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our Website (including monitoring private messages sent via our Website messaging service).
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to 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, your personal information for the purposes of direct marketing to any other party.
Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurance companies, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors 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 (that is, our subsidiaries, the parent company and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy(
We may disclose your personal information:
- As much as we are required to do 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 the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
- To the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or intend to) sell.
- Any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, in our reasonable discretion, and such court or authority would reasonably be able to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International data transfer
- 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 that are not subject to data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: The United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- We cannot prevent the use or misuse of personal information by others that you post on our website or submit for publication on our website that is available online around the world.
- You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
Retention of personal information
- This Section 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.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data:
- To the extent required by law.
- If we believe that these 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 the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
Security of your personal information
- To Maintain Security of Your Personal Information, we commit to take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent 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.
- You acknowledge that you agree to this Policy knowing that transmission of information over the Internet is inherently not secure, 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 site. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).
Adjustments
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 website.
Third Party Sites
Our website contains 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.
Update information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
