Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows 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.

C. Collection of personal information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referring source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths;
3. Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
4. Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and work history;
5. Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
6. Information you enter when you use the services of our website;
7. Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
8. Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you carry out on our site, which include your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;
9. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
10. Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including their content and metadata;
11. Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent regarding the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

D. Use of your personal information

Personal information that you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant website pages. We may use your personal information to:

1. Administer our website and business;
2. Personalize our website for you;
3. Enable your use of the services available on our website;
4. Send you goods purchased through our website;
5. Supply to you services purchased through our website;
6. Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect payments from you;
7. Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
8. Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
9. Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish not to receive our newsletter);
10. Send 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 by email or similar technology if you have expressly agreed to this (you can inform us at any time of your wish not to receive marketing communications);
11. Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that statistical information);
12. Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
13. Keep the website secure and prevent fraud;
14. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website (including monitoring the private messages sent via the private messaging service of the website); and
15. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish that personal information and may use that personal information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be controlled via your privacy settings on the website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

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 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 (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. For the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
5. To any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information in the circumstances, in respect of which, in our reasonable opinion, such court or other competent authority would be likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not supply your personal information to any third parties.

F. International data transfers

1. Information that we collect may be processed and transferred in any country in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. 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.
3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by others.
4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. How long we keep your personal information

1. This Section G details 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.
2. 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.
3. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, we will generally delete personal data of these categories at the date and time specified below:
   1. This type of personal data will be deleted at the end of each month.
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
   1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
   2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
   3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of your personal information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (password-protected and behind a firewall).
3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
4. 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.
5. You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when logging in on 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 you are aware of any changes made 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 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:

1. The supply of sufficient evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus 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 ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will either expressly agree in advance to our using your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of our use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that 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) 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 can be "persistent" or "session": a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration 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 any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We only use session and persistent cookies on our website.

1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
   1. Cookie for storing the username if you leave a comment.
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
   1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and then "Advanced";
   2. with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the dropdown menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
   3. with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings", and then selecting "Do not allow sites to set 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.

3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
   1. 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);
   2. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" and clicking on "Show Cookies", and then on "Delete All Cookies"; and
   3. with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data" then "Clear cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".
4. Deleting cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites.