Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

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.
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:

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 the referring source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
Information such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and professional background, which you enter when you create a profile on our website;
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when you use the services of our website;
Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
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;
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;
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 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 site pages. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;
Personalize our website for you;
Allow your use of the services offered on our website;
Send you the goods purchased on our website;
Provide you with the services purchased on our website;
Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
Send you non-marketing-related commercial communications;
Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive our newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our company or carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly given your consent, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive marketing communications);
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information);
Process requests and complaints relating to your website made by you or concerning 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 via our website's private messaging service); and
Other uses.

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

Your privacy settings can 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 explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, nor that of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as far as is 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 of its subsidiaries) as far as is 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 current or future legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
To a buyer (or prospective buyer) of any of our business or assets that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
To any person whom we reasonably believe to be a part of any court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.

Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass on your personal information to third parties.

F. International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred in any 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, 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, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of your personal information

This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, 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 is not kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Without prejudice to Section G-2, 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.
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 prospective 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

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-protected and behind firewalls).
All electronic financial transactions conducted 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 your data sent over the internet.
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 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 you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes made to this policy by email or through the private messaging service of 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 conditions:

The presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes, we 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 expressly agree in advance to our using your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to refuse 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 sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Information Updates

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) which is sent by a web server to a web browser and is 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 either "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by the web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use only session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies that we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are described below:
1. Cookie for storing the username if you leave a comment.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept or to delete cookies. For example:
1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie handling override settings 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 drop-down menu and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
3. with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” and then selecting “Do not allow any site to store data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

You may delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (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 clicking on “Delete All Cookies”;
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 "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".
Deleting cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites.