Privacy policy

A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This privacy policy explains how we will handle your personal information.
In accordance with this policy, by consenting to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

 

B. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:

• Information about your device, 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 site, duration of visits, pages viewed, and navigation paths on the website.

• Information you provide when registering on our website, such as your email address.

• Information you provide when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, hobbies, education, and employment.

• Information you provide to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address.

• Information you provide when using the services on our website.

• Information generated while using our website, including the timing, frequency, and circumstances of your use.

• Information relating to any purchases, services used, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.

• Information 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 the metadata of such communications.

• Any other personal information you choose to send to us.

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

 

C. Use of Personal Data
Personal information submitted 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:

• Administering our website and business.

• Personalizing our website for you.

• Enabling your use of the services available on our website.

• Sending you purchased products through our website.

• Supplying services purchased through our website.

• Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you.

• Sending non-marketing commercial communications.

• Sending email notifications you have specifically requested.

• Sending you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).

• Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we think may interest you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).

• Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).

• Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.

• Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.

• Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service).

• Other uses.

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If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.
You can use the privacy controls on the website to restrict the publication of your information on our website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their direct marketing or the marketing of other third parties.

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D. Disclosure of Personal Data

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 corporate group (i.e., our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries) 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;

• in order 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 that we are selling (or considering selling);

• to any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

 

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

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E. 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, 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 or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

 

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal data described in this Section F of this policy.

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F. Retention of Personal Data

This Section F outlines our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data and information.

 

Personal information that we process will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes specified.

 

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, 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 future legal proceedings;

• in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

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G. Security of Personal Data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

 

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).

 

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

 

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and 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).

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H. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand 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.

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I. Third-Party Websites

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

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J. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

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K. 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 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” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Generally, cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.

 

Below are the names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used:

• We use Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics on our website to:

• recognize a computer when a user visits the website,

• track users as they navigate the website,

• improve the website’s usability,

• analyze the use of the website,

• administer the website,

• prevent fraud and enhance website security,

• send targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users.

 

Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies; for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the override settings for handling cookies, clicking on “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;

• In Firefox (version 69), you can block all cookies by clicking the menu button in the top-right corner and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy & Security” section, under “Content Blocking,” select “Custom,” then check the “Cookies” box and choose “All cookies” in the dropdown menu;

• In Chrome (version 77), you can block all cookies by accessing the menu in the top-right corner and clicking on “Settings”; on the left-hand side, select “Advanced,” “Privacy and security,” then click on “Site settings,” “Cookies and site data,” and finally disable the “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” option.

 

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

 

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions for doing so are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

• In Firefox (version 69), you can delete all cookies by clicking the menu button in the top-right corner and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy & Security” section, under “Cookies and Site Data,” click the “Clear Data…” button; ensure the relevant box is checked and then press the “Clear” button;

• In Chrome (version 77), you can delete all cookies by accessing the menu in the top-right corner and clicking on “More tools,” “Clear browsing data”; here, in the “Time range” dropdown menu, select “All time”; ensure the “Cookies and other site data” box is checked, and then press the “Clear data” button.

 

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.