Privacy Policy and Cookies
1. Introduction
Your privacy is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies according to this policy during your first visit to our website, you permit us to use cookies every time you visit.
2. Credit
This document was created using a template by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).
3. Personal Information Collection
We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:
- 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 referral source, visit length, page views, and website navigation paths.
- Information you provide when registering with our website, such as your email address.
- Information you enter when creating a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details.
- Information such as your name and email address, provided to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters.
- Information you enter while using the services on our website.
- Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
- Information you post to 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 that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata.
- Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
4. Using Your Personal Information
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 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 website.
- Supply services purchased through our website.
- Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
- Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
- Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- Send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
- 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, 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).
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).
- Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
- Keep our website secure 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).
- Other uses.
- 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 to us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.
5. Disclosing 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) 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 that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
- To any person who 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.
6. International Data Transfers
Information that 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.
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 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 information described in this Section 6.
7. Retaining Personal Information
This Section 7 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.
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 7, 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.
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
8. Security of your personal details
We will take reasonable organizational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal details.
We will store all the personal details you provide on secure servers (protected by a password and a firewall).
All computerized financial transfers made through our website will be protected using encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee that data sent over the Internet will be secure.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; We will not ask you for your password (except when logging in to our website).
9. Corrections
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to make sure 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.
10. Your rights
You can instruct us to provide you with every detail of your personal details that we hold concerning you; Providing these details will be subject to the following conditions:
Payment of commission {enter commission if any};
Provision of adequate evidence of your identity ({adjust the text to reflect your policy for this purpose, we will usually accept a notarized copy of your passport, together with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).
We may refuse to provide personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal details for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually express consent in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the option to choose not to use your personal information for marketing purposes.
11. Third party websites
Our website includes external links, and details about, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and procedures of any third party.
12. Updating information
Please let us know if it is necessary to correct or update the personal information we hold about you.
13. 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 in the browser. So, the ID is sent back to the server every time the browser asks the server to display a web page. Cookies can be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored in your browser and will remain valid until the expiration date set for it, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; An activity cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of your current browsing time, when you close your browser. Generally, cookies do not include information that personally identifies users, but personal information that we store about you can be linked to the information stored and obtained from cookies. {Choose the exact wording. We only use action cookies / only persistent cookies / both action cookies and persistent cookies on our site.}
The names of the cookies we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are detailed below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords services on our website to identify a computer when a user {include all existing uses for cookies on your website visits the website / track users while they use the website / allow us to use a shopping cart on the website / improve the convenience of using the website / analyze the use on the website / manage the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / customize the website for each user / use targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to certain users / describe the purpose/s};
Most websites allow you to refuse the use of cookies—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie bypass settings available by clicking on "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," then "Advanced";
In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," and selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, then deselecting "Accept cookies from websites";
And in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Personalization and Control" menu, then clicking on "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," then selecting the option "Block websites from setting data ” under the heading “Cookies.”
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 options on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete cookies manually (you can find instructions for this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” and clicking “Show cookies,” then “Remove all the cookies”;
And in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Personalization and Control" menu, then clicking on "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data," then selecting the option "Delete cookies and other data of sites and plugins," and finally click "Clear browsing data."
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
