privacy policy

A - Introduction

We care deeply about the privacy of our website visitors and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle 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 every time you visit our site.

B. Collection of Personal Information

The following 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 referral source, length of visit, page views, and browsing paths on the website.

Information you enter when you register on our website, such as your email address.

Information you enter when you create a profile on our site – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education status, and employment 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 during your use of our website, including when and how often you use the website and the circumstances under which you use the website.

Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details.

– Information that you post on our website for the purpose of sharing it online, which includes your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts.

Information contained in any communications you send to us via email or through our website, including shared content and metadata.

Any other personal information you send to us.

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

C. Use of your personal information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out 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.
• Customize our website to be more relevant to you.
• To enable you to use the services available on our website.
• Sending the goods you buy online to you.
• Providing services purchased through our website.
• Sending you statements, invoices and payment notifications, and collecting payments from you.
• Sending you non-marketing commercial messages.
• Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.
• Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can tell 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 which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require such marketing communications).
• Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (however, such third parties will not be able to identify the users of that information themselves).
• Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by you or made to us about you on our site.
• Protect our site from fraud and keep it secure.
• Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website’s private 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 publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.

D - Disclosure of 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 we are required to do so 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 reducing credit risk).
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset we sell (or intend to sell).

Any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority requesting disclosure of such personal information, and in our reasonable opinion such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of such personal information.

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

and - International data transfer

Information that 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 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.

We cannot prevent the use or misuse by others of the personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website and which is available, via the internet, around the world.

You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

Z. Retention of Personal Information

This Section G 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.

To the extent required by law.

If we believe that such documents may be relevant to 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 reducing credit risk).

H. Security of your personal information

We undertake to take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the 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 with the understanding 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 site confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).

T. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

Y. Your rights

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, provision of which will be subject to the following:

Provide appropriate proof of identity (we usually accept a national ID or residency document or a copy of your passport certified by a notary public as well as an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may at any time ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

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

K. Third Party Sites

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. Update information

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

M. Cookies

We use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

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

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they browse the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze website usage / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe the purpose.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies — for example:

In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking Tools, Internet Options, Privacy, and then Advanced.

In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites.”

In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any 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 on our website. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:

In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete cookies manually (you can find instructions for doing this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );

In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show cookies,” and then clicking “Remove all cookies”;

In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

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

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Customer Service