Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information.

By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. Source

This document was created using a template provided by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and was modified by Dizups (https://dizups.com/).

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, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your email address that you provide when registering on our website;
Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and professional experience;
Information such as your name and email address that you provide when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when using the services available on our website;
Information generated while using our website, 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 through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and banking information;
Information you publish on our website with the intention of making it publicly available on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your publications;
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 choose to provide to us.

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

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or on the relevant pages of our 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 you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, 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 may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter;
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may be of interest to you. These communications may be sent by post or, where you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology. You may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications;
Provide third parties with statistical information about our users, provided that such information does not allow those third parties to identify individual users;
Handle inquiries and complaints relating to the website submitted by 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 through our website's private messaging service;
Carry out other uses.

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

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted through the privacy settings available on the website.

We will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or those of any other third party, without your explicit consent.

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, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies, including our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy 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 own and intend to sell or are considering selling;
To any person whom we reasonably believe to be part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information, where, in our opinion, that court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of such information.

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

F. 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 Privacy Policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which may not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force within 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 worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

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

G. Retention of Your Personal Information

This Section G outlines 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.

Personal information that we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents, including electronic documents, containing personal information:

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 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 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 protected by passwords and firewalls.

All electronic financial transactions carried out 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 transmitted over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential. We will not ask you to disclose your password, except when you log in to our website.

I. Amendments

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes made to this Privacy Policy.

We may notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy by email or through the private messaging service available on our website.

J. Your Rights

You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you.

The provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

Payment of a fee;
The provision of sufficient evidence of your identity. For this purpose, we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport together with 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 instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will either expressly agree 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 Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to and information about third-party websites.

We have no control over these websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Updating Information

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, which is 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 that server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies.

A persistent cookie is stored by a web browser and remains valid until its specified expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date.

A session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user's session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not generally contain information that personally identifies a user. However, personal information that we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.

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

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are described below.

We use Google Analytics and Google AdWords on our website for the following purposes:

Recognizing a computer when a user visits our website;
Tracking users as they navigate our website;
Enabling the use of a shopping cart on our website;
Improving the usability of our website;
Analyzing the use of our website;
Administering our website;
Preventing fraud and improving website security;
Personalizing our website for each user;
Displaying targeted advertisements that may be of interest to particular users;
Other purposes, where applicable.

Most web browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies.

For example:

Internet Explorer (Version 10)

You can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and then "Advanced".

Firefox (Version 24)

You can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy".

Then select "Use custom settings for history" from the dropdown menu and uncheck "Accept cookies from sites".

Chrome (Version 29)

You can block all cookies by opening the "Customize and control Google Chrome" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings".

Then select "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.

Blocking all cookies may negatively affect the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can also delete cookies that are already stored on your computer.

For example:

Internet Explorer (Version 10)

You must delete cookie files manually. Instructions can be found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

Firefox (Version 24)

You can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy".

Then select "Use custom settings for history", click "Show Cookies", and then "Remove All Cookies".

Chrome (Version 29)

You can delete all cookies by opening the "Customize and control Google Chrome" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Clear browsing data".

Then select "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".

Deleting cookies may negatively affect the usability of many websites.