A. Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
- By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy during your first visit to our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our site.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.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, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referring source, duration of the visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
- Information such as your email address, which you provide when you register on the site;
- Information you provide when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile photo, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and work history;
- Information such as your name and email address, which you provide when you sign up for our emails and/or newsletters;
- Information you provide when you use the services on our website;
- Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information related to the purchases you make, the services you use, or the transactions you conduct on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;
- Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile photos, and the content of your posts;
- Information contained in all communications you send to us via 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 to the disclosure and processing of such personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy
D. Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:
- To manage our website and our business;
- Customize our website for you;
- To enable you to use the services offered on our website;
- To ship the items you purchased on our website to you;
- To provide you with the services you have purchased on our website;
- Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
- Send you commercial communications that are not related to marketing;
- Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
- To send you marketing communications about our company or carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of mailings, or, if you have expressly consented, via email or similar technology (you may notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users from this information);
- Process requests and complaints regarding your website that you submit or that concern you;
- To 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); and
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the sharing of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes or for the direct marketing purposes 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 to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (which includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent required 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 mitigation);
- To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish to (or are considering) sell; and
- To any person whom we reasonably believe to be part of a court or other competent authority with jurisdiction over the disclosure of such personal information, if, in our opinion, such court or authority is likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise specified in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred to any country in which we operate, so that we can 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 post on our website or submit for publication may be accessible worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent third parties from using this information, whether for good or ill.
- You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of Your Personal Information
- Section G details 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.
- The personal information we process for any purpose is not retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Without prejudice to Section G-2, we will generally delete personal data in these categories on the date and at the time specified below:
- This type of personal data will be deleted after one year.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent required by law;
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation).
H. Security of Your Personal Information
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).
- All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that transmitting 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 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).
I. Amendments
We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or through our website's private messaging service.
J. Your Rights
You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the disclosure of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- Payment of fees and
- Providing sufficient proof of your identity (for this purpose, we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may retain the personal information you provide to the extent permitted by law.
You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, we will either obtain your explicit consent in advance to use 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 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. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we have about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Mr. 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 web 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 is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user's session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in cookies and obtained by cookies. We use only session cookies on our website.
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
- We use Google Analytics and AdWords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website; improve the website experience; analyze website usage; administer the website; prevent fraud and enhance website security; personalize the website for each user; send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users (describe your other objectives);
- Most browsers allow you to accept or reject cookies. For example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by adjusting the cookie settings available under "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";
- In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," and finally selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will negatively impact your experience on many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
- You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer. Example:
- With Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here 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," clicking "Show Cookies," and then "Delete All Cookies"; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data," followed by "Clear cookies and site data" before clicking "Clear browsing data."
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on your ability to use many websites.