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A. Introduction
Privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. These rules explain what we do with your personal data.
Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our terms on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies on each of your visits to our website.
B. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:
information about your computer including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
information about your visits and use of these websites including referral source, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation;
information such as email address that you enter when registering on our website;
information that you enter when creating a profile on our website – such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education, and employment;
information such as your name and email address that you enter when subscribing to our email services and/or newsletters;
information that you enter when using services on our website;
information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
information related to your purchase, services used, or transactions made through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details;
information that you submit to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your post;
information contained in any communication you send to us by email or through our website, including the content itself and metadata;
any other personal data that you send to us.
Before you provide us with personal data of another person, you must obtain consent from that person for the disclosure and processing of such personal data in accordance with these principles.
C. Use of Your Personal Data
Personal data provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes stated in these principles or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
management of our website and business;
customizing our website for you;
enabling the use of services available on our website;
sending goods purchased through our website;
providing services purchased through our website;
sending invoices, bills, payment reminders, and collecting payments;
sending non-commercial business communications;
sending specifically requested email notifications;
sending our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
sending marketing communications related to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we think may interest you, by post or, if you have expressly consented to it, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
providing statistical information about our users to third parties (however, these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information);
handling inquiries and complaints made by you or otherwise relating to our website; maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
ensuring compliance with the terms of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and other uses.
If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish and use it in accordance with the license you provide to us.
You can use your privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on this website.
We will not provide your personal data to any third party for direct marketing purposes without your express consent.
D. Disclosure of Personal Data
We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these principles.
We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (i.e., our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these principles.
We may disclose your personal data:
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 buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data.
Except as provided in these principles, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.
E. International Data Transfers
Data that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use it in accordance with these principles.
Data 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: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal data 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 data described in this section F.
F. Retaining Personal Data
This section F 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 data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Without prejudice to article 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 prospective legal proceedings; and
to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
G. Security of Your Personal Data
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
All personal data provided by you will be stored on our secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).
All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be encrypted.
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 for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. Changes
We may update these principles from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should occasionally check this page to ensure you understand any changes to these principles. We may notify you of changes to these principles by email or through private messages on our website.
I. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal data we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to the following:
presentation of suitable evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary and an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may refuse to provide personal data you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may at any time instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.
J. 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 third parties.
K. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal data we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
L. 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 is 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 either "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies will be stored by the web browser and will remain valid until the set expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that date. Session cookies, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the reasons for their use, are set out 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, improve the website's usability, analyze the use of the website, manage the website, prevent fraud, and improve the security of the website, customize the website for each user, target advertisements based on individual users' interests.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie handling settings accessible 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"; and
in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings" under the "Privacy" section, then selecting "Block sites from setting any data".
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 features of our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookies (instructions on how to do this can be found 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 clicking "Remove all cookies"; and
in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", "Clear browsing data" under the "Privacy" section, and before clicking "Clear browsing data", select "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data".
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.