Privacy Policy
Introduction
- The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
- We will ask for your consent to use cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website. By using our website and agreeing to our policy, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy.
How We Collect Your Personal Data
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 and use of this website, including the referral source, duration of the visit, page views, and navigation paths on the website.
- Information you enter when registering on our website, such as your email address.
- 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, education details, and employment details.
- Information you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
- Information generated through your use of our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information related to purchases, services used, or transactions conducted through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
- Information you post on our website with the intention of being published on the internet.
- Any other personal information you send to us.
Use of Personal Information
The personal information provided 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 for the following purposes:
- Administering our website and business.
- Customizing our website for you.
- Enabling the use of services available on our website.
- Delivering goods purchased through our website.
- Providing services purchased through our website.
- Sending invoices, reminders, and payment notices to you and collecting payments from you.
- Sending marketing communications.
- Sending email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- Sending you our newsletter if you have subscribed (you can unsubscribe at any time).
- Sending you marketing messages related to our business or third-party businesses that we believe may be of interest to you.
- Providing third parties with statistical information about our users.
- Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website.
- Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with the rules and terms governing the use of our website.
- 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 us. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the website’s privacy controls. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for direct marketing without your explicit consent.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, if it is 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), if it is reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined 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 preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);
- To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are selling (or contemplating selling);
- To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of this personal information, when in our reasonable opinion such a court or authority is likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International Data Transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to allow us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
- Personal information that you post on our website or send for publication on our website may be accessible worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
- You explicitly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this section.
Data Retention
- This section outlines the data retention procedures that are designed to ensure compliance with legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
- The personal information we process for any purpose will not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose.
- Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: (A) To the extent we are required to do so by law; (B) If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; (C) For the establishment or defense of our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fighting fraud and reducing credit risk).
Security of 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 the personal information you provide on our password-protected servers.
- All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You agree 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 website confidential.
Changes
- We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
- You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with 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.
Your Rights
- You may request a copy of any personal information we hold about you. The provision of such information will be subject to: (A) The payment of a fee if the information has to be sent by physical means or other methods that require a fee. (B) We may ask for appropriate proof of your identity (for this purpose, we generally require a photocopy of your ID card, notarized. We may also request a copy of utility bills showing your physical address, such as electricity, water, or telephone bills).
- We may not disclose any personal information requested to the extent permitted by law.
- You can inform us at any time if you do not wish your personal data to be used for marketing purposes.
- By using our services and website, you agree to allow us to use your personal information for marketing purposes. We will provide you with an option to opt-out of having your personal data used for marketing purposes.
Other Websites – Third Parties
- 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.
Updating Information
- Please notify us if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
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 every time one of the server’s pages is loaded.
- Cookies may be "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: persistent cookies will be stored by the web browser and will remain valid until their expiration date unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; session cookies, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed.
- Cookies usually do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information stored about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.
- We use both types of cookies on our website.
- Most browsers allow cookies to be blocked. The user is free to block them at any time.
- 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 that are already stored on your computer.
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.