Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
2. By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during your first visit to our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. General

This Privacy Policy applies to all applications and software operated by our company.

C. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
2. Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
3. Information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register on our website.
4. 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, educational details, and employment details.
5. Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to subscribe to our email notifications and/or newsletter.
6. Information that you enter while using the services available on our website.
7. Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
8. Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
9. Information that you publish on our website with the intention of making it available online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments.
10. Information contained in communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and its metadata.
11. Any other type of personal information that you send to us.

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

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted 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:

1. Administering our website and business.
2. Personalizing the website for you.
3. Enabling you to use the services available on our website.
4. Sending goods purchased through our website.
5. Providing services purchased through our website.
6. Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.
7. Sending you non-marketing commercial communications.
8. Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
9. Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it. You may notify us at any time that you no longer wish to receive the newsletter.
10. Sending you marketing communications relating to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technologies. You may notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications.
11. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users, provided that such third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information.
12. Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
13. Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.
14. Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website, including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service.
15. 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 to us.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and such settings may be adjusted using the website’s privacy controls.

We will not provide your personal information to any third party for the purposes of direct marketing by that third party or any other third party without your consent.

E. Disclosure of 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 policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any company within our group of companies, meaning our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
3. 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.
4. To the purchaser, or prospective purchaser, of any business or asset that we sell or are considering selling.
5. To any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

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

F. International Data Transfers

1. 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 policy.
2. Information 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: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available worldwide through the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retaining Personal Information

1. This section 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.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Without prejudice to Section G.2, we will ordinarily delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time specified below:
   1. The relevant category of personal data will be deleted on {insert date/time}.
   2. And {insert additional date/time}.
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents, including electronic documents, containing personal data:
   1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law.
   2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
   3. 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

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers protected by passwords and firewalls.
3. All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
4. 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.
5. 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 update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you understand any changes made to this policy.

We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. The provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

1. Payment of a fee of {insert fee, if applicable}.
2. The provision of appropriate evidence of your identity ({adjust this wording to reflect your policy for this purpose; typically, we will accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary, together with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).

We may refuse to provide 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 generally 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 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.

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, 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 may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its specified expiration date unless deleted by the user before that date. A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed.

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

{Select the appropriate wording: We use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our website.}

1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:
   1. We use Google Analytics and Google Ads services on our website to recognize a computer when a user {include all relevant uses of cookies on your website: visits the website / tracks users as they navigate the website / enables the use of a shopping cart on the website / improves the website’s usability / analyzes the use of the website / administers the website / prevents fraud and improves website security / personalizes the website for each user / targets advertisements that may be particularly relevant to certain users / describe the purpose(s)}.
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
   1. In Internet Explorer version 10, you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced.”
   2. 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 then unchecking “Accept cookies from sites.”
   3. In Chrome version 29, you can block all cookies by opening the “Customize and Control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features available on our website.

3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:
   1. In Internet Explorer version 10, you must manually delete cookie files. Instructions are available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
   2. In Firefox version 24, you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies.”
   3. In Chrome version 29, you can delete all cookies by opening the “Customize and Control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data,” and finally clicking “Clear browsing data.”
4. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.