Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we
are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do
with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of
this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies
every time you visit our website.

B. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)

C. Collecting 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, page views, and website navigation
paths;
information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
information that you enter when you create a profile on our
website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday,
relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and
employment details;
information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in
order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
information that you enter while using the services on our website;
information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or
transactions you make through our website, which includes your name,
address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
information that you post to our website with the intention of
publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile
pictures, and the content of your posts;
information contained in any communications that you send to us by
email or through our website, including its communication content and
metadata;
any other personal information that you send to us.

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

D. Using 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:

administering our website and business;
personalizing our website for you;
enabling your use of the services available on our website;
sending you goods purchased through our website;
supplying services purchased through our website;
sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can
inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the
businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of
interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to
this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if
you no longer require marketing communications);
providing third parties with statistical information about our users
(but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual
user from that information);
dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use
of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our
website private messaging service); and
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 can be used to limit the publication of your
information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on
the website.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal
information to any third party for their or any other third party’s
direct marketing.

E. Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees,
officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or
subcontractors as 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) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set
out 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;
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 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 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

Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, 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.
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.
Personal information 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 information described in this Section F.

G. Retaining personal information

This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedure,
which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal
obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal
information.
Personal information 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 G-2, we will usually delete personal
data falling within the categories set out below within 20 months.
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; and
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

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 secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into 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 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).

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 you understand 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.

J. Your rights

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

the payment of a fee; and
the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this
purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified
by a notary plus 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 usually 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 that 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 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 may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a
persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid
until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry
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 any information that personally identifies a user, but personal
information that we store about you may be linked to the information
stored in 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 purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
1. 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’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer
  the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website /
  personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may
  be of particular interest to specific users / describe purpose(s)};
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 available 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 unticking “Accept cookies from
  sites”; and
3. in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the
  “Customize and control” menu, and 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 upon the usability
of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all
the features on our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
2. 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
3. in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the
  “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced
  settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies
  and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.