PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
- The privacy of our website users is important to us and we do our best to ensure that it is protected. This policy explains how we use your personal information.
- By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, according to the terms of this policy, you give us permission to use cookies on each of your next visits
Collection of personal data
The following types of personal data are collected, stored and used:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, length of visits, pages viewed and how you navigate the site;
- Information about your e-mail address that you used to register on our website;
- Information you entered when you created a profile on our website – such as your name, your profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, hobbies and interests, education and place of employment;
- Information such as your name and e-mail address provided when you subscribe to our mailings and/or newsletters;
- Information you entered when you use our website services;
- Information generated when you use our website, including information about the time, frequency and terms of use;
- Information about any purchases, services used or transactions you have made through our website, including your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and credit card information;
- Information that you have posted on our website for the purpose of publishing it online, including your username, profile picture and the content of your posting;
- Information that is contained in any communications you sent to us via email or through our website, including the content of the communication and the purpose of the data;
- Any other personal information you have sent to us. Before disclosing a third party’s personal information to us, you will obtain that person’s consent to both disclose and process that information under this policy.
Before disclosing a third party’s personal information to us, you will obtain that person’s consent to both disclose and process that information in accordance with this policy.
Use of your personal information
The personal information you submit to us through our website will be used for the purposes outlined in these policies or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- administering our website and business;
- personalizing our website for you;
- enabling you to use the services available on our website;
- sending you goods purchased through our website;
- providing you with services purchased through our website;
- sending you messages, invoices and reminders to pay and receive payments from you;
- sending you non-marketing commercial messages;
- sending you email messages that you have specifically solicited;
- sending you email newsletters if you have requested them (you can tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive email newsletters from us);
- sending you marketing messages about our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, either by publication or, if you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you can tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing messages);
- providing third party companies with statistical information about our users (however, these third party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
- handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
- for the purpose of maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
- to check for compliance with the terms and conditions regulating the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website’s private messaging service); yes,
- for other purposes.
If you have provided personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it. Otherwise, we will use that information in accordance with the license you have provided to us.
Privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your personal information on our website, and may be regulated through the privacy controls on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not share your personal information with any third party company for direct marketing use by that or any other third party company.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, managers, policyholders, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors, to the extent and for the purposes set in this policy.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent and for the purposes set in this policy.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information:
- Where we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
- in order to establish, implement or protect our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk);
- to the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets we are selling (or intend to sell); yes
- to any person who we reasonably believe may make a request to a court or other authorized body for disclosure of that personal data and, in our reasonable opinion, that court or authorized body will order disclosure of that personal data.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except stated in this policy.
International transfers of personal information
- The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use that information in accordance with this policy.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- Personal information published on our website, via the Internet, may be accessible worldwide. We cannot prevent its use or misuse for criminal purposes by unauthorized persons.
- By agreeing to this policy, you consent to the transfer of your personal information as specified in Section E.
Retention of Personal Information
- This section outlines the company’s policies and procedures for the retention of personal information. These policies and procedures are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations to retain and delete personal information.
- Personal information that we process for a particular purpose or purposes must not be retained longer than required to achieve that purpose or those purposes.
- Without limiting the terms specified in paragraph E-2, we generally delete personal information falling within certain categories on the days and times specified below:
- {specify date/time} personal information will be deleted; yes
- {SPECIFY ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME}.
- Notwithstanding the other terms of Section E, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal information:
- Where we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe that those documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceeding; yes
- for the purpose of establishing, implementing or protecting our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk).
Protecting your personal information
- This section sets out the company’s policies and procedures for retaining personal information. These policies and procedures are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations to retain and delete personal information.
- Personal information that we process for a particular purpose or purposes must not be retained longer than required to achieve that purpose or those purposes.
- Without limiting the terms specified in paragraph E-2, we generally delete personal information falling within certain categories on the days and times specified below:
- {specify date/time} personal information will be deleted; yes
- {SPECIFY ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME}.
- Notwithstanding the other terms of Section E, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal information:
- Where we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe that those documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceeding; yes
- for the purpose of establishing, implementing or protecting our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk).
