A. Introduction
- The privacy of visitors to our site is very important to us, and we are committed to securing it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
- .By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our site, you enable us to use cookies every time you visit the site.
B. 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, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits and use of the site, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and site navigation paths.
- Information such as your email address when you enter and registering on our site.
4 .Information that you enter when creating a profile on our site — for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and employment details.
5.The Information such as, your name and email address that you enter, in order to subscribe to our email notifications and/or newsletters.
6 .The Information that you provide when using the services on our site. - Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how much, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information related to any purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you perform on our site, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
- Information that you intentionally post, on our site, for publication online including your username, profile pictures, and content of your posts.
- Information included in messages you send to us by email or through our site, including the message content and its metadata.
- Any other type of personal information that you send to us.
Before disclosing any other person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
C. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us through our site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Managing our site and business.
- Personalizing our site for you.
- Enabling your use of the services available on our site.
- Sending you goods purchased through our site.
- Supplying services purchased through our site.
- 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.
9 . Sending you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter). - Sending you marketing communications related 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 statistical information about our users to third parties (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 site.
- Keeping our site secure and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with the terms of use of our site (including monitoring private messages sent through our site’s private messaging service)
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us. You can use your
privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our website, and you can adjust these settings using website privacy controls.
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.
D. Disclosure of 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 (which 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.
- 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.
E. International Data Transfers
- 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: 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 E.
F. Retaining Personal Information
- This Section F 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 Section F-2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below on the date/time set out below:
- Type of personal data will be deleted {insert date/time};
- and {insert additional date/times}
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section 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;
- 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)
G. Securing Your Personal Information
- We will take reasonable organizational and technical 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)
