A. Introduction
1. The privacy of visitors to our site is very important to us, and we strive to protect it. The privacy policy describes the procedure for processing personal information.
2. Agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our site allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.
B. Thanks
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com )
and modified by the Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com )
C. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal data can 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 and use of this site, including the source of the links, the duration of the visit, page views and navigation paths on the site;
3. information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our website;
4. information that you enter when creating a profile on our site, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, information about education and employment;
5. information such as your name and email address that you enter to set up a subscription to our emails and/or newsletter;
6. information that you enter when using the services on our website;
7. information that is generated when using our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
8. information related to everything you buy, the services you use, or the transactions you make through our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details;
9. information that you post on our site with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your username, profile pictures and the content of your messages;
10. information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including content and metadata;
11. any other personal information that you send to us.
Before disclosing another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent to both disclose and process that personal information in accordance with this Policy
D. 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:
1. administration of our website and business;
2. Personalize our website for you;
3. providing you with the opportunity to use the services available on our website;
4. Sending you the goods purchased through our website;
5. Delivery of services purchased through our website;
6. Sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, as well as collecting payments from you;
7. Sending you non-market commercial messages;
8. Sending email notifications that you specifically requested;
9. Sending an e-mail newsletter, if you have given your consent (you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time);
10. Sending you marketing messages related to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by mail or, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need marketing messages);
11. providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information);
12. Handling requests and complaints made by or about you related to our site;
13. ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
14. Verification of compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our site (including monitoring of personal messages sent through our personal message service site);
15. other purposes.
If you provide personal information for publication on our site, we will publish and otherwise use this information in accordance with the license that you provide to us.
Privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our site and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the site.
We will not, without your explicit consent, provide your personal information to any third party for its or any other third-party direct marketing.
E. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional consultants, agents, suppliers or subcontractors if necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (including our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
1. to the extent provided for by law;
2. in connection with any ongoing or anticipated legal proceedings;
3. in order to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk);
4. to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset that we sell (or plan to sell);
5. any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information, if, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority can reasonably order the disclosure of such personal information.
Except as provided in this Policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.
F. International data transfer
1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any countries in which we operate so that we can use the information in accordance with this Policy.
2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in force in the European Economic Area: The United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. The personal information that you post on our website or provide for publication on our website may be accessible via the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section F.
G. Saving personal information
1. Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes should not be stored for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Without prejudice to Article G2, we usually delete personal data related to the categories listed below within a year.
4. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section G, we retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. to the extent provided for by law;
2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any current or future litigation;
3. in order to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
H. The 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 that you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
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 unsafe, and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.
5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password that you use to access our site; we will not ask you for a password (except when logging into our site).
I. Changes
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to make sure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through the personal message system on our website.
J. Your rights
You can instruct us to provide you with any personal information that we hold about you.
We may conceal the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you usually either explicitly agree that we use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we give you the opportunity to opt out of using your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third-party websites
Our site contains hyperlinks and information about third-party sites. We do not control 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 saved by the browser. The ID is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “permanent” or “session”: permanent cookies are saved by the web browser and remain valid until their expiration date, if the user has not deleted them before the expiration date; session cookies, on the other hand, expire at the end of the user's session when the web browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain any information that identifies the user, but the personal information that we store about you may be related to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. (We use both session and persistent cookies on our site).
1. Below are the names of the cookies that we use on our site and the purposes for which they are used:
1. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our site to recognize the computer when a user visits the site / track users as they navigate the site / allow you to use the shopping cart on the site / improve the usability of the site / analyze the use of the site / administer the site / prevent fraud and increase site security / personalize the site for each user / target advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe goals;
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 processing override settings by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and then “Advanced Settings”;
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 unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”;
3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Settings and Management” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content Settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from installing any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of many sites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of our site.
3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:
1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookies (instructions for this can be found on the page 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 ”Delete all cookies”;
3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Settings and Management” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show Advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plugin data” before clicking “Clear the browsing data.”
4. Blocking cookies will negatively affect the usability of many sites.