A. Introduction

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. These rules explain what we do with your personal data.
  2. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our terms during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies during each of your visits to our site.

 

B. Collection of Personal Data

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

  1. Information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type, and operating system.
  2. Information about your visits and usage of these websites, including referral sources, visit duration, viewed pages, and website navigation.
  3. Information such as your email address provided when registering on our website.
  4. Information you provide when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, status, interests, hobbies, education, and occupation.
  5. Information such as your name and email address provided when signing up for our email services and/or newsletters.
  6. Information you provide when using services on our website.
  7. Information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
  8. Information related to your purchases, services used, or transactions conducted through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
  9. Information you submit to our website with the intent to publish it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your post.
  10. Information contained in any communication you send us via email or through the website, including the content and metadata.
  11. Any other personal data you send us.
  12. Before providing us with personal data of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of their personal data in accordance with these principles.

 

C. Use of Your Personal Data

The personal data provided through our website will be used for the purposes stated in these principles or on the relevant web pages. Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:

  1. Management of our website and business.
  2. Customization of our website to suit your needs.
  3. Facilitating the use of services available on our website.
  4. Delivery of goods purchased through our website.
  5. Provision of services purchased through our website.
  6. Sending invoices, bills, payment reminders, and collecting payments.
  7. Sending non-commercial business communications.
  8. Sending specifically requested email notifications.
  9. Sending our email newsletter, if you have subscribed (you can inform us anytime if you no longer wish to receive it).
  10. Sending marketing communications related to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may interest you, either by mail or, if expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us anytime if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
  11. Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information).
  12. Addressing inquiries and complaints related to our website.
  13. Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
  14. Verifying compliance with the terms of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and
  15. Other uses.

If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish and use it in accordance with the license you grant us.

You can use your privacy settings to limit the publication of your data on our website, and these settings can be adjusted using privacy controls on this website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal data to any third party for direct marketing purposes, either from us or another third party.

 

D. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, as reasonably necessary for the purposes stated in these principles.

We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (i.e., our subsidiary companies, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiary companies), as reasonably necessary for the purposes stated in these principles.

We may also disclose your personal data:

  1. To the extent required by law.
  2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
  3. 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 buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are selling (or contemplating selling); and
  5. To any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data.

Except as provided in these principles, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.

 

E. International Data Transfers

  1. The data we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use it in accordance with these principles.
  2. The data we collect may be transferred to the following countries that 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.
  3. Personal data that you disclose or submit for publication on our website may be accessible worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
  4. By explicitly agreeing to these terms, you consent to the transfer of personal data as described in this section E.

 

F. Retention of Personal Data

  1. This Part F sets out data retention policies and procedures designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
  2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes may not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
  3. Without prejudice to Article F 2, we delete personal data that fall into the categories below as soon as the necessary period for their storage has expired.
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Part F, we will retain documents (including electronic ones) containing personal information
  5. to the extent we are required to do so by law;
  6. if we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and
  7. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).

 

 

G. Security of Your Personal Data

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
  2. All personal data provided by you will be stored on our secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).
  3. All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be encrypted.
  4. 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.
  5. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our website).

 

H. Changes

We may update these principles 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 these principles. We may also notify you of changes to these principles by email or through private messages on our website.

 

I. Your Rights

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

  1. You provide appropriate evidence of your identity; and
  2. You provide an original copy of service bills with your current address.

To the extent permitted by law, we may withhold personal data that you request.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

 

J. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to third-party websites and details about them. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

 

K. Updating Data

Please let us know if the personal data we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

 

L. 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. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies. We use 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 detailed in the cookie consent application.
  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 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 unchecking "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.
  3. 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..
  4. 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 "Remove All Cookies"; and
    3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, 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."
  5. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.