Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.

By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

B. Source

This document has been created using a SEQ Legal template (seqlegal.com).

C. Collection of Personal Information

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

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, the type and version of your browser, and your operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the source reference, the duration of the visit, the pages viewed, and the navigational paths of the website;
Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, your profile picture, your gender, your date of birth, your relationship status, your interests and hobbies, your educational background and your career history;
Information such as your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when you use the services of our website;
Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
Information relating to purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you perform on our site, which include your name, address, phone number, email address and payment information;
Information you publish on our website for publication on the internet, including your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts;
Information contained in all communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their contents and metadata;
Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing any personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of the said person as to the disclosure and processing of such personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or in the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;
Personalize our website for you;
Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
Send you the goods you purchase on our site;
Provide you with the services you purchase on our site;
Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you may tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third parties that we think may interest you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly given your consent, by email or similar technology (you may tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without those third parties being able to identify an individual user from that information);
Process requests and complaints relating to your site made by you or concerning you;
Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
Verify compliance with the terms governing the use of our website (including monitoring messages sent via the site's private messaging service) and other uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish it and may use such information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, nor that of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar 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, ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent required by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we intend (or are considering) to sell; and
To any person we consider reasonably to be part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of such personal information.

Save as provided in this policy, we will not transmit your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in any country in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information 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.

The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.

You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of Your Personal Information

This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and disposal of personal information.

The personal information we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we shall keep documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

To the extent required by law;
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

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 secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted over the Internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential that you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may inform you of changes to this policy by email or via the private messaging service of our website.

J. Your Rights

You can ask us to provide any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

The payment of a fee; and
The provision of adequate proof of your identity (for these purposes, we normally accept a notarised copy of your passport together with an original recent utility bill showing your current address).

We may retain such personal information as we are legally permitted to.

You can ask us at any time to stop processing your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will expressly and in advance consent 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 contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites, and we are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

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) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then returned to the server whenever the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

We only use session cookies on our website. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognise a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they browse, enable the use of a shopping cart, improve the use of a website, analyze usage, administer the site, prevent fraud, personalise the site and deliver targeted advertising.

Cookie Management

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

Internet Explorer (v10): You can block cookies by using the replacement cookie management settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”.
Firefox (v24): You can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” and then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”.
Chrome (v29): You can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” then selecting “Do not allow sites to set data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.

Deleting Cookies

You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer. For example:

Internet Explorer (v10): You must delete the cookies file manually (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
Firefox (v24): Click “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then select “Use custom settings for history” and click “Show Cookies”, then click “Delete All Cookies”.
Chrome (v29): Access the “Customize and control” menu and click “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data” then “Clear cookies and other site data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.