Privacy Policy
A.
Introduction
1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are
committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we do with your
personal information.
2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this
policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time
you visit our website.
B. How we collect your personal data
The following
types of personal information may 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 to and use of this website including
the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
3.
Information that you enter when you register with our website,
such as your email website.
4.
Information that you enter when you create a profile on our
website. For example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday,
relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment
details.
5.
Information that you enter in order to set up subscription
to our emails and/or newsletters.
6.
Information that is generated while using our website, including
when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
7.
Information relating to anything you purchase, services you
use, or transaction you make through our website, which includes your name,
address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
8.
Information that you post to our website with the intention
of publishing it on the internet.
9.
Any other personal information you send to us.
D. Using
Personal Information
Personal
information submitted 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:
1.
Administering our website and business
2.
Personalizing our website for you
3.
Enabling your use of the services available on our website
4.
Sending you goods purchased through our website
5.
Supplying services purchased through our website
6.
Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you,
and collecting payments from you.
7.
Sending you on-marketing commercial communications
8.
Sending you email notifications you have specifically requested.
9.
Sending you our email newsletter if you signed up for it(you can unsubscribe at any time).
10.
Sending you marketing communications relating to our
business or the businesses of third parties which we think may be of interest
to you.
11.
Providing third parties with statistical information
about our users.
12.
Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about
you relating to our website
13.
Keeping our website secure and prevent fraud.
14.
Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions
governing the use of our website.
15.
Other uses.
If you submit
personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and
otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy
settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our
website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not,
without your expressed consent, supply your personal information to any third
party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
E. Disclosing 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
(this 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:
1.
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2.
Inconnection with any on going or prospective legal proceedings;
3.
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);
4.
to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser)of any business
or asset that we
are (or are
contemplating) selling; and
5.
to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a courtor 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.
F. International data transfers
1.
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in,
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: the United States of America, Russia,
Japan, China, and India.
3.
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.
4.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information
described in this Section F.
G. Retaining personal information
1.
This Section G 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.
2.
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.
3.
Without prejudice to article G-2, we will usually delete
personal data falling
within the categories set out below at the date/time set
out below:
a. personal
data type will be deleted {ENTER DATE/TIME}; and b.
{ENTERADDITIONALDATES/TIMES}.
4. Not with standing the other provisions of this Section G, we will
retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
a.
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b.
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any on going or
prospective legal proceedings; and
c.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).
H. Security of your personal information
1.
Wewilltakereasonabletechnicalandorganizationalprecautionstoprevent the loss,
misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2.
We will store all the personal information you provide on
our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
3.
Allelectronicfinancialtransactionsenteredintothroughourwebsitewillbe
protected by encryption technology.
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 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).
I. Amendments
We may update
this policy 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
this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through
the private messaging system on our website.
J. Your rights
You may
instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you;
provision of such information will be subject to the following:
1.
The payment of a fee{ENTERFEEIFRELEVANT};and
2.
the supply of appropriate evidence of your
identity({ADJUSTTEXTTO
REFLECT YOUR POLICY for this purpose, we will usually
accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy
of a utility bill showing your current address}).
We may
withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may
instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing
purposes.
In practice,
you will usually either expressly agree in advance 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
includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no
control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices
of third parties.
L. Updating information
Please let us
know if the personal information that 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 is stored by the
browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser
requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or
“session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will
remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the
expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the
user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain
any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information
that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained
from cookies. {SELECT ACCURATE PHRASING We use only session cookies / only
persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our website.}
1. The names of
the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are
used, are set out below:
a. we use
Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to
recognize a computer when a user {INCLUDE ALL USES THAT COOKIES ARE USED FOR ON
YOUR SITE visits the website / track users as they navigate the website /
enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s
usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent
fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for
each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to
specific users / describe purpose(s)};
2. Most
browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
a.
in Internet Explorer(version10) you can block cookies using
the
cookie
handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,”
“Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and
then “Advanced”;
b.
in Firefox(version24) you can block all cookies by clicking
“Tools,”
“Options,”
“Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from
the drop-down menu, and unticking
“Accept cookies from sites”; and
c.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.
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.
3. You can delete
cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
a.
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 );
b.
in Firefox(version24),you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,”
“Options,” and “Privacy”, then
selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then
clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
c.in Chrome
(version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and
control” menu, and 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.”
4. Deleting
cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.