PRIVACY POLICY
A. Introduction
1. The privacy of users of our website is of great importance to us, and we make every effort to protect it. These rules explain how we use your personal information.
2. By agreeing to the use of cookies when visiting our website for the first time, in accordance with the provisions of these rules, you grant us permission to use cookies on each subsequent visit.
B. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data are subject to collection, storage, and use:
1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
2. Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral sources, visit duration, viewed pages, and website navigation paths.
3. Information about the email address you used to register on our website.
4. Information you entered when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, date of birth, marital status, interests, education, or place of work.
5. Information such as your name and email address that you provided when subscribing to our email newsletters and/or mailings.
6. Information you entered when using services on our website.
7. Information generated when using our website, including information about the timing, frequency, and conditions of its use.
8. Information regarding any purchases, services used, or transactions you conducted through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information.
9. Information you posted on our website for publication on the internet, including your username, profile picture, and the content of your publication.
10. Information contained in any messages you sent us via email or through our website, including the content of the message and metadata.
11. Any other personal information you provided to us. Before disclosing any personal information of a third party to us, you must obtain the consent of that person for both disclosure and processing of this information in accordance with these rules.
C. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data are subject to collection, storage, and use:
D. Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes stated in these rules 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. Personalization of our website for you.
3. Providing you with access to services available on our website.
4. Sending you goods purchased through our website.
5. Providing you with services purchased through our website.
6. Sending you messages, invoices, and payment reminders, as well as receiving payments from you.
7. Sending you non-marketing commercial messages.
8. Sending you email messages that you have specifically requested.
9. Sending you an electronic newsletter if you have subscribed to it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive electronic newsletters from us).
10. Sending you marketing messages regarding our business activities or the carefully selected business activities of third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, through publications or, if you have specifically consented to it, by sending email or using similar technologies (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing messages).
11. Providing statistical information about our users to third-party companies (however, these third-party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data).
12. Processing requests and complaints made by you or about you, relating to our website.
13. Ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud.
14. Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions that regulate the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through the private messaging service on our website).
15. For other purposes.
If you have provided personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it. Otherwise, we will use this information in accordance with the license you have provided to us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your personal data on our website and can be controlled using privacy management tools on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not disclose your personal information to any third-party company for direct marketing use by them or any other third-party company.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We reserve the right to 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 these rules.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (which includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these rules.
We may disclose your personal information:
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 or reducing credit risk);
4. To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
5. To any person who, in our reasonable judgment, may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, and where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as provided in these rules.
F. International Transfer of Personal Information
1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with these rules.
2. 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: United States, Japan, China, and India.
3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit through the internet may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
4. By agreeing to these rules, you consent to the transfer of your personal information as outlined in Section E.
G. Storage of Personal Information
1. Section E establishes the company's rules and procedures regarding the storage of personal information. These rules and procedures are designed to ensure our compliance with our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information processed for specific purposes or in accordance with specific goals should not be kept for longer than necessary to achieve those purposes or goals.
3. Without prejudice to the provisions set out in Section E-2, we typically delete personal information falling into the categories specified below on the dates and times indicated below:
3.1. Personal information will be deleted within 180 days.
4. Notwithstanding other provisions in Section E, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal information:
4.1. To the extent required by law;
4.2. If we believe the documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and
4.3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention or reducing credit risk).
H. Protection of Your Personal Information
1. We will implement adequate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, unlawful use, or alteration of your personal information.
2. All personal information provided by you will be stored on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
3. All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by data 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 worldwide web.
5. You are solely responsible for keeping your password for accessing our website confidential. We will never ask for your password except when you are trying to log into your account on our website.
I. Changes and Amendments
We reserve the right to periodically modify and amend these rules and publish their updated version on our website. You should check this web page regularly to ensure you understand the content of any changes made to these rules. We may also notify you of changes to these rules via 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.
We reserve the right to refuse to provide information upon your request, within the limits of applicable law.
You have the right to instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either agree in advance to us using your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your information for marketing purposes.
K. Third-Party Websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to and details about third-party company and individual websites. We do not have control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of these third parties.
L. Updating Information
Please inform us promptly if your personal information held by us requires updating or correction.
M. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains 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 can be either "persistent" or "session" cookies: persistent cookies are stored by the browser and remain valid until their expiration date, unless deleted by the user before; session cookies, on the other hand, are deleted after the user session with the website or upon closing the browser. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user. However, your personal information that we hold may be linked to and derived from the information stored and obtained from cookies. We use both persistent and session cookies on our website.
1. Cookie names and purposes used on our website are outlined below:
1.1. On our website, we use Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, track user navigation on the website, enable user cart functionality, improve website usability, analyze website usage, administer the website, prevent fraud, enhance website security, personalize the website for each user, and deliver targeted advertising that may be of interest to specific users.
2. Most browsers provide the option to reject the use of cookies, for example:
2.1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie management settings available in the "Tools" menu - "Internet Options" - "Privacy" - "Advanced."
2.2. In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools" - "Options" - "Privacy": in the drop-down menu, select "Use custom history settings" and uncheck the option "Accept cookies from sites."
2.3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Settings and Management" menu, selecting "Settings" - "Show advanced settings" - "Content settings," and then choosing "Block sites from sending any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will have negative consequences on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use many features of our website.
3. You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example:
3.1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to manually delete cookies (instructions on how to do this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
3.2. In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by going to the "Tools" menu - "Options" - "Privacy": in the drop-down menu, select "Use custom history settings," click on "Show Cookies," and then click on "Remove All Cookies."
3.3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Settings and Management" menu, selecting "Settings" - "Show advanced settings" - "Clear browsing data," and before that, choose "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data."
4. Deleting cookies will have negative consequences on the usability of many websites.