Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is crucial to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
- By consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you visit our website for the first time, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
- Information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, visit duration, page views, and website navigation paths.
- Information such as your email address when you register on our website.
- Information you provide when creating a profile on our website, including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, hobbies, academic details, and occupation details.
- Information such as your name and email address when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters.
- Information you provide while using our website services.
- Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information related to any purchases made, services used, or transactions conducted through our website, which may include name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
- Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and post content.
- Information contained in any communications you send to us via email or through our website, including communication content and metadata.
- Any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing another person’s personal information, you must obtain their consent for both disclosure and processing of personal information in accordance with this policy.
Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information transmitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the respective pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- Administer our website and business.
- Personalize our website for you.
- Authorize the use of services available on our website.
- Send commercial communications for informational purposes.
- Send expressly requested email notifications.
- Send our newsletter by email if requested (you can inform us anytime if you no longer wish to receive this communication).
- Send marketing communications about our business or carefully selected third-party companies, by mail or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (these third parties will not be able to identify any user with this information).
- Address requests and complaints made by you or about you regarding our website.
- Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud.
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information according to the extent of the agreement you provide us.
Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy switches on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for direct marketing by these third parties or any other third party.
Disclosure of 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 company group (this includes our subsidiaries, parent company, and all of its subsidiaries) 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 potential or ongoing legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
- To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset we are selling (or planning to sell); and
- To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of personal information, where in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority may order the disclosure of personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International Data Transfers
- 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 this policy.
- The collected information may be transferred between the following countries that 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.
- Personal information you post on our website or submit for posting on our website may be available on the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
- You expressly agree to the information transfers described in this Section (F).
Retention of Personal Information
- This Section F establishes our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Despite other provisions in this Section F, we will retain 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 prospective legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
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 our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
- All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- 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.
- You are responsible for keeping your password confidential; we will never ask for your password (except when logging into our website).
Changes
We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time by posting 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 our website’s private messaging system.
Your Rights
You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following terms:
Providing sufficient evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized copy of your passport and a certified “true copy” of a utility bill containing your current address}). We may withhold personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can request at any time that we do not process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you usually either give us express consent in advance regarding the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to and details about third-party websites. We have no control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
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 browser and stored by that browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information obtained and stored in cookies. On our website, we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both persistent and session cookies.
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used can be found below
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie handling settings, available by clicking on “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” then “Advanced.”
- In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from websites”; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking on “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
