Privacy policy

A. Introduction

We take the privacy of our website visitors very seriously and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

B. Copyright

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and www.websiteplanet.com, and modified by WebsitePlanet.

C. Collecting Personal Information

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

  • Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.

  • Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths.

  • Information you enter when registering on our website, such as your email address.

  • Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, gender, and date of birth.

  • Information such as your name and email address that you provide to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletters.

  • Information you enter while using the services on our website.

  • Information generated while using our website, including the timing, frequency, and circumstances of your use.

  • Information related to any purchases, services used, or transactions made through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.

  • Information you post on our website for publication on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and post content.

  • Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including shared content and metadata.

  • Any other personal information you choose to send to us.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted 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 purposes:

  • Administering our website and online business.

  • Personalizing our website for you.

  • Enabling your use of the services available on our website.

  • Delivering goods purchased through the website.

  • Providing services purchased through the website.

  • Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments.

  • Sending non-marketing commercial communications.

  • Sending email notifications you have specifically requested.

  • Sending our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you may unsubscribe at any time).

  • Sending marketing communications relating to our business by post, or by email or similar technology if you have expressly consented (you may opt out at any time).

  • Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (without identifying any individual user).

  • Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.

  • Protecting our website against fraud and maintaining its security.

  • Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.

  • 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 and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.
We will not provide your personal information to any third party for direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

E. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to 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 includes subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • Where required to do so by law.

  • In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.

  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

  • To a purchaser or prospective purchaser of any business or asset we are selling or considering selling.

  • To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for 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

Information we collect may be stored, processed, 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.
Information may be transferred to countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area, including the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

We cannot prevent the use or misuse of personal information you publish on our website and make available worldwide.
You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this section.

G. Retention of Personal Information

This section sets out our data retention policies designed to help ensure compliance with legal obligations relating to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information will not be retained for longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

Notwithstanding other provisions, we will retain documents containing personal data:

  • Where required by law.

  • If we believe the documents may be relevant to ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.

  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.

H. Security of Your Personal Information

We take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
All personal information you provide is stored on secure servers protected by passwords and firewalls.
All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website are 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 you for your password except when logging in.

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should review this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes. We may notify you of changes by email or through the website’s messaging system.

J. Your Rights

You may request details of the personal information we hold about you, subject to:

  • Providing appropriate proof of identity (such as a national ID or passport).

We may withhold personal information to the extent permitted by law.

You may request at any time that we stop processing your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will either have expressly agreed in advance to our use of your information for marketing, or we will provide you with an option to opt out.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes links to third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies or practices of third parties.

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 sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. Cookies may be persistent cookies or session cookies. Persistent cookies remain until their expiry date unless deleted by the user, while session cookies expire at the end of the browsing session.

Cookies typically do not contain personally identifiable information, but personal information we store may be linked to information stored in cookies.

We use Google Analytics and Google AdWords cookies to recognize users’ devices, track usage, improve usability, analyze site performance, manage the website, prevent fraud, enhance security, personalize content, and deliver targeted advertising.

Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. However, blocking or deleting cookies may negatively affect website usability and may prevent you from using all features of our website.