Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details how we handle your personal information. By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website, you enable us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

B. Source

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

C. Collection of Personal Information

We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:

  • 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 the referral source, duration of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths.
  • Information such as your email address that you provide to us when you register on our website.
  • Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment details.
  • Information such as your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
  • Information that you enter while using the services on our website.
  • Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
  • Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and bank details.
  • Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.
  • Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata.
  • Any other personal information that you send to us.

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

D. Using Your 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 to:

  • Administer our website and business.
  • Personalize our website for you.
  • Enable your use of the services available on our website.
  • Send you goods purchased through our website.
  • Supply services purchased through our website.
  • Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you.
  • Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
  • Send you email notifications you have specifically requested.
  • Send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
  • Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications).
  • Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).
  • Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
  • Keep our website secure and prevent fraud.
  • Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service).
  • 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 to 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.

Without your explicit consent, we will not 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:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so 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 the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
  • To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
  • You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retaining Personal Information

  • This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    • To the extent that we are required to do so 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 others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

H. Security of Your Personal Information

  • We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse,