A. Introduction

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
  2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

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

C. Collection of personal information

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 such as your email address, which you provide when you register on the website;
  4. Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education, and employment history;
  5. Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
  6. Information you enter when you use our website services;
  7. Information generated during your use of our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
  9. Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata;
  10. Any other personal information you provide to us.

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

D. Use of your personal information

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

  1. Administer our website;
  2. Personalize our website for you;
  3. Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
  4. Send you non-marketing-related commercial communications;
  5. Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
  6. Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
  7. Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users from this information, for example, Google’s web analytics service);
  8. Process inquiries and complaints about our website made by or about you;
  9. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
  10. Ensure compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service);

If you submit personal information to our website for publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.

We will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or other third parties’ direct marketing purposes without your express consent.

E. Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar 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) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

  1. We may disclose your personal information:
  2. To the extent we are required to do so by law;
  3. In connection with any pending or prospective legal proceedings;
  4. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
  5. To any person we reasonably believe to be a party to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of such personal information.

Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.

F. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred across countries in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  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: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
  3. The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication may be available via the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by third parties.
  4. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of your personal information

  1. This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  3. Without prejudice to Section G-2, we will generally delete personal data in this category in the evening, subject to the availability of our administrators.
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents)
    • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
    • if we believe the documents may be relevant to any current or potential legal proceedings; and
    • 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. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).
  3. All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information via the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.
  5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.

J. Your rights

You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

  • Provide the email address used to register on our website.

We may withhold the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law. You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, you will either expressly consent 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 contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Update 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 (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and 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 “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires 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 that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

For more information about our cookie policy, please visit the dedicated page: cookie policy.

Blocking all cookies will negatively impact your experience on many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Please refer to your web browser specific documentation to do so.