Privacy Policy
A. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. These rules explain what we do with your personal data.
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B. Acknowledgment
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).
C. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored, and used:
Information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits and use of these websites, including referral source, length of visit, viewed pages, and website navigation;
Information such as your name and email address that you enter when signing up for our email services and/or newsletters;
Information you provide when using services on our websites;
Information generated while using our websites, including when, how often, and under what conditions you use them;
Information related to your purchases, services used, or transactions made through our websites, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details;
Information you submit to our websites with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your post;
Information contained in any communication you send to us by email or through our websites, including the content and metadata;
Any other personal data you send to us.
Before providing us with another person's personal data, you must obtain that person's consent to disclose and process that personal data in accordance with these policies.
D. Use of Your Personal Data
Personal data provided to us through our websites will be used for the purposes stated in these policies or on the relevant web pages of the websites. Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:
Website management and business administration;
Customizing our websites to you;
Enabling the use of services available on our websites;
Providing services purchased through our websites;
Sending non-commercial messages;
Sending specifically requested email notifications;
Sending our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
Sending marketing messages related to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we think may be of interest to you, by mail or, if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing messages);
Handling inquiries and complaints you make or that otherwise concern you in relation to our website;
Maintaining the security of our websites and preventing fraud; and
Other uses.
If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish and use it in accordance with the license you provide.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the disclosure of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on this website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal data to any third party for direct marketing by them or any other third party.
E. Disclosure of Personal Data
We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these policies.
We may disclose your personal data:
To the extent required 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 fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of those personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of those personal data.
Except as provided in these policies, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
The data we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use them in accordance with these policies.
The data 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 data that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website 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 data described in this Section F.
G. Retention of Personal Data
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 data.
Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
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; and
in order 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 Data
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
All personal data you provide will be stored on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be encrypted.
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.
I. Changes
We may update these policies 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 these policies. We may notify you of changes to these policies by email or through private messages on our website.
J. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal data we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to the following:
Supplying appropriate evidence of your identity.
We may withhold personal data requested by you to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.
K. Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal data that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
M. Cookies
Our websites use cookies. A cookie is a file containing 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 set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. Session cookies, on the other hand, expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data 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 websites.
The names of the cookies that we use on our websites, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
On our website, we use Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize a computer when a user visits the website, track users' movements on the website, improve the usability of the website, analyze the use of the website, manage the website, prevent fraud, improve the security of the website, personalize the website for each user, target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users;
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";
in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools," "Options," "Privacy," selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and selecting "Block sites from setting any data."