A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, we allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
B. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of the website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and your navigation paths through the website;
Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering with our website;
Information you enter when creating a profile on our site—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and employment details;
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletters;
Information you enter while using the services on our site;
Information generated while using our site, including when, how much, and under what circumstances you use it;
Information related to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;
Information you post on our site with the intent to publish it online, including your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments;
Information included in messages you send to us by email or through our website, including the content of the message and its metadata;
Any other type of personal information you send to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the sharing and processing of that personal information in accordance with this Policy
D. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out 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 business;
Personalizing the website for you;
Enabling you to use the services available on our website;
Shipping goods you have purchased through the website;
Providing services you have purchased through the website;
Sending you statements, transaction accounts, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you.
To send you non-marketing commercial communications;
To send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
To send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you may notify us at any time that you no longer require the newsletter);
To send you marketing communications relating to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented to this, by email, or by similar technologies (you may notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
To provide statistical information about our users to third parties (but such third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from the information);
To deal with enquiries and complaints submitted by or concerning you and relating to our website;
To keep our website secure and to prevent fraud;
Verifying compliance with the Terms of Service that govern how you use the Site (including monitoring private messages sent through our Site’s private message service);
and other uses.
If you provide us with personal information for publication on our Site, we will publish the information and use it in other ways consistent with the license you provide to us.
You can use your privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our Site, and you can change them using the privacy controls on the Site.
We will not provide your personal information without your consent to any third party for their own direct marketing purposes, or to any other third party.
E. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may provide your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any company in our group of companies (this means all of our subsidiaries, our parent company, and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
As required by law;
In connection with any existing or future legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or property that we acquire (or are considering acquiring);
And to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or any competent authority for the disclosure of the personal information where we reasonably believe that such court or authority would order the disclosure of such personal information.
Except as set out in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to any third party.
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 we collect may be transferred to 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 that you post on our site or submit for publication on our site may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
You consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of Personal Information
This Section C sets out our data retention process and policy, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations relating to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal Information We Process for Each Meter
e or purposes, will not be retained longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions in section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
As required by law;
If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
H. Securing your personal information
We will take reasonable organizational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (which are password and firewall protected).
All computerized financial transfers made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is not inherently secure, and we cannot guarantee that data sent over the Internet will be secure.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our Site confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our Site).
I. Amendments
We may update this Policy from time to time by posting a new version on our Site. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand any changes made to this Policy. We may notify you of changes to this Policy by email or through the private messaging system on our Site.
J. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any details of your personal information that we hold about you; the provision of such details will be subject to the following conditions:
Payment of a fee of {insert fee if any};
Providing appropriate evidence of your identity ({Adjust the text to reflect your policy for this purpose, we will usually accept a notarized copy of your passport, along with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).
We may refuse to provide personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually express your prior consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an option to opt out of having your personal information used for marketing purposes.
K. Third Party Sites
Our site includes external links to, and information about, third party sites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third party.
K. Third Party Sites
Our site includes external links to, and information about, third party sites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third party.
12. Updating Information
Please let us know if there is a need to correct or update the personal information we hold about you.