Terms of service

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
2. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our policy during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

C. Collection of Personal Information

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

• Information related to your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
• Information regarding your visits to and use of the website, including the referring source, the duration of the visit, page views, and navigation paths on the website.
• Information such as your email address, which you enter during registration on the website.
• Information you provide when creating your profile on our website — for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birth date, personal status, interests, hobbies, educational background, and employment information.
• Information such as your name and email address that you enter when setting up subscriptions and for sending emails and/or newsletters.
• Information you enter when using services on our website.
• Information that arises from using the website, such as when, how often, and under what conditions you use it.
• Information related to your purchases, the services you use, and the transactions you make on the website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information.
• Information that you share on the website with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile information, and the content of your posts.
• Information contained in any communication you have with us via email or the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
• Any other personal information you send us.

Before disclosing any personal information about a third party, you must obtain their consent for the disclosure and processing of their personal data in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information you submit to us will be used for the purposes defined in this policy and on relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• Managing the website and our business.
• Personalizing the website for you.
• Enabling the use of available services on our website.
• Delivering goods purchased through our website.
• Providing services purchased through our website.
• Sending invoices, receipts, and payment reminders to you, as well as collecting payments from you.
• Sending non-marketing communications.
• Sending email notifications regarding your requests.
• Sending our newsletter via email if you have requested it (you can notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter).
• Sending marketing communications related to your business or the businesses of specific third parties we believe may interest you, via notifications or, if you have agreed, by email or similar technology (you can notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
• Providing statistical data about our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this data).
• Managing any complaints or requests you make related to the website.
• Maintaining the security of the website and preventing fraud.
• Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of providing our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service) and other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your licensing.

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy controls on the website.

We will not disclose your personal information without your consent to any third party or any commercial department of a third party.

E. Sharing Personal Information

We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, representatives, suppliers, or subcontractors as required for the purposes stated in this policy.

We may share your personal information with any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, parent company, and their subsidiaries) as required for the purposes stated in this policy.

We may share your personal information:

• To the extent required by law.
• In connection with any current or future legal proceedings.
• For the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk).
• To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset we sell (or contemplate selling).
• With anyone we reasonably believe may be a court or any other competent authority, if we believe such an authority will require the disclosure of such personal information.

As stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries in which we operate to enable us to use it in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have equivalent data protection laws as those in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

You explicitly agree to the transfer of personal data as described in section F.

G. Retention of Personal Data

Section G defines the process and policy for retaining personal data, designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data. Personal data we process for any purpose will not be retained longer than necessary for that purpose.

Without prejudice to section G-2, we typically delete personal data falling under the categories below at the latest permissible legal date.

Despite the provisions in Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data to the extent required by law:

• If we believe the documents may relate to any legal proceedings in progress, and
• For the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).

H. Security of Your Personal Data

We will take the required precautions at a technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
We will store all personal data you provide on secure (password-protected and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions carried out on our website are protected by our encryption technology.
You accept that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password confidential, and we will never ask for your password (except when logging into our website).

I. Modifications

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

J. Your Rights

You can request any information we hold about you. The provision of such information is subject to:

• Payment of a fee, and
• The provision of sufficient identification details for this purpose (we usually accept a certified copy of your passport from a notary and a utility bill showing your current address).

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

You may request at any time that we do not process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, we typically either ask for your explicit prior consent for the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will offer you the ability to opt-out of your information being used for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details from, third-party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please inform us if the information we hold about you needs updating or correction.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a server and stored in the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can either be "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted earlier by the user; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire when the user’s session ends, i.e., when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user, but the personal data we store may be linked to data stored or retrieved from cookies.

We use the following cookies on our website and their purposes:

• We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site, track users as they navigate the site, enable the use of a shopping cart, improve website functionality, analyze website usage, manage the site, protect against fraud, and enhance the security of the site, personalize the site for each user, and target advertisements that may interest specific users.

Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. For example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie settings under “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and “Advanced.”
• In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by selecting “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” and “Use custom settings for history,” and removing the option “Accept cookies from websites.”
• In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, selecting “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” “Content settings,” and selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under “Cookies.”

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of the site.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
• In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by selecting “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and selecting “Remove All Cookies.”
• In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Clear cookies and other site data.”