What personal data we collect and why we collect it
A. Introduction
- The
privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are
committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with
your personal information. - Consenting to our use of cookies in
accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our
website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
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C. Collecting personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
- 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, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths; - information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
- information
that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example,
your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status,
interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details; - information,
such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up
subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters; - information that you enter while using the services on our website;
- information that is 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,
telephone number, email address, and credit card 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 for the following:
- administering our website and business;
- personalizing our website for you;
- enabling your use of the services available on our website;
- sending you goods purchased through our website;
- supplying services purchased through our website;
- sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
- sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
- sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- sending
you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us
at any time if you no longer require the newsletter); - sending
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); - providing third parties with
statistical information about our users (but those third parties will
not be able to identify any individual user from that information); - dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
- keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
- verifying
compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our
website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website
private messaging service); and - 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.
We will not,
without your express consent, 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;
- 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); - to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
- 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 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 information described in this Section F.
G. Retaining personal information
- This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedure, 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:
- personal data type will be deleted after 6 month
- 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 information
- We
will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to
prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. - We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
- All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- 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. - You are responsible for keeping the password
you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for
your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Amendments
We
may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on
our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you
understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to
this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our
website.
J. Your rights
You may instruct us
to provide you with any personal information we hold about you;
provision of such information will be subject to the following:
- the payment of a fee; and
- the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.
We may withhold personal information that 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 either expressly agree 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 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 information that 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) 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 serverCookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will 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 information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purpose(s)};
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, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all
cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on
our website.
- You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
- in
Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,”
“Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for
history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All
Cookies”; and - in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies
by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,”
“Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting
“Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear
browsing data.”
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.