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 data.

By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you permit us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

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

Collection of 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 that you enter when you register on our website, such as your email address;
• Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, gender, relationship status, birthday, profile pictures, interests, hobbies, and information about your education and employment;
• Information that you enter in order to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
• 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, including 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.

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 goods purchased through our website to you;
• Supplying services purchased through our website;
• Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
• Sending non-marketing commercial communications;
• Sending email notifications that you have specifically requested;
• Sending 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 preventing fraud;
• Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s 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.

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 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.

International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and 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. 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 E.

Retaining Personal Information

This Section F 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 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 Section G-2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below: 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).

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 any personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions made through our website are 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 to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Changes
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging system.

Your rights

You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

We may withhold the personal information you request as permitted by law.

You can at any time ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third party websites
Our website contains 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.

Update of information
Let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

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 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 either “persistent cookies” or “session cookies”: a persistent cookie is stored by a browser and remains valid until the specified expiration date, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We only use session cookies / only persistent cookies / both persistent and session cookies on our website.

Some cookies perform necessary functions on the website. Cookies also help us understand why you visit the website, so we can continuously optimize and target the website to your specific needs and interests. Cookies will e.g. remember items placed in a shopping cart, if you have visited the website before, if you are logged in and the language and currency you prefer to view the website. We also use cookies to specifically target our ads to you on other websites. Most often, we use cookies as part of our service to show you content that is as relevant to you as possible.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the settings to cancel cookie management by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;

Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Settings”, “Privacy & Security”, selecting “Custom Content Blocking” and clicking “All Cookies”; and

Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by opening the “Settings” menu and clicking on “Site settings” under “Privacy and security” and then unchecking “Allow websites to save and read cookie data”.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all functions on our website.

You can delete cookies that have already been stored on your computer – for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookies (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”, “Settings”, “Privacy & Security” and then selecting “Clear Data” under “Cookies and Website Data”; and
in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by opening the “Settings” menu and clicking “Clear web information” under “Privacy and security”.