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PRIVACY POLICY

A. Introduction

The privacy of the users of our website is of great importance to us, and we strive to ensure its protection. These rules explain how we use your personal information.

By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of these Rules, you allow us to use cookies on each subsequent visit.

B. Intellectual Property Rights

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 are subject to collection, storage, and use:
 

  1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
     

  2. Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, duration of visits, pages viewed, and site navigation paths;
     

  3. Information about your email address used for registering on our website;
     

  4. Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, hobbies and interests, education, and employment;
     

  5. Information such as your name and email address you provide when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
     

  6. Information you enter when using the services on our website;
     

  7. Information generated while using our website, including the timing, frequency, and conditions of your use;
     

  8. Information related to any purchases, services used, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;
     

  9. Information you post on our website with the intent to publish it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures, and content of your posts;
     

  10. Information contained in any communications you send to us via email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
     

  11. Any other personal information you send to us.
     

  12. Before you disclose to us the personal information of a third party, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with these rules.


D. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes outlined in these rules or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
 

  1. Administering our website and business;
     

  2. Personalizing our website for you;
     

  3. Enabling your use of the services available on our website;
     

  4. Sending you goods purchased through our website;
     

  5. Providing you with services purchased through our website;
     

  6. Sending you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you;
     

  7. Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
     

  8. Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
     

  9. Sending you our email newsletter if you have subscribed to it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
     

  10. Sending you marketing communications related to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
     

  11. 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);
     

  12. Handling inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
     

  13. Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
     

  14. 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
     

  15. 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.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide 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 these rules.

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 these rules.

We may disclose your personal information:
 

  1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
     

  2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
     

  3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
     

  4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
     

  5. 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 these rules, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers
 

  1. Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with these rules.
     

  2. 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, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
     

  3. 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.
     

  4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section E.


G. Retaining Personal Information
 

  1. 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.
     

  2. 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.
     

  3. Without prejudice to the generality of Section F-2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:

    1. Personal data will be deleted {INSERT DATE/TIME}; and

    2. {INSERT ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME}.
     

  4.  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

    1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

    2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and|

    3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

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