1. Introduction
The privacy of our website users is of great importance to us, and we make every effort to protect it.
These rules explain how we use your personal information. By agreeing to the use of cookies when you first visit our website, in accordance with the provisions of these rules, you give us permission to use cookies each time you visit thereafter.
2. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data are subject to collection, storage, and use:
– Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
– Information about your visits and usage of this website, including referral sources, visit duration, viewed pages, and navigation paths through the site;
– Information about your email address used for registration on our website;
– Information you entered 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;
– Information such as your name and email address provided when subscribing to our email newsletters and/or subscriptions;
– Information you entered when using services on our website;
– Information generated by the use of our website, including information about the time, frequency, and conditions of its use;
– Information regarding any purchases, services used, or transactions conducted through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;
– Information you posted on our website for publication on the internet, including your username, profile picture, and content of your publication;
– Information contained in any messages you sent to us via email or through our website, including message content and metadata;
– Any other personal information you provided to us.
Before disclosing personal information of a third party to us, you must obtain consent from that individual for both disclosure and processing of their information in accordance with these rules.
3. 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:
– Administering our website and business;
– Personalizing our website for you;
– Providing you with services available on our website;
– Sending you goods purchased through our website;
– Providing you with services purchased through our website;
– Sending you messages, invoices, and payment reminders, and receiving payments from you;
– Sending you non-marketing commercial messages;
– Sending you email communications that you have specifically requested;
– Sending you newsletters if you have subscribed to them (you can unsubscribe at any time);
– Sending you marketing messages about our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may interest you, through publications or, if you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you can opt-out of receiving marketing messages at any time);
– Providing third-party companies with statistical information about our users (however, these third-party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
– Processing requests and complaints made by or about you concerning our website;
– Ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;
– Ensuring compliance with terms and rules governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service); and
– For other purposes.
If you have provided personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it. Otherwise, we will use this information in accordance with the license you have granted us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your personal data on our website and may be managed using privacy controls on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not transfer your personal information to any third-party company for direct marketing by that company or any other third party.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary and defined within these rules.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (including our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary and defined within these rules.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information:
– When required by law;
– In connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
– To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention or credit risk reduction);
– To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
– To any person who, in our reasonable opinion, 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.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except as provided in these rules.
5. International Transfers of Personal Information
5.1. Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use that information in accordance with these rules.
Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries where data protection laws may not be equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: USA, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
5.2. Personal information that you post on our website via the internet may be available worldwide. We cannot prevent its use or misuse by others for criminal purposes.
By agreeing to these rules, you consent to the transfer of your personal information as described in section 2.
6. Storage of Personal Information
6. Rules and procedures of the company regarding the retention of personal information.
These rules and procedures are designed to ensure our compliance with legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information processed for specific purposes or purposes should not be kept longer than necessary to achieve those purposes.
Subject to the provisions in section 5.2, we typically delete personal information falling under the following categories on the dates specified below:
– Personal information will be deleted on 2035-05-25; and
– 2055-05-25.
Despite other provisions in Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal information:
– When required by law;
– If we believe these documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and
– To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention or credit risk reduction).
7. Protection of Your Personal Information
7. We will take sufficient technical and organizational measures to prevent loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
All personal information provided by you will be stored on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by data encryption technology.
You acknowledge that transmission of information over the Internet inherently carries risks, and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the global network.
You are responsible for keeping your password confidential that you use to access our website. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log into our website).
8. Amendments
We reserve the right to amend these rules by periodically publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are satisfied with any changes made to the rules. We may notify you of changes to these rules by email or through our website’s messaging system.
9. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any of your personal information that is in our possession; the provision of such information will depend on the following conditions:
providing appropriate evidence of your identity (we typically accept a copy of your passport certified by a notary public, plus an original document indicating your current address).
We may refuse to provide personal information if permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you usually either give your consent in advance to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we provide you with the opportunity to opt out of the use of your information for marketing purposes.
10. Third-party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to other websites and information about them. We do not control the content of these websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. We also do not assume responsibility for any privacy policies or actions of third parties.
11. Updating information
Please inform us if your personal information that we hold requires correction or updating.
12. Cookie files
Our website uses cookies. A cookie file is a small piece of data (a set of letters and numbers) that is sent from 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 server. Cookie files can be either persistent or session-based: persistent cookie files will be stored in the web browser and remain valid until their expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that date; session cookie files, on the other hand, are deleted after the user’s session with the browser ends, when the browser is closed. Cookie files typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but your personal information that we store may be linked to and obtained from cookie files. We use both session and persistent cookie files on our website.
The names of cookie files that we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are listed below:
– We use Google Analytics, Google Search Console, AdWords, and META Pixel on our website for recognizing your computer when you visit the website / tracking users as they navigate the website / enabling the use of a shopping cart on the website / improving the website’s usability / analyzing the use of the website / administering the website / preventing fraud and improving website security / personalizing the website for each user / targeting advertising that may be of interest to specific users;
Most web browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookie files, for example:
– In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookie files using the cookie settings accessible by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and then “Advanced”;
– In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookie files by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
– In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookie files by going to the “Settings and management” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking all cookie files may negatively impact the usability of many websites. If you block cookie files, you may not be able to use all features of our website.
You can delete cookie files that are already stored on your computer, for example:
– In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions on how to do this here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
– In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookie files by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
– In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookie files by going to the “Settings and management” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, “Clear browsing data”, selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
Deleting cookie files may negatively impact the usability of many websites.
Date of revision: 18/06/2024
