Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

  1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
  2. By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy during your first visit to our website, we are allowed to use cookies every time you visit our site.

B. Source

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com).

C. Collection of Personal Information

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

  1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. Information about your visits and use of this website, including the referring source, duration of the visit, pages viewed, and navigation paths through websites;
  3. Information such as your email address that you provide when you register on the site;
  4. Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and professional experience;
  5. Information like your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
  6. Information you enter when using the services of our website;
  7. Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how frequently, and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. Information related to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you carry out on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;
  9. Information you post on our website intended for publication on the internet, including your username, profile photos, and the content of your posts;
  10. Information contained in any communications you send us via email or on our website, including their content and metadata;
  11. Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person’s consent regarding the disclosure and processing of that personal information according to the terms of this policy.

D. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

  1. Manage our website and business;
  2. Personalize our website for you;
  3. Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
  4. Send you goods purchased on our site;
  5. Provide you with services purchased on our site;
  6. Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
  7. Send you non-marketing related commercial communications;
  8. Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
  9. Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive our newsletter);
  10. Send you marketing communications related to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may interest you, in the form of publications, or if you have expressly given your consent, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive marketing communications);
  11. Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without those third parties being able to identify any individual user with that information);
  12. Process requests and claims related to your website made by you or concerning you;
  13. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
  14. Verify compliance with the general 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 on our website with the intention of publishing it, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, nor to those of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined 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 outlined in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent required by law;
  2. In the context of any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
  4. To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset we wish (or intend) to sell; and
  5. To any person we reasonably consider to be part of a competent court or other authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority is likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.

Unless otherwise provided in this policy, we will not transfer your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred in all countries where we operate, to allow us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
  3. Personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
  4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information as described in this Section F.

G. Retention of Your Personal Information

  1. This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information we process for any purpose will not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
  3. Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data in these categories on the date and time specified below:
    1. This type of personal data will be deleted after 1 year.
  4. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    1. To the extent we are required to do so by law;
    2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
    3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

H. Security of Your Personal Information

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).
  3. All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data you send over the internet.
  5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may occasionally update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may inform you of changes made to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging service.

J. Your Rights

You can request us to provide any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

  1. Payment of fees; and
  2. Presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes, we generally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary along with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

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

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

In practice, you will expressly and beforehand agree for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes or provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information 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) sent by a web server to a web 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 “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before this expiration date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that can personally identify a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in cookies and obtained through cookies. We only use session cookies on our website.

  1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
    1. 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 website usability / analyze website usage / manage the website / prevent fraud and enhance website security / personalize the website for each user / send targeted ads that may interest certain users (describe your other purposes);
  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
    1. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie management replacement settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, then “Advanced”;
    2. With Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on the “Tools” button, “Options”, “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
    3. With Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, and “Content settings”, then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” header.
  3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:
    1. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie file (you can find instructions to do so here);
    2. With Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking on “Show cookies”, then “Delete all cookies”; and
    3. With Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, and “Clear browsing data”, then “Delete cookies and other site data” before clicking on “Clear browsing data”.
  4. Deleting all cookies will negatively impact the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
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