Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

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

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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 to and use of this website, including the referring source, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
  3. Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
  4. Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background and professional background;
  5. Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
  6. Information that you enter when you use our website services;
  7. Information generated during your use of our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you carry out on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and bank details;
  9. Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, and which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
  10. Information contained in all communications you send us by email or through our website, including their content and metadata;
  11. Any other personal information that you provide to us.

Before disclosing any personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of your personal information

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

  1. Administer our website and our business;
  2. Customize our website for you;
  3. To allow your use of the services offered on our website;
  4. We will send you the goods purchased on our site;
  5. To provide you with the services purchased on our site;
  6. Sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collecting your payments;
  7. Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
  8. Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  9. Sending you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
  10. Sending you marketing communications relating to our company or carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly given your consent, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
  11. Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify any individual user with this information);
  12. To process requests and complaints relating to your website made by or concerning you;
  13. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
  14. To verify 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 on our website for publication, we will publish 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 website privacy settings.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent 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) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent that we are legally required to do so;
  2. In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
  3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
  4. To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or intend) to sell; and
  5. To any person whom we reasonably believe to be an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.

Unless otherwise stated in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all countries in which we operate, in order 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 force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
  3. The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use, whether good or bad, of this information by third parties.
  4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Storage 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. The personal information we process for any purpose is not 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 at the date and time specified below:
    1. This type of personal data will be deleted one year after it is stored.
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    1. To the extent that we are legally required to do so;
    2. If we believe 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 the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

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 password and firewall).
  3. All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent 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 update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.

J. Your rights

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

  1. Payment of processing fees in the event of documents being sent by us; and
  2. Providing sufficient evidence of your identity (for this purpose we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

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

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

In practice, you will expressly and in advance express your agreement for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes or we will 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. Information update

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Mr. 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 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 expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that 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 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 do not use session cookies and persistent 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 the use of a website/ analyze website usage/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalize the website for each user/ send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users;
  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
    1. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
    2. With Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down 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 data" in the "Cookies" heading.

Blocking 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.

  1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
    1. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
    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 on "Remove 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 and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".
  2. Deleting cookies will negatively impact the use of many websites.