Privacy Policy

Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
2. Your consent to the use of cookies in conjunction with our terms of use on your first visit to the website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

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, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.
2. Information about your visits and use of the website, including the external source, the duration of the visit, page views, and navigation path on the website.
3. Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the website.
4. Information you enter when creating your profile on our website—for example, your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, your relationship status, interests and hobbies, information about your education, and information about your employment.
5. Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter when setting up your subscriptions and for sending emails and/or newsletters.
6. Information you enter when using services on our website.
7. Information generated when using the website, such as when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
8. Information related to your purchases, the services you use, and the transactions you make on the website, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information.
9. Information you share on the website with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile information, and the content of your posts.
10. Information contained in any communication you have with us via email or through the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
11. Any other personal information you send us.

Before disclosing any personal information about a third party, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with this policy.

Use of your personal information

Personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We may use personal information for the following purposes:

1. to administer our website and business
2. to personalize our website for you
3. to enable your use of the services available on our website
4. to send non-promotional communications
5. to send email notifications about your requests
6. sending our newsletter via email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter)
7. sending promotional communications related to your business or the businesses of specific third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, through notifications or, if you have agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive promotional communications)
8. providing statistical data about our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any individual user from this information)
9. managing requests and complaints you have submitted yourself or that relate to your website
10. maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud
11. confirming compliance with the terms and conditions of our website (including monitoring personal messages sent through our private online messaging service)

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your permission.

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.

We will not disclose your personal information without your consent to any third party or to any third party commercial division.

Sharing personal information

We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, insurers, or professional advisors, representatives, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (that means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

1. to the extent required by law
2. in connection with any current or future legal proceedings
3. for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)
4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business asset we are selling (or considering selling); and
5. to anyone we reasonably believe may be a judicial or other competent authority in connection with the disclosure of information where we believe that the relevant authority will require the disclosure of that personal information.

Also, as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate so that we can use it in accordance with this policy.
2. Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available online worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.
3. You expressly agree to the transfer of temporary data described in this section.

Retention of personal data

1. This section sets out the procedure and policy for retaining personal data, which is designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
2. Personal data that we process for any purpose will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
3. Without prejudice to Section G-2, we usually delete personal data that falls into the following categories and on the corresponding date/time
   1. Personal data of type will be deleted on January 1 and
   2. July 1.
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data
   1. to the extent required by law.
   2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing legal proceedings and
   3. for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)

Security of your personal data

1. We will take the necessary precautions at a technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal data.
2. We will store all personal data you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
3. All electronic financial transactions carried out on our website are protected by our encryption technology.
4. 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.
5. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

Changes

We may update our policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to our policy. We may notify you of changes to our policy by email or through a private messaging system on our website.

Your rights

You may request us to provide you with any information we hold about you; the provision of such information is subject to the following:

1. the provision of sufficient identification details (for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport and a photocopy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may retain the personal information you request for the period permitted by law.

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

In practice, you will usually either explicitly agree in advance to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of the use of your information for marketing purposes.

Third-party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third-party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

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

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