A. Introduction
- 1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal data.
B. Attribution
This document was created using a template from SE Q Legal
and modified by Website Pla net
C. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- information about your visits to and use of this website, including the source of reference, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
- information that you provide to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
- information that you provide when using the services of our website;
- information generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- information relating to anything you purchase, the services you use or transactions you make through our website, including your name, phone number, address, email address and credit card details;
- information that you post on our website with the intention of posting it on the internet, including your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts;
- information in any form of communication you send to us via email or our website, including its content and metadata;
- any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose another person's personal information to us, you need to have that person's consent for the personal information to be both disclosed and processed in accordance with this Policy
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information sent to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to administer our website and business;
- to customize our website for you;
- to enable you to use the services available on our website;
- to send or collect goods that you have registered through our website.
- to send commercial communications that are not for marketing purposes;
- to send emails that you have specifically requested;
- to send you our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need the newsletter);
- to send you marketing communications relating to our business or the activities of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically consented to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
- to provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify an individual user from the information);
- to deal with inquiries and complaints from or about you regarding our website;
- to keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
- to confirm your agreement to our website's terms of use (including monitoring private messages sent via our website's private messaging service); and
- other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you give us.
Your privacy settings may be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted using the website's privacy controls.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their or any other third party's direct marketing without your explicit consent.
E. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurance companies, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with pending or future court proceedings;
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including disclosing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation);
- to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are in the process (or considering) of selling; and
- to any person who we reasonably believe can request from a court or other competent authority that we disclose the personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority could reasonably order us to disclose the personal information.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except in the cases specified in this policy.
F. International data transfer
- Information we collect may be stored, processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
- Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, China and India.
- Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the information from being used or misused by others.
- You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of personal information
- This Section G describes our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be stored for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
- Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data falling within the categories below at the date and time specified below:
- Personal data type will be deleted within one year after registration if there is no intention to use the data anymore.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- if we believe the documents may be relevant to ongoing or future court proceedings; and
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including disclosing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation).
H. Security of your personal information
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store any personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information via the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the internet.
I. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website's private messaging system.
J. Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; providing such information will be subject to the following:
- provision of appropriate proof of your identity.
We may withhold the personal information you request as permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the option to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to and details of third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Update of information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
