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 explains what we will do with your personal information.
  2. Giving consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you visit our website for the first time allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

B. Collection of personal information

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

  1. computer information, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
  2. information about visits and use of this website, including the source of recommendation, duration of visit, page views and website navigation;
  3. information such as your email address, which you enter when you register on our website;
  4. the information you enter when you create a profile on our website - for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, academic details and occupation details;
  5. information such as your name and email address, which you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and / or newsletters;
  6. information you enter while using the services on our website; 
  7. information that is generated while you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. information about any purchases, services used or transactions you make through our website, which may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and bank card details;
  9. the information you post on our website for the purpose of posting on the Internet, which may include your username, profile pictures and posting content;
  10. information contained in any communications you send us by e-mail or through our website, including the content of the communications and their metadata;
  11. any other personal information you send us.

 

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

C. Use of your personal information

The personal information transmitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified by this policy or on the respective pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

  1. managing our website and business;
  2. customizing our website for you;
  3. authorization to use the services available on our website;
  4. sending purchased goods through our website;
  5. providing the services purchased through our website;
  6. sending reports, invoices and payment notifications to you and collecting payments from you;
  7. sending commercial communications for information;
  8. sending by e-mail notifications expressly requested;
  9. send our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive this communication);
  10. send marketing communications about our business or to carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, by mail or, where you have specifically consented, by e-mail or similar technology (you may inform us at any moment if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
  11. providing third parties with statistical information about our users (these third parties will not be able to identify any users with this information);
  12. addressing requests and complaints made by you or about you regarding our website;
  13. maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
  14. verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of private messages sent through our private messaging service);
  15. and other uses.

 

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use this information in accordance with the scope of the agreement you provide to us.

Privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be changed using the privacy switches on the website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for direct marketing by such third parties or any other third party.

D. Disclosure of personal information

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

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (including our subsidiaries, parent company and all of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes of this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent required by law;
  2. in connection with any potential or ongoing legal proceedings;
  3. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk);
  4. to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or property we have sold (or plan to sell);
  5. and to any person we reasonably consider that it is possible to apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority could order the disclosure of personal information.

 

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

E. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. The information collected may be transferred between the following countries which have not enacted personal data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
  3. The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
  4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section (E).

F. Retention of personal information

1. This section F sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

2. The personal information we process for any purpose or purposes will not be stored longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.

3. Without prejudice to Article F-2, we usually delete personal data which fall into the categories listed below on the date / time set out below:

  • personal information will be deleted on 28.03.2020 hour 19:30;
  • and 28.06.2020 / 28.09.2020 / 28.12.2020.

4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we will keep documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • to the extent required by law;
  • if we consider that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
  • and to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including the provision of information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);

G. 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 on our secure servers (password protected and firewall).
  3. All electronic financial transactions concluded through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  4. You are aware that the transmission of information over the Internet is usually unsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
  5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

H. Modifications

We reserve the right to 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 ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or private messaging system on our website.

I. Your rights

You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of this information will be subject to the following terms:

free of charge; and 

provide sufficient proof of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport, plus a certified copy "according to the original" of a utility bill containing your current address). 

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

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

In practice, we usually either express your prior express consent to the 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.

J. Third party sites

Our site includes hyperlinks to and details about third party sites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

K. Updating information

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

L. Cookie-uri

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file that contains an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a browser and stored by that browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: the persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until the expiration date, unless it is deleted before expiration date; on the other hand, the session cookie will expire at the end of the user's session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not usually contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained through cookies. On our site we use only persistent and session cookies.

 

1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used can be found below:

  • We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / tracks users while browsing the website / enables a shopping cart on the website / improves the usability of the website / analyze website usage / manage website / prevent fraud and improve website security / customize website for each user / target ads that may be of particular interest to the user / describe purpose (s).

 

2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies - for example:

  • in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies by overwriting cookie handling settings, available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", then "Advanced";
  • In Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from websites ”; and
  • In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Personalization and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", then selecting "Block sites to send" any data ”under the heading“ Cookies ”.

 

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions on our website.

 

3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer - for example:

  • In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to manually delete cookies (you can find instructions on how to do this on here );
  • In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" by clicking "Show cookies" and then " Delete all cookies "; and
  • In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Personalization and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", then select "Delete cookies and other website data and plugins ”and click“ Delete browsing data ”.

 

4. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.