Privacy Policy
A. Introduction
- The privacy of visitors to our website is very important and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
- When you visit us for the first time and consent to our use of cookies, in accordance with the terms of this policy, you give us permission to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).
C. Collect personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- information about your device, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
- information you enter when creating an account on our website, such as email address;
- information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, marital status, interests and hobbies, education and employment information;
- information you enter to subscribe to our mailings and newsletters, such as your name and email address;
- information you enter while using the services on our website;
- information that is generated while you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- information about anything related to your purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through the website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information;
- information that you post on our website with the intention of being published on the Internet, including your username, profile photos and the content of your posts;
- information contained in any communications you send to us via email or through our website, including the content of the communication and metadata;
- any other personal information you submit to us.
Before you disclose another person's personal information to us, you must first obtain that person's consent, both to the disclosure and to the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy;
D. Using your personal information
The personal information you submit to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
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- administer our website and business;
- customize our website for you;
- activate the use of services available on our website;
- send you items purchased through our website;
- provide services purchased through our website;
- send statements, invoices and payment reminders and collect data from you;
- send commercial communications (not marketing);
- send email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- send an email newsletter, if you have requested one (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to subscribe to the newsletter);
- send marketing communications related to our business, or the businesses of carefully selected third parties, that we think will be of interest to you, by post or where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technologies (you can tell us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- provide statistical information to third parties about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user with that information):
- respond to questions and complaints from you or about you related to our website;
- keep the website secure and prevent fraud;
- verify compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of our website (including the monitoring of private messages through the private messaging service of our website); and
- other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of our information on our website and may be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
Without your explicit consent we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their direct marketing or that of another third party.
E. Disclose personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or contractors, as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes subsidiaries, our group and all of its subsidiaries), as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- to the extent required by law;
- in connection with any current or prospective legal proceedings;
- to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing personal information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
- to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset we are selling or contemplating selling; and
- to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority to request disclosure of that personal information, and that, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would have a reasonable likelihood of ordering disclosure of such personal information.
Except as provided by law, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. International data transfers
- Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries where we do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- Personal information that you post on our website, or submit for publication on our website, may be available over the Internet, throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
- You explicitly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this section F.
G. Retain personal information
- This Section G sets forth our personal information retention policies and procedures, designed to help 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 should not be stored for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
- Notwithstanding article G-2, we will usually delete personal data that falls within the categories mentioned below on the date and time determined below:
- personal data will be deleted on January 1, 2120
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data:
- to the extent required by law;
- if we believe the documents may be relevant to any current or prospective legal proceedings; and
- to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing personal information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
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 all personal information you give us on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
- All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You agree that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
- You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential, and we will not ask you for your password (except to 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 occasionally check this page to ensure that 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 can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; The delivery of said information will be subject to the following:
- the payment of a fee of €19 and
- provided you provide appropriate evidence of your identity, we will usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport and an original copy of a bill showing your current address.
We may retain personal information that you request from us 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 usually explicitly consent in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of having your personal information used for marketing purposes.
K. Third Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
L. Update 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) that is sent from a web server to a web browser and stored in the browser. The identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. The cookies can be “persistent” or “session”. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its expiration date, unless the user deletes it before the expiration date. A session cookie will expire at the end of the user's session, when the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies the user but rather personal information that we store about you that can be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We only use session and persistent cookies on our website.
- The names of the cookies that we may use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are specified below:
- we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / monitor users while they browse the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / customize the website for each user / customize ads that are of particular interest to specific users.
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the automatic management of cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”.
- in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
- in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the “Privacy and security” menu and clicking on “Settings”, “Advanced” and then unchecking “Allow sites store and read cookie data” under the Cookies” heading.Blocking cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of your website.
- You can delete the cookies already stored on your computer, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie files (instructions for doing this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- In Firefox (version 24) you can delete all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking “Show cookies” and then clicking in “Delete all cookies”; and
- in Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Privacy and security” menu and clicking on “Settings”, “Advanced” and then selecting “Delete cookies and others site data and plugins” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
- Removing cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.