A.Introduction
The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to
protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website
allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
B. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type
and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referring source, length of
visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register with the
site; Information 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, education and
work history;
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or
newsletters;
Information that you enter when you use the services of our website;
Information generated while using our site, including when, how often and under what
circumstances you use it;
Information relating to the purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you carry out
on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and banking
information;
Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes
your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts;
Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or on our website,
including their content and metadata;
Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that
person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that information.
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personal information under the terms of this policy
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their
C. Use of your personal information direct marketing or that of other third parties.
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described
in this policy or on the relevant site pages. We may use your personal information to:
D. Disclosure of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers,
professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or contractors as reasonably necessary for the
To administer our website and our purposes set out in this policy.
business; Personalize our website for you;
Enable your use of the services offered on our website; send
you the goods purchased on our site;
Provide you with the services purchased on our site;
Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your
payments; Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your
wish to no longer receive our newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party
businesses which we think may be of interest to you, by post, or where you have expressly
consented, by email or similar technology (you can tell us at any time you no longer wish to
receive marketing communications);
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without such third parties
being able to identify an individual user with this information);
Deal with requests and complaints relating to your website made by or about you; Maintain
the security of our website and prevent fraud;
Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of our website (including
monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service);
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (this
means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of 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 the
context of any current or future legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the
purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or
consider) to sell; and
To anyone whom we reasonably believe to be a party to 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 require disclosure of such personal information.
If you submit personal information to our website for the purpose of publishing it, we will publish it
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 privacy settings on the website.
Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third
parties.
From time to time, we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You
should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes made to this
policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private
messaging service.
H. Your rights
This Section E details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply
with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose is not kept longer than necessary for
that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will maintain 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 any pending or potential legal proceedings;
and
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the
purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
F. Security of your personal information
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
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 provide to us on secure servers (password and
firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by
encryption technologies.
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.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we
will not ask you for your password (except when you identify yourself on our website).
In practice, you will express your consent in advance to our use of your personal information for
marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your
personal information for marketing purposes.
I. Third Party Websites
G. Amendments
Our website contains hypertext links to third-party websites and information about them. We
have no control over those sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
then selecting “Prevent sites from setting data” in the “Cookies” header.
J. Updating Information Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or
updated.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookies file manually (you can find
instructions for doing so here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”,
then selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking “Show cookies” , then on “Delete all
cookies”; and
with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control”
menu then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Delete browsing data” then
“Delete cookies and module data from other sites” before clicking on “Delete browsing data”.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.
K.Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and
numbers) 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”: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid
until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before this expiry date; as for a session cookie, it
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 the personal information we store
about you may be linked to information stored in cookies and obtained by cookies. We only use
session cookies.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are
described below:
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 / improve the use of a website /
analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security
of the website / personalize the website for each user.
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override
settings available by clicking ‘Tools’, ‘Internet Options’, ‘Privacy’ and then ‘Advanced’;
With Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” then
selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept
cookies”. cookies from the sites”; and
with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control”
menu and then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”