Introduction
Collecting personal information The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used: Information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system. Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, duration of visit, page views, and website navigation paths. Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our website. Information that you enter when creating a profile on our website—such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests, and hobbies, educational details, and employment details. Information such as your name and email address that you enter in order to set up subscriptions and email notifications. Information that you enter while using the services on our website. Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it. Information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and card details. Information that you post to our website for publication on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts. Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata. Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
We may disclose our personal information:
to the extent that we are required to do so by law; in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; in order 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 prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Additionally, as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International data transfers
Information that 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.
Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
Retention of personal data
Section G outlines our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
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 that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
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.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website 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 posting a new version on our website periodically. You should occasionally check the page to ensure that you understand any changes to our policy. We may inform you of changes to our policy via email or through a private messaging system on our website.
Your Rights
You can ask us to provide you with any information we hold about you. The provision of such information is subject to the following: payment of a fee and providing adequate identification details; we usually accept a certified copy of your passport from a notary public and a copy of a utility bill showing your current address. We may retain the personal information you request for the period permitted by law. You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for advertising purposes. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for advertising purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of the use of your information for advertising purposes.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes 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.
Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be updated or corrected.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server and stored by a web browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by a browser and remains valid until its expiration date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date, whereas a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We only use session cookies / only persistent cookies / session and persistent cookies on our website. The names of the cookies we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out 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 / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website's usability / analyze the use of the website / manage the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purposes. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example: in Internet Explorer you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and "Advanced"; in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and in Chrome, you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" header. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example: in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 ); in Firefox, you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and in Chrome, you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data". Deleting all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites
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