Introduction
- The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy describes what we do with your personal information.
- By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website, you consent to our use of cookies each time you visit our site.
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 referral source, length of visit, pages viewed and website navigation paths.
- Information such as your email address that you provide to us when registering on the site.
- Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests, hobbies, education and employment history.
- Information such as your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
- Information you enter when using the services on our website.
- Information generated while using our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information about purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you make on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information.
- Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your user name, profile pictures and the content of your posts.
- The information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including their content and metadata.
- Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- To administer our website and our business.
- Personalize our website for you.
- Enable your use of the services offered on our website.
- Send you the goods purchased on our site.
- To provide you with the services purchased on our website.
- Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments.
- Send you non-marketing commercial communications.
- Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- Send our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter).
- Send marketing communications relating to our company or to carefully selected third-party companies which we think may be of interest to you, in the form of publications or, if you have expressly given your consent, by e-mail or similar technology (you can inform at any time if 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 individual users with this information).
- Deal with requests and complaints about your website made by or about you.
- Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website’s private messaging service); And
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information to our website for publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
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.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.
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 purposes set out in this policy.
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 connection with 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 we own that we wish (or consider) to sell; And
- To anyone whom we reasonably believe to be a party to a court or other authority having jurisdiction over the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of such personal information.
Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.
International data transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred to any country in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
- The information 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 post on our website or submit for posting may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
- You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
Retention of your personal information
- This Section 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, we will keep 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).
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 provide to us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
- All electronic financial transactions conducted 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).
Amendments
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.
Your rights
You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- Presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may withhold personal information that you request 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 express your express consent in advance for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third party websites
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.
Information update
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
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 do not use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
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 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 usability of a website/ to analyze the use of the website/ to administer the website/ to prevent fraud and to improve the security of the website/ to personalize the website for each user/ to send targeted advertisements which may be of interest to certain users (describe your other goals);
- Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
- 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 then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” and then selecting “Prevent sites from set data” in the “Cookies” header.
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 features of our website.
- You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
- 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.