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 do with your personal information.
2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit the website.

B. Collection of personal information

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

3.1 Information about your computer, including your IP address, your geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;

3.2 Information about your visits to and use of the Site, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and your navigation paths through the Site;

3.3 Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering on our website;

3.4 Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletter;

3.5 The information you enter while using the services on our website;

3.6 Information generated while using our website, including when, how much, and under what circumstances you use it;

3.7 Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments;

3.8 Information contained in messages you send to us by email or through our website, including the content of the message and its metadata;

3.9 Any other type of personal information you send to us.

1. Before you disclose another person's personal information to us, you must seek that person's consent for both the sharing and processing of that personal information under this Policy.

C. Use of your personal information

1. Personal information provided 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:

5.1 Managing our website and business;

5.2 Personalizing the Site for you;

5.3 To enable you to use the services available on our website;

5.4 Send you non-marketing commercial communications;

5.5 Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

5.6 Sending you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time that you no longer require the newsletter);

5.7 Sending you marketing communications relating to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented to this, by email, or using similar technologies (you can let us know at any time if you are no longer interested in receiving marketing communications);

5.8 Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but such third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from the information);

5.9 Handling inquiries and complaints submitted by you or concerning you and related to our website;

5.10 to keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

5.11 Verifying compliance with the Terms of Service that govern how the Site is used (including monitoring private messages sent through our Site's private messaging service);

5.12 and other uses.

1. If you provide us with personal information for publication on our website, we will publish the information and use it in other ways in accordance with the license you provide to us.
2. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our site, and can be changed using the privacy controls on the site.
3. We will not provide your personal information without your consent to any third party for their own direct marketing purposes, or that of any other third party.

D. Disclosure of personal information

1. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
2. We may disclose your personal information to any company in our group of companies (including any of the company's community centers) to a reasonable extent and as necessary for the purposes specified in this policy.
3. We may disclose your personal information:

11.1 As required by law;

11.2 in the context of any existing or future legal proceedings;

11.3 to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

11.4 to the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or property that we acquire (or are considering acquiring);

11.5 and to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or any competent authority for the purpose of delivering the personal information where, in our opinion, it is reasonable for that court or authority to order the delivery of such personal information;

11.6 Except as set out in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to any third party;

E. International data transfers

1. 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.
2. Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that 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.
3. Personal information that you post on our site or submit for publication on our site may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
4. You consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section E.

F. Retention of personal information

1. This Section F details our data retention process and policy, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations relating to the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be retained longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions in Section G below, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

19.1 As required by law;

19.2 If in our opinion the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings;

19.3 To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

G. Securing your personal information

1. We will take reasonable organizational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
3. All computerized financial transfers, to the extent made through our website, will be protected using encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is not inherently secure, and we cannot guarantee that data sent over the Internet will be secure.
5. To the extent a password is required, you are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our site confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our site).

H. Corrections

1. We may 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 made to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

I. Your rights

1. We may refuse to provide personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
2. You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
3. In practice, you will usually express prior consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the option to opt out of having your personal information used for marketing purposes.

Y. A. Third-party websites

1. Our website includes external links to, and information about, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third party.

B. Updating information

1. Please let us know if there is a need to correct or update the personal information we hold about you.

A. Cookies

1. 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 to a web browser and stored in the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests the server to display a web page. Cookies can be either "persistent" cookies or "action" cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored in your browser and will remain valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; an action cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your current browsing session, when you close the browser. Cookies do not usually include information that personally identifies users, but personal information that we store about you can be linked to the information stored and obtained from cookies. {Choose the exact wording We only use action cookies / only persistent cookies / both action cookies and persistent cookies on our website.}
2. The names of the cookies we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are detailed below:

We use Google Analytics and AdWords [21] on our website to identify a computer when a user {include all existing uses of cookies on your website visits the website / track users while they use the website / allow us to use a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of the 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 / use targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to certain users / describe the purpose(s)}