A. Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
- Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Credits
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal.
C. 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 referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
- information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register on our website;
- information you enter when creating a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment information;
- information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
- information you enter while using the services on our website;
- information generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- information relating to anything you purchase, services you use or transactions you enter into through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details;
- information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
- information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
- any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing to us any personal information about 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.
D. Use of your personal information
Personal information submitted 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:
- administer our website and our business;
- personalize our website for you;
- enable the use of the services available on our website;
- send products purchased through our website;
- provide services purchased through our website;
- send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, as well as collect your payments;
- send you non-marketing commercial communications;
- send you email notifications specifically requested by you;
- send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
- send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
- dealing with queries and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website;
- keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
- verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service); and
- other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing purposes.
E. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar 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 relation to any ongoing or potential 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 purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are selling (or 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.
Except as set out in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
F. 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: 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 consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of personal information
- This Section G sets out 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 information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data falling within the categories set out below on the date/time set out below:
- type of personal data will be deleted {INSERT DATE/TIME}; and
- {INSERT ADDITIONAL DATES/TIMES}.
- 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 the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential 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).
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 your personal information provided on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
- All electronic financial transactions conducted 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).