Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

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.

Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and has been modified by Dizups (https://dizups.com/)

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, geographical 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 email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;

Information that 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 employment 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 our website services;

Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;

Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you carry out on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and banking information;

Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, and which includes your username, 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 you disclose any personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy

D. Use of your personal information

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;

Personalise our website for you;

Enable your use of the services offered on our website;

Send you goods purchased from our site;

Provide you with services purchased from 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 if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);

Send you marketing communications relating to our business or to carefully selected third party businesses that we think may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);

Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify any individual user from this information);

Deal with requests and complaints relating to our website made by or about you;

Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;

Verify 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); and

Other uses.

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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 give 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.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or other third parties’ direct marketing.

E. Disclosure of your 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 connection with any pending or prospective 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 purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or assets owned by us that we wish to (or are contemplating) sell; and

To any person who we reasonably believe will be part of a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of that personal information.

Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass your personal information on to third parties.

F. International Data Transfers

The 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.

The 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.

The personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of your personal information

This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, 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 will 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 current 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).

H. Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure (password and firewall protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information via 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 log in to our website).

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I. Amendments

We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging service.

J. Your rights

You may 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:

Payment of a fee; and

Provision of sufficient evidence of your identity (for these purposes, we will usually accept a notarised 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 may ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes at any time.

In practice, you will either expressly agree 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.

K. Third Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to and information about third party websites. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. 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 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 either “persistent” or “session”: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We only use session cookies / only persistent cookies / 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 and Adwords on our website to: recognise 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 usability of a website/ analyse the use of the website/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve the security of the website/ personalise the website for each user/ send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users (describe your other purposes);

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie management override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;

in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” and then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and

in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.​​

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Bloquer tous les cookies aura un impact négatif sur l’utilisation de nombreux sites web. Si vous bloquez les cookies, vous ne pourrez pas utiliser toutes les fonctionnalités de notre site web.

1. 1. Vous pouvez supprimer les cookies déjà stockés sur votre ordinateur. Exemple:

      1. avec Internet Explorer (version 10), vous devez supprimer le fichier cookies manuellement (vous pourrez trouver des instructions pour le faire ici http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

      2. avec Firefox (version 24), vous pouvez supprimer les cookies en cliquant sur «Outils», «Options», et «Confidentialité», puis en sélectionnant «Utiliser des paramètres personnalisés pour l’historique» et en cliquant sur «Montrer les cookies», puis sur «Supprimer tous les cookies»; et

      3. avec Chrome (version 29), vous pouvez supprimer tous les cookies en accédant au menu «Personnaliser et contrôler» puis en cliquant sur «Paramètres», « Montrer les paramètres avancés » et «Supprimer les données de navigation» puis «Supprimer les cookies et les données des modules d’autres sites» avant de cliquer sur «Supprimer les données de navigation».

   2. Supprimer les cookies aura un impact négatif sur l’utilisation de nombreux sites web.

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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 that are already stored on your computer. For example:

with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" and clicking on "Show cookies", then on "Remove all cookies"; and

with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu and then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data” then “Clear cookies and plug-in data from other sites” before clicking on “Clear browsing data”.

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.