PRIVACY POLICY

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.2. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy on your first visit to the website, allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. 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 the website including the external source, the duration of the visit, the page views and the navigation path to the website;
  • Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the site.
  • Information you enter when creating your profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, personal status, interests and hobbies, information about your education, and information about your employment.
  • Information, such as your name and email, which you enter when setting up your subscriptions and for sending emails and/or newsletters.
  • Information you enter when using services on our website.
  • Information that arises during the use of the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
  • Information about your purchases, the services you use and the transactions you make on the website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information.
  • Information you share on the site with the intention of posting online, which includes your username, profile information and the content of your posts.
  • Information contained in any communication you make with us via email or through the website, including communication content and metadata.
  • Any other personal information you send us.

Before disclosing any personal information of a third party, you must have that person’s consent to share and process their personal information in accordance with this policy.

C. Use of your personal information

The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We may use personal information for the following purposes:

  • administering our website and business
  • personalized configuration of the website for you
  • enabling the use of your available services on our website
  • shipping the goods you purchase through our website
  • providing services you purchase through our website
  • sending statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, as well as collecting payments from you
  • sending non-promotional communications
  • send email notifications about your requests
  • sending our newsletter by email if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer want the newsletter)
  • sending you promotional communications, related to your business or the businesses of specific third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, through notices or, if you have agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to make promotional communications);
  • providing statistical data of our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this information)
  • managing requests and complaints submitted by you yourself or related to your website
  • maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud
  • confirmation of compliance with the terms and conditions for the provision of our website (including the monitoring of private messages handled through our private online messaging service) and
  • other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your licensing.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be configured using the privacy control on the website.

We will not pass on your personal information without your consent to any third party or to any third party commercial department.

D. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, insurers, or professional advisors, representatives, suppliers or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.

We may share your personal information with any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our controlling holding company and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may share our personal information:

  • to the extent required by law
  • in connection with any current or future legal proceedings
  • for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)
  • to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any good of the business that we are selling (or are considering selling), and
  • to anyone we reasonably believe may belong to the judicial or any other competent authority in relation to the disclosure of information in the event that we believe that the respective authority will require the disclosure of such personal information.

Also as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

E. International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and moved between any countries in which we operate so that we can use it in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have equivalent data protection legislation to that applicable in the European Economic Area: the USA, Russia, Japan, China and India.

The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available online worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of temporary data described in section D.

G. Retention of personal data

Section G sets out the procedure and policy for retaining personal data, designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.

Personal data that we process for any purpose will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data to the extent required by law or  if we believe that the documents may relate to any legal proceeding in force and for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing fraud.  credit risk)

H. Security of your personal data

We will take the necessary precautions at a technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.

We will store all the personal data you provide on the secure (password- and firewall) servers.

All electronic monetary transactions carried out on our website are protected by our encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data moving over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use confidential, we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update our policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website from time to time. You should occasionally check the page to make sure you understand any change to our policy. We may notify you of changes to our policy by email or through a private messaging system on our website.

H. Your rights

You can ask us to give you any information we hold about you

We may withhold 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 accept in advance the use of your personal information for advertising purposes, or we will provide you with the ability to exclude your information from use for advertising purposes.

I. Third Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third-party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

K. Updating of information

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

L. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent through a server and stored in 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 “login” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains in effect until its expiration date, unless deleted earlier by the user, a login cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s login, when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain information that can identify the user but your personal data that we hold may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies. We also use login cookies permanently on our website.}

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purpose of their use are defined below:

we use on our website Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize a computer when a user visits the site / to identify users while navigating the site / to allow the use of a shopping cart on the site / to improve the functionality of the site / to analyze the use of the site / to administer the site / to protect yourself from fraud and to improve the protection of the site / to personalize the site for  each user / target ads that may be of interest to specific users

Most browsers allow you not to accept cookies—for example:

  • in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies by using the cookie settings located by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”
  • in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and removing the option “Accept cookies from websites”; and
  • in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by entering the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “View advanced settings”, and “Content settings” and selecting “Block websites from data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of your website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

  • in Internet Explorer (version 10), you will have to manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
  • in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies,” and
  • in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by entering the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “View Custom Settings” and “Clear browsing data” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

Deleting all cookies will have a negative effect on the functionality of many websites.