Privacy Policy

 

  1. Introduction This policy details what personal information we collect and what we do with it. Your privacy is extremely important to us, and we’re committed to protecting it. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during your first visit to our website permits us to use cookies during subsequent visits.
  1. Collecting personal information The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
  • Information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths; 
  • Information you input when registering to our website such as your email address and name. 
  • information you input when creating a profile on our website, including your name, profile pictures, gender,birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details; 
  • information that you input in when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address,
  • Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, browser version, and operating system; 
  • Information that you input while using the services on our website; 
  • Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  • information relating any and all products you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details; 
  • Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata; 
  • Any other personal information that you send to us Before disclosing another person’s personal information, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
  1. Using your personal information Personal information submitted through this website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy. We may use your personal information for the following:
  • Administering our website and business; 
  • Personalizing our website; 
  • Enabling the use of the the services on our website; 
  • Sending you goods purchased through our website; 
  • Supplying services purchased through our website; 
  • Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you; 
  • Sending you non-marketing commercial communications; 
  • Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested; 
  • Sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter); 
  • Sending 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 may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications); 
  • Providing third parties non-identifiable and non-personal statistical information about our users; 
  • Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website; 
  • Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud; 
  • Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website 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.

We will never supply your personal information to any third party for their, or any other third party’s, marketing purposes without your express consent.

  1. Disclosing personal information: We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, subcontractors, subsidiaries, and/or our holding company and all 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 ongoing or prospective 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 that we are (or are 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 provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
  1. International data transfers 
  • Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, 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: the 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 agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.
  1. Retaining personal information 
  • This Section details our data retention policies, which are intesnded toensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information. 
  • Personal information that we process for any purpose(s) shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that fulfillment of said purposes. 
  • Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents containing personal data: 
  1.    to the extent that we are required to do so by law; 
  2.    if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; 
  3.    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). 
  1. 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 the personal information you provide on our secure servers. 
  • All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be encrypted. 
  • 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 your password confidential; we will never ask you for your password.
  1. Amendments We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. Make sure to check this page occasionally to ensure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through any other means we deem appropriate.
  1. Your rights You may ask us to provide you with any and all personal information we have about you. The provision of such information may be subject to the following: 1. the payment of a fee; and/or 2. the providing of appropriate proof of identity (e.g. photocopy of an official government document). We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
  1. Third party websites Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third said parties.
  1. Children’s Privacy Our Service does are not intended to be used by anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us and we will remove said information from our servers immediately.
  1. 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 is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web 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 use both session and persistent cookies on our website
  •  The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below: 
  •  we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / tracks users as they navigate the website / enables the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s usability / analyzes the use of the website / administers the website / prevents fraud and improve the security of the website / personalizes the website for each user / targets advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users; 
  • Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies for example: 
  • in Internet Explorer version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling 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,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
  • in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
  1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer-for example:
  2. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
  3.  in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
  4. in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
  5. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
  1. Contact Us If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us by visiting our “Contact” page.