A. INTRODUCTION

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

When you visit us for the first time and consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy, you give us permission to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. CREDITS 

This document has been created using a template from SEQ Legal (www.seqlegal.com) and modified by Marc Guerrero (wwwguerreromarc.com).

C. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

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

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

2. Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, length of visit, pages viewed and website navigation paths.

3. Information you enter when creating an account on our website, such as email address.

4. Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, marital status, interests and hobbies, education and employment information.

5. Information you enter to subscribe to our emails and newsletters, such as your name and email address.

6. Information you enter when using our website services.

7. Information that is generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.

8. Information about anything related to your purchase, the services you use or transactions you conduct through the website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information.

9. Information you post on our website with the intention that it be published on the Internet, including your user name, profile pictures and the content of your messages.

10. Information contained in any communication you send to us by e-mail or through our website, including the content of the communication and metadata.

11. Any other personal information you submit to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, 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 DATA

Personal information you submit 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:

1. Administering our website and our business.

2. To personalize our website for you.

3. To enable the use of the services available on our website.

4. To send you items purchased through our website.

5. To provide services purchased through our website.

6. Send statements, invoices and payment reminders and collect data from you.

7. Send commercial (non-marketing) communications.

8. Send email notifications that you have specifically requested.

9. Send a newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to subscribe to the newsletter).

10. Send you marketing communications relating to our company, or carefully selected third party companies, which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technologies (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us).

11. Give statistical information about our users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user with that information).

12. To respond to inquiries and complaints from you or about you, relating to our website.

13. To keep the website secure and prevent fraud.

14. To verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages through our website’s private messaging service).

15. Other Uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use such information in accordance with the license you grant to us. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of our information on our website and can be adjusted using the website’s privacy controls. Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of third parties.

E. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or contractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes subsidiaries, our group and all of its subsidiaries), as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to:

1. To the extent required by law.

2. In connection with any current or future legal proceedings.

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

4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or assets that we are selling or contemplating selling.

5. To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information and who, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority could order disclosure of such personal information.

Except as required by law, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries where there is no data protection legislation equivalent to that in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

3. Personal information that you post on our website or submit for posting on our website may be available via the Internet, worldwide.

4. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

5. You explicitly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. PRESERVATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

This section G specifies our personal information retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding retention and disposal of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes should not be stored longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article G-2, we will normally delete personal information every January 1 (at 00:00).

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

1. To the extent required by law.

2. If we believe that the records may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings.

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

H. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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

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

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

4. You agree that the transmission of information via the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website, and we will not ask you for your password (except to log in to our website).

I. AMENDMENTS

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 to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through our website’s private messaging system.

J. YOUR RIGHTS

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following:

1. Payment of a fee of $5.

2. You provide appropriate proof of your identity (a certified photocopy of your passport and the original of an invoice showing your current address).

We may retain the personal information you request from us to the extent permitted by law. You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, it is normal practice for you to either explicitly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or for us to provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our website includes hyperlinks to and information from third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. UPDATING OF INFORMATION

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