Protection of personal information

Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

We value the privacy of our website users and strive to protect it. This Privacy Policy details how we use your personal information. By accepting cookies on your first visit to our site, you consent to their use on future visits.

B. Collection of Personal Data

We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal data:

  • Computer information: Including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
  • Website usage: Information about your visits, including referral sources, visit duration, pages viewed, and navigation paths.
  • Registration details: Your email address and any information you enter when creating a profile, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, hobbies, interests, education, and employment details.
  • Subscription information: Your name and email address provided for mailing lists and newsletters.
  • Service usage: Information you enter when using our website’s services.
  • Transactional data: Details of your purchases, services used, and transactions, including name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information.
  • Public posts: Data you post on our website, including your username, profile picture, and post content.
  • Communications: Information in communications sent to us by email or through our website.
  • Other personal information: Any additional data you provide.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, ensure you have their consent for both disclosure and processing.

C. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal data you provide through our website will be used for various purposes:

  • To enable you to use our website services.
  • To send goods purchased via our website.
  • To provide services bought through our site.
  • To send notices, invoices, and payment reminders, and receive payments.
  • To send non-marketing commercial communications.
  • To send email communications that you request.
  • To send newsletters you have subscribed to (you can opt-out at any time).
  • To send marketing communications if you have given consent (you can opt-out at any time).
  • To process inquiries and complaints related to our website.
  • To ensure our website’s security and prevent fraud.
  • To verify compliance with our website’s terms and conditions.
  • For other specified purposes.

D. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose personal information to any member of our group of companies (subsidiaries, ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries) as necessary.

Additionally, we may disclose your personal information:

  • When required by law.
  • In connection with ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset we are selling (or considering selling).
  • 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.

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as provided in this Privacy Policy.

E. Retention of Personal Information

Personal information that we process for any purpose will not be kept for longer than necessary for that purpose. We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • When required by law.
  • If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings.
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

F. Protection of Your Personal Information

We will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We will store all personal data you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers. All electronic financial transactions entered into 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 your password confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

G. Changes and Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may also notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

H. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you, subject to:

  • Payment of a fee.
  • Supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually 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.

I. 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 parties.

J. Updating Information

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

K. Cookies

Our website utilizes cookies. A cookie is a file with an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and 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 typically do not contain information that personally identifies a user. However, personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website for various purposes, including:

  • Recognizing a computer when a user visits the website.
  • Tracking users as they navigate the website.
  • Enabling the use of a shopping cart on the website.
  • Improving the website’s usability.
  • Analyzing the use of the website.
  • Administering the website.
  • Preventing fraud and enhancing security.
  • Personalizing the website for each user.

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website for these purposes.

Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. Methods vary from browser to browser and version to version. You can obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

Blocking all cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all features of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer,

Deleting cookies can negatively impact the usability of many websites.