privacy policy
introduction
We care greatly about the privacy of our website visitors, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how to deal with your personal information.
By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
Collection of personal information
The following personal information may be collected, stored and used, information about your computer including your Internet Protocol address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits to and use of this site including your referral source, length of visit, what you view on the page, and your site browsing paths.
Information you enter when you register with our website, such as your email address.
Information you enter when you create a profile on our site – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational status, and employment details.
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters.
Information you enter while using the services on our website.
Information generated while using our website, including the times and frequency of your use of the website and the circumstances under which you use the website.
Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details.
Information that you post to our website for the purpose of sharing it online, which includes your username, profile photos, and the content of your posts.
Information contained in any correspondence you send to us via email or via our website, including shared content and metadata.
Any other personal information you submit to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us via our website is used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Manage our website and business.
Customize our website to be more relevant to you.
To enable you to use the services available on our website.
Providing services purchased through our website.
Send you statements, invoices and payment notices, and collect payments from you.
Send you non-marketing commercial messages.
Send email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.
Send you an email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
Send 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, if you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you may inform us at any time if you no longer require to these marketing communications).
Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify users of that information themselves).
Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by you or made to us about you on our website.
Protect our website from fraud and maintain its security.
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our website’s private messaging service).
Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will otherwise use it in accordance with the license you grant to us.
We will not provide any third party, without your express consent, with your personal information for the direct marketing purposes of any other party.
Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or contractors who are reasonably responsible for the purposes set out in this policy.
As much as we are required to do by law.
In connection with any ongoing or potential legal proceedings.
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
Except as set forth in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
Retention of personal information
We only keep your personal information for as long as we need to, this period of time may depend on what we use your information for.
In accordance with our policy, we delete your data if we no longer need it.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information in order to comply with a legal obligation, accounting, reporting, archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes.
Security of your personal information
We undertake to take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We undertake to store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website are protected by encryption technology.
You agree to this policy with the knowledge 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 Maintain the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Third Party Sites
Our website contains 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.
Update information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.