A – Introduction

We care deeply about the privacy of our visitors and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle 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 every time you visit our website.

B. Collection of Personal Information

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

Information about your computer including your Internet Protocol address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.

Information about your visits to and use of this website including referral source, length of visit, what you view on the page, and browsing paths on the website.

Information you enter when registering on our website, such as your email address.

Information you enter when creating a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational status, and job 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 that you enter while using the services on our website.

Information that is generated while using our website, including when and how often you use the website and the circumstances under which you use the website.

– Information that you post on our website for the purpose of sharing it online, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts.

Information contained in any correspondence you send to us via email or through our website, including shared content and metadata.

Any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

c. Use of your personal information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be 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:

To administer our website and our business.

Customise our website to make it more relevant to you.

Enable you to use the services available on our website.

Send you statements, invoices and payment notices, and collect payments from you.

Send you non-marketing commercial messages

Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested to be sent to you.

Send you an email newsletter, if you have requested this (you can tell us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).

Send you carefully selected marketing communications relating to our business or the business of 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 can tell us at any time if you no longer require such marketing communications).

Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (however, these third parties will not be able to identify the users of that information themselves).

Deal with queries and complaints made by you or us about you on our website.

Protect our website from fraud and maintain the security of our website.

To 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 website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

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

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purposes of such third party’s direct marketing.

D – Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar 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.

To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are selling (or intend to sell).

To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority requesting disclosure of that personal information, and in our reasonable opinion such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as set out in this Policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

e – International Data Transferm Information that 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.

The information 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.

We cannot prevent the use or misuse by others of the personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website and which is available online worldwide.

You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this section

This section “F” sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

We will not retain personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section F, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing

personal data:

To the extent required by law.

If we believe that such documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.

In order to commence, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

G. Security of your personal information

Security of your personal information We undertake to take reasonable technical and organisational 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.

H. 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 the private messaging system on our website.

I. Your rights

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.

We may refrain from providing you with the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will either expressly consent 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 Sites

Our site contains hyperlinks to and details of third party sites. 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 we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

K. Cookies

Our site 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.

The following are the names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used:

We use Google Analytics on our website to identify your computer.

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 unchecking “Accept cookies from sites.”

In Chrome

(version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, 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 on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:

In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete cookies manually (you can find instructions for doing this at 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 “Show cookies,” and then clicking “Remove all cookies”;

In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, 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.”Browsing”.