The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we aim to protect that privacy as much as possible. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

Collection of Personal Information

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

1. Information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. information about your visit to and use of the site, including referral source, length of visit, page views and site navigation paths;
3. Information such as your e-mail address that you provide to register on our site;
4. Information you provide when creating a profile on our site, such as your name, profile picture, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education and employment status;
5. information such as your name and email address that you provide when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
6. information you enter when using the services on our site;
7. information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
8. information regarding anything you purchase, a service you use, or a transaction you make through our site, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information;
9. information you submit to our site for sharing online using our site, including your username, profile picture, and the content of your post;
10. the content of any communications you send through our site or via email, including communication content and metadata;
11. any other personal information you send to us.

Before you provide us with another person's personal information, you must obtain that person's consent that the information will be shared and processed in accordance with this policy.

Use of Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted 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. to manage our site and business;
2. to personalise our site for you;
3. to enable you to use the services on our site;
4. to send you the products you purchase from our site;
5. to provide services purchased from our site;
6. to send you notifications, invoices and payment reminders and to collect payments from you;
7. to communicate with you non-marketing commercially;
8. to send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
9. to send you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can notify us at any time if you do not want the newsletter);
10. to send you marketing content that we think will be useful to you, from our business or carefully selected third party businesses, by post, email or similar technology, if you specifically agree to it (you can tell us at any time if you do not want marketing content);
11. to provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties cannot identify any users using this information);
12. to resolve complaints and claims made by or about you regarding our site;
13. to keep our site secure and prevent fraud;
14. verify that our website is used in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions (including monitoring messages sent via the private message service on our website); and
15. for other purposes.

If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we may publish that information or use it under the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can limit the publication of your information on our site and can be changed through the privacy controls on the site.

We will not pass on your personal information to any third parties or to the direct marketing departments of other third parties unless you have given your express permission.

Sharing of Personal Information

We may pass your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as this is required for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

1. where legally required;
2. in relation to ongoing or potential legal processes;
3. to protect, exercise and defend our legal rights (including passing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
4. to buyers (or potential buyers) of any businesses and assets we sell (or consider selling), and
5. If we have a reasonable belief that a person who we believe may apply to the court for the disclosure of personal information will, in the event of an application, decide that the court or authorized persons and institutions will disclose personal information.

Except as stated in this policy, we do not share your personal information with third parties.

International Data Transfers

1. The information we collect may be transferred between, stored and processed in the countries in which we operate for use in accordance with the purposes set out in this policy.
2. Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. Information you share or submit for sharing on our website may be accessible worldwide through our website. We cannot prevent others from exploiting this information.
4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information specified in the previous section.

Storage of Personal Information

1. The section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that we meet our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information we process cannot be stored for longer than is necessary for the stated purpose or purposes.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions in the previous section, we store documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. where legally required;
2. in cases where we believe that the documents are related to ongoing or potential legal processes, and
3. to protect, exercise and defend our own legal rights (including passing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

Security of Your Personal Information

1. We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
2. We store all your personal information on secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
3. All financial transfers made through our site are protected by encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
5. It is your responsibility to keep the password you use to access our site confidential. We will not ask you to provide your password (except to log in to our site).

Changes

We may change this policy from time to time and post the new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or the private messaging system on our site.

Your rights

You may request that we provide you with the information we hold about you; to provide this information, you must provide documentation proving your identity.

We may retain the information you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to use your personal information for marketing purposes at any time.

In practice, you either expressly consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we give you the option to choose not to have your personal information used for marketing purposes.

Third Party Websites

Our site contains links and details to third-party sites. We have no control over, and cannot be responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third parties.

Updating Information

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