Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. Our policy explains how we will use your personal information.
2. Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our policy during your first visit to the website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.

B. Collection of personal information

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

1. Information related to your computer including your IP address, your geographic location, your browser type and version, and your operating system.
2. Information about your visits and use of the website including the external source, duration of visit, page views and navigation path on the website;
3. Information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on the website.
4. Information you enter when creating your profile on our website—for example, your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, your personal status, your interests and hobbies, information about your education, and information about your employment.
5. Information, such as your name and email, which you enter when setting up your subscriptions and for sending emails and/or newsletters.
6. Information you enter when using services on our website.
7. Information that arises when using the website, such as when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
8. Information related to your purchases, the services you use and the transactions you make on the website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card information.
9. Information that you share on the website with the intention of publishing it online, which includes your username, your profile information and the content of your posts.
10. Information contained in any communication you have with us via email or through the website, including the content of the communication and metadata.
11. Any other personal information you send us.

Before you disclose any personal information of a third party, you must have that person’s consent to the sharing and processing of their personal information in accordance with this policy.

C. Use of your personal information

The personal information submitted to us is used for the purposes set out in this policy on the relevant pages of the website. We may use the personal information for the following purposes:

1. management of our website and business
2. personalized website configuration for you
3. enabling your use of the services available on our website
4. shipping the goods you purchase through our website
5. providing services you purchase through our website
6. sending statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, as well as collecting payments from you
7. sending non-promotional communications
8. sending email notifications about your requests
9. sending our newsletter via email if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter)
10. sending you promotional communications, related to your business or the businesses of certain third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, via notifications or, if you have agreed to this, via email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive promotional communications)
11. providing statistical data of our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any user from this information)
12. managing requests and complaints submitted by you or related to your website
13. maintaining the security of the website and preventing any fraud
14. confirming compliance with the terms and conditions of our website (including monitoring personal messages sent through our private online messaging service) and
15. other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish or use that information in accordance with your authorization.

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

We will not share your personal information without your consent with any third party or any commercial division of a third party.

E. Sharing of personal information

We may share your personal information with any of our employees, officers, insurers, or professional advisors, representatives, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may share your personal information with any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our holding company and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may share our personal information:

1. to the extent required by law
2. in connection with any current or future legal proceedings
3. for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)
4. to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business asset that we sell (or are considering selling) and
5. to anyone we reasonably believe may belong to the judicial or any other competent authority regarding the disclosure of information in the event that we believe that the respective authority will require the disclosure of the specific personal information.

Also, as stated in this policy, 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 countries in which we operate so that we can use it in accordance with this policy.
2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have equivalent data protection legislation to that applied in the European Economic Area: the USA, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. The personal information you post on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.
4. You expressly consent to the transfer of temporary data described in section F.

G. Retention of personal data

1. Section G sets out our personal data retention process and policy, which is designed to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
2. Personal data that we process for any purpose will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
3. Without prejudice to Article G-2, we usually delete personal data that falls into the following categories and the corresponding date/time:
   1. 1. 1. personal press data will be deleted on the last calendar day of each month at 00:00 and
         2. additional settlement will take place on December 31 of each year at 00:00.
4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data.
5. 1. 1. 1. to the extent required by law.
         2. if we believe the documents may be relevant to any legal process in force and
         3. for the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction)

H. Security of your personal data

1. We will take the necessary precautions at a technical and organizational level to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
2. We will store all personal data you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
3. All electronic financial transactions conducted on our website are protected by our encryption technology.
4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted over the internet.
5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use confidential, we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

We may update our policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website from time to time. You should occasionally check the page to make sure you understand any changes to our policy. We may notify you of changes to our policy by email or through a private messaging system on our website.

You can ask us to provide you with any information we hold about you; the provision of such information is subject to the following:

1. the payment of a fee if any and
2. providing sufficient identification for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport and a photocopy of a utility bill showing your current address}).

We may retain the personal information you request for the period permitted by law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for advertising purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to the use of your personal information for advertising purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of using your information for advertising purposes.

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and information from, third party websites. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Please let us know if the information we have about you needs updating or correction.

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a server and stored in the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored in a browser and remains valid until its expiration date unless deleted earlier by the user; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user’s session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not usually contain information that can identify the user, but your personal data that we hold may be linked to data stored or retrieved by cookies. {CHOOSE APPROPRIATE FORMULATION We only use session cookies/persistent cookies only/session and permanent cookies on our website.}

1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purpose of their use are defined below:
   1. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / to track users as they navigate the website / to enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / to improve the functionality of the website / to analyze the use of the website / to administer the website / to protect against fraud and improve the security of the website / to personalize the website for each user / to target advertisements that may be of interest to specific users / describe the purposes};
2. Most browsers allow you to opt out of cookies—for example:
   1. In Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie settings found by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and “Advanced”
   2. in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
   3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, and “Content settings” and selecting “Block sites from data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the functionality of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of your website.

1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:
   1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you will need to manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
   2. in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “View Cookies,” and “Remove All Cookies,” and
   3. In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “View Custom Settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
2. Deleting all cookies will have a negative impact on the functionality of many websites.