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Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

  2. Allowing us to use cookies under this policy on your first visit to our site allows cookies to be used each time you visit our website.

B. Source
This document was created with a template provided by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and edited by Website Planet ( www.websiteplanet.com ).

C. 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 and use of the site, including reference source, duration 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 you provide when subscribing to our e-mails and/or newsletters, such as name and e-mail address;

  6. the information you enter when using the services on our site;

  7. information generated while using our site, including when, how often and under what conditions you use it;

  8. information about anything you purchase, a service you use, or a transfer you make through our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;

  9. information you submit to our site for the purpose of sharing on the internet using our site, including your username, profile picture and the content of your post;

  10. any communication content you send via our site or e-mail, including communication content and metadata;

  11. any other personal information you submit 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.

D. Use of your personal information

Personal information sent to us through our site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  1. administer our site and business;

  2. to personalize our site for you;

  3. enable you to use the services on our site;

  4. to send you products purchased from our site;

  5. to provide services purchased from our site;

  6. send you notifications, invoices and payment reminders and receive payments from you;

  7. to establish non-marketing commercial communications with you;

  8. to send you email notifications that you specifically request;

  9. to send you our e-mail newsletter if you have requested it (if you do not want the newsletter, you can let us know at any time);

  10. to send you marketing content that we think will be useful to you by our business or carefully selected third-party businesses by post, e-mail or similar technologies (you can notify us at any time if you do not want the marketing content);

  11. provide statistical information about our users to third parties (however, these third parties cannot identify any users using this information);

  12. to resolve complaints and requests made by or about you regarding our site;

  13. keep our site secure and prevent fraud;

  14. verifying that our website is used in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions (including tracking messages sent via the private message service on our site); and

  15. for other purposes.

If you submit personal information for publication on our site, we will publish that information or use it under the license you have given 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 your personal information on to any third party or the direct marketing departments of other third parties unless you have given your express consent.

E. Sharing personal information

We may transmit your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional consultants, agencies, suppliers or subcontractors as long as the purposes set out in this policy so require.

We may transmit your personal information to all members of our group of companies (meaning our affiliates, our parent holding company and its affiliates) as long as the purposes set out in this policy require it.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  1. where required by law;

  2. in relation to ongoing or potential legal processes;

  3. to protect, enforce and defend our own legal rights (including forwarding information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

  4. to buyers (or potential buyers) of all businesses and assets that we sell (or intend to sell) and

  5. If we have reasonable opinions that the court or authorized persons and institutions will decide to disclose personal information to a person we believe can apply to the court for the disclosure of personal information.

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

F. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect can be transferred, stored and processed in the countries in which we operate to be used for the purposes specified in this policy.

  2. The 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. The information you share on our website or send for sharing can be accessed from all over the world through our website. We cannot prevent this information from being exploited by others.

  4. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information set forth in Section F.

G. Retention of personal information

  1. Section G specifies data retention policies and procedures designed to ensure that we meet our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

  2. The personal information we process cannot be kept longer than required by the stated purpose or purposes.

  3. Without affecting Article G-2, we usually delete personal information that falls into the following categories, on the following date/time:

    1. personal data type on {ENTER DATE/TIME} and

    2. {ENTER ADDITIONAL DATE/TIME} will be deleted.

  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions in Section G, we retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

    1. where required by law;

    2. where we believe the documents are related to ongoing or potential legal processes, and

    3. to protect, enforce and defend our own legal rights (including forwarding information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of your personal information

  1. We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, abuse 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 not secure due to the nature of the Internet, and 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 do not ask you to provide your password (except when you log in to our site).

I. Changes

We may change this policy from time to time and publish the new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to make sure you understand possible changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or via the private messaging system on our site.

J. Your Rights

You may request that we forward information we hold about you to you; this information

The following are required to ensure:

  1. payment of fees and

  2. submitting documents proving your identity  

 

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

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

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

K. Third party websites

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

L. Updating information

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

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent to and stored on the server by the network server. Then the identifier is sent back to the server every time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: the persistent cookie is stored by the browser and deleted on the expiration date, unless deleted by the user by the expiration date; The session cookie is deleted when the browser is closed at the end of the user session. Cookies do not contain information that can be used to identify the user, but the information we store about you may be associated with the data in the cookies.  

We only use persistent cookies on our website.

  1. The names and purposes of the cookies we use on our website are listed below:

    1. When the user visits the website, monitoring the users while navigating the site, improving the usability, analyzing the use of the website, preventing fraud and increasing the security of the site, customizing the website for each user, showing advertisements for specific users' interests, defining purposes;

  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse the use of cookies. E.g:

    1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies with the cookie usage override feature by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;

    2. In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, then unchecking the “Accept cookies from sites” checkbox and

    3. In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customization and control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings” and selecting “Prevent sites from setting data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will restrict the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our site.

  1. You can delete cookies stored on your computer. E.g:

    1. You have to manually delete the cookie files in Internet Explorer (version 10)  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835  available at);

    2. In Firefox (version 24) you can delete all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” and clicking “Show cookies” and then “Delete all cookies”.

    3. In Chrome (version 29) access the “Customization and control” menu, click “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data” then select “Delete cookies and other site plugin data” and click “Clear browsing data” You can delete all cookies by clicking

  2. Deleting cookies will restrict the usability of many websites.

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