Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
Your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy upon your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit the website.
2. Credits
This document was created using a template by SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)
3. Collection of Personal Information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of the website, including the referring source, length of visit, page views, and your navigation paths through the website;
Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering with our website;
Information you enter while creating a creative on our site — for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and employment details;
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletter;
Actions on our site services;
Information active during the service of ours, including when and how you use it;
Information related to purchases, services you use, or transfers you make on our site, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information;
Information that you post on our site with the intention of publishing it online, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments;
General information in messages you send to us by email or through our site, including the content of the message and its metadata;
Any other type of personal information you send to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the sharing and processing of that personal information under this Policy.
4. Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through our Site will be used for the purposes set out in this Policy, or on the relevant pages of the Site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Administering our Site and business;
Personalizing the Site for you;
Enable you to use the services available on our Site;
Shipping you goods you have purchased through the Site;
Providing you with services you have purchased through the Site;
Sending you statements, transaction invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you.
Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
Send you specific electronic minute notifications;
Sending you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you will inform us at any time if you do not wish to receive the newsletter);
Sending you marketing communications relating to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, with your specific consent, by email, or through similar technologies (you can inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (but these third parties cannot identify any individual user);
Handling inquiries and complaints submitted by you or concerning you and relating to our website;
Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
Enforcing compliance with the Terms of Service that govern your use of the website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service);
and other uses.
If you provide us with personal information for advertising on our site, we will publish the information and use it in other ways for the license you provide us.
You can use your privacy settings to limit your advertising on our site, and these can be changed using the privacy controls on the site.
We will not provide your personal information without your consent to any third party for their own direct marketing purposes, or to any other third party.
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5. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any company in our group of companies (this means all of our subsidiaries, our parent company, and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
As required by law;
In connection with any existing 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);
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or property that we acquire (or are considering acquiring);
and to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or any competent authority for the release of personal information where we believe that such court or authority is likely to order the release of such personal information.
Except as set out in this Policy, we will not provide your personal information to a third party.
6. International Data Transfers
Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that 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.
Personal information that you post on our site or submit for publication on our site may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
You consent to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.
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7. Retention of Personal Information
This section C sets out our data retention process and policy, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations relating to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
Without derogating from section G-2, we will generally delete personal data that falls into the categories set out below on the date/time set out below:
The type of personal data will be deleted on {insert date/time};
and {insert additional date/time}.
Notwithstanding the other provisions in section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
As required by law;
if we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
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8. Security of your personal information
We will take reasonable organizational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (which are password and firewall protected).
All computerized financial transactions made through our site will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is not inherently secure, and we cannot guarantee that data sent over the Internet will be secure.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our site confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our site).
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9. 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 made to this Policy. We may notify you of changes to this Policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
10. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any details of your personal information that we hold about you; provision of such details will be subject to the following conditions:
Payment of a fee {insert fee if applicable};
Provision of appropriate evidence of your identity ({adapt the text to reflect your policy for this purpose, we will usually accept a notarized copy of your passport, together with an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address}).
We may refuse to provide personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually express your prior consent to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of our use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
11. Third Party Sites
Our site includes external links to, and information about, third party sites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third party.
12. Updating Information
Let us know if it is necessary to correct or update the personal information we hold about you.
13. 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 stored in the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests the server to display a web page. Cookies can be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored in your browser and will remain valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your current browsing session, when you close your browser. Cookies do not usually contain information that personally identifies users, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies. {Choose the exact wording We only use action cookies / Only persistent cookies / Both action cookies and persistent cookies on our site.}
The names of the cookies we use on our site, and the purposes for which they are used, are detailed below:
We use Google Analytics and AdWords services on our site to recognize a computer when a user {Include all existing uses of cookies on your site visits the site / Track users while they use the site / Allow us to use a shopping cart on the site / Improve the ease of use of the site / Analyze the use of the site / Administer the site / Prevent fraud and improve the security of the site / Personalize the site for each user / Use targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to certain users / Describe the purpose(s)};
Most websites allow you to refuse 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,” and selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, then unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”;
And in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting the “Block sites from setting data” option 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 of the features on our website.
You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer—for example:
In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete cookies manually (you can find instructions for doing so 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,” and clicking “Show cookies,” and then “Remove all cookies”;
And in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data,” and finally clicking “Clear browsing data.”
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.