Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

B. Source

This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and was edited by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)

C. the collection of personal information

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

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website including referring source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when registering on the site;
Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background and professional background;
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when using the services of our website;
Information generated from your use of our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
Information relating to purchases you make, services you use or transactions you conduct on our site which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address and bank details;
Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your user ID, profile photos and content of your posts
Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their contents and metadata;
Any other personal information that you provide to us. Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of that person in relation to the disclosure and processing of that personal information under the terms of this policy

D. Use of your personal information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to: Administer our website and business; Customize our website for you; Allow your use of the services offered on our website; Send you the goods purchased on our site;

Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments Send you commercial communications not related to marketing;Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;To send our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish not to receive our newsletter anymore);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third party companies which we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive marketing communications);
Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information);
Process requests and claims relating to your website made by you or concerning you;
Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
Check compliance with the terms and conditions that govern the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through the private messaging service of our website);
and Other uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publishing it, we will publish it and may use this information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website. Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or other third parties' direct marketing purposes.

E. Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, 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 member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent we are required to do so by law;In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings;To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or are considering) selling; and

To any person whom we reasonably believe is a party of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to request the disclosure of this personal information.

Unless otherwise provided for in this policy, we will not pass your personal information to third parties.

F. International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all 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.
Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, right or wrong, of this information by third parties.
You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. retention of your personal information

This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose is not retained longer than necessary for that purpose or purposes.
Without prejudice to article G-2, we will generally delete personal data from these categories on the date and time specified below:
This type of personal data will be deleted within a week following the request
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. To the extent we are required to do so by law;
2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

H. security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store any personal information you provide us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you identify yourself on our website).

I. amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website’s private messaging service.

J. your rights

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

The payment of potential costs Upon presentation of sufficient evidence of your identity for these purposes, we generally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary public plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold 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 agree in advance that we may use your personal information for marketing purposes or provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. third party websites

Our website contains hypertext links to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. updating of information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold 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 by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session": a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before this expiration date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session, when closing the browser. Cookies generally do not contain any personally identifiable information about a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained by the cookie. We only use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes in which we use them are described below:
1. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website/ track users as they browse the website/ enable use of a shopping cart on the website/ improve use of a website/ analyze use of the website/ administer the website/prevent fraud and improve the security of the website/ personalize the website for each user/ send targeted advertisements that may interest certain users
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
1. with Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" then "Advanced";
2. with Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" and then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
3. with Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the menu "Customize and control" then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings" then selecting "Prevent sites from setting data" in the header "Cookies".

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

You can delete the cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
1. with Internet Explorer (version 10) you need to delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
2. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», and «Privacy», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» and clicking on «Show cookies», then on «Delete all cookies»; and
3. with Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by accessing the menu "Customize and control" then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Delete browsing data" then "Delete cookies and module data from other sites" before clicking on «Delete browsing data».
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. Website Planet declines all responsibility and advises you to consult legal experts if you implement the above model on your website.