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.

B.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

C. Collection of personal information

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

  1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;

  2. Information about your visits and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;

  3. Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;

  4. Information you enter when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and professional background;

  5. Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;

  6. Information you enter when using the services on our website;

  7. Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;

  8. Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you carry out on our site, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;

  9. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;

  10. Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata;

  11. Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent regarding the disclosure and processing of that personal information under the terms of this policy.

D. Use of your personal information

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:

  1. Administer our website and business;

  2. Personalize our website for you;

  3. Enable your use of the services offered on our website;

  4. Send you goods purchased through our site;

  5. Provide you with services purchased through our site;

  6. Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect your payments;

  7. Send you non-marketing commercial communications;

  8. Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

  9. Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);

  10. Send you marketing communications relating to our business or to carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of publications, or if you have expressly agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);

  11. Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without those third parties being able to identify any individual user from that information);

  12. Handle inquiries and complaints relating to your website made by or about you;

  13. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;

  14. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service); and

  15. Other uses.

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

Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can 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 direct marketing, or that of other third parties.

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 insofar as 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) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

  2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

  3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

  4. To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

  5. To any person who we reasonably believe to be an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.

Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass on your personal information to third parties.

F. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred in any of the countries in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

  2. 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.

  3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of such information by third parties.

  4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of your personal information

  1. 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.

  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose will not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

  3. Without prejudice to article G-2, we will generally delete personal data of these categories on the date and time specified below:

    1. This type of personal data will be deleted

    2. on December 31 at 23:59:59.

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

    1. To the extent that 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 the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of your personal information

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

  2. We will store all personal information you provide on secure servers (password and firewall protected).

  3. All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.

  5. You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes made to this policy by email or through our website's private messaging service.

J. Your rights

You can 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:

  1. The payment of fees; and

  2. The provision of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes, we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

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

In practice, you will expressly and in advance agree to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will 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 hyperlinks to and information about third-party websites. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

L. Information update

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 that expiration date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained by cookies. We only use session and persistent cookies on our website.

  1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for 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 navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve website usage / analyze website usage / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users (describe your other objectives);

  2. 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", 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 "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings", then selecting "Prevent sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" header.

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.

  1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

    1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (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 "Remove All Cookies"; and

    3. with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", then "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".

  2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.