Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to its preservation. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
- Accepting our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
How we collect your personal data
The following types of personal data may be collected, stored and used:
- Data about your computer including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system
- Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths.
- Data you enter when you register on our website, such as your email website.
- Data generated when you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information that you publish on our website with the intention of publishing on the Internet.
- All other personal data you send us.
Use of personal data
Personal data submitted through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following:
- Administration of our website and business
- Personalizing our website for you
- Enable the use of services available on our website
- Provision of services purchased through our website
- Sending marketing communications
- Sending email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- We send you our newsletter by e-mail if you have signed up for it (you can unsubscribe at any time).
- Sending marketing communications relating to our business or the business of third parties that we think may be of interest to you.
- Provision of statistical data about our users to third parties.
- Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by you or relating to our website
- Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
- Checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the consent you grant us. Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website. We will not, without your express consent, provide your personal information to any third party for their or any third party’s direct marketing.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors if 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 any of its subsidiaries) if reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal data:
- to the extent that the law requires us to do so;
- in connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
- to a buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or property that we (or plan to) sell; and
- to any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information when, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as stated in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International data transfers
- The data we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any country in which we operate to enable us to use the data in accordance with this policy.
- The data 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: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
- You expressly consent to the transfers of personal data described in these rules
Retention of personal data
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- This article sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
- Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
- Without prejudice to the preceding articles, we will normally delete personal information that falls into the categories listed below after 2 years from its collection.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this article, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
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- a. to the extent that the law requires us to do so;
b. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and
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c. to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
Security of your personal data
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- All personal data you provide us will be stored on our secure servers protected by a password and a firewall.
- All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of 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 log in to our website).
Amendments and additions
From time to time we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to make sure you understand any changes to these policies. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your rights
You can direct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information is subject to the following:
- payment of fees for the supply and delivery of data i
- delivery of appropriate proof of your identity.
We may withhold the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
At any time, you can instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly consent in advance 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.
Third Party Websites
Our website includes links to and details of third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Update information
Please let us know if any personal information we have about you needs to be corrected or updated.