00. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to this website is very important to us, and we do everything to protect it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information. By agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit this website, you allow us to use cookies on each visit to this website.
01. Collection of Personal Information
The following personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
02. Use of your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through this website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
If you submit personal information for publication on this website, we will publish and otherwise use this information in accordance with the license you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on this website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for direct marketing by them or other third parties.
03. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, 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:
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
04. International Data Transfer
Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, 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 that 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 publish on this website or submit for publication on this website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.
05. Retention of Personal Information
This section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
06. 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 all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through this website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing this website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to this website).
07. Changes
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through private messaging on this website.
08. Your Rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance 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.
09. Third-Party Websites
This website includes hyperlinks 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.
10. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
11. Cookies
This website 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 is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on this website.
The names of the cookies that we use on this website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on this 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 the website’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purpose(s);
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on this website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:
Deleting cookies negatively affects the usability of many websites.