Privacy policy

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are

committed to safeguarding it. This policy explains what we do with your

personal information.

2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy

when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit

our website.

B. Credit

1. This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal

(seqlegal.com) and modified by vpnMentor (www.vpnmentor.com)

C. How we collect your personal data

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 to and use of this website including the

referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.

3. Information that you enter when you register with our website, such as

your email website.

4. Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website. For

example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship

status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment

details.

5. Information that you enter in order to set up subscription to our emails

and/or newsletters.

6. Information that is generated while using our website, including when,

how often, and under what circumstances you use it.

7. Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or

transaction you make through our website, which includes your name,

address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.

8. Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing

it on the internet.

9. Any other personal information you send to us.

D. Using Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our 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:

1. Administering our website and business

2. Personalizing our website for you

3. Enabling your use of the services available on our website

4. Sending you goods purchased through our website

5. Supplying services purchased through our website

6. Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and

collecting payments from you.

7. Sending you on-marketing commercial communications

8. Sending you email notifications you have specifically requested.

9. Sending you our email newsletter if you signed up for it (you can

unsubscribe at any time).

10.Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the

businesses of third parties which we think may be of interest to you.

11. Providing third parties with statistical information about our users.

12. Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to

our website

13.Keeping our website secure and prevent fraud.

14.Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of

our website.

15. Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish

and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our

website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

We will not, without your expressed consent, supply your personal information to

any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

E. Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers,

insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors 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) 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. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing

information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing

credit risk);

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 may apply to a court or other

competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our

reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to

order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to

third parties.

F. International data transfers

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in

this Section F.

G. Retaining personal information

1. This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are

designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding

the retention and deletion of personal information.

2. 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.

3. Without prejudice to article G-2, we will usually delete personal data falling

within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:

a. personal data type will be deleted {ENTER DATE/TIME}; and

b. {ENTER ADDITIONAL DATES/TIMES}.

4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain

documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

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

b. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or

prospective legal proceedings; and

c. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including

providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention

and reducing credit risk).

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 the personal information you provide on our secure

(password- and firewall-protected) servers.

3. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be

protected by encryption technology.

4. 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.

5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our

website confidential; 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 occasionally to ensure you understand any

changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or

through the private messaging system on our website.

J. 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:

1. the payment of a fee {ENTER FEE IF RELEVANT}; and

2. the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity ({ADJUST TEXT TO

REFLECT YOUR POLICY for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy

of your passport certified by a notary 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 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.

K. Third party websites

Our 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.

L. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that 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) 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. {SELECT

ACCURATE PHRASING, we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both

session and persistent cookies on our website.}

1. The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for

which they are used, are set out below:

a. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a

computer when a user {INCLUDE ALL USES THAT COOKIES ARE USED

FOR ON YOUR SITE 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)};

2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

a. 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”;

b. in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,”

“Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from

the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and

c. in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the

“Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show

advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block

sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

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 our

website.

3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example:

a. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie

files (you can find instructions for doing so

at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );

b. in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,”

“Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for

history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All

Cookies”; and

c. in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the

“Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show

advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting

“Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear

browsing data.”

4. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many

websites.