Privacy policy
A. Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is of utmost importance to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy outlines what we do with your personal information. Agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy upon your first visit allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and was modified by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com).
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, duration of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
3.Information such as your email address, which you provide when registering on our site;
4.Information that 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 history;
5.Information like your name and email address, which you enter in order to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
6.Information that you enter while using the services on our website;
7.Information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
8.Information related to any purchases you make, the services you use, or transactions you carry out on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and bank details;
9.Information that you post on our website with the intent of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
10.Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its content and metadata;
11.Any other personal information you choose to send to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with 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;
- Enable your use of the services available on our website;
- Send you goods purchased via our website;
- Supply to you services purchased via our website;
- Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
- Send you email notifications you have specifically requested;
- Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
- Send you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
- Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
- Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
- Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
- Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and
- 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 to 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.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or any other third parties’ direct marketing.
E. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as far as this is 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 this is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
- To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
- 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 opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Unless otherwise stated in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred among all the 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 publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, globally. We cannot prevent the use, whether good or bad, of such information by third parties.
- You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
Certainly! Here’s the translated and reformatted section “G. Conservation de vos informations personnelles” into English with the ordered list structure:
G. Retention of Your Personal Information
- This Section G sets out 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 or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Notwithstanding Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data from these categories at the specific date and time mentioned below: 1.This type of personal data will be deleted one year after its storage.
- Regardless of the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- If we believe the documents may be relevant for any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Alright! Here’s the translation and formatting for section “H. Sécurité de vos informations personnelles” into English with the ordered list structure:
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 all the personal information you provide on secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
- All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
- 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 our website confidential; we will not ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Amendments
From time to time, we may update this policy by posting 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 to this policy via email or through our website’s private messaging service.
J. Your Rights
You may request us to provide any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- The payment of administrative fees, if any, for the dispatch of documents from our end; and
- The presentation of adequate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport along with 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 either explicitly 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 from 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 either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; whereas a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Typically, cookies do not 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 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 utilize Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user accesses the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / enhance the website’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / deliver targeted advertisements that might be of interest to specific users.
2.Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
1.with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the override settings for cookie handling by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and 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” /
3.with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, then clicking on “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:
1.with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookie files (you can find instructions on how to do this at 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”, clicking on “Show Cookies”, and then “Remove All Cookies” /
3.with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, and “Clear browsing data”, then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
4.Deleting cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.