Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

  1. The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, so we are committed to protecting it. This privacy policy explains how we will treat your personal information.
  2. In accordance with the terms of this policy, by giving your consent to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, you allow us to use such cookies every time you visit our website.

B. Credits
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
edited by Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com )

C. Collection of personal data

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

  1. information about your device, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. information about your visits to and use of this site, including the web page from which you arrived, the length of your visit, the pages you visited and your navigation paths within the website;
  3. information you provide when registering on our website, such as your email address;
  4. information you provide when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, education and occupation;
  5. information you provide to opt-in to our emails and/or newsletters, such as your name and email address;
  6. information provided by you when using the services of our website;
  7. information generated during your use of our website, such as date and time, frequency and circumstances of your use;
  8. information relating to any purchases, services used or transactions carried out by you through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details;
  9. information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
  10. information relating to any communications you send to us via email or through our website, including the content and metadata of those communications;
  11. any other information or personal data you send to us.

Before you share with us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal data in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of personal data

Personal information submitted to us via 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 information for the following purposes:

  1. managing our website and business;
  2. personalising our website for your benefit;
  3. enabling the user to use the services available on our website;
  4. the sending of products purchased through our website;
  5. the provision of services purchased through our website;
  6. sending statements, invoices and payment reminders as well as collecting payments owed by you;
  7. sending commercial communications without marketing purposes;
  8. sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  9. sending our newsletter by email, if requested by you (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
  10. sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties which we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have explicitly agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
  11. providing third parties with statistical data about our users (such third parties will not be able to trace the identity of individual users based on this information);
  12. handling requests and complaints from you and your actions in relation to our website;
  13. maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
  14. verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service);
  15. further uses.

If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Through the appropriate controls made available on the site, you can configure your privacy settings to limit the publication of your data and information on our website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not in any way provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing activities or for the promotional activities of other third parties.

E. Disclosure of personal data

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 any of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this notice.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent required by law;
  2. in the context of ongoing or future legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any of our businesses or assets that we are (or are considering) divesting;
  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 any of your personal information or data to third parties.

F. International data transfers

  1. The information 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 it in accordance with this policy.
  2. The information 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.
  3. Personal information that you post 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 consent to the transfers of personal data described in this Section F of this notice.

G. Storage of personal data

  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. The personal information we process will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the intended purposes.
  3. Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will usually delete personal data falling into the following categories at the date and time indicated
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
      1. to the extent required by law;
      2. if we believe that such documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
      3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of personal data

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent any loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all personal information you provide to us on our secure servers (adequately protected by passwords and firewalls).
  3. Every electronic financial transaction made through our website will be protected by cryptographic technology.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information online is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
  5. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will never ask you what your password is (except when you log in to our website).

I. Changes

We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page periodically to ensure you understand any changes to the 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 ask us to provide you with any personal data and information in our possession; this operation will be subject to the following conditions:

  1. the payment of a fee;
  2. providing suitable proof of your identity (for this purpose, we will normally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill with your current address).

We may retain personal data requested by you to the extent permitted by law.

You may request at any time that your personal data not be processed for marketing purposes.
In practice, where your personal data is used for marketing purposes, you will usually either explicitly and in advance consent, or be given the opportunity to opt-out.

K. Third Party Sites

Our site 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 these third parties.

L. Updating information

Please let us know of any corrections or updates we need to make to the personal information we hold about you.

M. Cookie

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 browser, and the browser stores that identifier. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests access to a page from that server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless the user deletes it before its set expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, or when the browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, however personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in, and obtained from, cookies.

  1. Below are the names of the cookies we use on our website, as well as the purposes for which they are used:
    1. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site / track users as they navigate the site / enable the use of a shopping cart on the site / improve the usability of the site / analyze the use of the site / administer the site / prevent fraud and improve the security of the site / personalize the site depending on the user / send targeted advertising proposals that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe additional purposes;
  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies; for example:
    1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) it is possible to block cookies using specific management settings that replace the basic configuration, by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
    2. in Firefox (version 69) you can block all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy and Security” section, “Content Blocking”, select “Custom”; here select the “Cookies” box and in the relative drop-down menu choose “All cookies”;
    3. In Chrome (version 77) you can block all cookies by accessing the menu at the top right and clicking on “Settings”; on the left, select “Advanced”, “Privacy and security”, then click on “Site settings”, “Cookies and site data”; finally, deactivate the option “Allow sites to save and read cookie data”.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. By blocking 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. In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions for doing so can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
    2. in Firefox (version 69), you can delete all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy and Security” section, “Cookies and website data”, click on the “Delete data…” button; check that the appropriate box is selected, then press the “Delete” button;
    3. In Chrome (version 77), you can delete all cookies by accessing the top right menu and clicking on “More tools”, “Clear browsing data”; here, in the “Time range” drop-down menu, select “All”; check that the “Cookies and other site data” box is selected, finally press the “Clear data” button.
  2. . Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.