The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.
Consenting to the 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.
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- information about your computer, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version and operating system;
- information about visits and use of this website, including referral source, duration of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
- information such as your email address, which you enter when you register on our website;
- the information you enter when you create a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, academic details and details about occupation;
- information such as your name and email address, which you enter to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
- information you enter while using the services on our website;
- information that is generated while you use our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- information relating to any purchases made, services used or transactions you make through our website, which may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and bank card details;
- the information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which may include your username, profile pictures and the content of the posts;
- information contained in any communications you send us by email or through our website, including the content of communications and their metadata;
- any other personal information you send us.
Before disclosing another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent both to the disclosure and to the processing of the personal information in accordance with this policy.
Personal information transmitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or in the respective pages of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
- administration of the website and our business;
- customizing our website for you;
- authorization to use the services available on our website;
- sending goods purchased through our website;
- providing the services purchased through our website;
- sending reports, invoices and payment notices to you and collecting payments from you;
- sending commercial communications for information purposes;
- sending expressly requested notifications by e-mail;
- sending our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer want this communication);
- sending marketing communications about our business or the companies of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (we you can inform at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- providing statistical information about our users to third parties (these third parties will not be able to identify any user with the help of this information);
- dealing with requests and complaints made by you or about you regarding our website;
- maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
- checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our private messaging service);
- and other uses.
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the extent of the consent you provide to us.
Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be changed using the privacy switches on the website.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for direct marketing by those third parties or any other third party.
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 includes our subsidiaries, our parent company and all of its subsidiaries) as 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 relation to any potential or ongoing legal proceedings;
to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
- to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or good that we have sold (or plan to sell);
- and to any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority may order the disclosure of the information personal.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Collected information may be transferred between the following countries that do not have personal 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 that you submit for publication on our website may be available over the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
You expressly consent to the transfers of personal information described in this International Data Transfers section.
1. This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures, 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 will not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Without prejudice to Article G-2, we usually delete personal data that falls into the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:
personal information will be deleted once every six months
În pofida celorlalte dispoziții din această secțiune, vom păstra documente (inclusiv documente electronice) care conțin date cu caracter personal:
- în măsura în care ni se solicită acest lucru prin lege;
- dacă considerăm că documentele pot fi relevante pentru orice procedură legală în derulare sau viitoare;
- și pentru a stabili, exercita sau apăra drepturile noastre legale (inclusiv furnizarea de informații către terți în scopul prevenirii fraudelor și reducerea riscului de credit);
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions completed through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is typically insecure and 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 never ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).
We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to make sure 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.
You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you;
The provision of this information will be subject to the following terms:
-providing sufficient proof of your identity
We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either give your express prior consent to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will give you the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
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.
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
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 stored by that browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it.
Cookies can be "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies:
the persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until the set expiration date, unless it is deleted before the expiration date;
on the other hand, the session cookie will expire at the end of the user's session, when the browser is closed.
Cookies typically do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored and obtained through cookies.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used can be found below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies by using the cookie handling settings override, available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", then "Advanced" ;
- 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 unchecking "Accept cookies from to websites";
- in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Personalization and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", then selecting "Block site - to send any data" under the heading "Cookies".
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete cookies manually (you can find instructions on how to do this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
- in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show cookies" , then on "Delete all Cookies";
- in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Personalization and control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", then selecting "Clear cookies and other data about the website and plugins" and click on "Delete browsing data".
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.