The privacy of the visitors to this website is very important to us, and we do everything we can 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 every time you visit this website.

The following personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

• Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
• Information about your visit to and use of this website, including the referral source, duration of your visit, viewed pages, and website navigation paths.
• Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on this website.
• Information that you enter when creating a profile on this website, such as your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment details.
• Information such as your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to emails and/or newsletters will be collected.
• information you enter while using the services on this website;
• information generated while using this website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use this website;
• information related to anything you purchase, services you use or transactions you make through this website, including your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card information;
• information that you post on this website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your posts;
• information in any communications you send us by e-mail or through this website, including communication content and metadata;
• Any other personal information you send us.

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

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:

• managing this website and our company;
• Personalizing this website for you;
• making services available on this website;
• shipping of goods purchased through this website;
• Providing services purchased through this website;
• Sending statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collecting your payments;
• Sending non-marketing commercial communications;
• Sending email messages that you have specifically requested;
• Sending you an e-mail newsletter, if you have requested it (you can let us know at any time if you no longer need the newsletter);
• sending marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, by mail or, if you have specifically agreed, by email or similar technology (you may notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
• Providing statistical information about users to third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify individual users from that information);
• handling questions and complaints submitted by or about you regarding this website;
• securing this website and preventing fraud;
• monitoring compliance with the terms and conditions of use of this website (including monitoring private messages sent through this website);
• and other applications.

If you submit personal information for publication on this 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 data on this website and can be adjusted through 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.

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth 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 of its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set forth in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent we are required by law to do so;
• in connection with pending or future legal proceedings;
• to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
• To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or assets we sell (or are considering selling); and
• to any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority could reasonably order the disclosure of that personal information.

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

Information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between the countries in which we operate so that we can use the information in accordance with this policy. 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: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India. Personal information that you publish or submit for publication on this Web site may be available via the Internet anywhere in the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information as described in this section.

This section outlines our data retention policy and procedure, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and disposal of personal information.

Personal information we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose or purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we retain documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal information:

• To the extent we are required by law to do so;
• if we believe that the documents may be relevant to a current or future legal proceeding; and
• to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store any personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through this website are 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 transmitted over the Internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access this website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to this website).

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy via e-mail or through private messages on this website.

You may direct us to provide you with any personal information we have about you; the provision of such information is subject to the following conditions:

• the payment of compensation; and
• Providing proper proof of your identity (we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport, certified by a notary public, as well as an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

You can instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes at any time.

In practice, you usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we offer you the option not to use your personal information for marketing purposes.

This website contains hyperlinks to and data from third-party websites. We have no control over this and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Please let us know if the personal information we have on you needs to be corrected or updated.

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 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 “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by a web browser and remains valid until the set expiration date, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you can 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 we use on this website, and the purposes for which they are used, are described below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on this website in order to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users navigating on the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze the use of the website / manage 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 that are of particular interest to certain users / describe the purpose(s);

Most browsers allow you to reject cookies – for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie processing settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and 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 sites”; and
• in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the “Customize and Manage” menu and clicking on “Settings,” “Display Advanced Settings,” and “Content Settings,” and then selecting “Block Sites from Retaining Data” under the heading “Cookies.

Blocking all cookies negatively impacts the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you cannot use all the features of this website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10) you have to delete the cookie files manually (instructions for this can be found at
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
  );
• in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on “Tools,” “Options” and “Privacy,” then selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show cookies,” then clicking “Delete all cookies”; and
• in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Customize and Manage” menu and clicking on “Settings,” “Show Advanced Settings,” “Clear Browser Data,” and then selecting “Delete Cookies and Other Site and Plugin Data” before clicking “Clear Browser Data.

Deleting cookies negatively affects the usability of many websites.