A. Introduction
1. The privacy of users of our website is very important to us and we make every effort to ensure that it is protected. This policy explains how we use your personal information.
2. By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of these rules, you give us permission to use cookies on each of your next visits.
B. Collection of Personal Data
The following types of personal data have to be collected, stored, and used:
1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, your browser’s type and version, and your operating system;
2. Information about your email address that you used to register on our website;
3. Information you entered when creating a profile on our website – for example, your name, your profile picture, gender, date of birth, education, and place of employment;
4. Information, such as your name and email address, that you provide when you subscribe to our mailings and/or newsletters;
5. Information you entered while using our website services;
6. Information regarding any purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information;
7. Information contained in any communications you send to us by email or through our website, including message content and metadata;
8. Any other personal information you have submitted to us.
Before disclosing a third party’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent both to the disclosure and to the processing of that information in accordance with these rules.
C. Use of Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
1. administration of our website and organization;
2. personalizing our website for you;
3. enabling you to use the services available on our website;
4. sending you goods (such as membership certificates) purchased through our website;
5. providing you with services purchased through our website;
6. sending you messages, invoices, and payment reminders, and receiving payments from you;
7. sending you an email newsletter if you have ordered to receive it (you can tell us at any time that you no longer wish to receive an email newsletter from us);
8. providing third-party companies with statistical information about our users (however, these third-party companies will not be able to identify any individual user from this data);
9. handling requests and complaints made by you or about you and relating to our website;
10. in order to ensure the security of our site and prevent fraud;
11. for the purpose of checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of private messages sent through the private message service of our website); and
12. for other purposes.
D. Disclosure of Personal Information
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, contractors, and members of the management bodies of the organization, in the amount and purposes specified in these rules.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information
1. in those cases in which the law requires us to do so;
2. in connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
3. to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud or reduce credit risks);
E. International Transfers of Personal Information
1. Personal information that you post on our website over the Internet may be available worldwide. We cannot prevent its use, or misuse for criminal purposes by third parties. 2. By agreeing to these rules, you consent to the transfer of your personal information specified in section F.
F. Retention of Personal Information
1. Section F establishes the rules and procedures of the organization regarding the storage of personal information. These rules and procedures are intended to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding storing and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for a specific purpose or purposes must not be stored for longer than is necessary to achieve that purpose or those purposes.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of Section F, we will save documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal information in those cases in which we are required to do so by law; if we believe that these documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and with the goal of establishing, exercising or protecting our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk).
G. Protection of Your Personal Information
1. We will take adequate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, illegal use or falsification of your personal information.
2. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is basically insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the World Wide Web.
3. You are solely responsible for keeping your password to access our website confidential. We will never ask for your password (except when you try to log in to your account on our site).
H. Changes and Corrections
We reserve the right to periodically make changes and corrections to these rules, and to publish their new version on our website. You should check this web page periodically to ensure that you understand the changes made to these rules. We may also notify you of changes to these policies by sending you an email or through our site’s private messaging system.
I. Third Party Websites
and persons. We have no management tools, and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties and companies in this industry.
J. 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 stored by the browser. Subsequently, the identifier is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page from the server. Cookies can be either “permanent” or “session only”: permanent will be stored by the browser and will be valid until the expiration date, unless deleted by the user in advance; “session only” ones, instead will be deleted after the end of the session with the site or after closing the browser. Cookies usually do not contain any information that identifies the user. However, your personal information that we have may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies. We use both persistent and session only cookies on our website.
1. Most browsers give you the option to refuse the use of cookies, for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block it using the cookie management settings available in the menu “Tools” – “Internet Options” – “Privacy” – ” Advanced”;
in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools” – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select “Use custom log settings” and uncheck “Accept cookies from sites “; and finally in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by going to the «Settings and Controls» menu and selecting «Settings» – «Show advanced settings» and «Content settings», then selecting «Prevent sites from sending any data» under the heading “Cookies”.
You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example:
in Internet Explorer (version 10), you have to delete cookies manually (instructions on how to do this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
in Firefox (version 24), cookies can be deleted by going to the menu “Tools” – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select the item “Use custom log settings”, click “Show Cookies” and then – “Delete all Cookies”;
in Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by entering the “Settings and management” menu and selecting “Settings” – “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data” before selecting “Delete cookies and other site data and plugins”.
*This document was created using a template from a web-site SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by a web-site Website Planet (www.websiteplanet.com)