Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 23, 2025
A. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
Your consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit the site.
B. Collecting Personal Information
We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:
Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, visit duration, page views, and navigation paths.
Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our website.
Information you enter when creating a profile on our website – for example: your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education details, and employment details.
Information such as your name and email address that you provide to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
Information you enter while using the services on our website.
Information generated during the use of our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you carry out on our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
Information you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures, and comment content.
Information contained in any communication that you send to us by email or through our website, including the content and metadata.
Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal information 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.
C. Using Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us through our 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:
Administering our website and business.
Personalizing our website for you.
Enabling your use of the services available on our website.
Sending you goods purchased through our website.
Supplying services purchased through our website.
Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.
Sending you non-marketing commercial communications.
Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
Sending you our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter).
Sending you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we think may be of interest to you, by mail or, where you have specifically agreed, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information).
Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website.
Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.
Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service).
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 us.
You can use your privacy settings to limit the publication of your information on our website and adjust them using the site’s privacy controls.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
D. Disclosing Personal Information
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 all 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 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 credit risk reduction).
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling.
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 likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
E. International Data Transfers
Information that 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.
Information we collect may be transferred to countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area, including the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website 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.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section E.
F. Retaining Personal Information
This section F sets out our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
Without prejudice to the previous point, we will usually delete personal data that falls into the following categories within a reasonable time.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section F, 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 that the documents may be relevant to 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 credit risk reduction).
G. 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 entered into through our website will be 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 sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to the website).
H. Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may also notify you of changes via email or via the site’s messaging system.
I. 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.
J. Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
K. 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 is stored by the browser.
Cookies typically 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.
When commenting on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.
Blocking all cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
