Collection of Personal Data

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

1. information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version and operating system
2. information about your visits and use of these websites including the referral source, length of your visit, pages viewed and website navigation paths
3. information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our websites
4. information that you enter when you create a profile on our websites – for example your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, status, interests and hobbies, education and employment
5. information such as your name and email address that you enter when you sign up for our email services and/or newsletters
6. information that you enter when using services on our websites
7. information generated when you use our websites, including when, how often and under what conditions you use them
8. information related to your purchase, services used or transactions that you make through our websites and which contain your name, address, phone number, email address and your credit card details
9. information that you send to our websites with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile pictures and the content of your post
10. information contained in any communication that you send to us by email or through our websites, including the content itself and metadata
11. any other personal data that you send to us

Before you provide us with personal data of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to disclosure and processing of this personal data in accordance with these terms.

Use of Your Personal Data

Personal data provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes stated in these terms or on the relevant website pages. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

1. administration of our websites and business
2. adaptation of our websites to you
3. enabling the use of services available on our websites
4. sending goods purchased through our websites
5. provision of services purchased through our websites
6. sending statements, invoices, payment reminders and collecting payments
7. sending non-commercial business communications
8. sending specifically requested email notifications
9. sending our email newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require it)
10. sending marketing communications concerning our business or the business of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have expressly consented, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications)
11. providing statistical information about our users to third parties (however, these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information)
12. handling queries and complaints raised by you or otherwise concerning you in connection with our website
13. maintaining the security of our websites and preventing fraud
14. verifying compliance with the terms of use of our websites (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service)
15. and other uses.

If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish and use it in accordance with the license you provide us with.

Your personal data protection settings can be used to limit the publication of your data on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on this website.

Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal data to any third party for the purpose of direct marketing of their or any other third party.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We may share your personal data with any of our employees, officials, insurance companies, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these terms.

We may share your personal data with any member of our group of companies (i.e. our subsidiaries, our parent holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in these terms.

We may disclose your personal data:

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law
2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
3. for the purpose of establishing, enforcing or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk)
4. to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or assets that we sell (or are considering selling)
5. and to any person about whom we reasonably believe may ask a court or other competent authority to disclose this personal data and if, in our opinion, such court or authority could order disclosure of this personal data.

Except as set out in these terms, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.

International Data Transfers

1. Data that we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, so that we can use it in accordance with these terms.
2. Data that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to the laws applicable in the European Economic Area: United States, Russia, Japan, China and India.
3. Personal data that you publish on our website or send for publication on our website may be available over the internet throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
4. You expressly consent to the transfers of personal data described in this section.

Retention of Personal Data

1. This section sets out the principles and procedures for data retention, which aim to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.
2. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
3. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data

1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law
2. if we believe that documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
3. and for the purpose of establishing, enforcing or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk).

Security of Your Personal Data

1. We will take appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
2. All personal data you provide will be stored on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
3. All electronic financial transactions entered through our websites will be encrypted.
4. You acknowledge that transmission of information over the internet is inherently uncertain and 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 not ask you for your password (except when you are logging into our website).

Changes

We may occasionally update these terms by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand all changes to these terms. We may notify you of changes to these terms by email or through private messages on our website.

Your Rights

You can instruct us to provide you with any personal data we have about you. The provision of such information will be subject to the submission of appropriate proof of your identity (for this purpose we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport and an original copy of a service invoice showing your current address).

To the extent permitted by law, we may refuse to provide the personal data you request. You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, you usually either explicitly consent in advance to how we will use your personal data for marketing purposes, or we offer you the option to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

Third-Party Websites

Our website contains hypertext links to third-party websites and details about them. We have no control over the personal data protection terms and procedures of third parties and are not responsible for them.

Updating Your Data

Please let us know if your personal data that we have needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

1. Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) which is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the web browser. This identifier is then sent back to the server whenever the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies will be stored by the web browser and remain valid until their expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. Session cookies, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not normally contain any information that uniquely identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked with information stored in and obtained from cookies.
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:

1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies by changing cookie handling settings, which is available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
2. in Firefox (Version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", then select "Use custom settings for history" in the dropdown menu and uncheck the "Accept cookies from websites" checkbox
3. in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies in the "Customize and control" menu, where you click "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings" and then under the "cookies" heading select "Block websites from setting any data".

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 features on our website.

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

1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you must delete cookies manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835)
2. in Firefox (Version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then select "Use custom settings for history", click "Show cookies" and then click "Remove all cookies"
3. in Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies in the "Customize and control" menu, where you click "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data" and before clicking "Clear browsing data", select "Delete cookies and other site and extension data".

1. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

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