Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy outlines what we do with your personal information.
2. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy during your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

2. Collection of Personal Information

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

1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
2. Information about your visits and use of this website, including referring source, visit duration, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
3. Information such as your email address, provided by you when registering on the site;
4. Information you input when creating a profile on our website, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests, hobbies, educational background, and professional history;
5. Information such as your name and email address, provided when subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
6. Information you input when using our website services;
7. Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
8. Information related to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you conduct on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;
9. Information you publish on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile photos, and content of your posts;
10. Information contained in any communications you send us via email or on our website, including their contents and metadata;
11. Any other personal information you provide to us.

Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of that person regarding the disclosure and processing of such personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

3. Utilization of Your Personal Information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

1. Administering our website and business operations.
2. Customizing our website to suit your preferences.
3. Enabling your use of the services provided on our website.
4. Dispatching purchased goods to you.
5. Providing the services you've purchased on our website.
6. Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and processing payments.
7. Sending non-marketing commercial communications.
8. Sending you email notifications that you have explicitly requested.
9. Sending our newsletter via email, if you've opted to receive it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter).
10. Sending you marketing communications related to our company or carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may interest you, either through publications or, if you've expressly consented, via email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications).
11. Providing statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information).
12. Processing requests and complaints regarding our website made by you or concerning you.
13. Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
14. 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); and
15. Other legitimate uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for publication purposes, we will publish it and may use this information according to the permissions you grant us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.

We will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties without your explicit consent.

4. Disclosure of Your 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 (meaning 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:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
4. To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
5. To any person we reasonably believe may be integral to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority is likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.

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

5. International Data Transfers

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred to any country in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which 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.
3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, whether good or bad, of such information by third parties.
4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section.

6. Retention of Your Personal Information

1. This Section details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
3. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

1. To the extent required by law;
2. If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

7. Security of Your Personal Information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).
3. All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
4. 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.
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 log in to our website).

8. Amendements

We may occasionally update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may inform you of changes to this policy by email or through our website's private messaging service.

9. Your Rights

You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

• Sufficient evidence of your identity must be provided (for this purpose, we generally accept a certified copy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill indicating your current address).

We may withhold 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 expressly and in advance give your consent for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

10. Third-party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

11. Updating Informations

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

12. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) 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" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that date; whereas a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally 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. We use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / improve the website's usability / analyze the use of the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / send targeted advertisements that may interest certain users;

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

• with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and then "Advanced";
• with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, then unchecking "Accept cookies from sites";
• and with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings", "Content settings", and selecting "Prevent sites from setting data" under the "Cookies" header.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete the cookies file (you can find instructions to do so here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
2. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking on "Show Cookies", then "Remove All Cookies";
3. and with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings", "Clear browsing data", then "Clear cookies and other site and plug-in data".

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