Privacy Policy

Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.

By giving your consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

Collecting Personal Information

We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:

• Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
• Information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
• Information such as your email address that you enter when you register on our website;
• Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website – such as your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, academic details, and employment details;
• Information like your name and email address that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
• Information that you enter while using the services on our website;
• Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
• Information related to purchases, services used, or transactions you make via our website, including name, address, phone number, email, and card details;
• Information you post to our website with the intention of publishing it online, such as your username, profile pictures, and post content;
• Information contained in any communications you send us by email or through our website, including the communication content and metadata;
• Any other personal information you choose to send us.

Using Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted 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 to:

• Administer the website;
• Personalize the website for you;
• Enable your use of the services available on the website;
• Send you marketing communications;
• Send you email notifications you have specifically requested;
• Send you our newsletter by email if you have subscribed (you can unsubscribe at any time);
• Send marketing communications about our business or carefully selected third-party businesses that we think may interest you, by post or, where you have consented, by email or similar technology (you can opt out at any time);
• Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (without identifying any individual user);
• Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
• Keep the website secure and prevent fraud;

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the license you grant us.

Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the site.

Without your express consent, we will not supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

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 as reasonably necessary.

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 fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
• To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset we are (or are contemplating) selling;
• To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order disclosure.

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

International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any 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 force in the European Economic Area, such as the United States.

Information you post on our website or submit for publication may be available globally. 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.

Retaining Personal Information

This section sets out our data retention policies and procedures to help ensure we comply with our legal obligations.

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

We may retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• As required by law;
• If we believe they may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
• To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);

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 our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).

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.

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. We may notify you of changes by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

Your Rights

You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you;

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

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

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out.

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.

Updating Information

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

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 browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page.

Cookies may be “persistent” or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date unless deleted. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, then “Advanced”;
• In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history”, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”;
• In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, and “Content settings”, then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under “Cookies”.

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

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

• In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (see instructions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
• In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies”, then “Remove All Cookies”;
• In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings”, then “Clear browsing data”, and selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

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