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A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we make every effort to protect it. This policy explains what we do with your personal data.

Consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during your first visit to our site allows us to use cookies on each subsequent visit to our site.

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B. Source

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C. Collection of Personal Data

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

information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, type and version of browser, and operating system;

information about your visits and use of this website, including referral source, duration of visit, page views, and site navigation paths;

information such as email address provided during registration on our website;

information entered when creating a profile on our website – for example, name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment data;

information such as name and email address provided to set up subscriptions to our emails or newsletters;

information entered when using services on our website;

information generated when using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;

information about everything you purchase, services you use, or transactions made through our website, including name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information;

information published on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including username, profile pictures, and content of posted messages;

information contained in any correspondence sent to us by email or through our website, including communication content and metadata;

any other personal data you send to us.

Before disclosing the personal data of another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of such personal data in accordance with these principles.

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D. Use of Your Personal Data

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Personal data submitted to us through our website will be used for purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the purpose of:

administering our website and business;

personalizing our website for you;

enabling the use of services available on our website;

sending goods purchased through our website;

providing services purchased through our website;

sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, as well as receiving payments from you;

sending non-marketing commercial communications;

sending email notifications you have requested;

sending 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 marketing information about our business or the activities of carefully chosen third parties that we believe may interest you, by mail or, if you have consented, 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 (but those third parties will not be able to identify any specific user based on this information);

handling inquiries and complaints made by you or about you related to our website;

ensuring the security of our website and preventing fraud;

verifying compliance with the terms of use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and

other uses.

If you submit personal data for publication on our website, we will publish it and use it for other purposes according to the license granted to us.

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

We will not disclose your personal data to third parties or any other related third parties for direct marketing purposes without your explicit consent.

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E. Disclosure of Personal Data

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We may disclose user personal data to any of our employees, officers, representatives, suppliers, or subcontractors as necessary for the purposes specified in these "Privacy Principles."

We may disclose user personal data to any member of our group of companies (meaning subsidiaries, the ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries) as necessary for the purposes specified in these "Privacy Principles."

We may disclose your personal data:

to the extent required by law;

in connection with ongoing or potential legal proceedings;

to establish, enforce, or defend our rights (including sharing information with other entities to prevent fraud);

to any buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or assets we sell (or contemplate selling); and

to anyone we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal data, where, in our reasonable opinion, there is a high likelihood that such court or authority would order disclosure.

Except as provided in these "Privacy Principles," we will not disclose user information to third parties.

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F. International Data Transfers

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The information we collect may be stored and processed in any country where we operate and may be transferred between these countries to enable the use of information in accordance with these "Privacy Principles."

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal data that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available over the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by other people.

You explicitly agree to the transfer of personal data described in this section F.

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G. Retaining Personal Data

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In this Section G, we have defined our principles and procedures for retaining data to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal data.

Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes will not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose or purposes.

Without prejudice to Article G-2, we typically delete personal data belonging to the categories specified below:

the type of personal data will be deleted;

Regardless of other provisions in this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

to the extent required by law;

if we believe the documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings; and

to establish, enforce, or defend our rights (including providing information to other entities to prevent fraud).

H. Security of Personal Data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of user personal data.

All personal data you provide will be stored on our secure servers (password and firewall protected).

All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

The user acknowledges that the transmission of information over the Internet is potentially risky, and the security of data sent in this way is not guaranteed.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential; we will not ask you for your password unless you log in to our website.

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I. Amendments

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These principles may be periodically updated by posting a new version on our website. Please check this page from time to time to make sure you understand any changes to these principles. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through a private messaging system on our website.

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J. Your Rights

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You have the right to request access to your personal data held by us. The provision of such data is subject to:

the payment of a fee; and

the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.

Upon request, we may hide personal data to the extent permitted by law.

You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually provide explicit consent for us to use your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of disclosing your personal data for marketing purposes.

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K. Third-Party Websites

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Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites

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