A. Preamble
1. The privacy of our website visitors is highly important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information. 2. Accepting our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy during the first visit to our website enables us to use cookies every time you visit the website.
B. Gathering 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 to and use of the website, including the source of referral, the duration of the visit, page views, and your transition paths within the website. 3. Information, such as your e-mail address, the one you entered when registering on our website. 4. Information you enter while creating a profile on our website—for example, gender, birthday and employment information. 5. Information, such as your name and e-mail address entered by you in order to subscribe to our e-mail notifications and/or newsletter. 6. The information you entered while using our website. 7. Information generated while using our website, including when, to what extent, and under what circumstances you use it. 8. Information related to anything you purchase, the services you use or the transfers you make on our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card information. 9. Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments. 10. Information contained in messages you send to us by e-mail or through our website, including the content of the message and its metadata. 11. Any other type of personal information you send to us.
C. Usage of Your Personal Information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes stipulated in this policy or on the relevant pages on the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes: 1. Our website and business administration. 2. Enabling you to use the services available on our website. 3. Sending goods or services you purchased through the website. 4. Sending statements, transaction invoices, and payment reminders to you, as well as collecting payments from you. 5. Sending you commercial non-marketing messages. 6. Sending you e-mail notifications, which you have specifically requested. 7. Sending out marketing messages related to our business by e-mail or by any other technological means in cases where you specifically agreed to this (if you are no longer interested in marketing messages you can inform us at any time). 8. Securing our website and preventing fraud. 9. Verification of compliance with the terms of service dictating how to use the website. Without your consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their direct marketing purposes or for the marketing of any other third party.
D. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, managers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, to the extent reasonable and necessary for the purposes specified in this policy. We may provide your personal information: 1. As required from us by law. 2. In relation to any existing or future legal proceeding. 3. In order to establish, exercise, or protect our legal rights (including the provision of information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
E. Storing Personal Information
1. We will take reasonable organizational and technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. 2. We will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers. 3. All computerized financial transactions made through our website will be protected by means of encryption technology (the financial activity on the website is performed by an external company). 4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently unsecured, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
F. Updates
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You are advised to periodically check this page to make sure you understand any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private message system on our website.
G. Information Updating
Please notify us if the personal information related to you that we keep should be corrected or updated.
H. 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 in the browser. Then, the identifier is sent back to the server every time the browser asks the server to display a web page. Cookies can be either persistent cookies or session cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored in your browser and will remain valid until the expiration date set for it, unless it is deleted by the user before the expiration date; on the other hand, a session cookie expires at the end of your current browsing time, when you close your browser. Generally, cookies do not contain users' personal identification information, however, your personal information that we store can be linked to the information stored and obtained from cookies. On our website we use both session cookies and persistent cookies. • The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are detailed below: • We use Google Analytics and Adwords services on our website to identify a computer as a user, inter alia, for the following purposes: to enable us the use of a shopping cart on the website / to improve the website user-friendliness / to analyze the use of the website / to manage the website / to prevent fraud and improve the website security / to personalize the site for each user. • Most websites allow you to refuse the use of cookies – for example (this is only a recommendation and does not constitute professional advice regarding blocking cookies on a website – this information changes from time to time and it is the user's responsibility to check how cookies are blocked on their website): 1. In Internet Explorer (Version 10) you can block cookies using the available cookie bypass settings by clicking: Tools → Internet Options → Privacy → Advanced. 2. In Firefox (Version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking: Tools → Options → Privacy; selecting Use custom settings for history from the drop-down menu; deselecting Accept cookies from websites. 3. In Chrome (Version 29) you can block all cookies by going to the Personalization and Control menu; clicking: Settings → Show advanced settings → Content settings; selecting the Block data setting by websites option under the Cookies heading. • You can delete cookies already stored on your computer (this is only a recommendation and does not constitute professional advice regarding blocking cookies on a website – this information changes from time to time and it is the user's responsibility to check how cookies are blocked on their website): 1. In Internet Explorer (Version 10) You need to delete the cookie files manually (you can find instructions for this at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835). 2. In Firefox (Version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking: Tools → Options → Privacy; selecting Use custom history settings; clicking Show cookies → Remove all cookies. 3. In Chrome (Version 29) you can delete all cookies by going to the Personalization and Control menu; clicking: Settings → Show advanced settings → Clear browsing data; selecting the option Delete cookies and other websites and plugins data; and finally clicking Clear browsing data. 4. Deletion of cookies may have a negative effect on the website user-friendliness.