- The privacy of users of our website is of great importance to us and we make every effort to ensure that it is protected. These policies explain how we use your personal information.
- By agreeing to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, in accordance with the provisions of this Policy, you give us permission to use cookies on each of your subsequent visits.
1. Collection of personal data
The following personal data is subject to collection, storage and use:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, length of visits, pages viewed and site navigation paths;
- Information such as your name, telephone number and email address that you provided during the application process;
- Information that is generated when you use our website, including information about the time, frequency and conditions of its use;
- Information contained in any messages you have sent to us by email or through our website, including the content of the message and the purpose;
- Any other personal information you have sent to us.
Before you disclose personal information about a third party to us, you should obtain the consent of that person to both disclose and process that information in accordance with this policy.
2. Use of your personal information
The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in these policies or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Pesronalization of our website for you;
- Providing you with services purchased through our website;
- Sending you messages;
- Sending you non-marketing commercial messages;
- Sending you emails that you have specifically requested;
- Sending you email newsletters if you have requested it (you may notify us at any time that you no longer wish to receive email newsletters from us);
- Sending you marketing messages about our business activities or the business activities of carefully selected third party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, either through publications or, if you have specifically consented to this, by sending you an email or through the use of similar technologies (you may notify us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing messages);
- Processing of requests and complaints made by you or about you and relating to our website;
- To ensure the security of our website and prevent fraud.
If you have provided personal information for publication on our website, we will publish it. Otherwise, we will use this information in accordance with the permission you have given us.
Without your explicit consent, we will not share your personal information with any third party company for direct marketing use by this or any other third party company.
3. Disclosure of personal information
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any of our employees, managers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors, to the extent and for the purposes set out in these policies.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies to the extent and for the purposes set out in these policies.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information:
- In cases where we are required to do so by the law;
- In connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
- For the purpose of establishing, exercising or protection of our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud);
- To the purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets that we sell (or intend to sell);
- Any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data and, in our reasonable opinion, that court or authority would order disclosure of that personal data.
We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except as specified in these policies.
4. Storage of personal information
- This section sets out the company’s policies and procedures for storage of personal information. These policies and procedures are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for a specific purpose or purposes shall not be retained for longer than is necessary to achieve that purpose or those purposes.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will save documents (including electronic documents) containing personal information:
- In these cases where we are required to do so by law;
- If we believe that these documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to other parties to prevent fraud).
5. Protection of your personal information
- We will take enough technical and organizational measures to prevent the loss, unlawful use or falsification of your personal information.
- We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (both password and firewall protected) servers.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently unsecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the global network.
6. Changes and amendments
We reserve the right to periodically make changes and amendments to these policies and publish the new version on our website. You should periodically check this web page to ensure that you understand the content of the changes made to these policies. We may also inform you of changes to these policies by sending you an email or through our website’s private messaging system.
7. Your rights
You have the right to instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will usually either agree in advance to us using your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your information for marketing purposes.
8. Third-party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to websites of third-party companies and individuals. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties and companies in this area.
9. Updating information
Please, notify us in a timely manner if your personal information that we hold needs to be updated or corrected.
10. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a strip of letters and numbers) that is 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 web page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session”: persistent cookies will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until their expiry date, unless deleted by the user before then; “session” cookies, on the other hand, will be deleted after the end of the session with the website or after the browser is closed. Cookies do not usually contain any information that identifies the user. However, your personal information that we have may be linked to information stored and obtained from cookies.
Most browsers allow you to refuse the use of cookies, for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block them using the cookie management settings available in the “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, “Advanced” menu;
- in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools” – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select “Use customer settings for history” and uncheck “Accept cookies from sites”; and finally
- in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to “Settings and management” menu, selecting “Settings” – “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from sending any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking of all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use many features of our website.
You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10), you should delete cookies manually (instructions on how to do this can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- in Firefox (version 24), cookies can be deleted by going to the “Tools” menu – “Options” – “Privacy”: in the drop-down menu, select “Use customer settings for history”, click “Show Cookies”, and then “Delete All Cookies”;
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the “Settings and Management” menu, selecting “Settings” – “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and before that, select “Delete cookies and other site data and plugins”.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
