Our privacy policy
Personal data submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal data for the following: administering our website and business, personalizing our website for you, enabling your use of the services available on our website, sending goods purchased through our website, providing services purchased through our website, sending statements, invoices and payment reminders and collecting payments from you, sending you non-commercial communications, sending notifications by e-mail if you have requested it, sending our newsletter, if you have requested it (you can expressly notify us at any time if you no longer need newsletter), sending marketing communications relating to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that we think may be of interest to you, by post or if you have specifically agreed to it, by email or similar technology (you can notify us at any time if you no longer need marketing communications), providing statistical data about our users, third parties (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that data), dealing with inquiries and complaints made by you or about you and in connection with our website, the security of our website and preventing fraud, 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
other applications. If you submit private information for publication on our website, we will publish it and otherwise use that information in accordance with the permission you have given us. Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may be adjusted by the privacy controls on the website. Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to any third party for their own or direct marketing purposes.
Disclosure of private information
For the reasonable purposes set out in this policy, we may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers or subcontractors. For the reasonable purposes set out in this policy, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this includes our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and any of its subsidiaries). We may disclose your personal information: to the extent that we are required to do so by law, in connection with any pending or future legal proceedings, in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk), to the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or assets that we sell or plan to sell and to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information, and where in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would reasonably be expected to order the disclosure of that personal information. Except as provided in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to any third party.
International data transfers
The data we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any country in which we operate to enable us to use the data in accordance with these rules. 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: 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, via the Internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such data by other parties. You expressly consent to the transfers of personal data described in this section.
Retention of private data
This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedures which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data. Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes. Without prejudice to this section, we will generally delete personal data that falls into the categories set out below on the date/time specified below: the type of personal data will be deleted on {ENTER DATE/TIME}, and {ENTER ADDITIONAL DATES/TIMES}. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data: to the extent that we are required to do so by law, if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings and for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending our legal rights (including providing information to others to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).
Security of your private information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store any private information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers. All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet. You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential, we will not ask you for your password (except when logging into our website).
Amendments and supplements
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website.
You should check this page periodically to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your rights
You may direct us to provide you with any private information we hold about you, the provision of such information being subject to the following: payment of a fee {ENTER FEE IF RELEVANT}, and
providing appropriate evidence of your identity ({ADJUST TEXT TO REFLECT YOUR POLICY or for this purpose we usually accept a certified photocopy of your ID plus an original copy of a utility bill with your current address}). We may retain the personal information you request 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 have expressly consented in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of our use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third-party websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to third party websites and their details. We have no control over the privacy policies and practices of third parties and are not responsible for them.
Updating data
Let us know if the private information we have about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (string of letters and numbers) that a web server sends to a web browser and stores in the browser. The identifier is then returned to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored in the web browser and will remain valid until a certain expiration date, unless the user deletes it before the expiration date. On the other hand, a session cookie expires at the end of the user's session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain data that personally identifies the user, but the personal data we store about you may be linked to data stored and obtained from cookies. {SELECT ACCURATE PHRASING On our website we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies.}
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are listed below: on our website we use Google Analytics and Adwords to recognize a computer when a user {INCLUDE ALL USES THAT COOKIES ARE USED FOR ON YOUR SITE visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze website usage / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve website security / personalize the website for each user / target ads that may be of particular interest to certain users / described purpose(s)}. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies - for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced"" and in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", from the drop-down menu select "Use custom history settings" and deselect "Accept cookies from websites", and in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", then selecting "Block websites from setting any data" ", Under the heading "Cookies". Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all features on our website. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer - for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10) you must manually delete cookie files (instructions can be found at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835), in Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then select "Use custom history settings", click "Show cookies", then click "Remove all cookies" and in For Chrome (version 29), you can clear all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Advanced” and “Clear browsing data”, then selecting “Clear cookies and other site” and the “before you click Clear browsing data” plugin. Deleting cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites.
This document is a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and modified by us.
