1.Introduction
The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we will do with your personal data.
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 each time you visit our website.
2. Credit
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com) and amended by Jordan River www.en.jordanriver.pt
3.Collection of personal data
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- computer information, including IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- information about visits to and use of this website, including the source of recommendation, length of visit, page views and website navigation;
- information such as your email address, which you enter when registering on our website;
- the information you enter when creating a profile on our website – for example, your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, marital status, interests and hobbies, academic and your occupation;
- data such as your name and email address when you enter them to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
- the data entered when using our website services;
- information generated when you use our website, including information relating to the period, frequency and circumstances in which you use our website;
- information about any purchases you make, services used or transactions you make through our website, which may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and bank card details;< /li>
- the information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which may include your username, profile photos and post content;
- the information contained in any communication you send to us by email or through our website, including the content of the communications and their metadata;
- any other personal data you send us.
Before we disclose another person’s personal information to you, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of the personal data in accordance with this policy.
4.Use of your personal data
Personal information transmitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified by this policy or on the respective website pages. We may use your personal data to:
- administer our website and business;
- personalize our website for you;
- authorize the use of services available on our website;
- send goods purchased through our website;
- provide the services purchased through our website;
- send you reports, invoices and payment notifications and receive payments from you;
- send commercial communications for information;
- send expressly requested notifications via email;
- send our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer want this communication);
- Send marketing communications about our business or to carefully selected third party companies, which we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- provide statistical information about our users to third parties (these third parties will not be able to identify any user with this information);
- analyze requests and complaints made by or about you in relation to our website;
- maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our private messaging service); and
- other uses.
If you submit personal information to publish on our website, we will publish and use that information subject to the terms of the agreement you provide to us.
Privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be modified using the website’s privacy options.
Without your express consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for that third party’s or any other third party’s direct marketing.
5.Disclosure of personal data
We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes of this policy.
We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (which includes our subsidiaries, the parent company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal data:
- to the extent required by law;
- in relation to any potential or ongoing legal proceedings;
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);
- to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset that we sell (or plan to sell); and
- any person who we consider reasonably capable of bringing an action to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of personal data if, in our well-founded opinion, such a court or authority could order the disclosure of personal data.
We will not provide your personal data to third parties, except for the situations set out in this policy.
International data transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
- The collected data may be transferred between the following countries that have not enacted personal 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 that you submit for publication on our website may be available on the Internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this data by others.
- You expressly agree to the transfers of personal data described in this Section (F).
Storage of personal data
- This Section G sets out our data storage policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be stored for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will archive documents (including electronic documents) that contain personal data:
- to the extent required by law;
- if we consider that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings; and
- to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing data to third parties for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);
Security of your personal data
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
- We will store all personal data you provide on our secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
- All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You have been notified that the transmission of information over the Internet is generally not secure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; We will never ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Changes
We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or via our website’s private messaging system.
Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we have about you; The provision of this information will be subject to the following terms:
Providing sufficient evidence of your identity, for this purpose we will generally accept a certified photocopy of your passport, together with a certified “as original” copy of a utility payment bill, containing your current address.
We may retain your requested personal data to the extent permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
In practice, generally, either you express your prior consent to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we offer you the opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.
Third party sites
Our website includes hyperlinks and details about third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Data update
Please inform us if your personal data held by us 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) that is sent by a web server to a browser and stored by that browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it. Cookies may be “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: the persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until the set expiry date unless deleted before the expiry date; on the other hand, the session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when closing the browser. Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained through cookies. On our website, we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both persistent cookies and session cookies.
The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used can be found below:
We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users while browsing the website / enable the activation of a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of the website / analyze website usage / manage the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / send advertisements that may be of particular interest to the user / describe the purpose(s);
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies – for example:
- in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies by overwriting the cookie handling settings, available by clicking on “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” in the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from website”; and
- in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Personalization and control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Block sites” submit any data” under the heading “Cookies”.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer – for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete the cookie files manually (you can find instructions on how to do this 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” and then “Delete all Cookies” ; and
- in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Personalization and control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Delete browsing data”, then select “Delete cookies and other website data and plugins” and click “Delete browsing data”.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
