Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy describes how we process personal information. By consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy upon your first visit to our site, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our site.

C. Collection of Personal Information

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

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website, including referral sources, visit duration, page views, and navigation paths on the site;
Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our site;
Information you provide when creating a profile on our site, such as your name, profile photos, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational and employment background;
Information such as your name and email address that you provide for subscribing to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when using services on our site;
Information generated while using our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
Information related to purchases, services used, or transactions made through our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details;
Information you post on our site with the intention of publishing it online, including your username, profile photos, and the content of your messages;
Information contained in any messages you send to us via email or through our site, including content and metadata;
Any other personal information you send to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person's consent for both the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with this Policy.

D. Use of Personal Information

Personal information provided to us through our site will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Administering our site and business;
Personalizing our site for you;
Providing you with access to the services available on our site;
Sending you goods purchased through our site;
Supplying services purchased through our site;
Sending you invoices, bills, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you;
Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
Sending you an informational newsletter by email, if you have given your consent (you can opt out of the newsletter at any time);
Sending you marketing messages related 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 inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing messages);
Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information);
Handling inquiries and complaints made by you or about you relating to our site;
Ensuring the security of our site and preventing fraud;
Checking compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our site (including monitoring private messages sent through our site's messaging service);
Other purposes.
If you provide personal information for publication on our site, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us. Privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our site and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the site. We will not, without your explicit consent, provide your personal information to any third party for its own or any other third party's direct marketing.

E. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors if necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (including our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent required by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
For the establishment, exercise, or defense of our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk);
To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset that we are selling (or contemplating selling);
To any person whom we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information, if we reasonably believe that such court or authority would be likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.
Except as provided in this Policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfer

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries in which we operate so that we can use the information in accordance with this Policy. Personal information you publish on our site or provide for publication on our site may be accessible over the internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. You expressly consent to the transfer of personal information described in this section F.

G. Retention of Personal Information

Section G outlines our data retention policy and procedures, which are designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the storage and deletion of personal information. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes should not be kept longer than necessary for that purpose or those purposes. Despite other provisions of this section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

To the extent required by law;
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any current or future legal proceedings;
For the establishment, exercise, or defense of our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk).

H. Security of your personal information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent your personal information from being misused or altered.
We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted over the Internet.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our site; We will not ask you for a password (except when logging into our site).

I. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our site. 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 our site's messaging system.

J. Your Rights

We may withhold 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 generally either explicitly agree to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will offer you the opportunity to opt out of such use.

K. Third-Party Sites

Our site contains hyperlinks and information about third-party sites. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please inform us if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our site 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 web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session": persistent cookies are stored by the web browser and remain valid until their expiration date unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; session cookies, on the other hand, expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that identifies the user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in cookies and obtained from them. {CHOOSE THE CORRECT STATEMENT we use only session cookies / only persistent cookies / both session and persistent cookies on our site.}

Below are the names of the cookies we use on our site and the purposes for which they are used:
- We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our site to {INCLUDE ALL TYPES OF USES FOR WHICH COOKIES ARE USED ON YOUR SITE recognize computers when users visit the site / track users as they move around the site / enable the use of shopping carts on the site / improve site usability / analyze site usage / administer the site / prevent fraud and enhance site security / personalize the site for each user / target advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe purposes};

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings by clicking "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and then "Advanced";
- 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, and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites";
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Settings and Management" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" section.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many sites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our site.

You can delete cookies that are already stored on your computer, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to manually delete cookies (instructions for this can be found 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 "Remove All Cookies";
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Settings and Management" menu, clicking "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Clear browsing data," then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plugin data" before clicking "Clear browsing data."

Blocking cookies will negatively impact the usability of many sites.

Website Planet is not responsible and advises you to consult with a lawyer if you wish to implement the above template on your own site.