deletion of data
Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
- Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.
collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- 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 source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
- Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register for the site;
- Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, dating status, interests and hobbies, educational background and employment history;
- Information such as your name and e-mail address, which you enter to subscribe to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
- Information that you enter when you use the services on our website;
- Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information contained in any communications you send to us by e-mail or on our website, including their content and metadata;
- Any other personal information you provide to us.
Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:
- Administering our website and our company;
- Personalize our website for you;
- To enable your use of the services offered on our website;
- Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
- To send you non-marketing communications;
- Send you e-mail notifications that you have expressly requested;
- Send you our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish not to receive our newsletter);
- To send you marketing communications relating to our company or carefully selected third party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, either in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by e-mail or similar technology (you can inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
- Handle requests and complaints made by or about you in relation to your website;
- To maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud
- to monitor 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 uses.
If you submit personal information to our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.
Disclosure of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means 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 that we are required to do so by law;
- In the context of any current or future legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
- To any person whom we reasonably believe to be a party to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise stated in this policy, we will not pass on your personal information to third parties.
Retention of your personal information
- This Section details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and disposal of personal information.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose is retained no longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain records (including electronic records) 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 current or potential legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
Security of your personal information
- We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store any personal information you provide to us on secure servers.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the Internet.
Amendments
From time to time we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.
Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
