Introduction
The confidentiality of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
Agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies whenever you visit our website.
Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, type and version of your browser, and your operating system;
2. Information about your visits and your use of this website including the referring source, duration of the visit, page views, and website browsing paths;
3. Information you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, date of birth, email address and mailing address
4. Information you enter when you use the services on our website;
5. Information generated when using our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
6. Information about the purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you make on our site, which includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address
7. Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain the consent of that person with respect to the disclosure and processing of such personal information under the terms of this policy.
Use of your personal information
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or in the relevant website pages. We may use your personal information to:
1. Administer our website and company;
2. Customize our website for you;
3. Allow your use of the services offered on our website;
4. Send you the goods purchased on our site;
5. Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments
6. Send you marketing communications not related to marketing;
7. Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
8. Send you marketing communications relating to our company or carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, 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 of your wish to no longer receive marketing communications);
9. Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information);
10. Process requests and complaints about your website made by or concerning you;
11. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
12. Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through the messaging service of our website); and
13. Other uses.
Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may 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:
1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. In the context of any pending or future legal proceedings;
3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
4. To any person whom we reasonably consider to be an integral part of a court or other authority competent to disclose such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to request disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass on your personal information to third parties.
Retention of your personal information
1. This Section details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
2. Personal information that we process for any purpose is not retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or purpose.
3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will keep records (including electronic records) containing personal data:
a. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b. If we believe the documents may be relevant to any pending or potential legal proceedings; and
c. 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 organizational precautions to prevent the loss, abuse or alteration of your personal information.
All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
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. You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Amendments
We may sometimes 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 e-mail or through the private messaging service of our website.
Your rights
You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.
We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly and in advance agree that we will use your personal information for marketing purposes or provide you with an opportunity to refuse the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third Party Websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to and information about third-party websites. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
Updating of information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you 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) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The ID is then returned to the server each time the browser asks the server for a page. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session cookies”: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before this expiry date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session, when closing the browser. Cookies generally do not contain any personally identifiable information about a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in the cookies and obtained by the cookies. We do not use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
a. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website/ follow users when they browse the website/ enable the use of a shopping cart on the website/ improve the use of a website/ analyze the use of the website/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ customize the website for each user/ send targeted ads that may be of interest to certain users;
2. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
a. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the alternative cookie management settings available by clicking on «Tools», «Internet Options», «Privacy» and then «Advanced»;
b. with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», «Privacy» and then selecting «Use custom settings for history» from the drop-down menu and unchecking «Accept cookies from sites»; and
c. with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the «Customize and control» menu and then clicking on «Settings», «Show advanced settings» and «Content settings» then selecting «Prevent sites from setting data» in the «Cookies» header.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
3. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
a. With Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
b. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», and «Privacy», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» and clicking on «Show cookies», then on «Delete all cookies»; and
c. with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the «Customize and control» menu and then clicking on «Settings», «Show advanced settings» and «Delete browsing data» then «Delete cookies and data from modules of other sites» before clicking on «Delete browsing data».