Privacy policy

A. Introduction

1. The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us and we are committed to protecting it. The privacy policy describes the processing of personal information.

2. Accept our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

B. Collection of personal information

1. 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 the operating system;

• Information about your visits and use of this website including the source of links, duration of visit, page views and ways to navigate the website;

• Information such as your email address that you enter when registering on our website;

• Information that you enter when creating a profile on our website, for example your name, profile photos, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, information about education and employment;

• Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to set up a subscription to our emails and / or newsletters;

• Information that you enter when using the services on our website;

• Information that is generated when using our website including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;

• Information regarding everything that you buy, the services you use, or the transactions that you make through our website including your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card information;

• Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your username, profile photos and the content of your messages;

• Information contained in any messages that you send to us by e-mail or through our website including content and metadata;

• Information that you transmit to us by phone, making a call via any means of communication to our contact center.

• any other personal information that you send to us.

1. Before disclosing to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain the consent of that person to both disclose and process this personal information in accordance with this Policy

C. Use of personal information

1. The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this Policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

2. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• administration of our website and business;

• personalization of our website for you;

• giving you the opportunity to use the services available on our website;

• sending you goods purchased through our website;

• delivery of services purchased through our website;

• sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, as well as collecting payments from you;

• sending you non-market commercial messages;

• sending email notifications that you specifically requested;

• sending newsletters by e-mail if you have given your consent (you can unsubscribe at any time);

• sending you marketing messages related to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties that in our opinion may be of interest to you, by mail or, if you specifically agree to this, by e-mail or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need marketing messages);

• providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but these third parties will not be able to identify any particular user from this information);

• work with requests and complaints made by or about you related to our website;

• securing our website and preventing fraud;

• verification of compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of personal messages sent through our website of the personal messaging service);

• other purposes.

1. If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use this information in accordance with the license that you provide to us.

2. Privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website.

3. We will not, without your explicit consent, provide your personal information to any third party for its or any other third-party direct marketing.

D. Disclosure of Personal Information

1. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, banks, electronic payment systems of professional consultants, agents, suppliers or subcontractors, if necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.

2. 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 reasonable extent necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy.

3. We may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent provided by law;

• in conjunction with any current or prospective trials;

• in order to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk);

• to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset that we sell (or plan to sell);

• to any person who, in our reasonable opinion, may appeal to a court or other competent authority with a request for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority may, with sufficient probability, order the disclosure of such personal information.

1. Except as provided in this Policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

E. International data transfer

1. The information we collect may be stored, processed and transmitted between any countries in which we operate so that we can use the information in accordance with this Policy.

2. The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws similar to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

3. Personal information that you publish on our website or provide for publication on our website may be available through the Internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section E.

F. Saving Personal Information

1. Section F outlines our policies and procedures for storing data that are designed to help us enforce our legal obligations regarding the storage and removal of personal information.

2. Personal information that we process for any purpose should not be stored longer than it is necessary for this purpose.

3. Without prejudice to Article F-2, we will generally remove the personal data relating to the categories listed below, as of the date / time indicated below:

• the type of personal data will be deleted in time in accordance with the standards adopted by the GDPR

• Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section F, we retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• to the extent provided by law;

• if we consider that the documents may be relevant to any current or future litigation;

• in order to establish, exercise or protect our legal rights (including providing information to others in order to prevent fraud and reduce credit risk).

G. Security of your Personal Information

1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

2. We will store all the personal information that you provide on our secure (password and firewall protected) servers.

3. All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information via the internet is inherently insecure, and we can not guarantee the security of data transmitted over the Internet.

5. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password that you use to access our website; we will not ask you for a password (except for the cases of entering our website).

H. Amendments

1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should periodically check this page to make sure that you understand any changes to this policy. We can notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through a system of personal messages on our website.

J. Your rights

1. You can instruct us to provide you with any personal information that we hold about you; the provision of such information will depend on your submission of a list of documents required by law.

2. We may withhold the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

3. You can instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

4. In practice, you, as a rule, either directly agree that we use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we provide you with the opportunity to refuse to use your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third Party Sites

1. 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. Information update

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

M. Cookies

1. Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by the web server to the web browser and 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 the expiration date, if the user has not deleted them before the expiration date; session cookies, on the other hand, expire at the end of a user's session when the web browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain any information that identifies the user but the personal information that we store about you may be associated with information stored in cookies and obtained from them. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

2. The following are the names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used:

• we use: 

• Google (Google Analytics, Google Adwords), 

• Facebook(Facebook, Instagramm), 

• Yandex (Yandex Metrika, Yandex Direct) 

on our website for computer recognition when a user:

• TURNS ON ALL KINDS OF USE FOR WHICH COOKIES ARE USED ON OUR WEBSITE visits the site / track users when they move around the site / allow you to use the shopping cart on the site / improve the usability of the site / analyze site usage / administer the site / prevent fraud and increase site security / personalize the site for each user / target advertisements that may be of particular interest to specific users / describe the goals);

1. Most browsers allow you to refuse accept cookies, for example:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies files using cookie override settings.

• in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Settings”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use user settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking the “Accept cookies from sites” checkbox;

• in Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by going to the “Settings and management” menu and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the heading “Cookies”.

1. Blocking all cookies will negatively affect the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of our website.

2. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer.

3. Blocking cookies negatively affects the usability of many sites.

N. Agreement

1. If the user does not agree with this Policy, he is obliged to stop using the services of the Site. The fact of not terminating the use of the website is a confirmation of agreement and acceptance by the User of the appropriate edition of the Privacy Policy.