Privacy Policy

21.01.2019

1. Types of information we collect

Information that you give to us

As used in this Privacy Policy, ‘personal information’ or ‘personal data’ means information that relates to an identified individual or to an identifiable individual. When you register for and use our services we collect the information that you give to us. This may include information like your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, country of residence, language, gender, and time zone.

Information we collect when you use our services

We also collect and process information about your use of our services. This can include information about your device, your location, your interaction with our services, your content and your purchases.

Information about your device

When you use our services we may collect specific information about your device, and across your devices, such as the product model, serial number, operating system, device settings, device performance, Internet service provider, IP address and other unique identifiers.

Location information

With your consent, we may collect and process information about your precise location. When we have your location information, we use it to tailor our services for you and others, like helping you establish friend relationships with other users.

Your purchases

Some of our services allow you to make purchases. If you use any of our services to make a purchase, we may collect information about the purchase. This could include payment information, such as your credit card number, account authentication information and contact information like your billing and shipping address.

2. How we use your information

We use the information that you give us and the information we collect to deliver, maintain and improve our services. We also use this information to provide you with services that you request, develop new services, suggest personally relevant features, offer you customized content, provide you with tailored advertising, protect our users, and investigate and prevent potentially illegal activities.

Whenever you contact us, we use the information that you provide to us to help resolve issues you might be having when you use our services. We also use information, such as your email address, to respond to you when you contact us, to let you know about changes to our policies and terms, to let you know about changes or improvements to our services and to inform you about other services that we offer.

We may use cookies, or other similar technologies, on some of the features of our services. Cookies are small files that are typically downloaded to the browser application on your device. Cookies help us to ensure the safety and smooth functioning of certain features of our services and they also help us to collect information about your user preferences. We sometimes use information collected from cookies to improve your user experience and the quality of our services. For example, by saving your user preferences, we may be able to customize our services in ways that you prefer. You may be able to disable cookies in your browser settings or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being used. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our services. Some web browsers may transmit "do not track" signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals.

3. What is our basis for processing information about you?

For personal information collected about you, our basis for processing is the following:

• In order to communicate adequately with you and to respond to your requests, we need to process information about you and therefore have a legitimate interest in processing this information.
• In order to engage in transactions with customers, suppliers and business partners, and to process purchases and downloads of our products and services, we need to process information about you as necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you.
• We process personal information for marketing and sales activities based on your consent where so indicated on our sites at the time your personal information was collected, or further to our legitimate interest to market and promote our products and services.
• We rely on our legitimate interest to analyse, develop, improve and optimize our sites, products and services, and to maintain the security of our sites, networks and systems.
• In order to comply with applicable laws and regulations, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, or to process an opt-out request.

4. For what period do we retain personal information?

We maintain personal information for the following retention periods:

• Information about you we collect to engage in transactions with our customers, suppliers and business partners, and to process purchases of our products and services, will be retained for the duration of the transaction or services period, or longer as necessary for record retention and legal compliance purposes.
• If you have registered for our newsletters and blogs, your subscription data will be retained for as long as you are subscribed to our distribution lists. We retain records of that deletion for 30 days.
• Personal information needed to retain your opt-out preferences is retained for 20 years (or longer as necessary to comply with applicable law).

5. How your information is shared

We sometimes share your information within our affiliated companies and with trusted third-party partners for processing. We may also share your information for other legal and business purposes, such as complying with legal process, responding to claims or inquiries, enforcing our terms, or protecting the rights, property or personal safety of our operations, our users, or the public. Your information may also be shared as part of any sale or transfer of company assets, if legally permitted.

If you choose to connect with a third-party service through our services, we may share your information with that service and that service may share your information with us. The use of your information, and the use of cookies, web beacons, or other technologies, by these third-party providers is subject to their own privacy policies.

6. Your controls and choices

We provide multiple choices in respect of the information we process about you:

• Opt-out of our use of your personal information

You may withdraw consent you have previously provided for the processing of information about you, including for email marketing.

• Delete personal information

You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of the information about you.

• Change or correct personal information

You can edit some of the information about you by. You can also ask us to change, update or fix information about you in certain cases, particularly if it is inaccurate.

• Object to, or limit or restrict use of personal information

You can ask us to stop using all or some of the information about you (for example, if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (for example, if the information about you is inaccurate).

• Right to access and/or have your information provided to you

You can also ask us for a copy of information about you.

7. Information security

We have implemented administrative, physical and technical security measures that are designed to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. You should understand though that, despite our efforts, no security can be guaranteed as impenetrable.

8. Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we update it, we will revise the "Last Updated" date above. If we make material changes in the way we collect, use, retain or share your personal information, we will notify you by sending you an email at the last email address that you provided us, or by posting notice of the changes on the services covered by this privacy policy.

9. Contact information

If you have any questions, concerns or comments regarding this privacy policy, or any of our privacy practices, please contact us via email at [email protected].